This article is a detailed listing of releases by singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, including the discographies of The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and solo releases by Merritt.
| Album title | Format | Year | Original label | Chart positions | Sales | |
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| Distant Plastic Trees | LP | 1991 | Red Flame | — | ||
| The Wayward Bus | LP | 1992 | PoPuP | — | ||
| The House of Tomorrow | EP | 1992 | Feel Good All Over | — | ||
| The Charm of the Highway Strip | LP | 1994 | Merge Records | — | ||
| Holiday | LP | 1994 | Feel Good All Over | — | ||
| Get Lost | LP | 1995 | Merge Records | — | ||
| 69 Love Songs | LP | 1999 | Merge Records | — |
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| i | LP | 2004 | Nonesuch Records |
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| Distortion | LP | 2008 | Nonesuch Records |
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| Realism | LP | 2010 | Nonesuch Records |
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| Love at the Bottom of the Sea | LP | 2012 | Merge Records |
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| 50 Song Memoir | LP | 2017 | Nonesuch Records | — | ||
| Quickies | 5xEP | 2020 | Nonesuch Records | — |
| Song title | Format | b/w | Year | Label |
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| "100,000 Fireflies" | 7" | "Old Orchard Beach" | 1991 | Harriet Records |
| "Long Vermont Roads" | 7" | "Alien Being", "Beach-a-Boop-Boop" | 1992 | Harriet Records |
| "All the Umbrellas in London" | 7" | "Rats in the Garbage of the Western World" | 1995 | Merge Records |
| "Why I Cry" | 7" | "The Man Amplifier" | 1995 | Motorway Records |
| "I Don't Believe You" | 7" | "When I'm Not Looking, You're Not There" | 1998 | Merge Records |
| "Andrew in Drag" | 7" | "When Next I Fall in Love" | 2012 | Merge Records |
| Album title | Format | Year | Original label | Chart positions |
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| Looming in the Gloom | EP | 1996 | Hello Recording Club | — |
| The New Despair | EP | 1997 | Merge Records | — |
| LP | 2006 | Nonesuch Records | — | |
| Album title | Format | Year | Original label | Chart positions |
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| Wasps' Nests | LP | 1995 | London Records | — |
| Hyacinths and Thistles | LP | 2000 | Merge Records | — |
| Album title | Format | Year | Original label | Chart positions |
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| Memories of Love | LP | 1997 | Slow River/Rykodisc (US), Elefant (Europe, Korea), Setanta (UK) | — |
| Lonely Days | EP | 1997 | — | |
| I'm Lonely (And I Love It) | EP | 2000 | — | |
| Eternal Youth | LP | 2002 | Instinct Records | — |
| The Lonely Robot | EP | 2002 | Instinct Records | — |
| Partygoing | LP | 2013 | Merge Records | — |
The following releases are credited solo to Stephin Merritt.