This is a list of the longest gaps of time between the release date of consecutive studio albums. To appear on the list, the album must have been officially released at least a decade (to the day) after their predecessor. This list should only contain studio albums; it should not include extended plays, soundtracks, remixes, releases from various artists and compilations or greatest hits albums.
| Artist | Previous album | Released | Subsequent album | Released | Time between releases | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Gitter | Ghost Ballads | 1957 | Old Folkies Never Die | 2014 | 57 years | [1] [2] |
| Napoleon XIV | They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! | 1966 | For God's Sake, Stop the Feces! [a] | 20 April 2023 | 57 years | [3] [4] |
| MC5 | High Time | 16 July 1971 | Heavy Lifting | 18 October 2024 | 53 years, 3 months, 13 days | [5] |
| Alice Cooper | Muscle of Love | 20 November 1973 | The Revenge of Alice Cooper | 25 July 2025 | 51 years, 8 months, 6 days | [6] |
| Fresh Maggots | Fresh Maggots | October 1971 | Waiting for the Sun | 31 October 2020 | 49 years | [7] |
| Space Waltz | Space Waltz by Alastair Riddell | May 1975 | Victory | May 2023 | 48 years | [8] [9] |
| Rainbow Ffolly | Sallies Fforth | May 1968 | Ffollow Up! | July 2016 | 48 years | [10] |
| The Sonics | Introducing the Sonics | 1967 | This Is the Sonics | 27 March 2015 | 48 years | [11] [12] |
| Harry Taussig | Fate Is Only Once | 1965 | Fate Is Only Twice | 2012 | 47 years | [1] |
| Kossoy Sisters | Bowling Green | 1956 | Hop On Pretty Girls | 2002 | 46 years | [1] |
| Lavender Country | Lavender Country | 1973 | Blackberry Rose and Other Songs and Sorrows | 30 June 2019 | 46 years | [13] [14] [15] |
| The Standells | Try It | October 1967 | Bump | 9 August 2013 | 45 years, 10 months | [1] |
| Shakti | Natural Elements | November 1977 | This Moment | 23 June 2023 | 45 years, 7 months | [16] |
| Casa das Máquinas | Casa de Rock | December 1976 | Brilho nos Olhos | 15 April 2022 | 45 years, 4 months | [17] [18] |
| July | July | 1968 | Resurrection | 2013 | 45 years | [19] |
| Ave Sangria | Ave Sangria | June 1974 | Vendavais | 26 April 2019 | 44 years, 10 months | [20] [21] |
| Donna Loren | Beach Blanket Bingo | 7 April 1965 | Love It Away | 30 January 2010 | 44 years, 9 months | [22] |
| Linda Hoyle | Pieces of Me | 1971 | The Fetch | 17 August 2015 | 44 years | [1] |
| Fanny | Rock and Roll Survivors | 1974 | Fanny Walked the Earth | 2018 | 44 years | [1] |
| Linda Perhacs | Parallelograms | 1 April 1970 | The Soul of All Natural Things | 4 March 2014 | 43 years, 11 months | [12] |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock | Good Morning Starshine | May 1969 | Wake Up Where You Are | May 2012 | 43 years | [1] |
| Emitt Rhodes | Farewell to Paradise | 1973 | Rainbow Ends | 26 February 2016 | 43 years | [24] [1] |
| Shelagh McDonald | Stargazer | 1971 | Parnassus Revisited | 2013 | 42 years | [1] |
| White Spirit | White Spirit | 19 September 1980 | Right or Wrong | 29 July 2022 | 41 years, 10 months, 10 days | [25] |
| Tír na nÓg | Strong In The Sun | 1973 | The Dark Dance | 2015 | 41 years, 6 months, 28 days | [1] |
