| Artist: | Empire cast |
| Soundtrack: | 4 |
| Ep: | 12 |
| Singles: | 29 |
The Empire cast has released 4 soundtrack albums, twelve extended plays (EPs), and 29 singles. Empire features on-screen performance-based musical numbers, which are original songs of popular songs, with genres ranging from R&B to pop and Rap & Hip-Hop.
For the first season, the group's debut album,, was released by Columbia Records on March 10, 2015, The soundtrack received positive critical reception and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, 110,000 copies in the first week.[1] [2] On September 11, 2015, another soundtrack titled Empire: The Complete Season 1 was released containing every song heard on the show that weren't included on the official soundtrack.[3] As of December 2015, the album has sold 470,000 total copies in the United States.[4] In January 2016, the album was certified Gold in the United States.[5]
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | CAN | FRA | IRL | NZ | SWI | UK [6] | US [7] | ||||||
| 31 | 25 | 51 | 61 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 1 |
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| — | — | 171 | — | — | — | 74 | 16 | |||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 139 | 26 | |||||
| Empire: The Complete Season 2 |
| — | — | 66[13] | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | |||||||||||||
| Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUT | CAN | FRA [14] | GER | NZ | SWI | UK | US R&B<br>/HH | US R&B | US [15] | ||
| "Good Enough" (feat. Jussie Smollett) | 54 | — | 60 | 25 | — | 55 | — | 33 | 13[16] | 106 | |
| "No Apologies" (feat. Jussie Smollett & Yazz) | — | — | 195 | — | — | — | — | 44 | — | 123 | |
| "Up All Night" (Jamal's 2015 Version) (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Keep It Movin'" (feat. Serayah McNeill) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "War of the Roses" (feat. Jim Beanz) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Drip Drop" (feat. Yazz and Serayah McNeill) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Keep Your Money" (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | 181 | 91 | — | — | — | 32 | 13 | 99 | |
| "You're So Beautiful" (feat. Jussie Smollett and Yazz) | — | — | 79 | 42 | — | — | — | 18 | 10 | 47 | |
| "Nothing But a Number" (feat. Yazz and Naomi Campbell) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Lola" (feat. Jussie Smollett and Yazz) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "You're So Beautiful" (White Party Version) (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "You're So Beautiful" (Full Cast Version) (feat. Estelle, Terrence Howard, Jussie Smollett, Yazz and Serayah McNeill) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "You're So Beautiful" (90s Version) (feat. Terrence Howard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "What the DJ Says" (feat. Jussie Smollett & Yazz) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Take Me To the River" (feat. Courtney Love) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Nothing To Lose" (feat. Terrence Howard and Jussie Smollett) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Live In The Moment" (107 Edit) (feat. Jussie Smollett & Yazz) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Jay Jazz Plus One" (Instrumental) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "For My God" (feat. Jennifer Hudson) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Come Away With Me" (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Black & Blue" (feat. V. Bozeman) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "All of the Above" (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | |||||||||||
A number of songs that were not specifically released as singles, but could still be individually downloaded from their albums/EPs, received enough individual downloads to appear on the singles charts.
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | CAN | FRA | GER | POR Dig. | IRL | NZ | SWI | UK | US | |||||
| "What is Love" (feat. V. Bozeman) | 2015 | — | — | 67 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 112 | |||
| "Keep Your Money" (feat. Jussie Smollett) | — | — | 181 | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | 99 | ||||
| Conqueror (feat. Estelle & Jussie Smollett) | — | — | 157 | 87 | 3 | — | — | — | 42 | 42 | ||||
| "Powerful" (feat. Jussie Smollett and Alicia Keys) | — | — | 152 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Empire: Season 2 Vol. 1 | |||
| Boom Boom Boom Boom (feat. Terrence Howard, Bre-Z) | 2016 | — | — | 171 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | ||||||||||||||