Idlewild discography

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Idlewild discography
Idlewild at The Outsider 2007.jpg
Idlewild at The Outsider in 2008
Studio albums8
Live albums2
Compilation albums3
EPs3
Singles26

The discography of Idlewild, a Scottish rock band, consists of eight studio albums, three EPs, three compilations, one live album, and twenty-eight singles. [1]

Contents

Studio albums

YearDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2] [3]
FRA
[4]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[6]
1998 Captain 12
Hope Is Important 5344
2000 100 Broken Windows
  • Released: 9 May 2000
  • Label: Food Records
156
2002 The Remote Part 3135392
2005 Warnings/Promises
  • Released: 7 March 2005
  • Label: Parlophone
9505
  • BPI: Silver [7]
2007 Make Another World 241008
2009 Post Electric Blues 39037
2015 Everything Ever Written 4
  • Released: 9 February 2015
  • Label: Empty Words
204
2019 Interview Music
  • Released: 5 April 2019 [8]
  • Label: Empty Words
221

EPs

YearDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
IRE SCO
2005Love Steals Us From Loneliness
I Understand It
2020Interview Music - Acoustic EP
  • Released: 15 January 2020
  • Label: Empty Words

Compilation albums

YearDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[3]
FRA
[4]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[6]
2007 Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007 7921
A Distant History - Rarities 1997-2007 1
  • Released: 29 October 2007
  • Label: Parlophone/EMI
2010 The Collection
  • Released: 23 April 2010
  • Label: EMI

Live albums

YearDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
IRE SCO
2015Live at Duart Castle
  • Released: 16 Feb 2015

Given away free to people who pre-ordered Everything Ever Written

2016Live
  • Released: 16 May 2016
  • Label: Empty Words

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[3]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[9]
1997"Queen of the Troubled Teens" [A]
"Chandelier" [A]
1998"Satan Polaroid"160Captain
"A Film for the Future"5339Hope Is Important
"Everyone Says You're So Fragile"4742
"I'm a Message"4131
1999"When I Argue I See Shapes"1915
"Little Discourage"2412100 Broken Windows
2000"Actually It's Darkness"2314
"These Wooden Ideas"3218
"Roseability"3825
2002"You Held the World in Your Arms"94The Remote Part
"American English"158
"Live in a Hiding Place"2617
2003"A Modern Way of Letting Go"2821
2005"Love Steals Us from Loneliness"16376Warnings/Promises
"I Understand It"32
"El Capitan"39
2006"If It Takes You Home"Make Another World
2007"No Emotion"367
"A Ghost in the Arcade"
2009"Readers & Writers"Post Electric Blues
"City Hall"
2014"Collect Yourself"Everything Ever Written
2015"Come on Ghost"
2019"Dream Variations"Interview Music
"Same Things Twice"
"There's a Place for Everything (Acoustic)"

Notes

Other appearances

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References

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  6. 1 2 Scottish albums:
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
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  9. Scottish singles: