| Artist: | Cliff Richard albums |
| Studio: | 49 (47 UK + 2 Germany) |
| Soundtrack: | 7 |
| Live: | 11 (9 UK + 2 Japan) |
| Ep: | 47 (UK) |
| Compilation: | 17 (UK) |
| 1Option: | 3 (UK) |
| 1Option Name: | Cast recording albums |
| 2Option: | 1 |
| 2Option Name: | Remix albums |
| 3Option: | 19 (UK) |
| 3Option Name: | Budget compilations |
| 4Option: | 8 (7 UK + 1 US) |
| 4Option Name: | Gospel compilations |
| 5Option: | 22 |
| 5Option Name: | Foreign compilations |
| 6Option: | 12 |
| 6Option Name: | Box sets |
The albums discography of English singer Cliff Richard consists of 49 studio albums (47 English and 2 German), seven soundtrack albums, 11 live albums, three cast recording albums, 17 mainstream compilation albums, one remix album, 12 box sets, eight gospel compilation albums and 47 EPs. It also includes numerous budget/mid-price compilation albums, repackaged albums, and foreign compilation albums (i.e. albums that were not released in the UK).
It is claimed Cliff Richard's worldwide sales are 260 million, which makes him the second highest selling British male solo artist worldwide of all time, after Elton John. Richard, together with his backing band The Shadows, were particularly dominant in the UK from 1958 to 1963 during the pre-Beatles era.
Richard's debut album, Cliff, was released in April 1959. It was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios before a small invited audience. It reached number four in the UK Albums Chart, spending over 30 non-consecutive weeks in the chart (then a top ten). His first studio album Cliff Sings was released in November 1959, with backing evenly split between the Shadows and the Norrie Paramor orchestra. Released in October 1960, Me and My Shadows was his first studio album in which he was backed by the Shadows fully throughout and without any cover songs.
After a string of three studio albums that peaked at number two, Richard achieved his first number-one with 21 Today in October 1961. The Young Ones soundtrack followed soon after in December 1961, spending six weeks at number one in the UK and becoming the first UK soundtrack to sell more than one million copies including international sales.[1] In January 1963, the Summer Holiday soundtrack was released and became the peak of Richard's album success in the early 1960's, spending 14 weeks at number one in the UK with major success internationally (outside the US).[2] As the Beatles popularity took off, Richard's album chart success dropped off progressively, although his Wonderful Life soundtrack of 1964 reached number two, and most of his other studio albums continued to reach the top 10 through to 1966's Kinda Latin and Finders Keepers soundtrack.
Towards the end of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Richard's album sales progressively waned and it was not until his 1976 album I'm Nearly Famous that Richard changed the focus of his recording career from singles to albums, leading to his first top-ten album of the 1970s. This led Richard to have a resurgence in popularity through the rest of the 1970s and 1980s in a period that saw his albums I'm Nearly Famous, Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile and I'm No Hero break the top 100 of the Billboard 200. Since 1987, Richard has reached the top 20 with all his studio albums and achieved his most recent number one with The Album in 1993.
In 2018, it was Cliff's 60th year in the music industry and he released his first studio album of new recordings in 14 years, titled Rise Up, which was recorded after a battle with the BBC. In 2020, Richard released his 105th album, Music... The Air That I Breathe. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number three, which saw Richard become the first artist to make the top five of the albums chart for eight consecutive decades.[3] Richard's album, Christmas with Cliff, was released in November 2022 and is his third album consisting of Christmas music. Richard has achieved seven number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and has amassed 30 top-five albums and 47 top-ten albums.
Alongside his main 46 studio albums, Richard has also recorded two albums solely recorded in German which were only released in Germany (and German-speaking countries). Richard has also released innumerable compilation albums. In the discography below, the more significant of these have been split into sections. Under the 'Main compilation albums' section are the compilation albums that were released in the UK and charted. The second, 'Budget compilation albums', are the albums released on dedicated budget album labels or released at prices less than full price product (such as mid-price releases). Also included in this section are notable albums released by specialist re-issue record labels, which usually contain previously unreleased material or material previously unreleased on CD. The third section, 'Gospel compilation albums', consists of albums dedicated to gospel tracks only, or released by Christian music labels for the Contemporary Christian music market. The final section, 'Foreign compilation albums' consists of albums that were not released in the UK, but were released elsewhere and charted. The discography below also lists repackaged albums which are previously released albums, typically retitled, given a new cover and released with the same or predominantly the same track listing.