| Nathaniel Mayer | Going Back to the Village of Love | 1963 | I Just Want to Be Held | 2004 | 41 years | [1] |
| Bob Lind | Since There Were Circles | 1971 | Finding You Again | 2012 | 41 years | [1] |
| Shirley Collins | Amaranth | August 1976 | Lodestar | 4 November 2016 | 40 years, 3 months | [1] [26] |
| Heavy Load | Stronger Than Evil | 1 October 1983 | Riders of the Ancient Storm | 6 October 2023 | 40 years, 6 days | [27] |
| Artist | Previous album | Released | Subsequent album | Released | Time between releases | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABBA | The Visitors | 30 November 1981 | Voyage | 5 November 2021 | 39 years, 11 months, 7 days | [28] |
| Altered Images | Bite | 17 June 1983 | Mascara Streakz | 26 August 2022 | 39 years, 2 months, 10 days | [29] |
| The Vapors | Magnets | 9 March 1981 | Together | 15 May 2020 | 39 years, 2 months, 6 days | [30] |
| Coven | Blood on the Snow | 1974 | Jinx | 2013 | 39 years | [1] |
| Witch | Kuomboka | 1984 | Zango | 2 June 2023 | 39 years | [31] |
| Bob Weir | Heaven Help the Fool | 13 January 1978 | Blue Mountain | 30 September 2016 | 38 years, 8 months, 18 days | [32] |
| KaS Product | Ego Eye | 1 October 1986 | Reloaded | 11 April 2025 | 38 years, 6 months, 11 days | [33] |
| Comus | To Keep from Crying | 1974 | Out of the Coma | 13 April 2012 | 38 years | [12] |
| Curved Air | Airborne | 1976 | North Star | 7 March 2014 | 38 years | [1] |
| Bridges | Fakkeltog | 1980 | Våkenatt | 15 August 2018 | 38 years | [34] [35] |
| Lone Justice | Shelter | November 1986 | Viva Lone Justice | 25 October 2024 | 37 years, 11 months | [36] |
| Chuck Berry | Rockit | August 1979 | Chuck [a] | 9 June 2017 | 37 years, 10 months | [1] |
| Soft Machine | Land of Cockayne | March 1981 | Hidden Details | 7 September 2018 | 37 years, 6 months, 7 days | [37] |
| Parliament | Trombipulation | 5 December 1980 | Medicaid Fraud Dogg | 22 May 2018 | 37 years, 5 months, 17 days | [1] |
| Marva Whitney | It's My Thing | 1969 | I Am What I Am | December 2006 | 37 years | [12] |
| Paul Jones | Crucifix on a Horseshoe | 1972 | Starting All Over Again | 2009 | 37 years | [1] |
| John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band | Roadhouse | 18 May 1988 | Sound of Waves | 11 April 2025 | 36 years, 10 months, 25 days | [38] |
| The Rezillos | Can't Stand the Rezillos | 21 July 1978 | Zero | 10 March 2015 | 36 years, 7 months, 18 days | [1] |
| Regis Philbin | It's Time for Regis! | 1968 | When You're Smiling | 28 September 2004 | 36 years | [39] |
| William Shatner | The Transformed Man | 1968 | Has Been | 5 October 2004 | 36 years | [39] |
| The Boomtown Rats | In the Long Grass | May 1984 | Citizens of Boomtown | 13 March 2020 | 35 years, 10 months | [40] |
| The Yardbirds | Little Games | July 1967 | Birdland | April 2003 | 35 years, 9 months | [12] |
| The Beat | Special Beat Service | 1 October 1982 | Here We Go Love | 15 June 2018 | 35 years, 8 months, 12 days | [41] [42] |
| Flower Travellin' Band | Make Up | 25 February 1973 | We Are Here | 17 September 2008 | 35 years, 6 months, 4 days | [12] |
| Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | Let's Make Up and Be Friendly | 1972 | Pour l'Amour des Chiens | 12 December 2007 | 35 years | [43] |
