Alanis Morissette discography explained

Artist:Alanis Morissette
Studio:10
Live:3
Compilation:6
Video:6
Music Videos:41
Ep:2
Singles:46
Option Name:Promotional singles
Option:12

The discography of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette comprises 10 studio albums, three live albums, six compilation albums, two extended plays, 46 singles, 12 promotional singles, six video albums, and 41 music videos. She has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide.

With the stage name of Alanis, she signed a record deal with the Canadian division of MCA Records for two dance-pop albums. The label released her self-titled album (1991), which was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association and earned her a Juno Award, and Now Is the Time (1992), which was less successful. These albums, released only in Canada, are often not mentioned in the media, which tend to consider Jagged Little Pill (1995), released on Maverick Records, as her debut album. Jagged remains one of the most successful albums in music history, holding the record as the best-selling debut album worldwide, the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind Shania Twain's Come On Over) and having sold more than 33 million copies worldwide. Such hits as "You Oughta Know", "Hand in My Pocket", "Ironic", and "Head over Feet" helped Morissette become the first Canadian woman to top the Billboard 200. Jagged stayed there for 12 weeks and remained in the Top 10 for a year and a half (72 weeks). Between 1996 and 1997 Morissette won four Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Juno Awards. In addition, Jagged Little Pill, Live earned her another Grammy Award in 1998.

Morissette contributed to the City of Angels soundtrack, writing and performing "Uninvited". The song was the winner in two categories at the 41st Grammy Awards. Her second album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998 and debuted at number one in the Billboard 200, becoming Morissette's second consecutive number-one album and, at the time, the fastest-selling album by a female in the United States. Supposed produced four singles: "Thank U", "Joining You", "Unsent" and "So Pure". Morissette herself directed all music videos from the album, except for the controversial "Thank U". Shortly afterwards, MTV Unplugged (sometimes titled Alanis Unplugged) was released in 1999.

Under Rug Swept (2002), her following release, debuted at number one in 12 countries, including the United States (where it was her third consecutive number-one album), and produced the hit single "Hands Clean". The album helped Morissette get the Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award. Having many leftovers from the Under Rug Swept recording session, Morissette released Feast on Scraps, a CD/DVD package, the same year. So-Called Chaos (2004) debuted at number five on Billboard 200 and was less successful. In 2005, Morissette released The Collection, her first and so far the only greatest hits compilation, and Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, which marked a 10-year anniversary of the original album. Her seventh studio set, Flavors of Entanglement, was released in 2008 and became her last album on Maverick Records. Morissette's next studio album, Havoc and Bright Lights, was released on August 28, 2012 through Collective Sounds. The album spawned three singles: "Guardian", "Lens", and "Receive".

Morissette released her ninth studio album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, on July 31, 2020. The album's lead single, "Reasons I Drink", was released on December 2, 2019.

