Leo Sayer discography

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Leo Sayer discography
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Studio albums16
Soundtrack albums3
Live albums4
Compilation albums15
Singles64
Video albums3
Box sets5

This article is the discography of English-Australian singer Leo Sayer.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
GER
[4]
NL
[5]
NOR
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
US
[9]
Silverbird 214209
Just a Boy
  • Released: October 1974
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
43123516
Another Year
  • Released: 5 September 1975
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
83125
Endless Flight
  • Released: 29 October 1976
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
47125152042710
Thunder in My Heart
  • Released: 30 September 1977
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
885814111937
Leo Sayer
  • Released: 11 August 1978
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
15899122118101
Here
  • Released: 21 September 1979
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
44651750
Living in a Fantasy
  • Released: August 1980
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
15122991536
World Radio
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC
3014435
Have You Ever Been in Love
  • Released: 4 November 1983
  • Label: Chrysalis, Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, MC
1520
Cool Touch
  • Released: 9 July 1990
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Voice in My Head
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Revolver
  • Formats: CD
Don't Wait Until Tomorrow
  • Released: June 2008
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Australia-only release
59
Restless Years
  • Released: 23 January 2015
  • Label: Fanfare, Silverbird
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
39
Selfie
  • Released: 26 April 2019
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Northern Songs
  • Released: 28 January 2022 [13]
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: CD, 2×LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleAlbum details
Live in London
  • Released: 17 October 2000
  • Label: Andrew Brel Music, BMG
  • Formats: CD
The River Sessions
  • Released: January 2005
  • Label: River
  • Formats: CD
Voice in My Head / Live in Melbourne
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Warner Music Australia
  • Formats: CD
  • Australia-only release
  • Special limited edition bonus live CD included with studio album
Live in 1975
  • Released: September 2009
  • Label: The Store for Music
  • Formats: CD

Soundtrack albums

TitleAlbum details
All This and World War II
  • Released: 5 November 1976
  • Label: Riva, 20th Century
  • Formats: 2×LP, 2×MC, 8-track
  • Various artists soundtrack for which Sayer provides vocals on three tracks
The Missing Link
Lake Freeze – The Raccoons Songtrack
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP
  • Various artists soundtrack taken from two television specials of the Canadian series The Raccoons . Sayer provides vocals on three tracks, taken from The Raccoons on Ice special

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
[14]
AUS
[2]
FIN
[15]
ICE
[16]
NOR
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
  • Released: 23 March 1979
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: LP, MC
1131415
The Show Must Go On
  • Released: June 1980
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Formats: LP, MC
Leo Sayer [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Ellem
  • Formats: 2×LP
1
Leo
Moonlighting
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Australia-only release
The Collection
All the Best
  • Released: 22 February 1993
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
26
The Show Must Go On: The Anthology
  • Released: November 1996
  • Label: Rhino, East West
  • Formats: 2×CD
  • US and Australia-only release
The Definitive Hits Collection
  • Released: 8 February 1999
  • Label: PolyGram TV
  • Formats: CD
35
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
  • Released: 15 February 2000
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
The Best of Leo Sayer
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: CD
54
Endless Journey – The Essential Leo Sayer
  • Released: 8 November 2004
  • Label: DMG TV
  • Formats: CD
52
Leo Sayer: At His Very Best
  • Released: 6 March 2006
  • Label: Universal Music TV
  • Formats: CD
30
The Show Must Go On – The Very Best of Leo Sayer
The Greatest Hits
  • Released: 20 August 2010
  • Label: Warner Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Australia-only release
The Gold Collection
  • Released: 12 January 2018
  • Label: Crimson
  • Formats: 3×CD, LP, digital download
27
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

TitleAlbum details
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
All the Best
Live at the Basement – One Night in Sydney
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Thames/Thompson & T2 Media
  • Formats: DVD

Box sets

TitleAlbum details
Just a Box – The Complete Studio Recordings 1971–2006
  • Released: 28 October 2013
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 14×CD
The Complete UK Singles Collection 1973–1986
  • Released: 25 March 2016
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 29xCDS+CD
The London Years 1973–1975
  • Released: 28 September 2018
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 3×LP
  • Limited release
The Hollywood Years – The Vinyl LP Collection 1976–1978
  • Released: 1 March 2019
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 3×LP
  • Limited release
The Fantasy Years – The Vinyl LP Collection 1979–1983
  • Released: 11 October 2019
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 3×LP
  • Limited release

Repackaged sets

TitleAlbum details
Silverbird + Just a Boy
  • Released: 3 August 2009
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 2×CD
Another Year + Endless Flight
  • Released: 7 September 2009
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 2×CD
Here + Living in a Fantasy
  • Released: 7 September 2009
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 2×CD
Thunder in My Heart + Leo Sayer
  • Released: 7 September 2009
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 2×CD
World Radio + Have You Ever Been in Love
  • Released: 7 September 2009
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 2×CD