| Sir Lord Baltimore | Sir Lord Baltimore | 1971 | Sir Lord Baltimore III Raw | July 2006 | 35 years | [12] |
| Sweet Pea Atkinson | Don't Walk Away | 1982 | Get What You Deserve | 2017 | 35 years | [1] [44] |
| The Pop Group | For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? | 21 March 1980 | Citizen Zombie | 23 February 2015 | 34 years, 11 months, 2 days | [12] |
| Vashti Bunyan | Just Another Diamond Day | 20 December 1970 | Lookaftering | 17 October 2005 | 34 years, 9 months, 27 days | [45] [12] |
| Vandenberg | Alibi | 26 August 1985 | 2020 | 29 May 2020 | 34 years, 9 months, 3 days | [46] [47] |
| Cymande | Arrival | 11 March 1981 | A Simple Act of Faith | 27 November 2015 | 34 years, 8 months, 16 days | [7] |
| Dark Angel | Time Does Not Heal | 19 February 1991 | Extinction Level Event | 5 September 2025 | 34 years, 6 months, 14 days | [48] |
| The Stooges | Raw Power | 7 February 1973 | The Weirdness | 6 March 2007 | 34 years, 27 days | [45] [12] |
| Bill Fay | Time of the Last Persecution | 1971 | Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow | 2005 | 34 years | [12] |
| Atrophy | Violent by Nature | 26 March 1990 | Asylum | 15 March 2024 | 33 years, 11 months, 18 days | [49] |
| Gastunk | Mother | 21 June 1988 | Vintage Spirit, The Fact | 9 June 2021 | 32 years, 11 months, 20 days | [50] |
| Toxik | Think This | 13 October 1989 | Dis Morta | 5 August 2022 | 32 years, 9 months, 23 days | [51] |
| New York Dolls | Too Much Too Soon | 10 May 1974 | One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This | 26 July 2006 | 32 years, 6 months, 10 days | [12] |
| Labelle | Chameleon | 17 June 1976 | Back to Now | 21 October 2008 | 32 years, 4 months, 4 days | [52] |
| Coroner | Grin | 10 September 1993 | Dissonance Theory | 17 October 2025 | 32 years, 1 month, 7 days | [53] |
| Barry Gibb | Now Voyager | September 1984 | In the Now | 7 October 2016 | 32 years, 1 month | [54] |
| The Spinners | Down to Business | August 18, 1989 | 'Round the Block and Back Again | August 27, 2021 | 32 years, 9 days | [55] |
| Propaganda | 1234 | May 1990 | The Heart Is Strange | May 2022 | 32 years | [56] [57] [58] [59] |
| Loop | A Gilded Eternity | 1990 | Sonancy | 11 March 2022 | 32 years | [60] |
| Vardis | Vigilante | 1986 | Red Eye | 20 May 2016 | 30 years, 5 months, 20 days | [61] |
| Visage | Beat Boy | 22 October 1984 | Hearts and Knives | 20 May 2013 | 30 years, 5 months, 3 days | [1] |
| Magazine | Magic, Murder and the Weather | June 1981 | No Thyself | 24 October 2011 | 30 years, 4 months | [12] |
| Betty Boo | GRRR! It's Betty Boo | 1992 | Boomerang | 2022 | 30 years | [62] [63] [64] |
| Drop Nineteens | National Coma | 1993 | Hard Light | 3 November 2023 | 30 years | [65] |
| Joe Pesci | Little Joe Sure Can Sing! | 1968 | Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You | 13 October 1998 | 30 years | [1] [66] |
| Artist | Previous album | Released | Subsequent album | Released | Time between releases | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heir Apparent | One Small Voice | June 1989 | The View from Below | 15 October 2018 | 29 years, 4 months | [67] |
| The Psychedelic Furs | World Outside | 30 July 1991 | Made of Rain | 31 July 2020 | 29 years, 1 day | [68] |
| Dick Dale | Summer Surf | 1964 | Tribal Thunder | May 1993 | 29 years | [12] |
| The Creation | We Are Paintermen | June 1967 | Power Surge | 1996 | 29 years | [1] |
| Silver Apples | Contact | 23 February 1969 | Beacon | 1998 | 29 years | [12] |
| The Free Design | There Is a Song | 1972 | Cosmic Peekaboo | 2001 | 29 years | [1] |
| Game Theory | Two Steps from the Middle Ages | 1988 | Supercalifragile | August 2017 | 29 years | [1] |
| Cicero | Future Boy | 1992 | Today | 2021 | 29 years | [69] |
| The Dream Syndicate | Ghost Stories | 1988 | How Did I Find Myself Here? | 2017 | 29 years | [1] |
| Eagles | The Long Run | 24 September 1979 | Long Road Out of Eden | 30 October 2007 | 28 years, 1 month, 6 days | [12] |
| Black Flag | In My Head | October 1985 | What The... | 5 November 2013 | 28 years, 1 month | [12] |
| Missing Persons | Color in Your Life | July 1986 | Missing in Action | 2014 | 28 year | [1] |
| The Slits | Return of the Giant Slits | October 1981 | Trapped Animal | 6 October 2009 | 28 years | [12] |
| Cat Stevens | Back to Earth | 3 December 1978 | An Other Cup | 14 November 2006 | 27 years, 11 months, 12 days | [12] [70] |
| Pinhead Gunpowder | Goodbye Ellston Avenue | 25 February 1997 | Unt | 18 October 2024 | 27 years, 7 months, 24 days | [71] |
| Van der Graaf Generator | The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome | 2 September 1977 | Present | 25 April 2005 | 27 years, 7 months, 23 days | [12] |
| The The | NakedSelf | 29 February 2000 | Ensoulment | 6 September 2024 | 24 years, 6 months, 8 days | [72] |
| Even as We Speak | Feral Pop Frenzy | 2 February 1993 | Adelphi | 24 July 2020 | 27 years, 5 months, 3 days | [73] |
| Big Star | Third/Sister Lovers | 18 March 1978 | In Space | 27 September 2005 | 27 years, 6 months, 4 days | [12] [70] |
| Mordred | The Next Room | June 1994 | The Dark Parade | 23 July 2021 | 27 years, 1 month | [74] |
| Gary Wilson | You Think You Really Know Me | 1977 | Mary Had Brown Hair | 2004 | 27 years | [1] |
| Power of Dreams | Become Yourself | 1994 | Aüslander | 30 July 2021 | 27 years | [75] [76] |
| EMF | Cha Cha Cha | 1995 | Go Go Sapiens | 1 April 2022 | 27 years | [77] |
| X | Hey Zeus! | 8 June 1993 | Alphabetland | 22 April 2020 | 26 years, 10 months, 14 days | [78] |
| Messiah | Underground | 1 January 1994 | Fracmont | 11 September 2020 | 26 years, 9 months, 11 days | [79] |
| Tom Rapp | Sunforest | 2 January 1973 | A Journal of the Plague Year | 27 September 1999 | 26 years, 8 months, 26 days | [1] |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | Don't Stand Me Down | 13 September 1985 | One Day I'm Going to Soar | 4 June 2012 | 26 years, 8 months, 23 days | [1] |
| Chic | Chic-ism | 3 March 1992 | It's About Time | 28 September 2018 | 26 years, 6 months, 25 days | [12] |
| Satan | Suspended Sentence | 1 January 1987 | Life Sentence | 29 April 2013 | 26 years, 4 months, 29 days | [80] |
| The Jesus Lizard | Blue | 21 April 1998 | Rack | 13 September 2024 | 26 years, 4 months, 24 days | [81] |
| Cabaret Voltaire | The Conversation | July 1994 | Shadow of Fear | 20 November 2020 | 26 years, 4 months | [82] |