In 2023, marking his 65th anniversary, he released the album Cliff with Strings: My Kinda Life, a reworking of his classic hits reimagined in an orchestral arrangement.[4]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [5] | AUS [6] | CAN [7] | , Summer Holiday and Living Doll: Web site: CHUM #1 Albums . 16 November 2019 . chumtribute.com . The CHUM Tribute Site.
| DEN [8] | GER [9] | NL [10] | NOR [11] [12] | -- | access-date=15 February 2012--> | NZ [13] [14] | SWE [15] | US [16] | |
| Cliff Sings | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Me and My Shadows |
| 2 | — | — | — | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Listen to Cliff! |
| 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 21 Today |
| 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard |
| 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | ||
| When in Spain |
| 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff Richard |
| 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | ||
| When in Rome |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Love Is Forever |
| 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Kinda Latin |
| 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Don't Stop Me Now! |
| 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Good News |
| 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Established 1958 |
| 30 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Sincerely |
| 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| About That Man |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Tracks 'n Grooves |
| 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| The 31st of February Street |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| I'm Nearly Famous |
| 5 | 45 | 23 | 10 | — | — | 20 | — | — | 76 | ||
| Every Face Tells a Story |
| 8 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | — | — | ||
| Small Corners |
| 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Green Light |
| 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile |
| 3 | 28 | 35 | — | 6 | 20 | 10 | 41 | 44 | 93 |
| |
| I'm No Hero |
| 4 | 28 | 25 | — | 14 | 17 | 16 | — | 36 | 80 | ||
| Wired for Sound |
| 4 | 13 | 23 | — | 44 | — | 22 | 4 | 39 | 132 | ||
| Now You See Me, Now You Don't |
| 4 | 21 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 19 | — | 209 |
| |
| Silver |
| 7 | 65 | — | — | 57 | 42 | 18 | 47 | — | — |
| |
| The Rock Connection |
| 43 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | 21 | — | — |
| |
| Always Guaranteed |
| 5 | 6 | — | 4 | 9 | 19 | — | 3 | 49 | — | ||
| Stronger |
| 7 | 16 | — | 2 | 53 | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| |
| Together with Cliff Richard |
| 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| |
| The Album |
| 1 | 72 | — | 20 | — | — | — | 11 | — | — |
| |
| Songs from Heathcliff |
| 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 50 | — | — |
| |
| Real as I Wanna Be |
| 10 | 91 | — | — | — | 100 | — | 27 | — | — |
| |
| Wanted |
| 11 | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | 46 | — | — |
| |
| Cliff at Christmas |
| 9 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 41 | 59 | — |
| |
| Something's Goin' On |
| 7 | — | — | 23 | — | 67 | — | — | — | — |
| |
| Two's Company: The Duets |
| 8 | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | 9 | — | — |
| |
| Love... The Album |
| 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 28 | — | — |
| |
| Reunited – Cliff Richard and the Shadows |
| 4 | 40 | — | 20 | — | 72 | — | 7 | 54 | — |
| |
| Bold as Brass |
| 3 | — | — | 23 | — | 79 | — | 13 | — | — |
| |
| Soulicious |
| 10 | — | — | — | — | 90 | — | — | — | — |
| |
| The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook |
| 7 | 7 | — | 37 | — | 86 | — | — | — | — |
| |
| Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll |
| 4 | 15 | — | — | — | 82 | — | — | — | — |
| |
| Rise Up |
| 4 | — | — | — | — | 62 | — | — | — | — |
| |
| Music... The Air That I Breathe |
| 3 | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| |
| Christmas with Cliff |
| 2 | — | — | — | — | 61 | — | 40 [23] | — | — |
| |
| Cliff with Strings – My Kinda Life |
| 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [24] | AUS | GER | NZ | ||||
| Cliff |
| 4 | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff in Japan |
