Freddie Mercury discography
Appearance
Freddie Mercury discography | |
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Studio albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 8 |
Singles | 16 |
Box sets | 1 |
This is a discography of works by Freddie Mercury as a solo artist. For information about recordings made by Queen see Queen discography.
Albums
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
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UK [1][2] |
AUT [3] |
GER [4] |
ITA [5] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
NOR [8] |
SWE [9] |
SWI [10] |
US [11] | |||
Mr. Bad Guy |
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6 | 23 | 11 | — | 17 | — | 13 | 20 | 14 | 159 |
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Barcelona (with Montserrat Caballé) |
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15* | 24 | 41 | 52 | 10 | 13 | — | 37 | 18 | — |
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"—" denotes a release that did not chart or not released in that region. |
- Barcelona 1992 chart position. It originally charted at number 25 in the UK in 1988.
Compilation albums
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||
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UK [1][2] |
AUT [3] |
GER [4] |
ITA [5] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
NOR [8] |
SWE [9] |
SWI [10] |
US [11] | |||
1992 | The Freddie Mercury Album
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4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 8 | — |
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The Great Pretender
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1993 | Remixes
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— | 25 | 22 | 2 | 83 | — | — | — | 18 | — | |
2000 | Solo
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13 | 36 | 55 | — | 21 | — | — | — | 42 | — |
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2006 | Lover of Life, Singer of Songs — The Very Best of Freddie Mercury Solo
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6 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 30 | — | 8 | 14 | 16 | — |
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2012 | Barcelona: Special Edition (with Montserrat Caballé)
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129 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
2016 | Messenger of the Gods: The Singles
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31 | 24 | 33 | — | 27 | — | — | — | 53 | — | |
2019 | Never Boring
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18 | 21 | 23 | — | 54 | — | — | — | 9 | — | |
"—" denotes a release that did not chart. |
Box sets
Year | Album details | Notes |
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The Solo Collection |
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Never Boring |
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Singles
Year | Song | Peak chart Positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album
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UK [1][2] |
AUT [3] |
FRA [13] |
GER [14] |
IRE [15] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
SWE [9] |
SWI [10] |
US [16] | |||||||
1973 | "I Can Hear Music" / "Goin' Back" (as Larry Lurex) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 115 | Non-album single | ||||
1984 | "Love Kills" | 10 | 9 | — | 25 | 4 | 24 | — | — | 27 | 69 | Metropolis: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
1985 | "I Was Born to Love You" | 11 | 20 | — | 17 | 7 | 22 | — | — | 24 | 76 | Mr. Bad Guy | ||||
"Made in Heaven" | 57 | — | — | 60 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
"Living on My Own" | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
"Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow" | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
1986 | "Time" | 32 | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | Dave Clark's "Time": The Album | ||||
1987 | "The Great Pretender" | 4 | — | — | 26 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
"Barcelona" (with Montserrat Caballé) |
8 | — | — | 47 | 8 | 37 | — | 15 | — | — | Barcelona | |||||
1988 | "The Golden Boy" (with Montserrat Caballé) |
86 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
1989 | "Guide Me Home/How Can I Go On" (with Montserrat Caballé) |
95 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
1992 | "Barcelona" [re-release] (with Montserrat Caballé) |
2 | — | 6 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | — | Barcelona / The Freddie Mercury Album | ||||
"Guide Me Home/How Can I Go On" [re-release] (with Montserrat Caballé) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Barcelona | |||||
"In My Defence" | 8 | — | 50 | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | The Freddie Mercury Album | |||||
1993 | "The Great Pretender" [re-release] | 29 | 26 | 13 | 38 | — | 21 | 36 | — | 15 | — | |||||
"Living on My Own" (Remix) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
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Remixes | ||||
2000 | "Guide Me Home" (with Montserrat Caballé) |
— | — | — | — | — | 70 | — | — | — | — | Barcelona / Solo | ||||
2006 | "Love Kills" (Sunshine People Remix) | — | — | — | 83 | — | 49 | — | — | 98 | — | Lover of Life, Singer of Songs | ||||
2019 | "Time Waits For No One"[17] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Collaborations and guest appearances
- 1975: All four members of Queen helped produce a session with the soul band Trax. Nothing was ever released.
- 1976: "Man from Manhattan" by Eddie Howell - Mercury sang backing vocals, played piano and produced this track.
- 1976: "You Nearly Did Me In" by Ian Hunter - Mercury sang backing vocals on this song, from the album All-American Alien Boy.
- 1978: "Never Let Her Slip Away", a UK top five hit for Andrew Gold, saw Mercury perform harmony vocals as an uncredited background singer.[18]
- 1982: "Emotions in Motion" by Billy Squier - Mercury sang backing vocals on this song, from album of same name. Also on the 1996 Billy Squier anthology Reach for the Sky.
- 1983: "Victory", "There Must Be More to Life Than This" and "State of Shock" were recorded by Mercury and Michael Jackson, but their original takes were never released. Demos and samples from the latter two have, however, turned up on bootlegs. Later, Mercury reworked "There Must Be More to Life Than This" into his solo album Mr. Bad Guy, and Jackson re-recorded "State of Shock" with Mick Jagger. Popular rumours dictate that a Queen version of "Victory" exists, but this has not surfaced anywhere yet. Queen's 2014 compilation Queen Forever included a brand new arrangement of "There Must Be More to Life Than This" featuring cuts from Jackson's vocal track.
- 1986: "Love Is the Hero" by Billy Squier - Mercury sang backing vocals on this song from the album Enough Is Enough. Mercury sings the intro on the 12" single, and also co-wrote and co-produced the track "Lady with a Tenor Sax", from the same album. Both also appear on the 1996 Billy Squier anthology Reach for the Sky.
- 1986: "Hold On", duet with Jo Dare - Mercury co-wrote this song from the German soundtrack of Zabou .
- 1988: "Heaven for Everyone" by The Cross - Mercury sang lead vocals on the LP version, backing vocals on the single version (or the version on the US album) from the album Shove It.
Video albums
Year | Video details |
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2012 | Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender
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References
- ^ a b c "Freddie Mercury in the Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol". Chart Log UK. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "Austrian Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Discographie von Freddie Mercury". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Italian Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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- ^ a b c "New Zealand Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Norwegian Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "Swedish Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "Swiss Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Freddie Mercury - Chart history (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "British certifications – Queen". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 22 August 2012. Type Queen in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ "Les Charts - Freddie Mercury". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "36 Titel von Freddie Mercury – Top Titel" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - search the charts (search: Freddie Mercury)". Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Freddie Mercury - Chart history (Billboard Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ Savage, Mark (20 June 2019). "Freddie Mercury: 'Lost' song Time Waits For No One premieres on Radio 2". BBC News. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ Mercury provided uncredited backing vocals per these sources:
- "Top 500". Smooth Radio. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- Sweeting, Adam. Andrew Gold obituary. The Guardian. June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
- "Never Let Her Slip Away". Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s. BBC Radio 2. 5 Feb 2012.
- O'Neal, Sean. R.I.P. Andrew Gold, songwriter of "Lonely Boy" and The Golden Girls theme. The A.V. Club. June 6, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- Singer/Songwriter Andrew Gold Dies. Contactmusic. June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
- Drive with Russell Woolf; Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. June 16, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2013.