Belle and Sebastian discography
Band discography
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The discography of Belle and Sebastian, a Scottish indie pop band, features twelve studio albums, three compilation albums, four live albums, two box sets, nine extended plays (EPs), 21 singles and one DVD. It also includes a variety of demos and non-album singles, as well as two DJ mix compilations.
Studio albums12
EPs9
Live albums4
Compilation albums5
| Belle and Sebastian discography | |
|---|---|
Belle and Sebastian perform at Pukkelpop in 2006. | |
| Studio albums | 12 |
| EPs | 9 |
| Live albums | 4 |
| Compilation albums | 5 |
| Singles | 22 |
| Video albums | 1 |
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [3] |
FRA [4] |
GER [5] |
IRE [6] |
NED [7] |
NOR [8] |
SWE [9] |
SWI [10] |
US [11] | |||
| Tigermilk |
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13 | — | — | 68 | — | — | — | 20 | 15 | — | — | |
| If You're Feeling Sinister |
|
191 [13] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 23 | — | — | — |
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| The Boy with the Arab Strap |
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12 | — | — | 39 | — | — | — | 7 | 30 | — | — |
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| Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant |
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10 | 53 | — | 54 | 52 | 25 | — | 17 | 11 | — | 80 |
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| Storytelling |
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26 | — | — | 55 | 99 | 42 | — | 32 | 29 | — | 150 | |
| Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
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21 | 88 | — | 76 | 64 | 25 | 58 | 10 | 16 | — | 84 |
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| The Life Pursuit |
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8 | 45 | 56 | 72 | 35 | 23 | 32 | 16 | 20 | 56 | 65 |
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| Write About Love |
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8 | 74 | 40 | 54 | 38 | 21 | 41 | 28 | 18 | 37 | 15 | |
| Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance |
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9 | 57 | 28 | 49 | 30 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 31 | 26 | 28 | |
| Days of the Bagnold Summer |
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73 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 98 | — | |
| A Bit of Previous |
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8 | — | 50 | — | 31 | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | |
| Late Developers |
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30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 82 | — | |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUT [3] |
FRA [4] |
GER [5] |
IRE [6] |
NED [7] |
SPA [17] |
SWE [9] |
SWI [10] |
US [11] | |||||||
| Push Barman to Open Old Wounds |
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40 | — | — | — | 40 | 94 | — | 59 | — | — | |||||
| The Third Eye Centre |
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44 | — | 174 | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | 145 | |||||
| How to Solve Our Human Problems |
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28 | 37 | — | 27 | — | 72 | 29 [19] |
— | 27 | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
FRA [4] | |||||||||||||||
| If You're Feeling Sinister: Live at the Barbican |
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— | — | |||||||||||||
| The BBC Sessions |
|
88 | 126 | |||||||||||||
| Live 2015 |
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— | — | |||||||||||||
| What to Look for in Summer |
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— | — | |||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
Box sets
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Lazy Line Painter Jane |
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122 [13] | ||||||||||||||
| The Jeepster Singles Collection |
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— | ||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
EPs
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
IRE [6] |
SWE [9] | ||||||||||||||
| Dog on Wheels |
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59 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Lazy Line Painter Jane |
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41 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light |
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32 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| This Is Just a Modern Rock Song |
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—1 | — | 45 | ||||||||||||
| Books |
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20 | 46 | — | ||||||||||||
| Introducing... Belle & Sebastian |
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— | — | — | ||||||||||||
| How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 1) |
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— | — | — | ||||||||||||
| How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 2)[20] |
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— | — | — | ||||||||||||
| How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 3) |
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28 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
1 Charted at number 1 on the UK Indie Chart.[13]
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
CAN [21] |
EUR [22] |
IRE [6] |
JPN [23] |
MEX [24] |
NED [7] |
NOR [8] |
SWE [9] | |||||||
| "Legal Man" | 2000 | 15 | — | 4 | — | 50 | — | — | — | 10 | 46 | Non-album singles | ||||
| "Jonathan David" | 2001 | 31 | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | |||||
| "I'm Waking Up to Us" | 39 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 50 | ||||||
| "Step into My Office, Baby" | 2003 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 80 | — | — | Dear Catastrophe Waitress | ||||
| "I'm a Cuckoo" | 2004 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | |||||
| "Funny Little Frog" | 2006 | 13 | — | — | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | The Life Pursuit | ||||
| "Casaco Marrom" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Late Night Tales: Belle & Sebastian | |||||
| "The Blues Are Still Blue" | 25 | 43 | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Life Pursuit | |||||
| "White Collar Boy" | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Write About Love" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | Belle & Sebastian Write About Love | ||||
| "I Want the World to Stop" | 2011 | 125 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Come on Sister" | —[A] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "The Party Line" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | — | Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | ||||
| "Nobody's Empire" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | — | — | — | |||||
| "The Cat with the Cream" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "We Were Beautiful"[26] | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | How to Solve Our Human Problems | ||||
| "Poor Boy"[27] | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Sister Buddha" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | — | — | — | Days of the Bagnold Summer soundtrack | ||||
| "Unnecessary Drama" | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Bit of Previous | ||||
| "If They're Shooting At You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Young and Stupid" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "A Bit of Previous" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "I Don't Know What You See In Me"[28] | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | —[B] | — | — | — | — | Late Developers | ||||
| "It Only Takes One Lion" | 2026 | - | — | - | — | - | — | — | — | - | - | Non-album single | ||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
Other
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| LateNightTales |
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| LateNightTales, Vol. II |
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Miscellaneous songs
- "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (traditional) on the Xfm charity compilation It's A Cool, Cool Christmas, released 20 November 2000 on Jeepster Records
- "Final Day" (Young Marble Giants cover) on the Rough Trade 25th-anniversary compilation Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, released 23 September 2003 on Rough Trade Records
- "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (live France Gall cover) on the Fans Only DVD, released 20 October 2003 on Jeepster Records
- "Casaco Marron(sic)" (Trio Esperança cover) on the Belle & Sebastian-compiled album Late Night Tales: Belle & Sebastian, released on 27 February 2006 on Azuli Records, and as a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl single (backed with David Shrigley's spoken-word piece "When I Was a Little Girl") released 13 February 2006, also on Azuli
- "The Monkeys Are Breaking Out the Zoo", a children's song on the Save the Children charity album Colours Are Brighter, released 16 October 2006 on Rough Trade Records
- "Are You Coming Over For Christmas?", released December, 2007 on Belle and Sebastian's official website and Myspace profile.
- "Crash" (Primitives cover), released in 2012 as part of the Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian Vol. II compilation.
DVDs
- Fans Only (2003)
Notes
- "Come on Sister" charted at number 13 on the UK Physical Singles Chart.[25]