The Brand New Heavies discography explained

Artist:The Brand New Heavies
Studio:11
Live:3
Compilation:5
Singles:32
1Option:4
1Option Name:Remix albums

This is the discography of acid jazz and funk group the Brand New Heavies.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2] [3]
FRA
[4]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
NL
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
US
[10]
US
R&B
[11]
The Brand New Heavies 2513917
Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1
  • Released: 3 August 1992
  • Label: Acid Jazz, Delicious Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
3813949
Brother Sister
  • Released: 4 April 1994
  • Label: FFRR, Delicious Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
42086456731239526
  • UK: Platinum
Shelter
  • Released: 21 April 1997
  • Label: FFRR, Delicious Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
52039554341233811829
  • UK: Platinum
We Won't Stop
  • Released: January 2003
  • Label: Canyon
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
  • Japan and Korea-only release
Allabouthefunk
  • Released: 18 October 2004
  • Label: OneTwo
  • Formats: CD
12213814881
Get Used to It
  • Released: 27 June 2006
  • Label: Delicious Vinyl, OneTwo
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
79
Dunk Your Trunk
Forward
  • Released: 9 April 2013
  • Label: HeavyTone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
16258
Sweet Freaks
  • Released: 24 October 2014
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: CD, digital download
TBNH
  • Released: 6 September 2019
  • Label: Acid Jazz
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download
61
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="1" style="width:18em;"
Album details
Shibuya 357
  • Released: 2 May 1997
  • Label: Acid Jazz
  • Format: CD
  • Japan-only release
Live in London
  • Released: October 2009
  • Label: Live Here Now
  • Format: 2xCD
Live at the Soul Kitchen, Gothenburg
  • Released: 16 December 2015
  • Label: P-Vine
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Japan-only release

Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
UK
R&B
[13]
AUS
[14]
JPN
NL
SCO
[15]
SWE
Original Flava
  • Released: 24 October 1994
  • Label: Acid Jazz
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Dream Come True – The Best of the Acid Jazz Years
  • Released: 9 March 1998
  • Label: Music Club
  • Formats: CD
Trunk Funk – The Best of the Brand New Heavies
  • Released: 13 September 1999
  • Label: FFRR/Acid Jazz
  • Formats: CD, MC
132769795246
  • UK: Silver
The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 20 March 2006
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD
The Best of 20 Years
  • Released: 4 November 2011
  • Label: Rhino
  • Format: CD
Never Stop... The Best of
  • Released: 29 September 2023
389
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Remix albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"
Album detailsPeak
chart
positions
US
R&B
Excursions: Remixes & Rare Grooves
  • Released: 20 February 1995
  • Label: Delicious Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
  • US and Canada-only release
70
Elephantitis: The Funk + House Remixes
  • Released: 30 January 2007
  • Label: Funky Chemist
  • Format: CD
  • US-only release
Get Used to It – The Tom Moulton Mixes
  • Released: 5 August 2008
  • Label: Delicious Vinyl
  • Format: CD, digital download
Elephantitis: The Funk + House Remixes 2
  • Released: 20 October 2009
  • Label: Funky Chemist
  • Format: 2xCD
  • US-only release
"—" denotes items that did not chart.

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
UK
UK
R&B
[16]
CAN
[17]
GER
[18]
JPN
[19]
NL
NZ
[20]
SCO
[21]
US
[22]
US
R&B
[23]
"Got to Give"1988rowspan="2"
"People Get Ready"1989
"Dream Come True"199063The Brand New Heavies
"Never Stop"199143543
"Dream Come True" (re-issue)19922442
"Ultimate Trunk Funk" (EP) 19
"Don't Let It Go to Your Head"24
"Bonafide Funk" (featuring Main Source & Large Professor)Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1
"Stay This Way"408819The Brand New Heavies
"Dream On Dreamer"1994154756195119Brother Sister
"Back to Love"2341
"Midnight at the Oasis"13684811
"Brother Sister"
"Spend Some Time"2688218
"Close to You"19953857540Prêt-à-Porter
"Mind Trips"Excursions: Remixes and Rare Grooves
"Sometimes"19971137183168820
  • UK: Silver
Shelter
"You Are the Universe"2147328
"You've Got a Friend"9777913
"You Can Do It"
"Shelter"19983127
"Saturday Nite"199935541Trunk Funk – The Best of the Brand New Heavies
"Apparently Nothing"32445
"What Do You Take Me For?"2003We Won't Stop
"Boogie"20046615Allabouthefunk
"Surrender"20057891
"I Don't Know Why (I Love You)"200718812Get Used To It
"Let's Do It Again"
"Sunlight"201373Forward
"Sweet Freeek"201497Sweet Freaks
"Getaway" 2019TBNH
"These Walls"
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Songs featured on soundtracks

Notes and References

  1. Peaks in the UK:
  2. Web site: Australian chart peaks . Hung Medien . 1 November 2016.
  3. Web site: Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 9 March 1992 . Bubbling Down Under. 10 March 2023.
  4. Web site: French chart peaks . Hung Medien . 1 November 2016.
  5. German studio albums:
  6. Book: Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 . Oricon Entertainment . 2006 . 4-87131-077-9 . Roppongi, Tokyo.
  7. Web site: Dutch chart peaks . Hung Medien . 1 November 2016.
  8. Web site: Swedish chart peaks . Hung Medien . 1 November 2016.
  9. Web site: Swiss chart peaks . Hung Medien . 1 November 2016.
  10. Web site: US album chart peaks . . 1 November 2016.
  11. Web site: US R&B album chart peaks . . 1 November 2016.
  12. Web site: BPI Certification . . 1 November 2016 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124005813/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx . 24 January 2013 . dmy .
  13. UK R&B albums
  14. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 41.
  15. Scottish compilation albumsWeb site: Trunk Funk – The Best of The Brand New Heavies . . 1 November 2016.
  16. UK R&B singles
  17. Canadian singles:
  18. German singles:
  19. Web site: Japanese singles . Billboard . 1 November 2016.
  20. Web site: New Zealand chart peaks . 1 November 2016 . Hung Medien.
  21. Scottish singles
  22. Web site: US Hot 100 Singles . Billboard . 1 November 2016.
  23. Web site: US R&B Singles . Billboard . 1 November 2016.