| Artist: | The Darkness |
| Studio: | 7 |
| Compilation: | 1 |
| Live: | 2 |
| Music Videos: | 27 |
| Ep: | 1 |
| Singles: | 32 |
| Option: | 1 |
| Option Name: | Box sets |
, the discography of The Darkness, a British hard rock band, consists of seven studio albums, one compilation album, one live album, one extended play (EP), one box set, thirty-two singles and twenty-four music videos.
The band released their debut EP I Believe in a Thing Called Love through label Must Destroy in August 2002.[1] The Darkness released their first two singles, "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" and "Growing on Me" in 2003, which reached peaks of 52 and 11 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively.[2] These were followed in September by the band's debut album Permission to Land, which topped the UK Albums Chart and was certified four-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.[3] Later singles from the album "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" and "Love Is Only a Feeling" peaked on the UK Singles Chart at numbers two and five respectively, while the Christmas single "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" achieved the 2003 Christmas number two spot.
Their second album, One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back, was released in November 2005, preceded by the single "One Way Ticket"; the album was significantly less successful than its predecessor, reaching number eleven on the UK Albums Chart and receiving a silver certification from the BPI. Both "One Way Ticket" and follow-up single "Is It Just Me?" reached number eight on the singles chart, while the third and final single from the album, "Girlfriend", charted at number 39.
Following the band's first break up in 2006, The Platinum Collection compilation and a set comprising both of the band's albums were released in 2008.
The band reunited in 2011 then released "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" in February 2012,[4] followed by "Every Inch of You" in May,[5] then "Everybody Have a Good Time" in June. The band's third album, Hot Cakes, was released in August 2012, reaching number four on the UK Albums Chart.
The band's fourth album, Last of Our Kind, was released on 2 June 2015, and their fifth album Pinewood Smile was released on 6 October 2017.
On 25 April 2018, it was announced that The Darkness would release their first live album Live at Hammersmith on 15 June 2018 with "Buccaneers of Hispaniola (Live)" and "I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Live)" available pre release on the day of announcement. "Solid Gold (Live)" was released 1 June.[6]
The Darkness released their sixth album Easter Is Cancelled on 4 October 2019. There were 3 singles released prior to the album "Rock and Roll Deserves to Die",[7] "Heart Explodes"[8] and the title track "Easter is Cancelled".[9] Two further singles were released afterwards, "How Can I Lose Your Love"[10] and "In Another Life"[11] in December 2019 and January 2020 respectively.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||||
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| UK | AUS [12] | AUT [13] | FIN [14] | GER [15] | IRL [16] | JPN [17] | SWE [18] | SWI [19] | US [20] | |||||
| Permission to Land | 1 | 17 | 40 | 17 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 59 | 36 |
4× Platinum Platinum[24] Platinum[25] Platinum[26] Gold[27] | |||
| One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back |
| 11 | 25 | 44 | 31 | 32 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 48 | 58 |
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| Hot Cakes |
| 4 | 15 | 24 | 46 | 16 | 14 | 50 | 30 | 20 | 43 |
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| Last of Our Kind |
| 12 | 23 | 53 | 41 | 56 | 49 | 57 | — | 43 | 125 | |||
| Pinewood Smile |
| 8 | 17 | — | — | — | — | 166 | — | 90 | 190 | |||
| Easter Is Cancelled |
| 10 | 22 | — | — | 60 | 31 | 242 | — | 79 | — | |||
| Motorheart |
| 16 | 96 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 99 | — | |||
| Album details | Certifications | ||
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| The Platinum Collection |
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
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| UK | UK Sales | UK Indie | UK Rock | SCO | ||||||||||||
| Live at Hammersmith |
| 47 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Streaming Of A White Christmas |
| — | 51 | 16 | 22 | 87 | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
| Album details | ||
| Permission to Land/One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back |
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| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | BEL [30] [31] | DEN [32] | GER | IRL | NED [33] | NOR [34] | NZ [35] | SWE | US Bub. [36] | ||||||
| "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" | 2003 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Permission to Land | |||
| "Growing on Me" | 11 | 46 | — | — | — | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" | 2 | 40 | — | — | 47 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 19 | |||||
| "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" | 2 | 63 | — | 9 | — | 2 | — | 20 | — | — | — |
| Permission to Land (Christmas Edition) | |||
| "Love Is Only a Feeling" | 2004 | 5 | 35 | — | — | 95 | 10 | 92 | — | 22 | 55 | — | Permission to Land | |||
| "One Way Ticket" | 2005 | 8 | 36 | — | 20 | 75 | 22 | — | 19 | 15 | 31 | — | One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back | |||
| "Is It Just Me?" | 2006 | 8 | 39 | — | — | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Girlfriend" | 39 | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hot Cakes | |||
| "Every Inch of You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "With a Woman" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "The Horn" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Extra Hot Cakes – Yuletide Edition | ||||
| "Barbarian" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last of Our Kind | |||
| "Open Fire" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Million Dollar Strong" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last of Our Kind (Deluxe Edition) | ||||
| "All the Pretty Girls" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Pinewood Smile | |||
| "Southern Trains" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Rock and Roll Deserves to Die" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Easter Is Cancelled | |||
| "Heart Explodes" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Easter is Cancelled" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "How Can I Lose Your Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "In Another Life" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Motorheart" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Motorheart | |||
| "Nobody Can See Me Cry" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Jussy's Girl" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "It's Love, Jim" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEL (WA) Tip | |||
| "Friday Night"[40] | 2004 | — | Permission to Land |
| "Get Your Hands Off My Woman... Again"[41] | — | ||
| "Everybody Have a Good Time"[42] | 2012 | 46 | Hot Cakes |
| "Keep Me Hangin' On"[43] | 2013 | — | |
| "Last of Our Kind"[44] | 2015 | — | Last of Our Kind |
| "I Am Santa"[45] | — | Last of Our Kind (Deluxe Edition) | |
| "Solid Gold"[46] | 2017 | — | Pinewood Smile |
| "Happiness"[47] | — | ||
| Year | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" | 2003 | unknown |
| "Growing on Me" | ||
| "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" | Alex Smith[48] | |
| "Friday Night" | unknown | |
| "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" | ||
| "Love Is Only a Feeling" | 2004 | |
| "One Way Ticket" | 2005 | Tim Pope |
| "Is It Just Me?" | 2006 | |
| "Girlfriend" | ||
| "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us" | 2012 | Thom Lessner, Ted Passon[49] |
| "Every Inch of You" | unknown | |
| "Everybody Have a Good Time" | Warren Fu[50] | |
| "With a Woman" | 2013 | |
| "Barbarian" | 2015 | unknown |
| "Open Fire" | ||
| "Last of Our Kind" | ||
| "I Am Santa" | ||
| "All the Pretty Girls" | 2017 | unknown |
| "Solid Gold" | ||
| "Southern Trains" | ||
| "Happiness" | ||
| "Rock and Roll Deserves to Die" | 2019 | unknown |
| "Heart Explodes" | ||
| "In Another Life" | 2020 | Kristy Currie |
| "Motorheart" | 2021 | unknown |
| "Nobody Can See Me Cry" | Arepo [51] | |
| "Jussy's Girl" | Arepo[52] |