On June 17, 2022, Morissette released her debut meditation album, The Storm Before the Calm, in partnership with the Calm app.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsSalesCertifications
CAN
AUS
AUT
FRA
GER
NLD
NZ
SWI
UK
US
Alanis
  • Released: April 6, 1991
  • Label: MCA (MCAD-10253)
  • Format: CD, cassette
28
  • CAN: 100,000
  • MC: Platinum
Now Is the Time
  • Released: October 20, 1992
  • Label: MCA (MCAD-10731)
  • Format: CD, cassette
  • CAN: 50,000
  • MC: Gold
Jagged Little Pill
  • Released: June 13, 1995
  • Label: Maverick (9 45901-2)
  • Format: CD, LP, cassette
1126311211
  • MC: 2× Diamond
  • RIAA: 17× Platinum
  • ARIA: 14× Platinum
  • AUT: 2× Platinum
  • BVMI: 2× Platinum
  • RMNZ: Platinum[4]
  • SWI: Platinum
  • BPI: 10× Platinum
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
  • Released: November 3, 1998
  • Label: Maverick (9 47094-2)
  • Format: CD, LP, cassette
1235121131
  • US: 2,600,000
  • MC: 4× Platinum
  • RIAA: 3× Platinum
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
  • AUT: Platinum
  • BVMI: Platinum
  • RMNZ: 2× Platinum[5]
  • SWI: Platinum
  • SWI: Platinum
  • BPI: Platinum
Under Rug Swept
  • Released: February 26, 2002
  • Label: Maverick (9 47988-2)
  • Format: CD, LP, cassette, DVD-A, digital download
11121211121
  • World: 4,000,000[6]
  • US: 1,000,000
  • MC: Platinum
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • AUT: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • SWI: Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
So-Called Chaos
  • Released: May 18, 2004
  • Label: Maverick (48555-2)
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
2151511285
  • AUT: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • SWI: Platinum
  • BPI: Silver
Flavors of Entanglement
  • Released: June 10, 2008
  • Label: Maverick (269308-2)
  • Format: CD, digital download
3173687351158
  • World: 600,000
  • US: 235,000
  • SWI: Gold
Havoc and Bright Lights
  • Released: August 28, 2012
  • Label: Collective Sounds
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
12212022271125
  • GER: 100,000[7]
  • US: 92,000[8]
  • BVMI: Gold
  • BPI: Silver
Such Pretty Forks in the Road 14 10 4 45 4 13 40 2 8 16
The Storm Before the Calm
  • Released: June 17, 2022
  • Label: Epiphany, Thirty Tigers
  • Format: CD,digital download, streaming
26

Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsSales
AUS
AUT
FRA
GER
NLD
SWI
UK
US
The Singles Box
  • Released: April 8, 1997
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: 5xCD
Feast on Scraps
  • Released: December 10, 2002
  • Label: Maverick (759938533-2)
  • Format: CD/DVD
194
  • US: 76,000
iTunes Originals
  • Released: June 15, 2004
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: digital download
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
  • Released: June 13, 2005
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD, LP
2198151651250
  • US: 370,000
  • UK: 100,000
The Collection
  • Released: November 15, 2005
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD, CD/DVD, LP
11012184994451
Alanis Morissette: Original Album Series
  • Released: March 12, 2012
  • Label: Warner
  • Format: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsSalesCertifications
CAN
AUS
[10]
AUT
FRA
GER
NLD
SWI
UK
US
MTV Unplugged
  • Released: November 9, 1999
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD (759938533-2), MD (9 47589-8), LP
421015215445663
  • US: 673,000
  • RIAA: Gold
  • AUT: Gold
  • BVMI: Platinum
  • SWI: Gold
  • BPI: Gold
Live at Montreux 2012
  • Released: April 21, 2013
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Format: CD, DVD, Blu-ray
58
Live at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, 2020[11]
  • Released: November 27, 2020
  • Label: Rhino, Warner
  • Format: LP
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Extended plays

