Belinda Carlisle discography

The solo discography of Belinda Carlisle, an American pop singer, contains eight studio albums, 11 compilations and six video albums. Her singles discography features 32 physical releases (three of which she has recorded as a guest artist), eight digital-only and five promotional releases. She has also made nine other appearances and 31 music videos.

Belinda Carlisle discography
A woman singing into a microphone
Carlisle performing in 2010
Studio albums8
Live albums1
Compilation albums11
Video albums6
Music videos31
EPs1
Singles43
Other appearances9

Carlisle's first solo album Belinda was released in 1986 on I.R.S. Records and was certified gold in the United States and platinum in Canada. Her first single, "Mad About You", peaked at number three in the US, topped the Canadian Singles Chart, and charted in the top 10 in Australia. The song was followed by "I Feel the Magic" and by a cover version of the Freda Payne song "Band of Gold". Carlisle's second album Heaven on Earth was released in 1987 through MCA and became a Top 5 bestseller in the United Kingdom and Australia. The first single release became "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", which topped the single charts in many countries including US and UK. The second single from the album was "I Get Weak", which shot to number two in the States and number ten in the UK. Third single, "Circle in the Sand" was another Top 10 hit in the US, UK and Germany. Other singles releases included, "World Without You", "Love Never Dies" and "I Feel Free".

The follow-up album Runaway Horses was released in 1989 and hit the Top 5 in both Australia and UK. The first single release "Leave a Light On", it became another top-five hit in the UK, Australia and Canada. Other singles were "Summer Rain", the summer mood influenced "La Luna" and "(We Want) The Same Thing". In 1991 Carlisle issued her fourth album, Live Your Life Be Free featuring such singles as"Half the World", "Little Black Book" and "Do You Feel Like I Feel". In 1992 she released her first greatest hits album The Best of Belinda, Volume 1 which reached number one in the UK and was certified double platinum and platinum in Australia.

Real was released in 1993 and debuted in the top ten in the UK. Singles of the album featured "Big Scary Animal" and "Lay Down Your Arms", a remake from the Graces. Three years later she released A Woman & a Man which included "In Too Deep". The song returned Carlisle to the UK Top 10 for the first time in six years, reaching number six. The song also made the top 20 in Australia (number 11). The second single release was "Always Breaking My Heart" which also made it into the UK Top 10, peaking at number eight. The album spawned two more singles: "Love in the Key of C" and "California". In 1999 the singer released a second greatest hits album in the UK entitled A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits, and was certified gold in the UK. In 2007 Carlisle released Voilà, consisting of a mix of French pop tunes and chanson standards, including covers of Françoise Hardy and Édith Piaf classics.

In 2013, she released the single "Sun" to coincide with a new budget compilation in the US. A new career retrospective, The Collection, was released in March 2014, reaching number 24 in the UK along with the single "Goodbye Just Go".

In March 2023, Carlisle released "Big Big Love", the lead single from her extended play Kismet, Carlisle's first new English language studio collection in over 25 years.[1]

Albums edit

Studio albums edit

List of studio albums, with selected details, chart positions and certifications
Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[2]
AUS
[3]
AUT
[4]
CAN
[5]
JPN
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
Belinda 13 42 24
Heaven on Earth
  • Released: October 5, 1987
  • Label: Virgin/MCA (US)
  • Format: LP • CD • cassette • download
13 13 13 12 21 3 3 4 4
Runaway Horses
  • Released: October 17, 1989
  • Label: Virgin/MCA (US)
  • Format: LP • CD • cassette • download
37 6 13 38 14 32 4 12 4
Live Your Life Be Free
  • Released: October 14, 1991
  • Label: Virgin/MCA (US)
  • Format: LP • CD • cassette • download
27 80 32 21 32 7
Real
  • Released: September 29, 1993
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: LP • CD • cassette • download
61 26 23 9
A Woman & a Man
  • Released: September 11, 1996
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Format: CD • cassette • download
31 36 34 44 12
Voila
  • Released: February 5, 2007
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • Format: CD • cassette • download
Wilder Shores
  • Released: September 29, 2017
  • Label: Edsel
  • Format: CD • download
50
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released in the region.

