Foreigner discography

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Foreigner discography
Studio albums9
Live albums7
Compilation albums20
Singles47
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Foreigner in San Francisco, 2009

The discography of Foreigner, a British-American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums, 7 live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

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The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, and American vocalist Lou Gramm. Since then, Foreigner has released nine studio albums, seven of which have reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. 4 was the band's only chart-topper in the US, while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieve the same feat on the UK Albums Chart. Overall, Foreigner's albums have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone.

Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3 ("Hot Blooded", "Double Vision", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is"). Despite its British roots, the band achieved only moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20.

In 2014, Rhino released a boxed set of the band's seven albums recorded for Atlantic entitled Foreigner: The Complete Atlantic Studios Albums 1977-1991. The first four albums that were expanded to include bonus tracks in 2002 were included in the set along with the remaining albums by the band. These were housed in cardboard replicas of the original vinyl sleeves. [1]

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[2]
UK
[3]
AUS
[4]
CAN
[5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
Foreigner 499
Double Vision
  • Released: June 20, 1978
  • Label: Atlantic Records
33213332
  • US: 7× Platinum [12]
  • CAN: 2× Platinum
Head Games
  • Released: September 11, 1979
  • Label: Atlantic Records
54553938
  • US: 5× Platinum [12]
4
  • Released: July 3, 1981
  • Label: Atlantic Records
15324121941
Agent Provocateur
  • Released: December 14, 1984
  • Label: Atlantic Records
41231121411
  • US: 3× Platinum [12]
  • FRA: Gold
  • GER: Platinum [15]
  • UK: Platinum [17]
Inside Information
  • Released: December 7, 1987
  • Label: Atlantic Records
156433237265117
Unusual Heat
  • Released: June 14, 1991
  • Label: Atlantic Records
1175650137018408
Mr. Moonlight 1365969216017
Can't Slow Down 291051626
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

TitleYearPeak chart positions
US
[2]
CAN
[5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NZ
[9]
SWI
[11]
Best of Live / Classic Hits Live 1993
Live in '05 / Extended Versions 2006
Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live! / Extended Versions 201088
Alive & Rockin'2012
The Best of 4 & More201416226
In Concert: Unplugged2016
Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus20189 171
[20]
14
The Greatest Hits of Foreigner: Live in Concert201922
Live At The Rainbow '7875
Double Vision: Then And Now Live.Reloaded26
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

TitleYearPeak chart positions Certifications
US
[2]
UK
[3]
AUS
[4] [21]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
Records 1982105826 22 17
The Very Best of Foreigner19921923 2 20
The Very Best ... and Beyond 12349
The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is199881
The Platinum Collection1999
Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology2000
Complete Greatest Hits 200280
The Definitive 3330 48 71 1340
Hot Blooded and Other Hits2004
The Essentials2005
The Definitive Collection 2006
The Very Best of Toto & Foreigner(Toto & Foreigner)200784
No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner 200813246 3464
Juke Box Heroes2011108
I Want to Know What Love Is – The Ballads201460
The Soundtrack of Summer(Styx/Foreigner (with Don Felder))69
The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991
40 20171067994
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

SingleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US UK
[3]
AUS
[4] [21] [27]
BEL
[28]
CAN
[5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWI
[11]
"Feels Like the First Time"1977439417 Foreigner
"Cold as Ice"6243220910
"Long, Long Way from Home"207022
"Hot Blooded"197834224346 Double Vision
"Double Vision"2977
"Blue Morning, Blue Day"154521
"Dirty White Boy"19791214 Head Games
"Head Games"1414
"Love on the Telephone"198034
"Women"4182
"I'll Get Even with You"
"Urgent"198144524112 4
"Waiting for a Girl Like You"283182291310
"Juke Box Hero"2648533924
"Break It Up"198226
"Luanne"75
"I Want to Know What Love Is"19841116132112 Agent Provocateur
"That Was Yesterday"19851228552524311929
"Reaction to Action"54
"Cold as Ice" (UK remix)64 Non-album single
"Down on Love"54 Agent Provocateur
"Growing Up The Hard Way"
"Say You Will"1987671624132212420 Inside Information
"I Don't Want to Live Without You"198859121251816
"Heart Turns to Stone"56
"Lowdown and Dirty"199111012350 Unusual Heat
"I'll Fight For You"122
"With Heaven on Our Side"1992 [A] 85 The Very Best ... and Beyond
"Soul Doctor"199348
"White Lie"19945851 Mr. Moonlight
"Until the End of Time"1995428413
"Rain"84
"All I Need To Know"36
"Under the Gun"55
"The Flame Still Burns"2016 40
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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