Barbara Dickson discography explained

Artist:Barbara Dickson
Studio:27
Live:7
Compilation:13
Ep:4
Singles:42
1Option:6
1Option Name:Cast recording albums

This is the discography of British singer Barbara Dickson.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
[1]
UK Indie
[2] [3]
NL
[4]
The Fate o' Charlie
(with Archie Fisher and John MacKinnon)
Thro' the Recent Years
(with Archie Fisher)
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Do Right Woman
  • Released: February 1971
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
From the Beggar's Mantle...Fringed with Gold
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Answer Me
  • Released: 1 April 1976
  • Label: RSO
  • Formats: LP, MC
Morning Comes Quickly
  • Released: 23 May 1977
  • Label: RSO
  • Formats: LP, MC
58
Sweet Oasis
  • Released: 10 November 1978[5]
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: LP, MC
The Barbara Dickson Album
  • Released: 4 April 1980
  • Label: RSO
  • Formats: LP, MC
7
You Know It's Me
  • Released: 8 May 1981[7]
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: LP, MC
39
All for a Song
  • Released: 15 January 1982
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: LP, MC
342
  • BPI: Platinum
Heartbeats
  • Released: 19 June 1984
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: LP, MC
21
Gold
  • Released: November 1985
  • Label: K-tel
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
11
  • BPI: Gold
The Right Moment
  • Released: 24 November 1986
  • Label: K-tel
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
39
  • BPI: Gold
Coming Alive Again
  • Released: 24 April 1989
  • Label: Telstar
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
30
Don't Think Twice It's Alright
  • Released: 3 August 1992[8]
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, MC
32
Parcel of Rogues 30
Dark End of the Street 94
The 7 Ages of Woman
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Telstar
  • Formats: CD
For the Record
  • Released: 6 May 2002
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: CD
Full Circle
  • Released: 20 September 2004
  • Label: RandM
  • Formats: CD
Nothing's Gonna Change My World
  • Released: 4 September 2006
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: CD
108[9]
Time & Tide
  • Released: 21 January 2008
  • Label: Voiceprint
  • Formats: CD
36
Words Unspoken
  • Released: 31 January 2011
  • Label: Greentrax
  • Formats: CD
To Each & Everyone – The Songs of Gerry Rafferty
  • Released: 1 September 2013
  • Label: Greentrax
  • Formats: CD
135[10] 30
Winter
  • Released: 8 December 2014
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD
Through Line
  • Released: 7 September 2018
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD
Time Is Going Faster
  • Released: 30 October 2020
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleAlbum details
Here We Go
  • Released: 14 October 1982
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: LP, MC
After Dark
  • Released: 26 October 1987
  • Label: Theobald Dickson
  • Formats: CD, MC
Barbara Dickinson in Concert
  • Released: 6 April 2009
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
B4 Seventy-Four – The Folkclub Tapes
  • Released: 8 January 2013
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Live in Concert 1976 & 77
  • Released: 9 December 2016
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD+DVD
In Good Company – Live 2017
  • Released: 27 October 2017
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD
Ballads and Blether
  • Released: 28 April 2021
  • Label: Chariot Music
  • Formats: CD+DVD

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
I Will Sing
  • Released: August 1981
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Barbara Dickson
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Contour
  • Formats: LP
The Barbara Dickson Songbook
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: K-tel
  • Formats: LP, MC, CD
5
  • BPI: Gold
The Very Best of Barbara Dickson
  • Released: October 1986
  • Label: Telstar
  • Formats: LP, MC
78
The Collection
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Castle Communications
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
Now and Then
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Connoisseur Collection
  • Formats: CD, MC
Together – The Best of Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
  • Released: November 1992
  • Label: Telstar
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
22
The Best of Barbara Dickson
  • Released: 12 February 1996
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD
  • BPI: Gold
Memories
  • Released: 2 September 2003
  • Label: Music Club
  • Formats: CD
The Platinum Collection 35
The Barbara Dickson Collection
  • Released: 17 April 2006
  • Label: Metro
  • Formats: CD
The Collection
The Essential
  • Released: 7 February 2011
  • Label: Metro
  • Formats: 2xCD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Cast recording albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
UK Indie
[11]
John, Paul, George, Ringo... & Bert
Evita 4
  • BPI: Gold
Blood Brothers 17
Tell Me It's Not True
  • Released: July 1983
  • Label: Legacy
  • Formats: LP
  • Mini-album of songs from the musical Blood Brothers
100
Chess 10
  • BPI: Gold
Spend Spend Spend
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs

TitleAlbum details
All for a Song
  • Released: December 1981
  • Label: Epic
  • Promo-only release for the compilation album of the same name
Greatest Original Hits – 4 Track E.P.
  • Released: 20 August 1982
  • Label: Epic
Reunited
(with Rab Noakes)
  • Released: 8 April 2014
  • Label: Neon
Five Songs
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Chariot Music

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
AUS
[12]
BEL
(FL)

[13]
GER
[14]
IRE
[15]
NL
[16]
NZ
[17]
SA
[18]
SWI
[19]
US
Bub.

[20]
"Here Comes the Sun"1974rowspan="2"
"Blue Skies"1975
"Answer Me"9Answer Me
"People Get Ready"1976
"Out of Love with Love"
"Another Suitcase In Another Hall"197718Evita
"Lover's Serenade"Morning Comes Quickly
"Who Was It Stole Your Heart Away" (US and Canada-only release)20
"I Could Fall"
"City to City"1978Sweet Oasis
"Fallen Angel"
"Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes"1979rowspan="2"
"Caravan Song"418
"January February"19801164126339The Barbara Dickson Album
"Anytime (You're Down and Out)" (US-only release)
"In the Night"48
"Only Seventeen"1981You Know It's Me
"My Heart Lies"36
"Run Like the Wind"All for a Song
"Take Good Care"1982All for a Song
"I Believe in You"
"Here We Go"Here We Go
"Stop in the Name of Love"198329Heartbeats
"Tell Me It's Not True"
"Keeping My Love for You"198497
"I Don't Believe in Miracles"
"I Know Him So Well" (with Elaine Paige)1211322116927Gold
"Still in the Game"1985The Barbara Dickson Songbook
"If You're Right"1986
"Time After Time"78The Right Moment
"I Think It's Going to Rain Today"1987After Dark
"The West Coast of Clare" (Ireland-only release)
"Only a Dream in Rio"1988After Dark
"Coming Alive Again"1989Coming Alive Again
"All I Ask of You" (with José Carreras)José Carreras Sings Andrew Lloyd Webber
"You're the Voice" (Netherlands-only release)1990Coming Alive Again
"Tears of Rage"1991
"Don't Think Twice It's All Right"1992Don't Think Twice It's Alright
"Blowin' in the Wind"
"Love Hurts"199599Dark End of the Street
"I Will" (promo-only release)2006Nothing's Gonna Change My World
"Where Shadows Meet the Light"2020Time Is Going Faster
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BARBARA DICKSON full Official Chart History Official Charts Company. 2022-02-24. www.officialcharts.com.
  2. Web site: Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 Official Charts Company. 2022-02-24. www.officialcharts.com. en.
  3. Web site: Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 Official Charts Company. 2022-02-24. www.officialcharts.com. en.
  4. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl. 2022-02-24. dutchcharts.nl.
  5. 4 November 1978. Sweet Oasis – A new album from Barbara Dickson. Music Week. 49. 24 February 2022.
  6. United Kingdom. Barbara Dickson. 24 February 2022.
  7. 9 May 1981. New Albums. Music Week. 28. 24 February 2022.
  8. 8 August 1992. Barbara Dickson is back. Music Week. 7. 24 February 2022.
  9. Web site: Chart Log UK: Asher D - Dyverse. 2022-02-24. www.zobbel.de.
  10. Web site: Chart Log UK – Weekly Updates Sales 2013. 2022-02-24. www.zobbel.de.
  11. Book: Lazell, Barry. Indie Hits 1980–1989'. Cherry Red Books. 1997. 0-9517206-9-4.
  12. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. illustrated. St Ives, N.S.W.. 228. David Kent (historian).
  13. Web site: ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS. 2022-02-24. www.ultratop.be.
  14. Web site: Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts. 2022-02-24. www.offiziellecharts.de.
  15. Web site: The Irish Charts - All there is to know. 2022-02-24. irishcharts.ie.
  16. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl. 2022-02-24. dutchcharts.nl.
  17. Web site: charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal. 2022-02-24. charts.nz.
  18. Web site: South African Charts 1969-1989: Artists (D). 2022-02-24. rock.co.za.
  19. Web site: Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade - hitparade.ch. 2022-02-24. swisscharts.com.
  20. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. 1982. 9780898200478.