Placebo discography
Placebo in 2014
Studio albums8
Live albums3
Compilation albums9
EPs6
Singles33

The discography of Placebo, an English alternative rock band, consists of eight studio albums, three compilation albums, six extended plays, and 33 singles. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1996 and peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart.[1] A single from the album, "Nancy Boy", peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart.[1] Placebo's next studio album, 1998's Without You I'm Nothing, peaked at number seven in both the UK and France.[1][2] The singles "Pure Morning" and "You Don't Care About Us" both reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart. Those were Placebo's last singles to make the top five in the UK.[1]

In 2000, the band released Black Market Music. The album peaked at number one in France, number four in Germany, number six in the UK, and number seven in Austria.[1][2][3][4] Placebo continued their chart success with the album Sleeping with Ghosts in 2003. It reached number one in France, number two in Germany, number three in Switzerland, number four in Portugal, and number six in Austria.[2][3][4][5][6] It was also certified two times platinum in France.[7] In 2004, they released a compilation album, Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004, that peaked at number eight in the UK.[1]

Placebo's fifth studio album, Meds, was released in 2006 and topped the charts in Austria, France, and Switzerland.[2][4][5] Their sixth studio album, Battle for the Sun, was released in 2009 and topped the charts in Austria, France, Germany, and Switzerland; it was the band's fourth consecutive album to peak at number one in France.[2][3][4][5] All of their first seven studio albums have reached the top twenty in the UK.[1]

The band's eighth studio album, Never Let Me Go, was released on 25 March 2022. It was made available for pre-order on 9 November 2021.[8]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
AUS
[9]
AUT
[4]
BEL
[10]
FRA
[2]
GER
[3]
NL
[11]
NZ
[12]
SWI
[5]
US
[13]
Placebo 550
Without You I'm Nothing
  • Released: 12 October 1998
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
71443755651595[upper-alpha 1]
Black Market Music
  • Released: 9 October 2000
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
6187314282215[upper-alpha 2]
Sleeping with Ghosts 1111611219373[upper-alpha 3]
Meds
  • Released: 13 March 2006
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, digital download, cassette, vinyl
74111210241180
Battle for the Sun
  • Released: 8 June 2009
  • Label: PIAS, Vagrant
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
881111514151
Loud Like Love
  • Released: 16 September 2013
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Formats: CD, 12" vinyl, 10" vinyl, digital download
1392233731198
Never Let Me Go
  • Released: 25 March 2022
  • Label: Elevator Lady, Rise
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
31011211391

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUT
[4]
BEL
[10]
FRA
[2]
GER
[3]
ITA
[24]
NL
[11]
SWI
[5]
iTunes Live: London Festival '09
  • Released: 7 December 2009
  • Label: Dreambrother Ltd.
  • Formats: digital download
MTV Unplugged
  • Released: 27 November 2015
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download, DVD, Blu-ray
2120596334313
Collapse Into Never - Live in Europe 2023[25]
  • Released: 15 December 2023
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
AUS
[9]
AUT
[4]
BEL
[10]
FRA
[2]
GER
[3]
ITA
[24]
NL
[11]
NZ
[12]
SWI
[5]
Covers
  • Released: 22 September 2003
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, digital download, cassette, vinyl
99
Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004
  • Released: 25 October 2004
  • Label: Virgin, Astralwerks, EMD
  • Formats: CD, digital download, cassette, vinyl
8308114866334
B-Sides: 1996–2006
  • Released: 15 March 2011
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
Placebo – B-Sides
  • Released: 31 July 2015
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: Digital download
Without You I'm Nothing – B-Sides
  • Released: 25 September 2015
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: Digital download
Black Market Music – B-Sides
  • Released: 27 November 2015
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: Digital download
Sleeping with Ghosts – B-Sides
  • Released: 19 February 2016
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: Digital download
Meds – B-Sides
  • Released: 8 April 2016
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: Digital download
A Place for Us to Dream
  • Released: 7 October 2016
  • Label: Rise Records[27]
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
21281829101713416

Extended plays

Title EP details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
BEL
[10]
FRA
[2]
GER
[3]
SCO
[28]
SWI
[5]
Live at La Cigale
  • Released: 2 October 2006[29]
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Exclusive Session
  • Released: 29 January 2007[30]
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: digital download
Extended Play '07
  • Released: 31 July 2007
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
Live at Angkor Wat
  • Released: 12 December 2011
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: digital download
B3
  • Released: 15 October 2012
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
6566398125
Life's What You Make It
  • Released: 7 October 2016
  • Label: Elevator Lady
  • Formats: vinyl, digital download
66

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[9]
AUT
[31]
BEL
[10]
FRA
[32]
GER
[33]
ITA
[24]
SPA
[34]
SWI
[35]
US
Bub.

