Aimee Mann discography

Aimee Mann discography
Aimee Mann in concert on October 15, 2005.
Studio albums	10
Soundtrack albums	1
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	1
Singles	30
B-sides	12
Music videos	21

Aimee Mann is an American singer-songwriter who has released several albums since the early 1980s. Originally, she worked in collaboration with The Young Snakes and 'Til Tuesday, before becoming a solo artist. In 2013, she and Ted Leo began performing as the Both. As a solo artist, Mann has released 10 studio albums.

Albums

For Aimee Mann's works as a member of a group, see The Young Snakes, 'Til Tuesday, and The Both.

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and sales

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Sales
		USA [1]	USA Indie [2]	AUS [3]	BEL (FL) [4]	FRA [5]	GER [6]	JPN [7]	NLD [8]	SWE [9]	UK [10]
Whatever	Released: May 11, 1993 Label: Imago, Geffen	127	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	39	US: 170,000 [11]
I'm with Stupid	Released: November 1995 Label: Geffen	82	—	105	—	—	—	—	—	—	51	US: 123,000 [11]
Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo	Released: May 2, 2000 Label: SuperEgo	134	7	196	—	—	44	—	87	30	— [a]	US: 230,000 [12]
Lost in Space	Released: August 27, 2002 Label: SuperEgo	35	1	193	—	103	30	80	86	18	72	US: 232,000 [12]
The Forgotten Arm	Released: May 3, 2005 Label: SuperEgo	60	1	—	98	136	60	143	96	28	84
One More Drifter in the Snow	Released: October 31, 2006 Label: SuperEgo	—	25	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	US: 39,000 [13]
@#%&*! Smilers	Released: June 2, 2008 Label: SuperEgo	32	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	40	—
Charmer	Released: September 17, 2012 Label: SuperEgo	33	6	—	177	—	89	151	—	—	74
Mental Illness	Released: March 31, 2017 Label: SuperEgo	54	5	—	112	—	69	109	151	—	53
Queens of the Summer Hotel	Released: November 5, 2021 Label: SuperEgo	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	— [b]

Live albums

• Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (2004)

Compilation albums

• Ultimate Collection (2000)

Soundtrack albums

List of soundtrack albums, with selected chart positions and sales

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions			Sales
		US [14]	CAN [15]	GER [6]
Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (with various artists)	Released: December 7, 1999 Label: Warner Music	58	21	42	US: 500,000 (Gold) [16]

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions					Album
		US [17]	US AAA [18]	US Alt. [19]	AUS [20]	UK [21] [22] [23]
"I Should've Known"	1993	—	—	16	—	55	Whatever
"Stupid Thing"		—	—	—	—	47
"I Should've Known" (reissue)	1994	—	—	—	—	45
"Say Anything"		—	—	—	—	—
"That's Just What You Are"		93	—	24	—	—	I'm with Stupid
"Choice in the Matter"	1995	—	12	—	—	—
"Long Shot"	1996	—	—	—	86	126
"You Could Make a Killing"		—	—	—	—	—
"Amateur"	1997	—	—	—	—	—
"Superball"		—	—	—	—	—
"Save Me"	2000	—	—	—	—	88	Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture
"Wise Up"		—	—	—	—	—
"The Christmas Song"		—	—	—	—	—	non-album single
"Red Vines"	2001	—	21	—	—	—	Bachelor No. 2
"Calling It Quits"		—	—	—	—	—
"How Am I Different"		—	—	—	—	—
"Ghost World"		—	—	—	—	—
"Humpty Dumpty"	2002	—	—	—	—	—	Lost in Space
"Pavlov's Bell"	2003	—	—	—	—	—
"Going Through the Motions"	2005	—	18	—	—	—	The Forgotten Arm
"Video"		—	—	—	—	—
"31 Today"	2007	—	—	—	—	—	@#%&*! Smilers
"Freeway"	2008	—	19	—	—	—
"Phoenix"		—	—	—	—	—
"Charmer"	2012	—	—	—	—	—	Charmer
"Labrador"		—	—	—	—	—
"Soon Enough"		—	—	—	—	—
"Can't You Tell?" [24]	2016	—	—	—	—	—	30 Days, 30 Songs
"Goose Snow Cone"	2017	—	—	—	—	—	Mental Illness
"Patient Zero"		—	—	—	—	—

Collaborations

• 1987 – "The Faraway Nearby" by Cyndi Lauper (backing vocals) on her album True Colors
• 1987 – "Time Stand Still" by Rush (backing vocals) on the album Hold Your Fire
• 1990 – "Yesterday (You Stopped Crying)" covered by Sarah Brightman on her album "As I Came of Age"
• 1993 – "Under Jets" by Murray Attaway (backing vocals) on his album In Thrall
• 2004 – "Static on the Radio" with Jim White on his album Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
• 2004 – "That's Me Trying" by William Shatner (backing vocals) on his album Has Been
• 2005 – "Where's the Party?" by Jim Boggia (backing vocals) on his album Safe in Sound
• 2005 – "How Am I Different" by Bettye LaVette on her album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
• 2006 – "Ms. Ketchup and the Arsonist" by The Honeydogs (backing vocals) on the album Amygdala
• 2008 – "My Father's Gun" by Elton John. Aimee has been playing this cover at every show throughout her 2008 Smilers tour.
• 2008 – "Hearts" by Tim & Eric (lead vocals) on their album Awesome Record, Great Songs! Volume One
• 2012 – "No More Amsterdam" with Steve Vai on his album The Story of Light
• 2012 – "Bigger Than Love" with Ben Gibbard on his album Former Lives
• 2012 – "All The Times We Had" with Ivan & Alyosha on their album All the Times We Had
• 2012 – Backing vocals on Some Things Never Stay the Same (Mann made the album art for 2011's Starting from Nowhere )
• 2017 – "No Love" with Scott Miller (co-written, duet) on the Game Theory album Supercalifragile
• 2021 – "Name of the Game" by Susanna Hoffs on her album Bright Lights