Compilation albums edit

List of compilation albums, with selected details, chart positions and certifications
Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[3]
GER
[17]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
UK
[10]
The Best of Belinda / Her Greatest Hits
  • Released: September 7, 1992
  • Label: Virgin/MCA (US)
  • Format: LP • cassette • CD
14 35 4 26 1
The Greatest
  • Released: March 28, 1998
  • Label: Toshiba EMI (Japan only)
  • Format: CD
Original Gold
  • Released: February 20, 1999
  • Label: Disky
  • Format: CD
A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits
  • Released: November 20, 1999
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: CD • cassette
6 15
The Collection
  • Released: February 15, 2002
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: CD • cassette
Essential
  • Released: March 31, 2003
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: CD
Icon – The Best of Belinda Carlisle
  • Released: March 19, 2013
  • Label: Geffen
  • Format: CD • download
The Collection
  • Released: March 17, 2014
  • Label: Edsel
  • Format: CD+DVD
24
The Anthology
  • Released: March 23, 2014
  • Label: Edsel
  • Format: 3×CD
Gold
  • Released: September 6, 2019
  • Label: Demon
  • Format: 3×CD, 2×LP, digital download
11
Nobody Owns Me
  • Released: October 15, 2021[18]
  • Label: Demon (DEMREC964)
  • Format: LP
  • Note: National Album Day exclusive
Remixes
  • Reelased: April 23, 2023
  • Label: Demon (DEMREC1069)
  • Format: 2×LP (limited 1500 copies)
  • Note: 2023 Record Store Day exclusive
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released in the region.

Live albums edit

List of live albums, with selected details
Title Details
The Heaven on Earth Tour
  • Released: April 23, 2022
  • Label: Demon (DEMREC1001)
  • Format: 2×LP (limited 2000 copies)
  • Note: 2022 Record Store Day exclusive

Box Set edit

List of live albums, with selected details
Title Details
Decades Volume 1
  • Released: 2023
  • Label: Edsel
  • Format: 4×CD
  • Note: first 4 studio albums
Decades Volume 2
  • Released: 2024
  • Label: Edsel
  • Format: 4×CD
  • Note: fifth to eighth studio albums

Extended plays edit

List of EPs, with selected details
Title Details
Kismet
  • Released: May 12, 2023[19]
  • Label: RAF/BMG
  • Format: LP, CD, download

Singles edit

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications
Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Album
US
[20]
AUS
[3]
AUT
[4]
CAN
[21]
GER
[22]
IRE
[23]
NL
[24]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
1986 "Mad About You" 3 9 1 28 67 Belinda
"I Feel the Magic" 82 51
"Band of Gold" (featuring Freda Payne)[A] 91
"Shot in the Dark"[B]
1987 "Dancing in the City"[C] (OST) Burglar
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" 1 2 10 3 3 1 7 1 1 1 Heaven on Earth
1988 "I Get Weak" 2 34 4 38 5 77 24 10
"Circle in the Sand" 7 26 5 9 6 22 4
"I Feel Free"[A] 88
"World Without You"[D] 21 34
"Love Never Dies"[E] 54
1989 "Leave a Light On" 11 5 4 6 15 4 7 8 8 4 Runaway Horses
"(We Want) The Same Thing"[F] 103 53 22 9 6
"La Luna"[D] 21 29 16 70 10 38
1990 "Summer Rain" 30 6 22 57 26 15 23
"Runaway Horses"[D] 44 63 13 40
"Vision of You" 84 74 41
1991 "Live Your Life Be Free"[F] 13 71 21 45 16 12 Live Your Life Be Free
"Do You Feel Like I Feel?" 73 42 75 29
1992 "Half the World"[D] 129 62 35
"Little Black Book"[D] 106 69 28
1993 "Big Scary Animal"[F] 56 70 63 12 Real
"Lay Down Your Arms"[D] 115 27
1996 "In Too Deep" 11 59 6 A Woman & a Man
"Always Breaking My Heart"[D] 50 8
"Love in the Key of C"[D] 20
1997 "California"[D] 199 31
"I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"[G] Hercules (OST)
1999 "All God's Children"[D] 66 A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits
Download-only
2013 "Sun" The Collection
2014 "Goodbye Just Go"
2015 "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" 80s Re:Covered
"Silver Bells" Non-album single
2021 "Get Together"[25] Nobody Owns Me
2023 "Gonna Be You"
(with Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan and Debbie Harry)[26]
80 for Brady
"Big Big Love"[27] Kismet
"If U Go"[28]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in the region.
  • A ^ Released only in the US and Canada.
  • B ^ Released only in the Philippines.
  • C ^ Released only in Italy, Japan and Canada.
  • D ^ Not released in the US.
  • E ^ Released only in the UK.
  • F ^ Released as a promo in the US.
  • G ^ Released only in France and Germany.