| 29 | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff Live in Japan '72 |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| Help It Along |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| Japan Tour '74 |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| Thank You Very Much |
| 5 | — | — | — |
| |
| Dressed for the Occasion |
| 7 | 30 | — | — |
| |
| 3 | 21 | 65 | 7 |
| ||
| Live at the ABC Kingston 1962 |
| 128 | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff Richard — The World Tour |
| 167 | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | CAN | NOR | |||
| The Young Ones |
| 1 | — | — | 19 | |
| Summer Holiday |
| 1 | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Wonderful Life |
| 2 | 5 | — | 4 | |
| Finders Keepers |
| 6 | — | — | — | |
| Two a Penny |
| — | — | — | — | |
| His Land |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Take Me High |
| 41 | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [25] | NOR | ||||
| Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp |
| 13 | 11 | ||
| Cinderella |
| 30 | — | ||
| Heathcliff Live (The Show) |
| 41 | — |
| |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | CAN | DEN | FIN [26] | GER | NL | NOR | NZ | ||||
| Cliff's Hit Album |
| 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | ||
| More Hits by Cliff |
| 20 | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | 16 | — | ||
| The Best of Cliff |
| 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Best of Cliff Volume 2 |
| 49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 40 Golden Greats |
| 1 | — | — | — | — | 30 | — | — | — |
| |
| Love Songs |
| 1 | 1 | — | — | 30 | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| 20 Original Greats |
| 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 |
| ||
| The Hit List |
| 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 38 | — | 5 |
| |
| At the Movies 1959–1974 |
| 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Rock and Roll Years |
| 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 6 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 |
| ||
| The Platinum Collection |
| 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| |
| The 50th Anniversary Album |
| 11 | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | 26 |
| |
| 75 at 75 |
| 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 63 | — | — |
| |
| Stronger Thru the Years |
| 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| |
| The Best of the Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers |
| 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | |
|---|---|---|
| Rock on with Cliff |
| |
| Cliff in the 60s |
| |
| From the Heart |
| |
| The EP Collection: Ballads and Love Songs |
| |
| 25 of the Best of Cliff Richard |
| |
| The Hits in Between |
| |
| 1960s |
| |
| 1970s |
| |
| 1980s |
| |
| 1950s |
| |
| 1990s |
| |
| My Songs |
| |
| Sings the Standards |
| |
| Rare 'B' Sides 1963–1989 |
| |
| Lost & Found (From the Archives) |
| |
| Rare EP Tracks 1961–1991 |
| |
| The Early Years |
| |
| The Collection |
| |
| Let Me Tell You Baby... It's Called Rock 'n' Roll |
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | |||
| Walking in the Light |
| — | |
| It's a Small World |
| — | |
| Hymns and Inspirational Songs |
| — | |
| Carols |
| — | |
| The Winner |
| 121 | |
| Yesterday Today Forever |
| — | |
| Rockspel |
| — | |
| Healing Love (Songs of Inspiration) |
| — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | AUT [31] | DEN | FIN | GER | NL | NOR | NZ | SWE | US | ||||
| Cliff's Greatest |
| — | — | — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| It's All in the Game |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 115 | ||
| Cliff International |
| — | — | — | — | 27 | — | 11 | — | — | — | ||
| Power to All Our Friends |
| — | — | — | 28 | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | ||
| Seine grossen Erfolge |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Cliff Richard's 20 Golden Greats |
| 61 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Move It – Seine besten Songs |
| — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Grootste Hits |
| — | — | — | 7 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1958–1981 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| |
| 25 Years of Gold |
| 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Remember Me |
