Leonard Cohen discography

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Leonard Cohen discography
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Leonard Cohen in 1988, around the release of I'm Your Man .
Studio albums15
EPs4
Soundtrack albums7
Live albums10
Compilation albums9
Singles41
Video albums12
Music videos32

Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet who was active in music from 1967 until his death in 2016. Cohen released 14 studio albums and eight live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years, throughout which he remained an active poet. His entire catalogue is available on Columbia Records. His 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen earned an RIAA gold record; he followed up with three more highly acclaimed albums: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), before allowing Phil Spector to produce Death of a Ladies' Man for Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Cohen returned to Columbia in 1979 for Recent Songs , but the label declined to release his next album, Various Positions (1984) in the US, leaving it to American shops to import it from CBS Canada. In 1988, Columbia got behind Cohen again and gave full support to I'm Your Man , which brought his career to new heights, and Cohen followed it with 1992's The Future .

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Cohen then took a nine-year hiatus, and returned with Ten New Songs in 2001, which he made with Sharon Robinson, following this with Dear Heather (2004). In 2008 Cohen began touring for the first time in 15 years and, as well as the release of several live albums, he released Old Ideas (2012), which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart. This was the highest ranking ever for a Leonard Cohen album, and it became his first to top the Canadian Albums Chart, a feat he repeated with his follow-up, Popular Problems , released in 2014. Cohen released his final studio album, You Want It Darker , in October 2016, only 19 days prior to his death. A posthumous album titled Thanks for the Dance was released on November 22, 2019.

His live albums included Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009), Songs from the Road (2010), from his 2008–2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).

Albums

Studio albums

YearAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[11]
1967 Songs of Leonard Cohen
  • Released: December 27, 1967
  • Label: Columbia
81
[12]
40436351383
1969 Songs from a Room
  • Released: March 24, 1969
  • Label: Columbia
10
[16]
8712263
1971 Songs of Love and Hate
  • Released: March 19, 1971
  • Label: Columbia
63
[17]
8242114145
1974 New Skin for the Old Ceremony
  • Released: August 11, 1974
  • Label: Columbia
862171824
1977 Death of a Ladies' Man
  • Released: November 13, 1977
  • Label: Warner/Spector, Columbia
85201535
1979 Recent Songs
  • Released: September 27, 1979
  • Label: Columbia
2456
1984 Various Positions
  • Released: December 11, 1984
  • Label: Columbia
60
[18]
52182439931252
1988 I'm Your Man
  • Released: February 2, 1988
  • Label: Columbia
34
[20]
2223243161648
1992 The Future
  • Released: November 24, 1992
  • Label: Columbia
7
[24]
51879563536
2001 Ten New Songs
  • Released: October 9, 2001
  • Label: Columbia
467535167181326143
2004 Dear Heather
  • Released: October 26, 2004
  • Label: Columbia
5981322195342834131
2012 Old Ideas
  • Released: January 31, 2012 [26]
  • Label: Columbia
12214211223
2014 Popular Problems
  • Released: September 22, 2014
  • Label: Columbia
161242115515
2016 You Want It Darker
  • Released: October 21, 2016
  • Label: Columbia
12172111147
2019 Thanks for the Dance
  • Released: November 22, 2019 [33]
  • Label: Columbia
11121756526761
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

YearAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[11]
1973 Live Songs
  • Release: April 1973
  • Label: Columbia
830156
1994 Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert
  • Release: June 28, 1994
  • Label: Columbia
35
2001 Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979
  • Release: February 20, 2001
  • Label: Columbia
195
2009 Live in London
  • Release: March 31, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
7269713378141976
Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
  • Release: October 19, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
7356169
2010 Songs from the Road
  • Release: September 14, 2010
  • Label: Columbia
10737362673968112
2014 Live in Dublin
  • Release: December 2, 2014
  • Label: Columbia
3353171984
2015 Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour
  • Release: May 12, 2015
  • Label: Sony Legacy
8391723543918100
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

YearAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
SWI
[43]
UK
[10]
1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen /
Greatest Hits
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, 8-track
434386
[A]
4188
[A]
1980Liebesträume – Leonard Cohen singt seine schönsten Lieder
  • Released in Germany only
  • Label: CBS
  • Format: LP
3
1989 So Long, Marianne
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Format: CD
1997 More Best of Leonard Cohen
  • Released: October 7, 1997
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
3341196972282
2002 The Essential Leonard Cohen
  • Released: October 22, 2002
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, LP
49
[B]
1463151038526
[C]
2008The Collection
  • Released: June 27, 2008
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Box set
17
2009 Greatest Hits
  • Released: July 13, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Remastered version with new track listing
11345131829
2011The Complete Studio Albums Collection
  • Released: October 10, 2011
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Box set
587233
2022Hallelujah & Songs From His Album
  • Released: October 14, 2022 [47]
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital
274320
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