Guest singles edit

List of singles as guest artist, with selected chart positions
Year Title Peak chart positions Album
UK
[10]
1989 "What Does It Take" (with Then Jerico) 33 The Big Area
"Spirit of the Forest" [H] (with Artists United for Nature) Earthrise: The Rainforest Album
1990 "Blue Period" (with The Smithereens) 99 11
2016 "California Blues" (with Gabe Lopez) God Bless the Queens
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in the region.
  • H ^ Released as a charity single, later added to the 1992 compilation album Earthrise: The Rainforest Album.

Promotional singles edit

List of promotional singles, with selected notes
Year Title Notes
1986 "Since You've Gone"
  • Released as a promotional single in the US and UK for Carlisle's first studio album, Belinda.
1992 "I Plead Insanity"
  • Planned to be the fourth single from Live Your life Be Free. Whilst no physical promotional item was released, a video was filmed, and a single edit and two remixes were made for a planned release. All three new versions and the video appeared on the Live Your life Be Free 2013 re-issue.
1997 "Remember September"
  • Released as a promotional 12" single in the UK for Carlisle's sixth album, A Woman & a Man.
1999 "A Prayer for Everyone"
  • Released as a promotional single in Sweden for Carlisle's second official compilation album, A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits.
2007 "I Still Love Him"
  • Released as a promotional single in the UK for Carlisle's seventh studio album, Voila.

Other appearances edit

List of non-single appearances on other albums
Year Title Artist Album
1987 "In My Wildest Dreams" Mannequin
1991 "Bless the Beasts and the Children" Tame Yourself
1993 "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" The Holiday Collection: Volume II
"I'll Do It Anyway" The Lemonheads Come on Feel the Lemonheads
"One by One" The Crash Baptists The Harvest (OST)
1995 "Christmas Lullaby" Mother & Child: A Christmas Celebration
1996 "I Wouldn't Be Here If I Didn't Love You" (OST) Two If by Sea
1997 "Submission" Radiator Come Again
2005 "Dancing Queen" ABBA Mania
2018 "Through the Seam" B Is for Beer: The Musical
"Nursery Rhyme"
"Mystery Song"
(featuring Laura Silverman)
"The Real World"
(featuring Laura Silverman, Paul F. Tompkins, Busy Philipps and Jon Cryer)