| 6 | 17 | — | — | 12 | 74 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Their 40 Big Ones |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | — |
| |
| The Definitive Rock & Roll Album |
| — | — | — | — | — | 86 | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Definitive Film & Musical Album |
| — | — | — | — | — | 79 | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Definitive Hit Album |
| — | — | — | — | — | 86 | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Definitive Love Album |
| — | — | — | — | — | 68 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Meine großen Erfolge |
| — | — | — | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Pure Gold – Det Beste av det Beste |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | ||
| Miss You Nights |
| — | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 40 Years of Hits in Holland |
| — | — | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 40 Jahre – 40 Hits |
| — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| My Danish Collection |
| — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 15 | — | 22 | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [35] | AUS | ||||
| The Cliff Richard Story |
| — | — |
| |
| Cliff |
| — | — | ||
| The Best of Cliff Richard & the Shadows |
| — | — |
| |
| The Cliff Richard Collection |
| — | 25 | ||
| The Rock 'n' Roll Years 1958–1963 |
| — | — | ||
| On the Continent |
| — | — | ||
| 40th Anniversary – Complete |
| — | 24 | ||
| The Singles Collection |
| 188 | — | ||
| — | — | |||
| Move It – The Best of the Early Years |
| 96 | — | ||
| Hot Hundred |
| 103 | — | ||
| Original Album Series |
| — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
| Title | Album details | Certifications | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How Wonderful to Know |
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| It'll Be Me |
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| All My Love |
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| Everyone Needs Someone to Love |
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| Live |
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| |
| Carols & Christmas Songs |
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| From a Distance: The Event |
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| Title | Album details | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hier ist Cliff[36] | -- | access-date=27 May 2012--> |
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| Ich träume deine Träume |
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| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [37] | AUS | |||
| Serious Charge |
| — | — | |
| Cliff (No.1) |
| — | — | |
| Cliff (No.2) |
| — | — | |
| Expresso Bongo |
| (1) | — | |
| Cliff Sings (No.1) |
| (4) | — | |
| Cliff Sings (No.2) |
| (3) | — | |
| Cliff Sings (No.3) |
| 2 | — | |
| Cliff Sings (No.4) |
| — | — | |
| Cliff's Silver Discs |
| 1 | — | |
| Me & My Shadows (No.1) |
| 5 | — | |
| Me & My Shadows (No.2) |
| 8 | — | |
| Me & My Shadows (No.3) |
| 6 | — | |
| Listen to Cliff (No.1) |
| 17 | — | |
| Dream |
| 3 | — | |
| Listen to Cliff (No.2) |
| — | — | |
| Cliff's Hit Parade |
| 4 | — | |
| Cliff Richard (No.1) |
| — | — | |
| Hits from the Young Ones |
| 1 | — | |
| Cliff Richard (No.2) |
| 19 | — | |
| Cliff's Hits |
| — | — | |
| Time for Cliff & the Shadows |
| — | — | |
| Holiday Carnival |
| 1 | — | |
| Hits from Summer Holiday |
| 4 | — | |
| More Hits from Summer Holiday |
| — | — | |
| Cliff's Lucky Lips |
| 17 | — | |
| Love Songs |
| 4 | — | |
| When in France |
| — | — | |
| Cliff Sings Don't Talk to Him |
| 15 | — | |
| Cliff's Palladium Successes |
| — | — | |
| Wonderful Life (No.1) |
| 3 | 58 | |
| A Forever Kind of Love |
| — | — | |
| Wonderful Life (No.2) |
| — | — | |
| Hits from Wonderful Life (No.3) |
| — | — | |
| Why Don't They Understand? |
| — | — | |
| Cliff's Hits from Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp |
| 20 | — | |
| Look in My Eyes Maria |
| 15 | — | |
| Angel |
| — | — | |
| Take Four |
| 4 | — | |
| Wind Me Up |
| — | — | |
| Hits from When in Rome |
| — | — | |
| Love Is Forever |
| — | — | |
| Thunderbirds Are Go |
| — | — | |
| La La La La La |
| — | — | |
| Cinderella |
| — | — | |
| Carol Singers |
| — | — | |
| Congratulations – Cliff Sings 6 Songs for Europe |
| — | — | |
| Christmas EP |
| — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||