| Cardiacs | Guns | 21 June 1999 | LSD [a] | 19 September 2025 | 26 years, 2 months, 29 days | [83] [84] |
| Slick Rick | The Art of Storytelling | 25 May 1999 | Victory | 13 June 2025 | 26 years, 19 days | [85] |
| Funkadelic | The Electric Spanking of War Babies | 14 April 1981 | By Way of the Drum | 2007 | 26 years | [1] |
| The Trudy | Tune-In to the Trudy Love-Ray! | 1990 | Always Never Beautiful Forever | 15 April 2016 | 26 years | [86] |
| Angel Witch | Frontal Assault | 6 April 1986 | As Above, So Below | 12 March 2012 | 25 years, 11 months, 6 days | [12] |
| Duff McKagan | Believe in Me | 28 September 1993 | Tenderness | 31 May 2019 | 25 years, 8 months, 4 days | [87] [88] |
| Xysma | Girl on the Beach | 3 January 1998 | No Place like Alone | 24 March 2023 | 25 years, 2 months, 21 days | [89] |
| Levon Helm | Levon Helm | 1982 | Dirt Farmer | 30 October 2007 | 25 years | [45] [1] |
| Roger Waters | Amused to Death | 1 September 1992 | Is This the Life We Really Want? | 2 June 2017 | 24 years, 8 months, 29 days | [1] |
| Bauhaus | Burning from the Inside | 15 July 1983 | Go Away White | 3 March 2008 | 24 years, 7 months, 18 days | [1] |
| The Who | It's Hard | 4 September 1982 | Endless Wire | 30 October 2006 | 24 years, 1 month, 26 days | [12] |
| Starship | Love Among the Cannibals | August 1989 | Loveless Fascination | 17 September 2013 | 24 years, 1 month | [90] |
| The Sea Nymphs | The Sea Nymphs | 1992 | On the Dry Land | 4 November 2016 | 24 years | [91] [92] |
| Seals and Crofts | The Longest Road | 1980 | Traces | 2004 | 24 years | [1] |
| The Softies | Holiday in Rhode Island | 12 September 2000 | The Bed I Made | 23 August 2024 | 23 years, 11 months, 12 days | [93] |
| The Cars | Door to Door | 25 August 1987 | Move Like This | 10 May 2011 | 23 years, 8 months, 16 days | [12] |
| Pulp | We Love Life | 22 October 2001 | More | 6 June 2025 | 23 years, 7 months, 15 days | [94] |
| Poltergeist | Nothing Lasts Forever | 1 March 1993 | Back to Haunt | 21 October 2016 | 23 years, 7 months, 21 days | [95] |
| Black Star | Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star | 29 September 1998 | No Fear of Time | 3 May 2022 | 23 years, 7 months, 4 days | [96] |
| Everything But the Girl | Temperamental | 27 September 1999 | Fuse | 21 April 2023 | 23 years, 6 months, 26 days | [97] |
| Sacred Reich | Heal | 27 February 1996 | Awakening | 23 August 2019 | 23 years, 5 months, 24 days | [98] |
| The Boo Radleys | Kingsize | 19 October 1998 | Keep On With Falling | 11 March 2022 | 23 years, 4 months, 21 days | [99] |
| Belly | King | 13 February 1995 | Dove | 4 May 2018 | 23 years, 2 months, 22 days | [1] [100] |
| The Obsessed | The Church Within | 1 March 1994 | Sacred | 7 April 2017 | 23 years, 1 month, 6 days | [101] |
| The Zombies | Odessey and Oracle | 19 April 1968 | New World | April 1991 | 23 years | [12] |
| Nancy Sinatra | Woman | 1972 | One More Time | 11 April 1995 | 23 years | [1] |
| James Carr | A Man Needs a Woman | 1968 | Take Me to the Limit | 1991 | 23 years | [1] |
| Seikima-II | Living Legend | 21 October 1999 | Bloodiest | 21 September 2022 | 22 years, 11 months, 1 day | [102] |