Videos edit

Video albums edit

Title Details Notes
Belinda
  • Released: 1986
  • Studio: MCA
  • Format: VHS • DVD
  • Features "I Need a Disguise", "I Never Wanted a Rich Man", "Gotta Get to You", "Shot in the Dark", "We Got the Beat", "Band of Gold", "Lust to Love", "From the Heart", "Mad About You", "Since You've Gone", "Head over Heels" and "I Feel the Magic" (on DVD in a deluxe double disc set with a remastered version of the album Belinda in 2014).
Live!
  • Released: 1988
  • Studio: Virgin
  • Format: VHS • DVD
  • Features "I Feel Free", "Mad About You", "Lust for Love", "I Get Weak", "Fool for Love", "Circle in the Sand", "World Without You", "Nobody Owns You", "Our Lips Are Sealed", "Vacation", "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", "Love Never Dies", "Head over Heels" and "We Got the Beat" (on DVD in a double disc set with the remastered version of the album Heaven On Earth in 2009, while in a deluxe three disc set in 2013).
Runaway Videos
  • Released: 1991
  • Studio: MCA/Virgin
  • Format: VHS/LD
  • US version includes "Mad About You", "I Feel the Magic", "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", "I Get Weak", "Circle in the Sand", "Leave a Light On", "Summer Rain", "Runaway Horses", "La Luna".
  • International version contain "(We Want) The Same Thing" and "Vision of You", instead "Mad About You" and "I Feel the Magic".
Runaway Live
  • Released: 1991
  • Studio: MCA/Image
  • Format: VHS • LD • DVD
  • Features "Runaway Horses", "Summer Rain", "(We Want) The Same Thing", "Whatever It Takes", "Mad About You", "Circle in the Sand", "Nobody Owns Me", "I Get Weak", "Valentine", "La Luna", "Vision of You", "Leave a Light On", "Heaven is a Place on Earth", "Our Lips Are Sealed", "We Got the Beat", "World Without You" and "Shades of Michelangelo".
Live from Metropolis Studios
  • Released: 2013
  • Studio: Edsel (EDMTDVDX001)
  • Format: DVD + CD
  • Note: Full concert filmed live on 27 May 2012
  • Features "Runaway Horses", "(We Want) The Same Thing", "I Get Weak", "Sun", "California", "Circle in the Sand", "Bonnie et Clyde", "Mad About You", "Vision of You", "La Luna", "Summer Rain", "Big Scary Animal", "Leave a Light On", "Heaven is a Place on Earth", "Live Your Life Be Free", "Our Lips Are Sealed", "We Got the Beat", "Ne Me Quitte Pas".
Access All Areas
  • Released: 2015
  • Studio: Edsel (AAACDVD003)
  • Format: DVD + CD
  • Note: Recorded live at NEC Arena in Buckingham, England, May 26, 1990
  • Features "Runaway Horses", "Summer Rain", "(We Want) The Same Thing", "Whatever It Takes", "Mad About You", "Circle in the Sand", "Nobody Owns Me", "I Get Weak", "Valentine", "La Luna", "Vision of You", "Leave a Light On", "Heaven is a Place on Earth", "Our Lips are Sealed", "We Got the Beat", "World Without You", "Shades of Michelangelo".

Music videos edit

Year Title Director
1986 "Mad About You" Leslie Libman
"I Feel the Magic" Marty Callner
1987 "Heaven is a Place on Earth" Diane Keaton
1988 "I Get Weak"
"Circle in the Sand" Peter Care
"I Feel Free" (concert footage)
"World Without You"
"Love Never Dies"
1989 "Spirit of the Forest" (with Artists United For Nature) Storm Thorgerson
"What Does It Take" (with Then Jerico) Andy Morahan
"Leave a Light On" Peter Care
"La Luna" Andy Morahan
1990 "Runaway Horses" Greg Masuak
"Summer Rain" Andy Morahan
"Vision of You" (concert footage)
"We Want the Same Thing" Greg Masuak
"Blue Period" (with The Smithereens) John Lloyd Miller
1991 "Live Your Life Be Free" Nick Egan
"Do You Feel Like I Feel?"
1992 "Half the World"
"I Plead Insanity" Scott Kalvert
"Little Black Book" Dan Rucks
1993 "Big Scary Animal" Jim Gable (US version)
Michel Gondry (UK version)
"Lay Down Your Arms" Neil Abramson
1996 "In Too Deep" David Nelson[29]
"Always Breaking My Heart" Philippe Gautier
"Love in the Key of C"
1997 "California"
"I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"
1999 "All God's Children" Lee Donaldson
2013 "Sun" Dan Ruttley
2023 "Big Big Love"

References edit

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