Idlewild discography

Idlewild discography
Idlewild at The Outsider in 2008
Studio albums8
Compilation albums3
Singles26

The discography of Idlewild, a Scottish rock band, consists of eight studio albums, three EPs, three compilations, one live album, and twenty-eight singles.[1]

Studio albums

Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2][3] 		FRA
[4] 		IRE
[5] 		SCO
[6]
1998 Captain1
  • Released: January 1998
  • Label: Deceptive Records
 —2 — — —
Hope Is Important
  • Released: 19 October 1998
  • Label: Food Records
 53 — — 44
2000 100 Broken Windows
  • Released: 9 May 2000
  • Label: Food Records
 15 — — 6
2002 The Remote Part
  • Released: 15 July 2002
  • Label: Parlophone
 3 135 39 2
2005 Warnings/Promises
  • Released: 7 March 2005
  • Label: Parlophone
 9 — 50 5
2007 Make Another World
  • Released: 5 March 2007
  • Label: Sequel Records
 24 — 100 8
2009 Post Electric Blues3
  • Released: 5 October 2009
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 90 — — 37
2015 Everything Ever Written4
  • Released: 9 February 2015
  • Label: Empty Words
 20 — — 4
2019 Interview Music
  • Released: 5 April 2019[8]
  • Label: Empty Words
 22 — — 1
  • 1 Often considered to be a mini-album.
  • 2 Charted at number 2 on the UK Indie Chart.[3]
  • 3 Initially self-released to fans on 11 June through idlewildmusic.com.
  • 4 Pre-orders through Pledge Music announced on 3 November 2014.

EPs

Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
 IRE SCO
2005 Love Steals Us From Loneliness — — — —
I Understand It — — — —
2020 Interview Music - Acoustic EP
  • Released: 15 January 2020
  • Label: Empty Words
 — — — —

Compilation albums

Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[3] 		FRA
[4] 		IRE
[5] 		SCO
[6]
2007 Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007 79 — — 21
A Distant History - Rarities 1997-20071
  • Released: 29 October 2007
  • Label: Parlophone/EMI
 — — — —
2010 The Collection
  • Released: 23 April 2010
  • Label: EMI
 — — — —
  • 1 Download-only.

Live albums

Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
 IRE SCO
2015 Live
  • Released: 16 May 2016
  • Label: Empty Words
 — — — —

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Album
UK
[3] 		IRE
[5] 		SCO
[9]
1997 "Queen of the Troubled Teens"[A] — — — —
"Chandelier"[A] — — —
1998 "Satan Polaroid" 160 — — Captain
"A Film for the Future" 53 — 39 Hope Is Important
"Everyone Says You're So Fragile" 47 — 42
"I'm a Message" 41 — 31
1999 "When I Argue I See Shapes" 19 — 15
"Little Discourage" 24 — 12 100 Broken Windows
2000 "Actually It's Darkness" 23 — 14
"These Wooden Ideas" 32 — 18
"Roseability" 38 — 25
2002 "You Held the World in Your Arms" 9 — 4 The Remote Part
"American English" 15 — 8
"Live in a Hiding Place" 26 — 17
2003 "A Modern Way of Letting Go" 28 — 21
2005 "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" 16 37 6 Warnings/Promises
"I Understand It" 32 — —
"El Capitan" 39 — —
2006 "If It Takes You Home" — — — Make Another World
2007 "No Emotion" 36 — 7
"A Ghost in the Arcade" — — —
2009 "Readers & Writers" — — — Post Electric Blues
"City Hall" — — —
2014 "Collect Yourself" — — — Everything Ever Written
2015 "Come on Ghost" — — —
2019 "Dream Variations" — — — Interview Music
"Same Things Twice" — — —
"There's a Place for Everything (Acoustic)" — — —

Notes

  • A ^Chart ineligible.

Other appearances

  • 1998 – Gran Turismo – "A Film for the Future"
  • 2003 – FIFA 2003 – "You Held the World in Your Arms"
  • 2005 – Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition – "A Modern Way of Letting Go"
  • 2006 – Saints Row – "Too Long Awake"
  • 2007 – Ballads of the Book – "The Weight of Years"

References

  1. ^ "Idlewild Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Idlewild | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "UK Chartlog: I Am Kloot – I Wayne". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  4. ^ a b "lescharts: Search – Idlewild chart positions". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  5. ^ a b c "irish-charts: Search – Idlewild chart positions". Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  6. ^ a b Scottish albums:
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1998-11-01. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2000-04-22. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2002-07-27. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2005-03-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  7. ^ a b c d "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  8. ^ "Interview Music The New Album – Out 5 April". Idlewild. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  9. ^ Scottish singles:
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1998-05-03. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1998-07-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1998-10-18. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1999-02-07. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 1999-09-26. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2000-04-02. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2000-06-18. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2000-10-22. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2002-04-28. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2002-07-07. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2002-10-27. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2003-02-16. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2005-02-27. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
    • "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". officialcharts.com. 2007-03-04. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
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