Singles and EPs

YearTitle [48] Chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
CAN
[49]
CAN AC
[50]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
FRA
[51]
GER
[52]
NLD
[7]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[53]
1967"Suzanne"3936179 Songs of Leonard Cohen
1968"So Long, Marianne" /
"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
28
190
1969"Bird on the Wire"137 Songs from a Room
"The Partisan"22
1971"Joan of Arc" Songs of Love and Hate
"Diamonds in the Mine"
"Dress Rehearsal Rag" / "Avalanche"
"The Stranger Song" Songs of Leonard Cohen /
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"Winter Lady"
"So Long, Marianne" /
"Bird on the Wire"
Songs of Leonard Cohen /
Songs from a Room
1973"Passing Through"62 Live Songs
1974"Lover Lover Lover"9 New Skin for the Old Ceremony
1975"Tonight Will Be Fine" Songs from a Room
1976"Suzanne" [re-issue] Greatest Hits
"Do I Have to Dance All Night" [live] [non-album song] /
"The Butcher" [live]
non-album single
1977"Memories" Death of a Ladies' Man
"True Love Leaves No Traces"
1978"Suzanne" / "Bird on the Wire" [re-issue] Songs of Leonard Cohen /
Songs from a Room
1979"The Guests" Recent Songs
1984"Dance Me to the End of Love"29542 Various Positions
"Hallelujah"1713127
1986"Take This Waltz" [original version]6Poets in New York
1988"First We Take Manhattan" I'm Your Man
"I'm Your Man"57
"Ain't No Cure for Love"
"Everybody Knows"88
1989"I Can't Forget"
1991Solid Gold EP:
"First We Take Manhattan" /
"Suzanne" / "So Long, Marianne"
I'm Your Man /
Greatest Hits
1991 Juno Hall of Fame Award
Commemorative Sampler:

"Hallelujah" / "Ain't No Cure for Love" /
"Everybody Knows" / "Tower of Song"
Various Positions /
I'm Your Man
1992"Closing Time"705 The Future
"Democracy"
1993"The Future"17
"Be for Real"
1994"Dance Me to the End of Love" (live) Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert
1997"Never Any Good"44 More Best of Leonard Cohen
2001"In My Secret Life" Ten New Songs
2002"Boogie Street"
2004"The Letters" Dear Heather
2007"So Long, Marianne" /
"Bird on the Wire" [re-issue]
Songs of Leonard Cohen /
Songs from a Room
"Hallelujah" [re-issue]672716
[D]
36
[E]
59
[G]
The Essential Leonard Cohen
2009"The Future" (live) /
"Suzanne" (live) [F]
Live in London
2011"Show Me the Place" Old Ideas
2012"Darkness"
Live in Fredericton EP:
"Bird on the Wire" / "Dance Me to the End of Love" / "Heart with No Companion" /
"In My Secret Life" / "Who by Fire" [55] [56]
2016"You Want It Darker"733336817652 You Want It Darker
2019"Happens to the Heart" Thanks for the Dance
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

Contributions

Guest

YearSongAlbumArtistNotes
1975"Passing Through"Anniversary Special Earl Scruggs vocals
1986"Joan of Arc" Famous Blue Raincoat Jennifer Warnes
1990"Elvis' Rolls Royce" Are You Okay? Was (Not Was)
1993"Born to Lose" Duets Elton John
2006all songs Blue Alert Anjani lyricist, producer, arranger
2007"The Jungle Line" River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock vocals

Spoken word

YearTitleAlbum
1957"Leonard Cohen"Six Montreal Poets [58]
2008"Since You've Asked (Dialogue)" Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins
2018"Necropsy of Love" The Al Purdy Songbook

Alternative mixes and live version compilations

YearSongAlbumNotes
1971"Tonight Will Be Fine"The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies: Isle of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival live concert version
1974"Tonight Will Be Fine"; "Dress Rehearsal Rag"; "Suzanne"; "Stranger Song"Concert: Canadien - A Ten Part Radio Documentarylive concert versions
1986"Take This Waltz"Poets in New York [59] alternate take of track from I'm Your Man , based on the poem "Little Viennese Waltz" by Federico García Lorca
1988"Tower of Song" The Prince's Trust Rock Concert 1988live concert version
1995"Suzanne" Message To Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 live concert version from Isle of Wight Festival 1970
2006"Tower of Song" Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man new take of track from I'm Your Man with U2

Soundtracks

YearSongAlbumLabel
1971"Sisters of Mercy," "Winter Lady," "The Stranger Song" McCabe & Mrs. Miller 7-inch EPCBS
1985all song lyrics Night Magic (Original Soundtrack from the Musical Directed by Lewis Furey) RCA
1990"Ain't No Cure for Love" Love at Large (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Virgin
1994"Waiting for the Miracle"; "The Future" Natural Born Killers (A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film) Nothing/Interscope
1996"Suzanne" Breaking the Waves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Pollyanna
2000"Waiting for the Miracle" Wonder Boys (Music from the Motion Picture) Columbia
2002"I'm Your Man" Secretary (Music from the Motion Picture) Lions Gate
"In My Secret Life" Amnèsia (Original Soundtrack) Edel
2003"A Thousand Kisses Deep" The Good Thief (Original Soundtrack & Music from the Film) Island
2004"Sisters of Mercy" Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (Der Soundtrack Zum Film) Mute
"If It Be Your Will" Non ti muovere (Musiche Originali Di Lucio Godoy) Capitol
"The Land of Plenty"; "The Letters" Land of Plenty (Music from the Motion Picture) Sony/Reverse Angle/SINE
2006"The Old Revolution" Monkey Warfare (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Self-released
"Suzanne"Banda Sonora Original de Salvador Puig Antich Sony BMG
2009"Hallelujah" Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture Reprise
2011"Dance Me to the End of Love"; "I'm Your Man" Barney's Version (Original Soundtrack) UMG
"Winter Lady" The Art of Getting By (Music from the Motion Picture) Rhino
2014"Dance Me to the End of Love" Rosewater (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Howe
"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" Transparent (Music from the Amazon Original Series) Amazon
"Suzanne" Wild (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sony/Legacy
2015"Nevermind" True Detective (Music From The HBO Series) Harvest
"Everybody Knows" The Program (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Universal
2016"So Long, Marianne" Pete's Dragon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walt Disney
"Bird on the Wire" Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Soundtrack Warner/Rhino
"Everybody Knows" The Infiltrator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Lakeshore

Film scores with no soundtrack album

[60]

Tribute compilations

Videography

Concerts

Films

Documentaries

Music Videos

Source: [61] [62] [63]

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