| Keith Richards | Main Offender | 19 October 1992 | Crosseyed Heart | 18 September 2015 | 22 years, 11 months | [1] |
| Quicksand | Manic Compression | 28 February 1995 | Interiors | 10 November 2017 | 22 years, 8 months, 13 days | [1] |
| Semisonic | All About Chemistry | 13 March 2001 | Little Bit of Sun | 3 November 2023 | 22 years, 7 months, 22 days | [103] |
| Pixies | Trompe le Monde | 23 September 1991 | Indie Cindy | 19 April 2014 | 22 years, 6 months, 27 days | [12] |
| That Dog | Retreat from the Sun | 8 April 1997 | Old LP | 4 October 2019 | 22 years, 5 months, 26 days | [104] |
| Hum | Downward Is Heavenward | 27 January 1998 | Inlet | 23 June 2020 | 22 years, 4 months, 27 days | [105] |
| Slowdive | Pygmalion | 6 February 1995 | Slowdive | 5 May 2017 | 22 years, 2 months, 29 days | [1] |
| The Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight | 28 June 1980 | Nextdoorland | 24 September 2002 | 22 years, 2 months, 28 days | [12] |
| Bel Canto | Dorothy's Victory | 27 February 2002 | Radiant Green | 26 April 2024 | 22 years, 2 months | [106] |
| The Motels | Shock | August 1985 | Clean Modern and Reasonable | September 2007 | 22 years, 1 month | [107] |
| David Gilmour | About Face | 5 March 1984 | On an Island | 6 March 2006 | 22 years, 1 day | [108] |
| Bobby Bare | Drinkin' from the Bottle | 1983 | The Moon Was Blue | 2005 | 22 years | [1] |
| Marvin Gaye | Vulnerable [a] | 22 April 1997 | You're the Man [a] | 19 March 2019 | 21 years, 11 months, 7 days | |
| Mission of Burma | Vs. | 11 October 1982 | ONoffON | 4 May 2004 | 21 years, 6 months, 23 days | [12] |
| Trespass | Head | 21 September 1993 | Trespass | 5 April 2015 | 21 years, 6 months, 15 days | [109] |
| Mr. Bungle | California | 13 June 1999 | The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo | 30 October 2020 | 21 years, 3 months, 17 days | [110] |
| The Vaselines | Dum-Dum | June 1989 | Sex with an X | 14 September 2010 | 21 years, 3 months | [1] |
| Ride | Tarantula | 11 March 1996 | Weather Diaries | 16 June 2017 | 21 years, 3 months, 5 days | [1] |
| My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | 4 November 1991 | m b v | 2 February 2013 | 21 years, 2 months, 29 days | [12] [111] |
| Patrick Rondat | An Ephemeral World | 26 April 2004 | Escape from Shadows | 30 May 2025 | 21 years, 1 month, 4 days | [112] |
| Cherubs | Heroin Man | 1994 | 2 YNFYNYTY | 3 March 2015 | 21 years | [12] |
| Nektar | Man in the Moon | 1980 | The Prodigal Son | 21 September 2001 | 21 years | [1] |
| Stabbing Westward | Stabbing Westward | 22 May 2001 | Chasing Ghosts | 18 March 2022 | 20 years, 9 months, 24 days | [113] |
| David Crosby | Thousand Roads | 4 May 1993 | Croz | 28 January 2014 | 20 years, 8 months, 25 days | [1] [70] |
| 12 Rods | Lost Time | 15 October 2002 | If We Stayed Alive | 7 July 2023 | 20 years, 8 months, 23 days | [114] |
| Pink Floyd | The Division Bell | 28 March 1994 | The Endless River | 10 November 2014 | 20 years, 7 months, 13 days | [12] [70] |
| China Crisis | Warped by Success | 24 August 1994 | Autumn in the Neighbourhood | 3 June 2015 | 20 years, 7 months, 11 days | [1] |
| The Undertones | The Sin of Pride | 13 March 1983 | Get What You Need | 30 September 2003 | 20 years, 6 months, 18 days | [12] |