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL (FL)
[18]
CAN
[19]
GER
[4]
IRE
[20]
NL
[21]
NZ
[22] [23]
SA
[24]
US
[25]
"Living in America" (as part of the group Patches)1972Non-album single
"Why Is Everybody Going Home"1973Silverbird
"The Show Must Go On"21073911
"One Man Band"19746381251596Just a Boy
"Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)"47318274299
"Train" [upper-alpha 2] 19752523
"Moonlighting"21311412Another Year
"I Will Not Stop Fighting" [upper-alpha 3]
"Let It Be"55 [upper-alpha 4] All This and World War II
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"1976222119511131Endless Flight
"When I Need You"1977182112421
"How Much Love"101842141017
"Thunder in My Heart"22111135111221638Thunder in My Heart
"Easy to Love" [upper-alpha 5] 351936
"There Isn't Anything I Wouldn't Do"55 [upper-alpha 4]
"Dancing the Night Away"1978153110Leo Sayer
"Stormy Weather" [upper-alpha 6]
"I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)"63718
"Raining in My Heart"219347
"Don't Look Away" [upper-alpha 7] 1979
"When the Money Runs Out"9023Here
"The World Has Changed"
"Oh Girl" [upper-alpha 8]
"More Than I Can Say"19802147829522Living in a Fantasy
"Takin' the Brakes Off" [upper-alpha 9] The Missing Link
"Once in a While"87Living in a Fantasy
"Time Ran Out on You" [upper-alpha 10] 42
"Where Did We Go Wrong"
"Shake the Hand" [upper-alpha 10] The Missing Link
"Bye Bye Now My Sweet Love"198150Non-album single
"You Win, I Lose" [upper-alpha 11] 11Living in a Fantasy
"Living in a Fantasy"1823
"Tuxedo Body" [upper-alpha 12] 1982Non-album single [upper-alpha 13]
"Have You Ever Been in Love"1042263319World Radio
"Heart (Stop Beating in Time)"227117
"Paris Dies in the Morning" [upper-alpha 8]
"Orchard Road"19831617885189Have You Ever Been in Love
"Till You Come Back to Me"5181
"Sea of Heartbreak"19848435
"Unchained Melody"198554771644 Car Trouble (soundtrack)
"Real Life"198627Non-album singles [upper-alpha 14]
"Solo"
"Love Hurts"1989 Wilt (soundtrack)
"Cool Touch"199043Cool Touch
"Rely on Me" [upper-alpha 2]
"Paperback Town" [upper-alpha 15]
"The Moth and the Flame (Tu... Sì...)" [upper-alpha 16] Non-album singles [upper-alpha 17]
"I Will Fight for You" [upper-alpha 18] 1991
"When I Need You" (reissue)199365All the Best
"When I Need You '96" [upper-alpha 18] 1996Non-album singles
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (The Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer)199832
"Viva Las Vegas" (Surf Baby featuring Leo Sayer) [upper-alpha 19] 2000
"Thunder in My Heart Again" (Meck featuring Leo Sayer)20061166461411
"Restless Years" [26] 2015Restless Years
"How Did We Get So Old?" [27]
"Selfie"2019Selfie
"Don't Leave Me" [28]
"Soul Mining" [29]
"My City in Lockdown" [30] 2020Non-album singles
"How Did We Get Here?" [31]
"Tradewinds" (with Friends of Al Hodge) [32] 2021
"Strawberry Fields Forever" [33] Northern Songs
"Eleanor Rigby"
"Girl"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. Released by Chrysalis in Iceland as Bestu Kveðjur and in South Africa as The Very Best of Leo Sayer.
  2. 1 2 Only released as a single in Continental Europe.
  3. "I Will Not Stop Fighting" was only released as a single in the Netherlands and Ireland.
  4. 1 2 Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".
  5. "Easy to Love" was not released as a single in the UK, but was in numerous other territories.
  6. "Stormy Weather" was only released as a single in Japan and Scandinavia.
  7. "Don't Look Away" was only released as a single in the US and Canada.
  8. 1 2 Only released as a single in the US.
  9. "Takin' the Brakes Off" was only released as a single in Germany and the Netherlands.
  10. 1 2 Only released as a single in the Netherlands.
  11. "You Win, I Lose" was only released as a single in Japan and Southern Africa.
  12. "Tuxedo Body" was only released as a single in Japan.
  13. "Tuxedo Body" was included on the Japanese release of World Radio.
  14. From the unreleased album Real Life.
  15. "Paperback Town" was only released as a single in Australia.
  16. "The Moth and the Flame (Tu... Sì...)" was only released as a single in Italy.
  17. "The Moth and the Flame" was a version of Mango's "Tu... sì" and was performed by Sayer at the 1990 Sanremo Music Festival. "I Will Fight for You" was the official song of the 1991 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.
  18. 1 2 Only released a single in Germany.
  19. "Viva Las Vegas" was only released as a single in Sweden.

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