[36]
"Bruise Pristine" 1995 Placebo
"Come Home" 1996 86
"36 Degrees" 80
"Teenage Angst" 30
"Nancy Boy" 1997 4
"Bruise Pristine" (reissue) 14
"Pure Morning" 1998 449 Without You I'm Nothing
"You Don't Care About Us" 5
"Every You Every Me" 1999 114699
"Without You I'm Nothing" 5279
"Burger Queen Français" 78
"Taste in Men" 2000 1669[upper-alpha 4]5411 Black Market Music
"Slave to the Wage" 19[upper-alpha 5]6392
"Special K" 2001 50[upper-alpha 6]6018
"Black-Eyed" 94
"The Bitter End" 2003 1247393134161953 Sleeping with Ghosts
"This Picture" 2352[upper-alpha 7]637520
"Special Needs" 27[upper-alpha 8]6771
"English Summer Rain" 2004 23[upper-alpha 9]1798
"Twenty Years" 185917545220450 Once More with Feeling
"Protège-Moi" 171826
"Because I Want You" 2006 13 Meds
"Song to Say Goodbye" 30441841355738
"Infra-Red" 4252[upper-alpha 10]75
"Meds" (featuring Alison Mosshart) 35[upper-alpha 11]8378
"Running Up That Hill" 2007 448116 Covers
"For What It's Worth" 2009 9788242425324633 Battle for the Sun
"The Never-Ending Why" [upper-alpha 12]
"Ashtray Heart" 4466
"Bright Lights" 2010 9262
"B3" 2012 3553 B3
"Too Many Friends" 2013 5126311454 Loud Like Love
"Loud Like Love" 2014 [upper-alpha 13]151
"A Million Little Pieces" [upper-alpha 14]
"Jesus' Son" 2016 [upper-alpha 15] A Place for Us to Dream
"Beautiful James" 2021 [upper-alpha 16] Never Let Me Go
"Surrounded by Spies"
"Try Better Next Time" 2022
"Happy Birthday in the Sky"
"Shout" [upper-alpha 17] Non-album single
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

DVDs

Release date Title Director Formats
6 April 2004 Soulmates Never Die (Live in Paris 2003) Russell Thomas DVD
30 November 2004 Once More with Feeling: Videos 1996–2004 Matthew Amos, Simon Cracknell,
Howard Greenhalgh and others
DVD
13 March 2006 Meds (Special Edition Bonus DVD) DVD
31 October 2011 We Come in Pieces DVD, Blu-ray
27 November 2015 MTV Unplugged DVD, Blu-ray

Notes

  1. Without You I'm Nothing did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 20 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[16]
  2. Black Market Music did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 48 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[16]
  3. Sleeping with Ghosts did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 18 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[16]
  4. "Taste in Men" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at eight on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  5. "Slave to the Wage" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 17 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  6. "Special K" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at five on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  7. "This Picture" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 16 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  8. "Special Needs" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at seven on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  9. "English Summer Rain" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 11 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  10. "Infra-Red" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at seven on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  11. "Meds" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 14 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  12. "The Never-Ending Why" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 23 on the UK Physical Singles Chart.[1]
  13. "Loud Like Love" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 35 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  14. "A Million Little Pieces" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but peaked at 43 on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  15. "Jesus' Son" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but charted as an "extra tip" on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[10]
  16. "Beautiful James" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 38 on the UK Single Sales Chart.[1]
  17. "Shout" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 41 on the UK Single Sales Chart.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "UK Charts > Placebo". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "French Charts > Placebo" (in French). lescharts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Discographie von Placebo". offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Austrian Charts > Placebo" (in German). austriancharts.at Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Placebo album chart positions in Switzerland". Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  6. "Placebo album chart positions in Portugal". Retrieved 27 September 2009.
  7. 1 2 "Sleeping with Ghosts French certificate". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  8. Jones, Damian (4 November 2021). "Placebo announce new album 'Never Let Me Go' and tease 2022 UK and European tour". NME.
  9. 1 2 3 Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
    • Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > Discography Placebo". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
    • Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 219.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Placebo singles chart positions in Belgium". Ultratop. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  11. 1 2 3 "Placebo album chart positions in the Netherlands". Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  12. 1 2 "Placebo album chart positions in New Zealand". Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  13. "Placebo Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "British certifications – Placebo". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 2 September 2023. Type Placebo in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  15. "Placebo French certificate". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  16. 1 2 3 "Placebo Chart History: Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  17. "Without You I'm Nothing Australian certificate". Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  18. "Without You I'm Nothing French certificate". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  19. "Black Market Music Australian certificate". Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Placebo)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  21. 1 2 3 "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community". Swisscharts.com. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  22. 1 2 3 "Gold & Platin" (in German). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  23. "Meds French certificate". Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  24. 1 2 3 "Placebo chart positions in Italy". Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  25. https://placebo.tmstor.es/product/125378
  26. "Disque en France". Disque en France. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  27. "Placebo Career Retrospective A PLACE FOR US TO DREAM Out This Fall". broadwayworld.com. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  28. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  29. "Placebo - Live at La Cigale Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  30. "Placebo - Exclusive Session - Live". AlterNation. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  31. "Placebo singles chart positions in Austria". Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  32. "Placebo singles chart positions in France". Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  33. "Placebo singles chart positions in Germany". Archived from the original on 1 October 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
  34. "Discography Placebo". spanishcharts.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  35. "Placebo singles chart positions in Switzerland". Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  36. "Placebo Chart History: Bubbling Under Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
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