Ledisi discography

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Ledisi discography
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Ledisi in 2024
Studio albums11
EPs1
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums3
Singles36
Box sets1

American singer-songwriter Ledisi has released eleven studio albums, three live albums, one soundtrack album, one extended play, and thirty-six singles, including four as a featured artist.

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In 2000, she formed her own record label LeSun Music and released her first album Soulsinger (2000), followed by Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue . In 2003, her first album was reissued as Soulsinger: The Revival on Tommy Boy Records. In the same year, she released a live extended play Ledisi and Anibade Live Recordings Vol. 1 .

In 2007, Ledisi released her third album Lost & Found on Verve Forecast; marking her first album release on a major label. The album became Ledisi's first Billboard chart entry, peaking at number seventy-eight on the US Billboard 200 and number ten on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [1] It featured the singles "Alright", "In the Morning", and "Joy"; all of which have peaked in the top-40 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart. [1] She released six more albums on Verve: It's Christmas (2008), Turn Me Loose (2009), Pieces of Me (2011), The Truth (2014), The Intimate Truth (2015), and Let Love Rule (2017).

In August 2020, Ledisi released The Wild Card on her own record label Listen Back Entertainment. She released her second live album Ledisi Live at The Troubadour on April 30, 2021. In July 2021, she released her tenth album Ledisi Sings Nina , followed by a live album titled Ledisi: A Night of Nina (2022). In March 2024, Ledisi released her eleventh album Good Life .

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US
[1]
US
R&B/Hip-Hop

[1]
US
Jazz

[1]
US
R&B

[1]
Soulsinger
  • Released: January 1, 2000
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
  • Released: January 1, 2002
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
Lost & Found
  • Released: August 28, 2007
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
7810
It's Christmas
  • Released: September 23, 2008
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
28
Turn Me Loose
  • Released: August 18, 2009
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
141
Pieces of Me
  • Released: June 14, 2011
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
82
The Truth
  • Released: March 11, 2014
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1464
Let Love Rule [2]
  • Released: September 26, 2017
  • Label: Verve Forecast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
10012
The Wild Card
  • Released: August 28, 2020
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
Ledisi Sings Nina [3]
  • Released: July 23, 2021
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
13
Good Life [4]
  • Released: March 1, 2024
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Vinyl
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US
R&B/Hip-Hop

[1]
US
R&B

[1]
Ledisi and Anibade Live Recordings Vol. 1
  • Released: 2003 [5]
  • Label: LeSun Music
  • Formats: CD
The Intimate Truth
  • Released: January 20, 2015
  • Label: Verve
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2612
Ledisi Live at The Troubadour
  • Released: April 30, 2021 [6]
  • Label: Listen Back Entertainment, BMG
  • Formats: digital download
Ledisi: A Night of Nina
  • Released: November 18, 2022 [7] [8]
  • Label: Fig Street Films
  • Formats: CD, DVD

Soundtrack albums

TitleAlbum details
The Mahalia Jackson Story: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Released: November 18, 2022
  • Label: ENME, 360MusicWorX
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming

Box sets

TitleAlbum details
Turn Me Loose / It's Christmas
  • Released: November 30, 2009
  • Label: Verve
  • Formats: CD

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
TitleYearPeak chart positions Certifications Album
US
[1]
US
R&B/HH

[1]
US
Adult R&B

[1]
"Take Time"2000Soulsinger
"Get Outta My Kitchen"
"Good Lovin'"
"Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue"2002Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
"Autumn Leaves"
"Alright"20074511Lost & Found
"In the Morning"20084915
"Joy"10329
"Give Love on Christmas Day"113It's Christmas
"Goin' Thru Changes"20094315Turn Me Loose
"Higher Than This"6322
"Everything Changes"
"Pieces of Me"2011 [upper-alpha 1] 192Pieces of Me
"So Into You"
"Stay Together"
(featuring Jaheim)
234
"Bravo"20125514
"I Blame You"2013503The Truth
"Like This"20149
"Lose Control"201521
"High"20177Let Love Rule
"Add to Me"19
"If You Don't Mind"
(featuring Kirk Franklin)
"All the Way"20188
"Anything for You"20201The Wild Card
"Wake Up"
(featuring Sa-Roc)
"Same Love"202123
"Feeling Good"
(featuring Metropole Orkest)
Ledisi Sings Nina
"Home On Christmas"2022Non-album single
"I Need to Know"2023201 Good Life
"The Knowing" Rustin
"Sell Me No Dreams"4718Good Life
"Perfect Stranger"
(featuring Kenny Lattimore)
202417
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.
List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
Adult R&B

[1]
US
Dance

[1]
US
Jazz

[1]
"Breakin' It Down"
(PetalPusher featuring Ledisi)
1999 Colorful You
"Waters of March"
(Sérgio Mendes featuring Ledisi)
200850 Encanto
"Be Mine for Christmas"
(Kem featuring Ledisi)
201335 What Christmas Means
"Say Something"
(Clint Holmes featuring Ledisi)
201729Rendezvous
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Other charted songs

List of songs with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
R&B/HH
[1]
"Think of You"200874Lost & Found
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"113It's Christmas
"This Christmas (Could Be the One)"112

Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
TitleYearOther artist(s)Album
"Negros"2000 Omar Sosa Bembon
"Going Back to New Orleans"2001 Poncho Sanchez Latin Spirits
"Better Than Nothing"2002Braxton Brothers, MonetBoth Sides
"Whatcha Gonna Do"2003 Frank McComb The Truth
"Different Times" Raphael Saadiq, Goapele All Hits at the House of Blues
"Don't Stop"2004 Lateef and the Chief Maroons: Ambush
"Scat World" Maysa Leak Smooth Sailing
"World of Vibrations"
"Black Diamonds and Pearls"
2005 Blackalicious The Craft
"White Boys" Brandi Chavonne Massey, Shayna Steele Hair — Actor's Fund of America Benefit Recording
"My Sensitivity" Boney James Forever, for Always, for Luther
"The Rain" Oran "Juice" Jones Def Jazz
"I Can't Let You Go"2006Steve Hartsman HarveyEveryday People Project
"To Love Again"2007 Gordon Chambers Love Stories
"Devotion" Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire
"Blues in the Night" We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
"Alright"2008 Meet the Browns
"The World Keeps Going Around" Brian Culbertson Bringing Back the Funk
"Then There Was You"2011 Trombone Shorty For True
"Gonna Be Alright"2012 Robert Glasper Black Radio
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"2014 Dr. John Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
"The Christmas Song"2015 Count Basie Orchestra A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas!
"The Sharecropper's Daughter"2020 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper's Daughter
"American Heartbreak" Black Thought Music from the HBO Original Series Between the World and Me
"Be Real Black for Me"2021 Brian Courtney Wilson Still

Notes

  1. "Pieces of Me" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. [1]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">In the Morning (Ledisi song)</span> 2008 single by Ledisi

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Goin' Thru Changes (Ledisi song)</span> 2009 single by Ledisi

"Goin' Thru Changes" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Ledisi for her fifth studio album Turn Me Loose (2009). The song was released as lead single from Turn Me Loose on July 7, 2009, by Verve Forecast.

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