Cold Chisel discography

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Cold Chisel discography
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Moss and Barnes, 2012
Studio albums9
EPs3
Live albums9
Compilation albums12
Singles32

Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band. The band have released nine studio albums. The band were included into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1993.

Contents

The group have achieved six number-one albums on the ARIA Charts, the latest being their 2024 compilation 50 Years – The Best Of . [1]

Albums

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[2]
NZ
[3]
US
[4]
Cold Chisel 31
Breakfast at Sweethearts
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Atlantic
4
  • ARIA: Platinum [6]
East
  • Released: 2 June 1980
  • Label: WEA
232171
Circus Animals
  • Released: 8 March 1982
  • Label: WEA
11
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum [9]
  • RIANZ: Platinum [10]
Twentieth Century
  • Released: April 1984
  • Label: WEA
118
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum [9]
The Last Wave of Summer
  • Released: 9 October 1998
  • Label: Mushroom
113
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum [11]
No Plans 214
The Perfect Crime 27
Blood Moon
  • Released: 6 December 2019 [14]
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[2]
NZ
[3]
Swingshift
  • Released: April 1981
  • Label: WEA
19
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum [15]
Barking Spiders Live: 1983
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: WEA
14
The Last Stand
(live soundtrack)
8
Ringside 16
[17]
The Live Tapes Vol. 1 27
The Live Tapes Vol. 2
  • Released: 14 November 2014
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
19
The Live Tapes Vol. 3
  • Released: 2 December 2016
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
11
The Live Tapes Vol. 4
  • Released: 10 November 2017
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
9
The Live Tapes Vol. 5
  • Released: 11 December 2020 [19]
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
5
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[2]
NZ
[3]
Northbound: The Best of Cold Chisel
  • Released: 1983 (Europe)
  • Label: Line
Radio Songs: A Best of Cold Chisel
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: WEA
336
Razor Songs
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: WEA
11
  • ARIA: Platinum [20]
Chisel 316
  • ARIA: 9× Platinum [21]
Teenage Love
  • Released: October 1994
  • Label: Warner Music Group
6
The Studio Sessions 1978–1984
  • Released: 6 December 1999
  • Label: Warner Music Group
  • Seven-disc, limited edition box set
Standing on the Outside
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Rhino
  • Tribute/Compilation albums
2
  • ARIA: Platinum [22]
Never Before
  • Released: 21 July 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
Besides
  • Released: 21 July 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
Covered
  • Released: 19 August 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
82 [23]
The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
  • Released: 14 October 2011
  • Label: WEA
2
50 Years – The Best Of
  • Released: 23 August 2024
  • Label: Universal Music Group
1
[26]
23
[27]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

EPs

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[2]
You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine
  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: Elektra
38
  • ARIA: Gold [9]
Triple J – Live at the Wireless 29.3.77
  • Released: 2011
  • Label:
Triple J – Live in St Leonards Park 28.5.78
  • Released: 2011
  • Label:

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
AUS
[2]
1978"Khe Sanh"41 [A] Cold Chisel
"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)"65 Breakfast at Sweethearts
1979"Breakfast at Sweethearts"63
"Shipping Steel" [B]
"Choirgirl"14 East
1980"Cheap Wine"8
"My Baby"40
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" [C] Swingshift
1981"You Got Nothing I Want"12 Circus Animals
1982"Forever Now"4
"When the War Is Over"25
1983"Hold Me Tight / No Sense"14 Twentieth Century
1984"Saturday Night"11
"Twentieth Century / Only One"91
"Flame Trees"26
1991"Misfits"55 Chisel
1994"Hands Out of My Pocket"9 Teenage Love
"Nothing But You"16
1995"Yesterdays"23
1998"The Things I Love in You"10
  • ARIA: Gold [2]
The Last Wave of Summer
"Water into Wine"46
1999"Way Down"63
2011"All for You"80 The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
2012"Everybody" No Plans
2015"Lost"92 [28] The Perfect Crime
"The Backroom" [29]
2016"Long Dark Road" [30]
2019"Getting the Band Back Together" [31] Blood Moon
"I Hit the Wall" [32] [33]
2020"Killing Time" [34]
2024"You've Got to Move" [35] 50 Years - The Best Of

Notes

  1. "Khe Sanh" originally peaked at number 41 in 1978. It re-entered the Australian Singles Chart at a new peak of number 40 in August 2011.
  2. "Shipping Steel" received a limited release of 500 copies
  3. "nockin' on Heaven's Door" received a limited release

Video albums

TitleDetailsCertification
Seeing Is Believing
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: WEA Music Video (WMV516)
Last Stand
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (450990740-3)
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum [36]
Vision
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (0927409252)/(CCDVD001)
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum [36]
Ringside The Movie
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (5046723882)/(CCDVD003)
Rockplalast
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Warner Vision Australia (5144218202)/(CCDVD002)
  • ARIA: Platinum [37]
The Best of Cold Chisel – Vision
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Universal (CCDVD004)
The Live Tapes – Vol. 1
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: Universal (CCDVD005)
  • ARIA: Platinum [38]

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