The discography of the English alternative rock band Suede consists of nine studio albums, four compilation albums, five video albums and over twenty singles. Suede were formed in 1989 by singer Brett Anderson, bassist Mat Osman and guitarist Justine Frischmann. Guitarist Bernard Butler later joined after the group responded to an ad in the Melody Maker. The group played as a four-piece with a drum machine until drummer Simon Gilbert joined. Frischmann left before the group released any material.

Suede discography
Suede performing live at Ally Pally in 2021
Studio albums9
Compilation albums6
Video albums5
Music videos26
Singles35

Despite the media frenzy that surrounded the group, their 1992 debut single "The Drowners" only peaked at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] It would not be until the release of their third single, "Animal Nitrate", that Suede would break into the top ten, with the song peaking at number seven following their performance of it at the 1993 BRIT Awards.[1][2]

Suede became associated with the Britpop movement of the period and achieved commercial success throughout the United Kingdom, with three of the group's five studio albums charting at number one.[1] Their popularity throughout the rest of the world varied throughout the group's lifetime, but had several charting hits in Denmark,[3] Finland,[4] Norway[5] and Sweden.[6] Suede's commercial success in the United States was limited, and due to a lawsuit with an American singer with the same name, the group had to change its name for the American market to The London Suede.[7] Despite the lack of commercial success in the US, the four studio albums released in America all charted on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart,[8] though the group never charted on the Billboard 200.[8] Suede also had three minor hits in the US, with "Metal Mickey" peaking at number seven on the Modern Rock Tracks in 1993, "Everything Will Flow" charting at number 28 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999 and "Hit Me" in 2013.[9]

Butler left while the band were recording Dog Man Star and was soon replaced by Richard Oakes.[7] Keyboardist Neil Codling joined the group for Dog Man Star's follow-up Coming Up. Following a commercial resurgence with Coming Up and 1999s Head Music, Codling left in 2001 due to complications with chronic fatigue syndrome and was replaced by former Strangelove keyboardist Alex Lee.[10]

After a long and expensive recording span, A New Morning was released in 2002 and was a commercial and critical disappointment in the UK. The first single released from A New Morning, "Positivity", became the group's only single to chart in Canada,[11] and peaked at number one in Denmark.[3]

In November 2003, Suede released the compilation album Singles which included all 19 of their previously released singles, and also contained two new songs, "Attitude" (itself released as a single along with the non-album "Golden Gun" to promote the album) and "Love the Way You Love Me". Following the release of Singles Suede announced they were disbanding at the end of 2003.[12]

Reforming in 2010 to play a concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust Foundation,[13] the band decided to start recording again. 2013 saw the release of Bloodsports.[14] An even more successful album followed in 2016 with Night Thoughts.

Albums edit

Studio albums edit

Title Details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
AUS
[15]
FIN
[16]
FRA
[17]
GER
[18]
JPN
[19]
NED
[20]
NOR
[5]
SWE
[6]
US
Heat.

[21]
Suede 1 23 12 34 50 31 77 18 7 14
Dog Man Star
  • Released: 10 October 1994
  • Label: Nude
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL, LP, MD
3 73 14 32 39 5 35
Coming Up
  • Released: 2 September 1996
  • Label: Nude
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL, LP, MD
1 35 4 30 37 27 65 3 1 17
Head Music
  • Released: 3 May 1999
  • Label: Nude
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL, LP, MD
1 26 3 39 26 29 56 1 1 25
A New Morning
  • Released: 30 September 2002
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL, LP
24 57 9 68 74 59 81 6 19
Bloodsports
  • Released: 18 March 2013
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, DL, LP
10[A] 97 95 42 65 18 32 14
Night Thoughts
  • Released: 22 January 2016
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, DL, LP
6 64 31 34 23 25 37 10
The Blue Hour
  • Released: 21 September 2018
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, DL, LP
5 37 32 58 52 48
Autofiction
  • Released: 16 September 2022[31]
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: CD, DL, LP
2 23
[32]
108
[33]
20 11 41
[34]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Compilation albums edit

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
DEN
[3][36]
FIN
[4]
IRE
[37]
JPN
[19]
NOR
[5]
SWE
[6]
Sci-Fi Lullabies
  • Released: 6 October 1997
  • Label: Nude
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL, LP
9 11 12 22 16
Singles
  • Released: 20 October 2003
  • Label: Sony Music UK
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL
31 9 35 47 67 14
See You in the Next Life...
  • Released: 12 February 2004
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
The Best of Suede
  • Released: 1 November 2010
  • Label: Universal UK
  • Formats: CD, DL
31 27 58 192 20
Beautiful Ones – An Introduction to Suede
  • Released: 27 May 2016[38]
  • Label: Demon Music Group
  • Formats: DL
Beautiful Ones: The Best of Suede 1992 – 2018
  • Released: 9 October 2020
  • Label: Demon Music Group
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
16
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Live albums edit

