XTC discography explained

Artist:XTC
Studio:14
Singles:40
Compilation:4
Live:2
Tribute:1

XTC released 12 original albums and over 30 singles for Virgin Records, between 1977 and 1992. They signed to Cooking Vinyl for their final two albums in 1999 and 2000.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum details Peak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
AUS
[1]
CAN
[2]
NL
[3]
NZ
[4]
SWE
[5]
US
[6]
White Music
  • Released: 20 January 1978
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC
38
Go 2
  • Released: 13 October 1978
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC
2193
Drums and Wires
  • Released: 17 August 1979
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
3440 1512174
Black Sea
  • Released: 12 September 1980
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC
162779141
English Settlement
  • Released: 12 February 1982
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 2xLP, LP, 2xMC, MC
5141514412348
  • UK: Silver
Mummer
  • Released: 30 August 1983
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC
51802928145
The Big Express
  • Released: 15 October 1984
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
389631181
Skylarking
  • Released: 27 October 1986
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
909370
Oranges & Lemons
  • Released: 27 February 1989
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
2891353144
Nonsuch
  • Released: 27 April 1992
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
2875727297
Apple Venus Volume 1
  • Released: 17 February 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
4274106
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
  • Released: 17 May 2000
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
40108

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
CAN
Eighties Goldies
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: MC
  • France-only limited release
  • Released: 5 November 1982
  • Label: Virgin, Geffen
  • Formats: LP, MC
54
  • Released: 5 November 1982
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP
The Compact XTC
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
  • Released: August 1990
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • Released: 24 September 1990
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Tiny Circus of Life
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
  • France-only limited release
  • Released: 9 September 1996
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 2xCD
33 64
Upsy Daisy Assortment
  • Released: 17 June 1997
  • Label: Geffen
  • Formats: CD
  • Released: 16 October 1998
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: 4xCD
Coat of Many Cupboards
  • Released: 25 March 2002
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 4xCD
Apple Box
  • Released: 31 October 2005
  • Label: Idea
  • Formats: 4xCD

Other albums

TitleAlbum details
Take Away / The Lure of Salvage
  • Released: 29 February 1980
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP
Homespun
  • Released: 5 October 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl/Idea
  • Formats: CD, LP
Homegrown
  • Released: 21 May 2001
  • Label: Idea/TVT
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Instruvenus
  • Released: 17 October 2002
  • Label: Idea
  • Formats: CD
Waspstrumental
  • Released: 17 October 2002
  • Label: Idea
  • Formats: CD

Extended plays

TitleAlbum details
3D EP
  • Released: 7 October 1977
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 12"
Go +
  • Released: 13 October 1978
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 12"
Live & More
  • Released: August 1981
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 12"
  • Japan-only release
5 Senses
  • Released: September 1981
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 12"
  • Canada-only release
Dear God
  • Released: June 1987
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
Gribouillage
  • Released: April 1992
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
  • France-only limited release
Demo Tracks
  • Released: 17 July 1992
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbums
UK
[10]
AUS
BEL
(FL)

[11]
CAN
[12]
IRE
[13]
NL
NZ
[14]
US
[15]
US Alt
[16]
US Main
[17]
"Science Friction"1977
"Statue of Liberty"1978White Music
"This Is Pop?"rowspan="3"
"Are You Receiving Me?"86
"Life Begins at the Hop"1979549480
"Making Plans for Nigel"1794123229Drums and Wires
"Ten Feet Tall" (US-only release)1980rowspan="2"
"Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down"
"Generals and Majors"3224921610428Black Sea
"Towers of London"31
"Take This Town" (split release with The Ruts)Times Square (soundtrack)
"Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)"1620Black Sea
"Love at First Sight" (Canada-only release)1981
"Respectable Street"
"Senses Working Overtime"19821012313615223738English Settlement
"Ball and Chain"5897
"No Thugs in Our House"
"Great Fire"1983101Mummer
"Wonderland"104
"Love on a Farmboy's Wages"50
"Thanks for Christmas" (as the Three Wise Men)126
"All You Pretty Girls"19845576The Big Express
"This World Over"99
"Wake Up"198594
"Grass"1986100Skylarking
"The Meeting Place"1987100
"Earn Enough for Us" (Australia and Canada-only release)
"Dear God"9937
"Mayor of Simpleton"198946894272115Oranges & Lemons
"King for a Day"821138
"The Loving"
"The Disappointed"1992333268Nonsuch
"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"7148146
"Dear Madam Barnum" (airplay)18
"Wrapped in Grey" (withdrawn)
"Easter Theatre"1999Apple Venus
"I'd Like That"121
"I'm the Man Who Murdered Love"2000144Wasp Star
"Where Did the Ordinary People Go?"2005
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Music videos

