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The Chemical Brothers discography
The Chemical Brothers performing live: Ed Simons (left) and Tom Rowlands (right)
Studio albums9
EPs6
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums1
Compilation albums4
Singles28
Video albums2
Music videos27
Remix albums2
Mix albums5
Promotional singles15

British big beat duo The Chemical Brothers has released nine studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, two remix albums, five mix albums, one soundtrack album, two video albums, six extended plays, twenty-six singles, fifteen promotional singles and thirty-two music videos.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
BEL
[4]
FRA
[5]
IRL
[6]
NLD
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWI
[9]
US
[10]
Exit Planet Dust 9 49 77 42
Dig Your Own Hole
  • Released: 7 April 1997
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
1 3 26 7 24 23 2 30 14
Surrender
  • Released: 21 June 1999
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
1 5 16 6 8 43 14 7 17 32
Come with Us
  • Released: 28 January 2002
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
1 1 16 5 4 1 30 1 12 32
Push the Button
  • Released: 24 January 2005
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 5 18 1 17 3 7 8 8 59
We Are the Night
  • Released: 2 July 2007
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 18 18 3 28 4 17 19 6 65
Further
  • Released: 7 June 2010
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download

[A]
9 48 10 34 19 42 19 5 63
Born in the Echoes
  • Released: 17 July 2015[24]
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 5 10 2 29 4 4 10 2 73
No Geography
  • Released: 12 April 2019
  • Label: Virgin EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
4 17 26 9 48 21 26 10
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
BEL
[4]
FRA
[5]
ITA
[27]
NZ
[8]
SWI
[9]
US
[10]
US
Dance

[28]
Singles 93–03
  • Released: 22 September 2003
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
9 44 16 12 12 123 2
B-Sides Volume 1
  • Released: 26 November 2007
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: Digital download
Brotherhood
  • Released: 1 September 2008
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
11 94 63 15 94 13 35 14
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Remix albums

List of remix albums
Title Album details
The Remixes Volume 06
  • Released: 20 September 2005
  • Label: Disky Dance
  • Formats: CD
Remixes
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Harmless
  • Formats: CD

Mix albums

List of mix albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Comp.

[29]
NOR
[30]
US
[10]
Live at the Social Volume 1
  • Released: May 1996
  • Label: Heavenly
  • Formats: CD, CS
19
Radio 1 Anti-Nazi Mix
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
  • Released: 22 September 1998
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, CS
7 24 95
In Glint
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD
Confront Your Demons
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Virgin, Cornerstone
  • Formats: CD, DVD-A
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Soundtrack albums

List of soundtrack albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
Dance

[28]
Hanna
  • Released: 15 March 2011
  • Label: Back Lot
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
7

Video albums

List of video albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
BEL
[4]
FRA
[5]
ITA
[27]
NLD
[7]
SPA
[31]
Singles 93–03
  • Released: 22 September 2003
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: DVD
Don't Think
  • Released: 26 March 2012
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: Blu-ray
63 194 58 89 63
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions
Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
IRL
[32]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[33]
US
Dance

[28]
Fourteenth Century Sky
  • Released: Early 1994
  • Label: Junior Boy's Own
  • Formats: 12"
My Mercury Mouth E.P
  • Released: Late 1994
  • Label: Junior Boy's Own
  • Formats: 12"
Loops of Fury
  • Released: 13 March 1996
  • Label: Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, 12"
13 20 48 20
Music:Response
  • Released: 6 March 2000
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD, 12"
Come with Us/Japan Only EP
  • Released: 17 July 2002
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD
AmericanEP
  • Released: 12 November 2002
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: CD
25
Live 05
  • Released: 29 November 2005
  • Label: Virgin, Freestyle Dust
  • Formats: Digital download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL
[4]
FRA
[5]
IRL
[34]
NLD
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWI
[9]
US
[35]
US
Dance

[36]
"Song to the Siren" 1992 Exit Planet Dust
"Leave Home" 1995 17
"Life Is Sweet" 25 31
"Setting Sun"
(featuring Noel Gallagher)
1996 1 27 6 80 Dig Your Own Hole
"Block Rockin' Beats" 1997 1 28 44 9 29 [B]
"Elektrobank" 17 44 [C]
"The Private Psychedelic Reel"
"Hey Boy Hey Girl" 1999 3 25 18 77 4 29 10 Surrender
"Let Forever Be"
(featuring Noel Gallagher)
9 65 23 89 30
"Out of Control"
(featuring Bernard Sumner)
21 26 34
"Music:Response" 2000
"It Began in Afrika" 2001 8 60 46 69 15 89 1 Come with Us
"Star Guitar" 2002 8 52 58 10 76 49 73 2
"Come with Us" / "The Test"
(featuring Richard Ashcroft)
14 36 8
"The Golden Path"
(featuring The Flaming Lips)
2003 17 20 Singles 93–03
"Get Yourself High"
(featuring k-os)
30
"Galvanize"
(featuring Q-Tip)
2005 3 38 13 68 6 11 19 34 12 Push the Button
"Believe" 18 48 22 90 63
"The Boxer" 41 36
"Do It Again" 2007 12 8 10 26 86 We Are the Night
"The Salmon Dance"
(featuring Fatlip)
27 53 43 95 10
"Midnight Madness" 2008 80 63 Brotherhood
"Escape Velocity" 2010 Further
"Swoon" 85 72 45
"Another World"
"Container Park" 2011 Hanna soundtrack
"Go"
(featuring Q-Tip)
2015 46 56 24 169 76 73 Born in the Echoes
"Under Neon Lights"
(featuring St. Vincent)
"C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L" 2016 93 non-album single
"Free Yourself"[37] 2018 No Geography
"MAH"[38] 2019
"Got to Keep On"[39] 58
"We've Got to Try"[40]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

List of promotional singles, showing year released and album name
Title Year Album
"Electronic Battle Weapon 1 / 2" 1996 non-album single
"Where Do I Begin" 1997 Dig Your Own Hole
"Electronic Battle Weapon 3 / 4" 1998 non-album singles
"Only 4 the K People" 1999
"Asleep from Day" / "Music: Response" 2000 Surrender
"Electronic Battle Weapon 5" 2001 non-album singles
"Electronic Battle Weapon 6" 2002
"Electronic Battle Weapon 7" 2004
"Electronic Battle Weapon 8 / 9" 2006
"Battle Scars" / "The Salmon Dance"
(featuring Fatlip)
2007 We Are the Night
"Electronic Battle Weapon 10" 2010 non-album single
"Horse Power" Further
"Electronic Battle Weapon 11" 2015 non-album single

Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released and director
Title Year Director(s)
"Life Is Sweet" 1995 Walter A. Stern[41]
"Setting Sun"
(featuring Noel Gallagher)
1996 Dom and Nic[41]
"Block Rockin' Beats" 1997
"Elektrobank" Spike Jonze[41]
"Hey Boy Hey Girl" 1999 Dom and Nic[41]
"Let Forever Be"
(featuring Noel Gallagher)
Michel Gondry[41]
"Out of Control" W.I.Z.[41]
"Star Guitar" 2002 Michel Gondry, Olivier Gondry[41]
"The Test" Dom and Nic[41]
"The Golden Path"
(featuring The Flaming Lips)
2003 Chris Milk[41]
"Get Yourself High"
(featuring k-os)
Joseph Kahn[41]
"Galvanize"
(featuring Q-Tip)
2005 Adam Smith[41]
"Believe" Dom and Nic[41]
"The Boxer" Ne-o[41]
"Do It Again" 2007 Michael Haussman[42]
"The Salmon Dance"
(featuring Fatlip)
Dom and Nic[43][44]
"Midnight Madness" 2008
"Another World" 2010 Adam Smith, Marcus Lyall[45][46]
"Dissolve"
"Escape Velocity"
"Horse Power"
"K+D+B"
"Snow"
"Swoon"
"Wonders of the Deep"
"Go"
(featuring Q-Tip)
2015 Michel Gondry[47]
"Sometimes I Feel So Deserted" Ninian Doff[47]
"Wide Open"
(featuring Beck)
2016 Dom and Nic[47][48]
"Free Yourself" 2018
"Got to Keep On" 2019 Michel Gondry, Olivier Gondry[49]
"We've Got to Try" Ninian Doff[50]

Remixes

Notes

  • A ^ Further was deemed ineligible to chart on the UK Albums Chart due to all copies of Further giving buyers the chance to win an iPad; chart regulations forbid merchandise or prizes being used as enticements to buy releases.[51]
  • B ^ "Block Rockin' Beats" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 7 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as a 25-song extension to the Hot 100.[52]
  • C ^ "Elektrobank" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as a 25-song extension to the Hot 100.[52]

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