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Vangelis discography

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Vangelis and cast members watch the Olympic torch pass the Gielgud Theater, London 26 July 2012.

Vangelis (b. 29 March 1943, d. 17 May 2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer. He began his music career in the 1960s with the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child and in the 1970s began composing electronic music. He gained wide mainstream popularity after composing soundtracks to the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Blade Runner (1982).[1] His solo career discography consists of 23 studio albums, 26 compilation albums, 12 soundtrack albums, and roughly 29 singles. The majority of his film, documentary, theatre, and ballet & dance scores were not released or officially released. He also collaborated with Jon Anderson and as a duo, Jon and Vangelis, released 4 studio albums, 2 compilations, and 13 singles, and with Irene Papas released two studio albums.

His solo studio album Heaven and Hell (1975) was his UK chart debut (#31), while Albedo 0.39 (1976) his first top 20 album. His best selling studio albums are China (1979), certified silver for selling over 60,000 copies by BPI, Voices (1995) selling almost 300,000 certified copies in Germany and Austria, and Mythodea (2001) certified platinum in Greece and silver in Portugal. His compilation albums also had good sales, with Themes (1989) selling over 445,000 copies, Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear) (1996) selling over a million copies in Europe, and Odyssey: The Definitive Collection (2003) over 110,000 copies. His best selling soundtracks are Opéra sauvage (1979) which reached #42 on the Billboard 200 and stayed in the charts for 39 weeks, Chariots of Fire (1981) which topped the Billboard 200 for 4 weeks and sold 2 million copies worldwide, Blade Runner (1994) which sold over 250,000 copies, 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) which topped the charts in Europe and sold 3 million copies worldwide, and Alexander (2004) which was certified platinum in Hungary.

His solo single "Chariots of Fire" in 1982 topped the Billboard Hot 100, "Conquest of Paradise" (1992) topped the charts in Europe and sold over 1.6 million copies, and "Anthem", the theme music for the 2002 FIFA World Cup reached the top 5 in Japan and was certified platinum by RIAJ.

Studio albums

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Year Album details Peak chart positions
AUT
 FRA
 GER
 ITA
 NLD
[2] 		SWE
 SWI
[3] 		UK
[4] 		US
1972 Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit (lit. "Make Your Dream Last Longer Than the Night") — — — — — — — — —
1973 Earth
  • Released: October 1973
  • Label: Vertigo, # 6499 693 (LP)
  • Format: CD in 1996
 — — — — — — — — —
1975 Heaven and Hell — — — — — — — 31 204
1976 Albedo 0.39 — — — — — — — 18 —
1977 Spiral
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: RCA #3022 (LP)
  • Format: CD, LP album
 — — — — 38 — — — —
1978 Beaubourg — — — — — — — — —
1979 China
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Polydor (LP) POLD 5018(CS) 813653-4
  • Format: CD, LP album
 — — — — 31 — — — —
1980 See You Later — — — — — — — — —
1984 Soil Festivities — — — — 45 — — 55 —
1985 Mask — — — — — — — 69 —
1985 Invisible Connections — — — — — — — — —
1988 Direct — — — — — 33 — — —
1990 The City — — — — 82 — — — —
1995 Voices 6 — 24 — 36 50 31 58 —
1996 Oceanic 22 29 87 — 98 60 37 — —
1998 El Greco — 66 74 — — — — 159 —
2001 Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey — — 46 39 — — 75 — —
2016 Rosetta
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Decca
  • Format: CD, LP
 58
[5] 		31
[6] 		55 30
[7] 		33 — 29 40 —
2019 Nocturne: The Piano Album
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Decca
  • Format: CD, LP
 — 141 — — 116 — 33 — —
2021 Juno to Jupiter
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: Decca
  • Format: CD, LP
 — — — — 31 — 21 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or receive certification.

Unofficial albums

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Strictly not bootleg recordings as they appeared on a label, but they were released without Vangelis' permission and were later withdrawn from the market.