Title! scope="col" style="width:16em;"
EP details
Space Cakes
  • Released: October 25, 1995
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD
Such Pretty Forks in the Mix
  • Released: December 11, 2020
  • Label: Epiphany/Thirty Tigers/He.She.They.
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Last Christmas[12]
  • Released: November 3, 2023
  • Label: Epiphany/Thirty Tigers
  • Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
CAN
AUS
[13]
AUT
BEL (Fla)
[14]
GER
NLD
NZ
SWI
UK
US
"Too Hot"199114 Alanis
"Feel Your Love"24
"Walk Away"35
"Plastic"199267
"An Emotion Away"24 Now Is the Time
"Real World"199384
"No Apologies"14
"(Change Is) Never a Waste of Time"31
"You Oughta Know"19956[15] 4 39 17 3[16] 22
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • RMNZ: Gold[17]
  • BPI: Gold
Jagged Little Pill
"You Learn"1 20 13 24 6
  • BPI: Silver
"Hand in My Pocket"1 13 86 7 26
  • RMNZ: Gold[18]
  • BPI: Gold
"Ironic"19961 3 6 8 6 3 9 11 4
  • ARIA: Gold
  • RIAA: Gold
  • RMNZ: Gold
  • BPI: Platinum
"Head over Feet"1 12 60 73 24 27 7
  • ARIA: Gold
  • BPI: Silver
"All I Really Want"2 40 59
"Uninvited"19987 City of Angels
"Thank U"1 15 10 25 19 8 2 18 5 17
  • ARIA: Gold
  • RMNZ: Gold
  • BPI: Silver
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
"Joining You"199930 26 28 51 46 28
"Unsent"9 85 28 58
"So Pure"14 112 38
"That I Would Be Good"139 55 MTV Unplugged
"King of Pain"200092
"Hands Clean"20021 9 12 40 18 15 1 5 12 23
  • ARIA: Gold
Under Rug Swept
"Precious Illusions"4 41 77 79 95 53
"Everything"20043 15 12 54 29 43 22 22 76So-Called Chaos
"Out Is Through"79 75 76 67 56
"Eight Easy Steps"
"Crazy"200529 61 20 38 40 31 65 The Collection
"Underneath"200815 20 16 46 16 99 Flavors of Entanglement
"In Praise of the Vulnerable Man"
"Not as We"197
"Guardian"201241 11 37 13 62 12
  • BVMI: Gold
Havoc and Bright Lights
"Lens"
"Receive"33 73
"Reasons I Drink"2019Such Pretty Forks in the Road
"Smiling"[19] 2020
"Diagnosis"[20]
"Reckoning"[21]
"Ablaze"
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"rowspan="8"
"Predator (Demo)"2021
"I Miss the Band"
"Rest"
"On the Road Again"
(with Willie Nelson)
"Olive Branch"2022
"Little Drummer Boy"[22]
"No Return" 2023
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Promotional singles

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
CAN

[23]
"Fate Stay with Me"1987
"Flinch"2002Under Rug Swept
"21 Things I Want in a Lover"
"Surrendering"
"Utopia"2003
"So Unsexy"
"Simple Together"Feast on Scraps
"Excuses"2004So-Called Chaos
"Wunderkind"200622The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Into a King"[24] 2011rowspan="3"
"Today"[25] 2014
"The Morning"[26]

Other charted songs

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
CANUS

[27]
US
Rock
[28]
"Madness"200899 Flavors of Entanglement
"The Guy Who Leaves"72
"Ablaze"202024 34Such Pretty Forks in the Road

Other appearances

SongYearArtistAlbum
"Spoon"1998Dave Matthews BandBefore These Crowded Streets
"Don't Drink the Water"
"Halloween"
"Mindfield"Ringo StarrVertical Man
"Drift Away"
"I Was Walkin'"
"Mercy"1999Jonathan EliasThe Prayer Cycle
"Hope"
"Innocence"
"Faith"
"Still"Various Artists
"Are You Still Mad"Live in the X Lounge II
"Hand in My Pocket"Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Musical Performances, Vol. 2
"So Pure"Woodstock 1999
"Excess"2001TrickyBlowback
"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"2004Various ArtistsDe-Lovely: Music from the Motion Picture
"Arrival"20091 Giant LeapWhat About Me?
"Citizen of the Planet"2009Various ArtistsLive From the Artists Den: 1
"I Remain"2010Various ArtistsPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time
"Professional Torturer"2011Radio Free Albemuth
"Magical Child"2012 Every Mother Counts 2012
"Ego"2013SouleyeIron Horse Running
"Jekyll and Hyde"
"Tools of Divine"
"Whatever Nice Is"
"Snow Angel"2017SouleyeWildman
"Alanis' Interlude"2020HalseyManic

Videography

Video albums

Title! scope="col" style="width:16em;"
Album details
Jagged Little Pill, Live
  • Released: July 2, 1997
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: VHS, DVD, LD, VCD
Live in the Navajo Nation
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: VHS, DVD
Feast on Scraps
  • Released: December 10, 2002
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD/DVD
VH1 Storytellers
  • Released: April 26, 2005
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: DVD
The Collection
  • Released: November 15, 2005
  • Label: Maverick
  • Format: CD, CD/DVD
Live at Montreux 2012
  • Released: April 21, 2013
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Format: CD, DVD, Blu-ray

