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| Information Society discography | |
|---|---|
 Jim Cassidy, Kurt Harland, Paul Robb (2007) | |
| Studio albums | 7 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Video albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 19 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Singles | 21 |
The discography of Information Society, an American synth-pop/freestyle band founded by Kurt Harland and Paul Robb in 1982.
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] | CAN [2] | ||||||||||||
| Information Society |
| 25 | 41 |
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| Hack |
| 77 | — | ||||||||||
| Peace and Love, Inc. |
| — | — | ||||||||||
| Don't Be Afraid |
| — | — | ||||||||||
| Synthesizer |
| — | — | ||||||||||
| Hello World |
| — | — | ||||||||||
| Orders of Magnitude |
| — [upper-alpha 1] | — | ||||||||||
| Oddfellows |
| — | — | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 [3] | US Alt. [4] | US Dance [5] | US R&B/Hip-Hop [6] | CAN [7] | NLD [8] | IRE [9] | UK [10] | ||||||
| "Running" | 1985 | — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | Creatures of Influence | |||
| "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" | 1988 | 3 | 10 | 1 | — | 11 | — | 18 | 81 | Information Society | |||
| "Walking Away" | 9 | 15 | 5 | 64 | 23 | — | — | — | |||||
| "Repetition" | 1989 | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Lay All Your Love on Me" | 83 | — | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Think" | 1990 | 28 | — | 5 | — | — | 20 | — | — | Hack | |||
| "How Long" | 1991 | — | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Peace & Love, Inc." | 1992 | — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | Peace and Love, Inc. | |||
| "1,000,000 Watts of Love" (Japan only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Going, Going, Gone" (US only) | 1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Are Friends Electric?" (US promo) | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Don't Be Afraid | |||
| "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) '99" (US only) | 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | InSoc Recombinant | |||
| "Express Yourself" / "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) '99" (Brazil only) | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Running '01" (US only) | 2001 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | strange haircuts // cardboard guitars // and computer samples | |||
| "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) '01" (US only) | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) '02" (Spain only) | 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
| "Get Back" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hello World | |||
| "Land of the Blind" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Nothing Prevails" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||
| "Bennington" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "World Enough" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
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