Soundtrack appearances

• 1996 – Jerry Maguire ("Wise Up")
• 1998 – Sliding Doors ("Amateur")
• 1999 – Cruel Intentions ("You Could Make a Killing")
• 2002 – I Am Sam (“Two of Us”, with Michael Penn)
• 2003 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale - Music from the TV Series ("Pavlov's Bell")
• 2007 – Arctic Tale ("At the Edge of the World", with Zach Gill and "The Great Beyond")
• 2019 – Steven Universe the Movie (Original Soundtrack) ^{[ broken anchor ]} (Vocals: "Independent Together", writing: "Drift Away")
• 2021 – M.O.D.O.K. (Original Soundtrack) ("Never Let You Go")

Compilation appearances

• 1995 – "One", a Harry Nilsson cover for the For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson tribute album. Later appears on the Magnolia soundtrack and in the 2001 film, Just Can't Get Enough
• 1996 – "Christmastime" with Michael Penn, plays over the credits for the film, Hard Eight
• 1996 – "Christmastime" with Michael Penn, appears on the holiday compilation album Just Say Noël
• 1996 – "Baby Blue", a Badfinger cover, appears on the tribute compilation Come and Get It: A Tribute to Badfinger
• 1997 – "Nobody Does It Better", a cover of the Carly Simon theme for The Spy Who Loved Me on the compilation, Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project
• 1999 – "The Christmas Song", a cover of the Mel Tormé/Robert Wells song popularized by Nat King Cole, appears on the holiday compilation Viva Noel: Q Division Christmas
• 2000 – "Reason to Believe" with Michael Penn, a Bruce Springsteen cover on the album Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
• 2001 – "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" with Michael Penn, duet during A Tribute To Brian Wilson
• 2002 – "Two of Us" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Beatles covers for the I Am Sam soundtrack. The former also includes Michael Penn, and the latter was only released on the European edition of the album.
• 2003 - “Save Me" appears on the live, studio compilation album KGSR Broadcasts – Volume 11
• 2004 – "What the World Needs Now", a Burt Bacharach cover. First appeared in a Calvin Klein commercial, and was later available on the Starbucks compilation album Sweetheart 2005: Love Songs
• 2005 – "Dear John" appears on the compilation album Acoustic 05 (The Echo Label)
• 2005 - “Going Through The Motions" appears on the live, studio compilation album KGSR Broadcasts – Volume 13
• 2007 – "Save Me" appears on the compilation album Acoustic 07 (V2 Records)
• 2007 – "White Christmas" appears on the Starbucks holiday compilation album Stockings By the Fire
• 2008 – "Freeway" appears on the live, studio compilation album KGSR Broadcasts – Volume 16
• 2012 - “Little Bombs" appears on the live, studio compilation album KGSR Broadcasts – Volume 20
• 2014 – "I'm Cured" for the charity comedy album 2776
• 2019 – "Hold On", a Tom Waits cover on the album Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits

Videography

• 1993 – "Stupid Thing"
• 1993 – "I Should've Known" (dir. Katherine Dieckmann)
• 1993 – "Say Anything"
• 1995 – "That's Just What You Are" (dir. David Hogan)
• 1995 – "Amateur" (dir. Bobby Woods)
• 1999 – "Save Me" (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
• 2000 – "Ghost World" (dir. Michael Panes)
• 2000 – "Calling It Quits" (dir. Robert Cohen)
• 2001 – "Red Vines" (dir. Evan Mather)
• 2002 – "Pavlov's Bell" (dir. James Frost)
• 2002 – "How Am I Different" (dir. Naoki Mitsuse) ^[25]
• 2003 – "Pavlov's Bell" (dir. Evan Mather, spec video)
• 2005 – "Video" (dir. James Frost, spec video) ^[26]
• 2008 – "Freeway" (dir. Michael Blieden)
• 2008 – "31 Today" (dir. Bobcat Goldthwait)
• 2012 – "Charmer" (dir. Tom Scharpling)
• 2012 – "Labrador" (dir. Tom Scharpling)
• 2012 – "Soon Enough" (dir. Ben Berman)
• 2014 – "Milwaukee" (with The Both) (dir. Daniel Ralston)
• 2017 – "Patient Zero" (dir. Daniel Ralston)
• 2017 – "Goose Snow Cone" (dir. Rob Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu)
• 2021 - "Suicide Is Murder" (dir. Puloma Basu & Rob Hatch-Miller)

Notes

1. Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but it peaked at number 14 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. ^[10]
2. Queens of the Summer Hotel did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but it peaked at number 18 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. ^[10]

References

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14. "Billboard 200, Week of February 12, 2000". Billboard. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
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20. Australian Recording Industry Association. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 14 Apr 1996". Archived from the original on February 1, 2018. (Note: the HP column displays the highest peak reached.)
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22. UK Top 200 peaks (November 1994 – December 2010): "Chart Log UK: 1994–2010". Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz, ed. July 5, 2011. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. (Note: this site displays "uncompressed" (no exclusions applied) peaks for positions 76–200 between November 1994 and May 2001, so some peaks differ from those listed on the Official Charts site.)
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26. Video on YouTube.