Music videos

Title! scope="col" style="width:3em;"
YearDirector(s)
"Too Hot"1991Leslie Howe
"Walk Away"Dennis Beauchamp
"Feel Your Love"
"Plastic"1992Unknown
"An Emotion Away"
"No Apologies"1993
"Real World"
"You Oughta Know"1995Nick Egan
"Hand in My Pocket"Mark Kohr
"Ironic"1996Stéphane Sednaoui
"You Learn"Liz Friedlander
"Head over Feet"Alanis Morissette, Michele Laurita
"All I Really Want"Various
"Thank U"1998Stéphane Sednaoui
"Unsent"1999Alanis Morissette
"So Pure"
"Still"Unknown[29]
"Hands Clean"2002Francis Lawrence
"Precious Illusions"
"Everything"2004Meiert Avis, Marc Dones
"Out Is Through"Seth Jarrett
"Eight Easy Steps"Liz Friedlander
"Hand in My Pocket (Acoustic Version)"2005Unknown[30]
"Crazy"Meiert Avis
"My Humps"2007Unknown[31]
"Underneath"2008Sanji
"Not as We"James Whitaker
"Guardian"2012Baris Aladag
"Receive"
"Lens"2013Victor Indrizzo
"Empathy"
"Today"[32] 2014
"Big Sur"Eric Ernest Johnson[33]
"The Morning"Lesley Chilcott[34]
"Superstar Wonderful Weirdos"2015Brendan Huza[35]
"Reasons I Drink"2020Erin Elders[36]
"Smiling" (with Elizabeth Stanley)Sidi Larbi Cherakoui
"Ablaze"Erin Elders
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"[37] Victor Indrizzo
"What Child Is This?" (with Julian Coryell)[38]
"I Miss the Band"[39] 2021

