| Artist: | The Human League |
| Studio: | 9 |
| Live: | 1 |
| Compilation: | 13 |
| Ep: | 6 |
| Singles: | 29 |
| Video: | 6 |
| Music Videos: | 21 |
| Option Name: | Remix albums |
| Option: | 1 |
The Human League has released 9 studio albums, a live album (later reissued in an expanded edition), a remix album, 13 compilations, 6 extended plays and 29 singles.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | AUS [2] | CAN [3] | GER [4] | ITA [5] | NLD [6] | NOR [7] | NZL [8] | SWE [9] | US [10] | |||||
| Reproduction | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Travelogue |
| 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Dare |
| 1 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Hysteria |
| 3 | 18 | 43 | 44 | — | 16 | — | 9 | 6 | 62 |
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| Crash |
| 7 | 32 | 25 | 14 | — | 40 | — | 33 | 32 | 24 |
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| Romantic? |
| 24 | 115 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Octopus |
| 6 | — | — | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Secrets |
| 44 | — | — | 64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Credo |
| 44 | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Additional information | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live at the Dome |
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| The Sound of the Crowd - Greatest Hits In Concert |
| Reissue of Live at the Dome |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | NZL | |||||||||||||
| Greatest Hits |
| 3 | 48 |
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| Greatest Hits |
| 28 | — | |||||||||||
| Soundtrack to a Generation |
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| The Best of the Human League |
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| The Very Best of The Human League |
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| The Golden Hour of the Future |
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| The Very Best of The Human League |
| 24 | — |
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| Original Remixes & Rarities |
| — | — | |||||||||||
| Dare / Fascination |
| — | — | |||||||||||
| Greatest Hits on CD&DVD |
| — | — | |||||||||||
| Gold / All The Best (UK) |
| — | — |
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| A Very British Synthesizer Group[26] |
| 90 | — | |||||||||||
| Essential |
| 13 | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | CAN | JPN [31] | US | |||||||||
| The Dignity of Labour |
| — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Holiday '80 |
| 46 | — | — | — | |||||||
| The Sound of the Crowd |
| — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Fascination! |
| — | 38 | — | 22 | |||||||
| YMO Versus The Human League |
| — | — | 84 | — | |||||||
| Dance Like a Star |
| — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS [32] | CAN [33] | GER [34] | IRE [35] | NLD | NZL | SA [36] | SWE | US | |||||
| "Being Boiled" | 1978 | 6 | — | — | 6 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | rowspan="2" | ||
| "I Don't Depend on You" (as "The Men") | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Empire State Human" | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Reproduction | |||
| "Only After Dark" | 1980 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Travelogue | ||
| "Rock 'n' Roll" (Australia-only release) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Holiday '80 (EP) | |||
| "Boys and Girls" | 1981 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Sound of the Crowd" | 12 | — | — | — | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | Dare | |||
| "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" | 3 | 12 | — | — | 11 | — | 21 | — | — | — |
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| "Open Your Heart" | 6 | 33 | — | — | 8 | 20 | 43 | — | — | — |
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| "Don't You Want Me" | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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| "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" (South Africa-only release) | 1982 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Mirror Man" | 2 | 4 | 7 | 49 | 1 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 30 |
| Fascination | (EP) | |
| "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" | 1983 | 2 | 8 | 13 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 16 | 18 | 8 |
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| "The Lebanon" | 1984 | 11 | 23 | 78 | — | 4 | 18 | 13 | — | — | 64 | Hysteria | ||
| "Life on Your Own" | 16 | — | — | — | 15 | — | 45 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Louise" | 13 | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Human" | 1986 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 9 | — | 1 |
| Crash | |
| "I Need Your Loving" | 72 | — | 67 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 44 | ||||
| "Are You Ever Coming Back?" (US and Canada-only release) | 1987 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Love Is All That Matters" | 1988 | 41 | 113 | — | — | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Heart Like a Wheel" | 1990 | 29 | 64 | 43 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | Romantic? | ||
| "Soundtrack to a Generation" | 77 | 168 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Tell Me When" | 1994 | 6 | 110 | 17 | 53 | 9 | — | 47 | — | — | 31 | Octopus | ||
| "One Man in My Heart" | 1995 | 13 | — | — | 90 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Filling Up with Heaven" | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Don't You Want Me" (remixes) | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Greatest Hits | |||
| "Stay with Me Tonight" | 1996 | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "All I Ever Wanted" | 2001 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Secrets | ||
| "Love Me Madly?" | 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" (remix) | 2008 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dare | ||
| "Night People" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Credo | ||
| "Never Let Me Go" | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Egomaniac" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Sky" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Don't You Want Me" (re-entry) | 2014 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dare | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "I'm Coming Back" (Canada-only release) | Hysteria |
| 1994 | "These Are the Days" | Octopus |
| 2002 | "You'll Be Sorry" (Canada-only release) | Secrets |
| Year | Title | Format/s | Additional information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Human League Video Single | VHS, Beta | Contains videos for "Mirror Man", "Love Action" and "Don't You Want Me". | |
| 1988 | Human League Greatest Hits | VHS, LD | Tie-in with 1988 Greatest Hits, containing videos for all tracks on that album except "Being Boiled" and "Love Is All That Matters", plus "Circus of Death". | |
| 1995 | The Human League Greatest Video Hits | VHS | Tie-in with 1995 Greatest Hits, containing videos for all tracks on that album except "Stay with Me Tonight", "Being Boiled", "Together in Electric Dreams" and the Snap 7" Remix of "Don't You Want Me". Track listing includes "Love Is All That Matters", but video actually used is "Heart Like a Wheel". | |
| 2003 | The Very Best of The Human League | DVD | Tie-in with 2003 The Very Best of compilation album. 19 music videos, TV performances on Top of the Pops and Later... with Jools Holland. Bonus interview with Oakey/Gayle/Catherall. | |
| 2004 | The Human League Live at the Dome | DVD | Tie-in with album of the same name. | |
| 2016 | A Very British Synthesiser Group | DVD | Updated video collection as part of the boxset. |
| Year | Title | Director[42] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | "Circus of Death" | Russell Mulcahy | |
| "Empire State Human" | |||
| 1981 | "Open Your Heart" | Brian Grant | |
| "Don't You Want Me" | Steve Barron | ||
| 1982 | "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" | ||
| "Mirror Man" | Brian Duffy | ||
| 1983 | "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" | Steve Barron | |
| 1984 | "The Lebanon" | Simon Milne | |
| "Life on Your Own" | |||
| "Louise" | Steve Barron | ||
| 1986 | "Human" | Andy Morahan | |
| "I Need Your Loving" | |||
| 1988 | "Love Is All That Matters" | ||
| 1990 | "Heart Like a Wheel" | Andy Morahan | |
| "Soundtrack to a Generation" | Pete Cornish | ||
| 1995 | "Tell Me When" | Andy Morahan | |
| "One Man in My Heart" | |||
| "Filling Up with Heaven" | Turi Meyer | ||
| 2001 | "All I Ever Wanted" | ||
| 2010 | "Night People" | ||
| 2011 | "Never Let Me Go" |
. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 175.
. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . Australian Chart Book . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6 . Illustrated . St Ives, N.S.W. . 143 . David Kent (historian). N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