YearTitleDirector[18]
1977"Science Friction"Unknown
1978"Dance Band"Keith McMillan
"Hang on to the Night"
"She's So Square"
"Statue of Liberty"
"This Is Pop?"Unknown
"Heatwave"Unknown
"Are You Receiving Me?"Unknown
"I Am The Audience"Unknown
1979"Life Begins at the Hop"Unknown
"Making Plans for Nigel"Russell Mulcahy
1980"Generals and Majors"Unknown
"Towers of London"Brian Grant
1981"Respectable Street"Unknown
1982"All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)"Unknown
"Senses Working Overtime"Brian Grant
"Ball and Chain"
"Beating Of Hearts"Unknown
1983"Wonderland"Peter Sinclair
"Love on a Farmboy's Wages"Unknown
"Funk Pop A Roll"Unknown
1984"All You Pretty Girls"Roger H. Lyons
1986"Grass"Nick Brandt
1987"The Meeting Place"Unknown
"The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"Unknown
"Dear God"Nick Brandt
1989"Mayor of Simpleton"Ian Absentia
"King for a Day"Tony Kaye
1992"The Disappointed"Unknown
"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"Unknown
"Wrapped in Grey"Unknown

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Australian chart peaks:
  2. Web site: 2013-07-17 . Results: RPM Weekly . 2022-05-16 . www.bac-lac.gc.ca.
  3. Web site: Discografie XTC. Dutch Charts. Hung Medien. 15 March 2022. nl.
  4. Web site: Chart Stats - XTC . charts.nz. 2011-10-07.
  5. Web site: Chart Stats - XTC . swedishcharts.com. 2011-10-07.
  6. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=xtc|chart=Billboard 200}} Chart Stats - XTC ]. billboard.com. 2011-10-07.
  7. "Certified Awards Search ". Music Canada. Retrieved on 2011-10-07. Note: User needs to enter "XTC" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
  8. "Certified Awards Search ". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on 2011-10-07. Note: User needs to enter "XTC" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
  9. "Certified Awards Search Note: User needs to enter "XTC" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button.
  10. Web site: UK Singles Charts: 1983 (including chart panel sales) . 2022-05-16 . UKMIX Forums . en.
  11. Web site: ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS . 2022-05-16 . www.ultratop.be.
  12. Web site: RPM Magazine - Canadian single chart positions . 2009-10-18 . Library and Archives Canada.
  13. Web site: The Irish Charts - All there is to know . 2022-04-16 . irishcharts.ie.
  14. Web site: Steffen Hung . New Zealand charts portal . 2012-01-12 . charts.nz.
  15. XTC – Billboard Hot 100 . 2022-05-16 . Billboard . en-US.
  16. XTC – Alternative Airplay . 2022-05-16 . Billboard . en-US.
  17. XTC – Mainstream Rock Airplay . 2022-05-16 . Billboard . en-US.
  18. Web site: XTC – artist videography. mvdbase.com. Alex S. Garcia. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060111095042/http://www.mvdbase.com/artist.php?last=XTC. 11 January 2006. 11 July 2021.