Soundtracks

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Limited release albums

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  • (1984) Silent Portraits - LP album in a book of portraits - print run: 600
  • (1995) Foros Timis Ston Greco - CD album included in a book about Greek painter El Greco - print run: 3,000; later expanded and put in general release as El Greco (1998)
  • (1998) Microneurosurgery with video tapes - 3 VHS included in a book of Microneurosurgery by Doctor Stergios Tegos

Collaboration albums

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Compilation albums

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Singles and EPs

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Year Title Peak chart positions[8] Album
UK
[4] 		NLD
[9] 		JPN
[10]
1970 "Djemilla" [B] — — — Sex Power - soundtrack
1973 "Come On" [C] — — — Earth
1976 "Pulstar" — — — Albedo 0.39
"Thème D'Amour" [D] — — — La Fête sauvage
1977 "Ignacio - Part I" [E] — — — Ignacio
"To the Unknown Man" — 38 — Spiral
"Dervish D" [F] — — —
1979 "The Long March" — — — China
"The Tao of Love" [G] — — —
"Hymne" [H] — — — Opéra sauvage
"L'Enfant" [I] — — —
1980 "Don't Be Foolish" — — — See You Later
"My Love" — — —
1981 "Not a Bit - All of It" [J] — — —
"Chariots of Fire - Titles" [K] 12 17 55 Chariots of Fire
"Heaven and Hell: 3rd Movement"[L] 48 — — Heaven And Hell
1982 "Blade Runner - End Title" — — — Blade Runner
1983 "Theme from Antarctica" [M] — — 66 Antarctica
1988 "The Will of the Wind" — — — Direct
1989 "Missing" [N] — — — Themes
1992 "Conquest of Paradise" [O] 60 1 — 1492: Conquest of Paradise (album)
1993 "Twenty Eighth Parallel" [P] — — —
1995 "Voices" — — — Voices
1996 "Ask the Mountains" 77 — —
"Sauvage et Beau" — — — Portraits
"Song of the Seas" — — — Oceanic
1997 "March with Me" [Q] — — —
2001 "Mythodea" — — —
2002 "Anthem - 2002 FIFA World Cup Official Anthem" 98 — 5
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles released under pseudonyms

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  • (1971) "Astral Abuse"/"Who Killed", as Alpha Beta
  • (1974) "Who"/"Sad Face", as Odyssey
  • (1975) "Bird of Love"/"The Pawn", as the band Humanity (including Silver Koulouris, Michael Haubrich, F. R. David)
  • (1978) "Red Square", as Richard Broadbaker - Mama O'

Other work

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Vangelis' brother, Niko Papathanassiou, performs on these albums
  2. ^ released in France
  3. ^ released in France
  4. ^ released in France
  5. ^ released in France
  6. ^ released in France
  7. ^ released in Australia
  8. ^ released in Netherlands
  9. ^ released in France
  10. ^ released in Spain
  11. ^ Hit # 1 US Billboard charts and #4 in Canada[11]
  12. ^ "Theme from the TV series Cosmos"
  13. ^ released in Japan
  14. ^ released in Germany and Netherlands
  15. ^ Dutch chart entry in March 1995
  16. ^ released in France and Germany
  17. ^ with Montserrat Caballe

References

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  1. ^ "Vangelis". IMDb.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Discogafie Vangelis". Dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Vangelis – Juno to Jupiter". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b "UK charts". OfficialCharts.com.
  5. ^ "Ö3 Austria Top40: Longplay-Charts - Ö3Charts". Oe3.orf.at.
  6. ^ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes - SNEP (Week 39, 2016)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 39 (dal 2016-09-23 al 2016-09-29)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Vangelis Songs • Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography • Music VF, US & UK hits charts". Msicvf.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Dutch Top 100". Dutchcharts.nl.
  10. ^ "Japanese Oricon charts archives". Ukmix.org. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  11. ^ "RPM Top 50 Singles - May 22, 1982" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Vangelis – The Tegos Tapes". Synthtopia. December 2, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
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