Title Details
Live in London
  • Released: 7 December 2010
  • Label: Simfy Live
  • Format: USB
Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD+DVD, DL, LP
European Tour Live – O2 Academy, Leeds
European Tour Live – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
  • Released: 1 November 2013
  • Label: Concert Live
  • Format: CD
Dog Man Star. 20th Anniversary Live. Royal Albert Hall.
  • Released: 18 April 2015
  • Label: Demon Music
  • Format: CD, DL, LP

Box sets edit

Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
The Vinyl Collection
  • Released: 21 October 2013
  • Label: Demon Music
  • Formats: 10×LP
7" Singles
  • Released: 14 April 2014
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 24×7" vinyl
199
CD Singles
  • Released: 14 April 2014
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 24×CD+DVD
The CD Album Box Set
  • Released: 26 May 2014
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 8×CD
Studio Albums 93–16
  • Released: 8 November 2018
  • Label: Demon Music Group
  • Formats: 10×LP

Singles edit

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[15]
DEN
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[39]
IRE
[37][40]
NOR
[5]
NZ
[41]
SWE
[6]
US
Mod.

[9]
"The Drowners" 1992 49 Suede
"Metal Mickey" 17 39 33 7
"Animal Nitrate" 1993 7 89 11 11 21
"So Young" 22 98 25
"Stay Together" 1994 3 15 18 47 10 Non-album single
"We Are the Pigs" 18 34 Dog Man Star
"The Wild Ones" 18
"New Generation" 1995 21 25
"Trash" 1996 3 3 1 19 12 5 Coming Up
"Beautiful Ones" 8 14 6 11
"Saturday Night" 1997 6 4 7 11
"Lazy" 9 9 10 19
"Filmstar" 9 13 12 17
"Electricity" 1999 5 63 5 92 18 5 39 13 Head Music
"She's in Fashion" 13 10 59
"Everything Will Flow" 24 20 55 [B]
"Can't Get Enough / Let Go" 23
"Let Go / Can't Get Enough"[C] 2000 58 Non-album single
"Positivity" 2002 16 1 15 99 44 15 32 A New Morning
"Obsessions" 29
"Attitude"/"Golden Gun" 2003 14 16 50 Singles
"Barriers" 2013 Bloodsports
"It Starts and Ends with You"
"Hit Me"
"For the Strangers"
"Outsiders" 2015 Night Thoughts
"Like Kids"
"Pale Snow" 2016
"No Tomorrow"
"What I'm Trying to Tell You"
"The Invisibles" 2018 The Blue Hour
"Don't Be Afraid If Nobody Loves You"
"Life Is Golden"
"Flytipping"
"Wastelands"
"She Still Leads Me On" 2022 Autofiction
"15 Again”
“That Boy On The Stage”
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Video albums edit

Title Details
Love and Poison
Introducing the Band
  • Released: 16 September 1995
  • Label: Music Video Distributors
  • Format: DVD, VHS
Lost in T.V.
  • Released: 14 May 2002
  • Label: Sony International
  • Format: DVD, VHS
Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: DVD
Night Thoughts – Film
  • Released: 22 January 2016
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Format: DVD
The Insatiable Ones
  • Released: 12 April 2019
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: DVD

Music videos edit

Title Year Director
"The Drowners" 1992 Lindy Heymann
"Metal Mickey"
"Animal Nitrate" 1993 Pedro Romhanyi
"So Young" David Lewis
Andy Crabb
"The Drowners" (US version) Matthew Amos
"Stay Together" 1994 Jon Klein
"We Are the Pigs" David Vital-Durand
Raphaël Vital-Durand
"The Wild Ones" Howard Greenhalgh
"New Generation" 1995 Richard Heslop
"Trash" 1996 David Mould
"Beautiful Ones" Pedro Romhanyi
"Saturday Night" 1997
"Lazy"
"Filmstar" Zowie Broach
"Electricity" 1999 Mike Lipscombe
"She's in Fashion" Johan Renck
"Can't Get Enough" (Australian version) Simon Gilbert
"Everything Will Flow" Howard Greenhalgh
"Can't Get Enough" John Hillcoat
"Positivity" 2002 Julian Gibbs
"Obsessions" Grant Gee
"Attitude" 2003 Lindy Heymann
"It Starts and Ends with You" 2013 Giorgio Testi
"Hit Me" David Barnes
"For the Strangers" Ben Lankester
"Outsiders" 2015 Roger Sargent
"Like Kids"
"Pale Snow" 2016
"No Tomorrow"
"What I'm Trying to Tell You"
"The Invisibles" 2018
"Life Is Golden" Mike Christie
"Wastelands" Giles Campbell Longley

Notes edit

  1. ^ Also charted at No. 2 the UK Indie Chart.[29]
  2. ^ "Everything Will Flow" charted at number 28 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
  3. ^ In Sweden "Let Go", originally the B-side to "Can't Get Enough", was released as the A-side of the single instead of "Can't Get Enough".[42][43] Therefore, "Let Go" became the track played on Swedish radio and even charted as high as No. 5 on Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio)'s Tracks-chart.[44]

References edit

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