| Artist: | Sade |
| Studio: | 6 |
| Live: | 1 |
| Compilation: | 2 |
| Ep: | 2 |
| Singles: | 23 |
| Video: | 6 |
| Music Videos: | 20 |
English band Sade have released six studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, two extended plays, 23 singles, six video albums, 20 music videos, and have achieved four top 20 singles on the main chart of both the US and the UK.
Following a brief stint of studying fashion design and modelling, Sade Adu began singing back up for a band named Pride. Later, she and some members left Pride and formed the band Sade in 1982. The name Sade represents the entire group, not just the singer herself. Following a record deal, Sade's debut album Diamond Life (1984) was released. At the time of release in 1984, the album sold over four million copies globally, and currently stands at six million copies globally.
Following the release of their debut album, Sade went on to release a string of multi-platinum-selling albums. Their follow-up, Promise, was released in 1985 and peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the UK Albums Chart, and went two times platinum in the US at the time of its release, and now stands at four times platinum. Singer Sade would later go on to make her acting debut in the film Absolute Beginners, before the release of the band's next album, Stronger Than Pride (1988). Subsequent albums included Love Deluxe (1992) and Lovers Rock (2000), all of which went multi-platinum in the US. After the release of Lovers Rock the band embarked on what would be a 10-year hiatus. The band later reunited and released their sixth album, Soldier of Love (2010), which has been certified platinum in the US and won a Grammy Award.
| Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | AUS [2] | AUT [3] | CAN [4] | FRA [5] | GER [6] | NLD [7] | SWE [8] | SWI [9] | US [10] | ||||
| Diamond Life | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Promise |
| 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
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| Stronger Than Pride |
| 3 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
| Love Deluxe |
| 10 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | ||
| Lovers Rock |
| 18 | 28 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 3 | ||
| Soldier of Love |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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| Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUT | CAN | FRA | GER | NLD | SWE | SWI | US | US R&B [25] | ||||
| Lovers Live |
| 51 | 40 | 56 | 36 | 41 | 43 | 50 | 27 | 10 | 5 |
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| Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | AUT | CAN | FRA | GER | NLD | SWE | SWI | US | ||||
| The Best of Sade |
| 6 | 23 | 9 | 22 | 140 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 9 |
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| The Ultimate Collection |
| 8 | 35 | 22 | 32 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 7 |
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| Title | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| Solid Gold: Sade |
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| The Remix Deluxe |
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| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | FRA | GER | IRE [27] | NLD | NZ [28] | US [29] | US R&B [30] | US AC [31] | |||||
| "Your Love Is King" | 1984 | 6 | 64 | — | — | 7 | — | 2 | 54 | 35 | 8 |
| Diamond Life | |
| "When Am I Going to Make a Living" | 36 | — | — | — | 28 | 12 | — | — | — | |||||
| "Smooth Operator" | 19 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
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| "Hang On to Your Love" | — | 68 | — | — | — | 28 | 20 | — | 14 | — | ||||
| "The Sweetest Taboo" | 1985 | 31 | 65 | 30 | 28 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | Promise | ||
| "Is It a Crime?" | 49 | — | 46 | 57 | 21 | 32 | — | — | 55 | 32 | ||||
| "Never as Good as the First Time" | 1986 | 89 | 70 | — | 65 | 29 | 35 | 31 | 20 | 8 | 6 | |||
| "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" | 1988 | 44 | 56 | 36 | 51 | 28 | 18 | — | — | — | — | Stronger Than Pride | ||
| "Paradise" | 29 | 86 | 38 | — | — | 26 | — | 16 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| "Nothing Can Come Between Us" | 92 | — | — | — | — | 89 | — | — | 3 | 21 | ||||
| "Turn My Back on You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | ||||
| "Haunt Me" | 1989 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "No Ordinary Love" | 1992 | 14 | 21 | 20 | 43 | — | 26 | 19 | 28 | 9 | 14 |
| Love Deluxe | |
| "Feel No Pain" | 56 | 107 | — | 80 | — | — | 48 | — | 59 | — | ||||
| "Kiss of Life" | 1993 | 44 | 186 | — | 88 | — | — | 33 | 78 | 10 | 20 | |||
| "Cherish the Day" | 53 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | — | ||||
| "By Your Side" | 2000 | 17 | — | — | 67 | 29 | 66 | — | 75 | 41 | 18 |
| Lovers Rock | |
| "King of Sorrow" | 2001 | 59 | — | — | — | — | 82 | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Somebody Already Broke My Heart" (live) | 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lovers Live | ||
| "Soldier of Love" | 2010 | 123 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 | 6 | — | Soldier of Love | ||
| "Babyfather" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 53 | — | ||||
| "The Moon and the Sky" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | — | ||||
| "Still in Love with You" | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 55 | — | The Ultimate Collection | ||
| "Spring in the City" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Flower of the Universe" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Wrinkle in Time | ||
| "The Big Unknown" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Widows | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| "Killer Blow" | 1986 | Absolute Beginners: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| "Please Send Me Someone to Love" | 1994 | Philadelphia: Music from the Motion Picture | |
| "Mum" | 2005 | Voices for Darfur[32] | |
| "Young Lion" | 2024 | Transa |
| Details | Peak positions | Certifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [33] | US [34] | ||||
| Diamond Life Video | — | 9 |
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| Life Promise Pride Love |
| — | 5 |
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| Live |
| — | 8 |
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| Lovers Live |
| 16 | 1 |
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| Live in Munich 1984 |
| — | — | ||
| 4 | 1 | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||
| Title | Year | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Your Love Is King" | 1984 | Jack Semmens | [35] |
| "When Am I Going to Make a Living" | Stuart Orme | ||
| "Smooth Operator" | Julien Temple | ||
| "Hang On to Your Love" | Brian Ward | ||
| "The Sweetest Taboo" | 1985 | ||
| "Is It a Crime" | 1986 | ||
| "Never as Good as the First Time" | |||
| "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" | 1988 | Sophie Muller | |
| "Paradise" | Alex McDowell | ||
| "Turn My Back on You" | Sophie Muller | ||
| "Nothing Can Come Between Us" | 1989 | ||
| "No Ordinary Love" | 1992 | ||
| "Feel No Pain" | Albert Watson | ||
| "Kiss of Life" | 1993 | ||
| "Cherish the Day" | |||
| "By Your Side" | 2000 | Sophie Muller | |
| "King of Sorrow" | 2001 | ||
| "Soldier of Love" | 2010 | ||
| "Babyfather" | [36] | ||
| "Love Is Found" | 2011 | ||
| "Young Lion" | 2024 | Sophie Muller |
. David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . illustrated . St Ives, NSW . Australian Chart Book . 1993 . 263 . 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