| Nasty Savage | Psycho Psycho | 22 March 2004 | Jeopardy Room | 4 October 2024 | 20 years, 6 months, 12 days | [115] |
| Hot Tuna | Pair a Dice Found | 2 November 1990 | Steady as She Goes | 5 April 2011 | 20 years, 5 months, 4 days | [1] |
| Public Image Ltd. | That What Is Not | 10 February 1992 | This Is PiL | 28 May 2012 | 20 years, 3 months, 19 days | [116] |
| Dead End | Zero | 21 September 1989 | Metamorphosis | 11 November 2009 | 20 years, 1 month, 22 days | [117] |
| The Feelies | Time for a Witness | 5 March 1991 | Here Before | 12 April 2011 | 20 years, 1 month, 8 days | [12] |
| Will Smith | Lost and Found | 29 March 2005 | Based on a True Story | 28 March 2025 | 20 years | [118] |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | June 1968 | Strangelands | 1988 | 20 years | [119] [120] |
| Crispy Ambulance | The Plateau Phase | 1982 | Scissorgun | 2002 | 20 years | [1] |
| Devo | Smooth Noodle Maps | June 1990 | Something for Everybody | 15 June 2010 | 20 years | [12] |
| Thornetta Davis | Sunday Morning Music | 8 October 1996 | Honest Woman | 2016 | 20 years | [1] |
| Artist | Previous album | Released | Subsequent album | Released | Time between releases | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protector | The Heritage | 20 September 1993 | Reanimated Homunculus | 13 September 2013 | 19 years, 11 months, 24 days | [121] |
| Traffic | When the Eagle Flies | September 1974 | Far from Home | 9 May 1994 | 19 years, 8 months | [1] |
| Black Grape | Stupid Stupid Stupid | 10 November 1997 | Pop Voodoo | 4 August 2017 | 19 years, 8 months, 25 days | [122] |
| L7 | Slap-Happy | 24 August 1999 | Scatter the Rats | 3 May 2019 | 19 years, 8 months, 9 days | [123] |
| Bonnie McKee | Trouble | 28 September 2004 | Hot City | 31 May 2024 | 19 years, 8 months, 4 days | [124] |
| The Monkees | Justus | 15 October 1996 | Good Times! | 27 May 2016 | 19 years, 7 months, 12 days | [1] |
| Brodequin | Methods of Execution | 3 November 2004 | Harbinger of Woe | 22 March 2024 | 19 years, 4 months, 19 days | [125] |
| Blue Öyster Cult | Curse of the Hidden Mirror | 5 June 2001 | The Symbol Remains | 9 October 2020 | 19 years, 4 months, 4 days | [126] |
| Duster | Contemporary Movement | 22 August 2000 | Duster | 13 December 2019 | 19 years, 3 months, 21 days | [127] |
| Steely Dan | Gaucho | 21 November 1980 | Two Against Nature | 29 February 2000 | 19 years, 3 months, 9 days | [12] |
| Failure | Fantastic Planet | 13 August 1996 | The Heart Is a Monster | 30 June 2015 | 19 years, 2 months, 18 days | [128] |
| Grace Jones | Bulletproof Heart | 13 October 1989 | Hurricane | 3 November 2008 | 19 years, 21 days | [129] |
| The Chills | Sunburnt | 10 October 1996 | Silver Bullets | 30 October 2015 | 19 years, 21 days | [130] |
| Kitchens of Distinction | Cowboys and Aliens | 3 October 1994 | Folly | 30 September 2013 | 18 years, 11 months, 14 days | [131] |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain | Munki | 2 June 1998 | Damage and Joy | 24 March 2017 | 18 years, 9 months, 22 days | [132] |
| The Romantics | Rhythm Romance | 1 January 1985 | 61/49 | 9 September 2003 | 18 years, 9 months, 9 days | [133] |
