Ledisi discography explained

Studio:11
Live:3
Ep:1
Singles:38
Soundtrack:1
Option:1
Option Name:Box sets

American singer-songwriter Ledisi has released eleven studio albums, three live albums, one soundtrack album, one extended play, and thirty-eight singles, including three as a featured artist.

In 2000, she formed her own record label LeSun Music and released her first album Soulsinger (2000), followed by Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue. In 2003, her first album was reissued as Soulsinger: The Revival on Tommy Boy Records. In the same year, she released a live extended play Ledisi and Anibade Live Recordings Vol. 1.

In 2007, Ledisi released her third album Lost & Found on Verve Forecast; marking her first album release on a major label. The album became Ledisi's first Billboard chart entry, peaking at number seventy-eight on the US Billboard 200 and number ten on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[1] It featured the singles "Alright", "In the Morning", and "Joy"; all of which have peaked in the top-40 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart.[1] She released six more albums on Verve: It's Christmas (2008), Turn Me Loose (2009), Pieces of Me (2011), The Truth (2014), The Intimate Truth (2015), and Let Love Rule (2017).

In August 2020, Ledisi released The Wild Card on her own record label Listen Back Entertainment. She released her second live album Ledisi Live at The Troubadour on April 30, 2021. In July 2021, she released her tenth album Ledisi Sings Nina, followed by a live album titled Ledisi: A Night of Nina (2022). In March 2024, Ledisi released her eleventh album Good Life.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US
US
R&B/Hip-Hop
US
Jazz
US
R&B
Soulsinger
  • Released: January 1, 2000
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
  • Released: January 1, 2002
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
Lost & Found
  • Released: August 28, 2007
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
7810
It's Christmas
  • Released: September 23, 2008
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
28
Turn Me Loose
  • Released: August 18, 2009
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
141
Pieces of Me
  • Released: June 14, 2011
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
82
The Truth
  • Released: March 11, 2014
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1464
Let Love Rule[2]
  • Released: September 26, 2017
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
10012
The Wild Card
  • Released: August 28, 2020
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
Ledisi Sings Nina[3]
  • Released: July 23, 2021
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
13
Good Life[4]
  • Released: March 1, 2024
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US
R&B/Hip-Hop
US
R&B
Ledisi and Anibade Live Recordings Vol. 1
  • Released: 2003[5]
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
The Intimate Truth
  • Released: January 20, 2015
  • Label: Verve
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2612
Ledisi Live at The Troubadour
  • Released: April 30, 2021[6]
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: digital download
Ledisi: A Night of Nina
  • Released: November 18, 2022[7] [8]
  • Label: Fig Street Films
  • Formats: CD, DVD

Box sets

Singles

As lead artist

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
US
R&B/HH
US
Adult R&B
"Take Time"2000Soulsinger
"Get Outta My Kitchen"
"Good Lovin'"
"Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue"2002Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
"Autumn Leaves"
"Alright"20074511Lost & Found
"In The Morning"20084915
"Joy"10329
"This Christmas (Could Be the One)"112It's Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"113
"Give Love on Christmas Day"113
"Goin' Thru Changes"20094315Turn Me Loose
"Higher Than This"6322
"Everything Changes"
"Please Stay"2010
"Pieces of Me"2011192Pieces of Me
"So Into You"
"Stay Together"
(featuring Jaheim)
234
"Bravo"20125514
"I Blame You"2013503The Truth
"Like This"20149
"Lose Control"201521
"High"20177Let Love Rule
"Add to Me"19
"If You Don't Mind"
(featuring Kirk Franklin)
"All The Way"20188
"Anything For You"20201The Wild Card
"Wake Up"
(featuring Sa-Roc)
"Same Love"202123
"Feeling Good"
(featuring Metropole Orkest)
Ledisi Sings Nina
"Home On Christmas"2022
"I Need to Know"2023201Good Life
"The Knowing"Rustin
"Sell Me No Dreams"20244718Good Life
"Perfect Stranger"
(featuring Kenny Lattimore)
29
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

As a featured artist

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
Adult R&B
US
Dance

US
Jazz

"Breakin' It Down"
(PetalPusher featuring Ledisi)
1999Colorful You
"Waters of March"
(Sérgio Mendes featuring Ledisi)
200850Encanto
"Be Mine for Christmas"
(Kem featuring Ledisi)
201335What Christmas Means
"Say Something"
(Clint Holmes featuring Ledisi)
201729Rendezvous
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Guest appearances

Title! scope="col"
YearOther artist(s)Album
"Negros"2000Omar SosaBembon
"Going Back to New Orleans"2001Poncho SanchezLatin Spirits
"Better Than Nothing"2002Braxton Brothers, MonetBoth Sides
"Whatcha Gonna Do"2003Frank McCombThe Truth
"Different Times"Raphael Saadiq, GoapeleAll Hits at the House of Blues
"Don't Stop"2004Lateef and the ChiefMaroons: Ambush
"Scat World"Maysa LeakSmooth Sailing
"World of Vibrations"
"Black Diamonds and Pearls"
2005BlackaliciousThe Craft
"White Boys"Brandi Chavonne Massey, Shayna SteeleHair — Actor's Fund of America Benefit Recording
"My Sensitivity"Boney JamesForever, for Always, for Luther
"The Rain"Oran "Juice" JonesDef Jazz
"I Can't Let You Go"2006Steve Hartsman HarveyEveryday People Project
"To Love Again"2007Gordon ChambersLove Stories
"Devotion"
"Blues in the Night"
"Alright"2008Meet the Browns
"The World Keeps Going Around"Brian CulbertsonBringing Back the Funk
"Then There Was You"2011Trombone ShortyFor True
"Gonna Be Alright"2012Robert GlasperBlack Radio
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"2014Dr. John
"The Christmas Song"2015Count Basie OrchestraA Very Swingin' Basie Christmas!
"The Sharecropper's Daughter"2020Sa-RocThe Sharecropper's Daughter
"American Heartbreak"Black ThoughtMusic from the HBO Original Series Between the World and Me
"Be Real Black for Me"2021Brian Courtney WilsonStill

Notes and References

  1. https://www.billboard.com/artist/ledisi/chart-history/rba/ Ledisi Billboard Chart History
  2. Web site: Let Love Rule by Ledisi. iTunes. September 22, 2017.
  3. Web site: Ledisi Sings Nina by Ledisi. July 23, 2021.
  4. Web site: Good Life. March 1, 2024.
  5. http://www.thegiantpeach.com/ledisiandanibade-livethebootlegrecordingsvol1cd.aspx Ledisi and Anibade – Live Recordings Vol. 1
  6. Web site: Ledisi Live at the Troubadour by Ledisi. April 30, 2021.
  7. https://secure2.convio.net/wnet/site/Ecommerce/1441859642?VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=33060&store_id=4161 Ledisi: A Night of Nina CD
  8. https://www.facethemusic.hu/ledisi/dvd/a-night-of-nina7969858.html Ledisi: A Night of Nina DVD