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Alanis Morissette's 'Reasons I Drink' Hits Top 10 on Adult Alternative Songs Chart. 2020-01-23. Billboard. 2020-05-20.
  2. Web site: The music Australia loved. Dale. David. 2013-01-13. 2013-01-15. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2014-01-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20140112160723/http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/blogs/the-tribal-mind/the-tribal-mind-archive-the-music-australia-loved-20130110-2cilw.html. dead.
  3. News: Queen rules – in album sales . https://archive.today/20120629073900/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/Q/Queen/2006/11/17/2391437.html . usurped . June 29, 2012 . Harris . Bill . Toronto Sun . November 17, 2011 . October 23, 2011.
  4. Web site: RIANZ Top 50 Albums > 27 April 1997. Recorded Music NZ. 2016-03-01.
  5. Web site: RIANZ Top 50 Albums > 11 April 1999. Recorded Music NZ. 2016-03-01.
  6. Schneider, Mitch/Rondan, Marcee/Nelson, Lathum. "Alanis Morissette 'So-Called Chaos' New Studio Album Now Set For A May 18 Release; First Single And Video Is 'Everything', Song Will Go To Radio March 23" . MSO. February 10, 2004. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
  7. Web site: Alanis Morissette: "Havoc And Bright Lights" holt Gold . https://archive.today/20130713023354/http://www.musikmarkt.de/Aktuell/News/Alanis-Morissette-Havoc-And-Bright-Lights-holt-Gold-mit-Video . dead . 13 July 2013 . de . . 21 January 2013 . 12 July 2013 .
  8. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20151017185934/http://hitsdailydouble.com/new_album_releases . October 17, 2015 . Upcoming Releases . Hits Daily Double.
  9. Web site: Alanis Morissette talks legacy of 'Jagged Little Pill' on 'Late Late Show' . UPI . June 5, 2020 . June 5, 2020 . Sheridan, Wade.
  10. Web site: Alanis Morissette ARIA chart history (albums) to 2024, received from ARIA in May 2024. ARIA. Imgur.com. 14 July 2024. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  11. Web site: Live at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, 2020 by Alanis Morissette. recordstoreday.com. October 24, 2020.
  12. Web site: Last Christmas - EP - Album by Alanis Morissette. Apple Music. November 23, 2023.
  13. Web site: Alanis Morissette ARIA chart history (partial) 1998/99 from ARIA in May 2024. ARIA. Imgur.com. 14 July 2024. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  14. Web site: Belgium (Flanders) Charts: Ultratop 200 Albums & Ultratop 50 Singles . ultratop.be/nl . . November 24, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081211161809/http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Alanis+Morissette . December 11, 2008.
  15. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.2781&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.2781.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.2781 "RPM100"
  16. http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=3716 NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart
  17. Web site: Top 50 Singles Chart, 2 June 1996. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 2012-01-05.
  18. Web site: Top 50 Singles Chart, 31 March 1996. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 2012-01-05.
  19. News: Tan . Emily . Alanis Morissette Shares New Single 'Smiling' . February 25, 2021 . . February 21, 2020.
  20. Web site: Alanis Morissette Shares Haunting "Diagnosis". Idolator. Wass. Mike. April 24, 2020. April 24, 2020.
  21. Alanis Morissette Speaks for the Vulnerable on New Song 'Reckoning'. Rolling Stone. Shaffer. Claire. July 10, 2020. July 10, 2020.
  22. Web site: Alanis Morissette Plays Her Best for Us With New ‘Little Drummer Boy’ Cover. Billboard. December 9, 2022. December 29, 2022. Rowley. Glenn. https://archive.today/20221227191423/https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/alanis-morissette-little-drummer-boy-1235184644/?q=VZ%5BK%5DX%5B%5B%5B%5B%5DK%5B%5DKY%5B%5BYXKLLLN%5B%23!. December 27, 2022. live.
  23. Alanis Morissette: Chart History - Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales. Billboard. August 11, 2020.
  24. Web site: Into a King by Alanis Morissette. SoundCloud. 26 July 2015.
  25. Web site: Today (For Marianne Williamson) by Alanis Morissette. SoundCloud. 10 May 2014.
  26. Web site: The Morning (from the Film "a Small Section of the World") - Single by Alanis Morissette. iTunes Store. 6 November 2014 . 26 July 2015.
  27. Alanis Morissette: Chart History - Digital Song Sales. Billboard. August 11, 2020.
  28. Alanis Morissette: Chart History - Hot Rock & Alternative songs. Billboard. August 11, 2020.
  29. Web site: Alanis Morissette - Still (Official Video). YouTube. Jan 6, 2016.
  30. Web site: Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket (Acoustic Version). YouTube. May 16, 2007.
  31. Web site: Alanis Morissette - My Humps. YouTube. May 19, 2007.
  32. Web site: "Today" by Alanis Morissette - a song inspired by Marianne Williamson's Congressional Campaign. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/VFuDwpbeEso . 2021-12-13 . live. YouTube. 10 May 2014.
  33. Web site: Alanis Morissette - Big Sur. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/xyNUeVkzKYU . 2021-12-13 . live. YouTube. 1 June 2014.
  34. Web site: Alanis Morissette - The Morning (from the film "A Small Section of the World"). YouTube. Nov 8, 2014.
  35. Web site: Alanis Morissette - "Superstar Wonderful Weirdos" [Fan Video]]. YouTube. Nov 12, 2015.
  36. Web site: Eric Elders on Instagram. https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B9E-uiEB0CS . 2021-12-24 . limited. Instagram. 27 February 2020.
  37. Web site: Alanis Morissette - Happy Xmas (War Is Over). YouTube. Nov 27, 2020.
  38. Web site: Alanis Morissette with Julian Coryell - What Child Is This?. YouTube. Dec 24, 2020.
  39. Web site: Alanis Morissette - I Miss The Band (Official Video). YouTube. Apr 16, 2021.