| Kill the Thrill | Tellurique | 9 May 2005 | Autophagie | 26 January 2024 | 18 years, 8 months, 17 days | [134] |
| Midnight Oil | Capricornia | 19 February 2002 | The Makarrata Project | 30 October 2020 | 18 years, 8 months, 12 days | [135] |
| Jethro Tull | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | 30 September 2003 | The Zealot Gene | 28 January 2022 | 18 years, 3 months, 29 days | [136] |
| Deadman | In the Direction of Sunrise and Night Light | 14 December 2005 | Genealogie der Moral | 30 March 2024 | 18 years, 3 months, 17 days | [137] |
| A Tribe Called Quest | The Love Movement | 29 September 1998 | We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service | 11 November 2016 | 18 years, 1 month, 3 days | [138] |
| The American Analog Set | Set Free | 30 September 2005 | For Forever | 27 October 2023 | 18 years, 28 days | [139] [140] |
| Paris Hilton | Paris | 14 August 2006 | Infinite Icon | 6 September 2024 | 18 years, 23 days | [141] |
| Faith No More | Album of the Year | 3 June 1997 | Sol Invictus | 19 May 2015 | 17 years, 11 months, 16 days | [142] |
| Adam Ant | Wonderful | 7 March 1995 | Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter | 21 January 2013 | 17 years, 10 months, 15 days | [143] |
| Daphne and Celeste | We Didn't Say That! | 26 June 2000 | Daphne & Celeste Save the World | 30 March 2018 | 17 years, 9 months, 5 days | [144] |
| The dB's | Paris Avenue | 4 October 1994 | Falling Off the Sky | 12 June 2012 | 17 years, 8 months, 8 days | [12] |
| In the Woods... | Strange in Stereo | 1 February 1999 | Pure | 16 September 2016 | 17 years, 7 months, 16 days | [145] |
| The Microphones | Mount Eerie | 21 January 2003 | Microphones in 2020 | 7 August 2020 | 17 years, 6 months, 19 days | [146] |
| Alison Krauss | Forget About It | 3 August 1999 | Windy City | 17 February 2017 | 17 years, 6 months, 14 days | [147] |
| Neneh Cherry | Man | 2 September 1996 | Blank Project | 25 February 2014 | 17 years, 5 months, 23 days | [148] |
| Tears for Fears | Everybody Loves a Happy Ending | 14 September 2004 | The Tipping Point | 25 February 2022 | 17 years, 5 months | [149] |
| Witchfynde | Lords of Sin | 1984 | The Witching Hour | 9 April 2001 | 17 years, 4 months, 9 days | [150] |
| The Old Dead Tree | The Water Fields | 17 September 2007 | Second Thoughts | 6 December 2024 | 17 years, 2 months, 19 days | [151] |
| The Network | Money Money 2020 | 30 September 2003 | Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! | 4 December 2020 | 17 years, 2 months, 4 days | [152] |
| The Go-Go's | Talk Show | 19 March 1984 | God Bless the Go-Go's | 15 May 2001 | 17 years, 1 month, 26 days | [153] |
| Philip Bailey | Soul on Jazz | 23 April 2002 | Love Will Find a Way | 21 June 2019 | 17 years, 1 month, 13 days | [154] |
| American Football | American Football | 28 September 1999 | American Football | 21 October 2016 | 17 years, 23 days | [155] |
| Manu Chao | La Radiolina | 4 September 2007 | Viva Tu | 20 September 2024 | 17 years, 16 days | [156] |
| D'erlanger | Basilisk | 7 March 1990 | Lazzaro | 14 March 2007 | 17 years, 8 days | [157] |
| Swervedriver | 99th Dream | 24 February 1998 | I Wasn't Born to Lose You | 3 March 2015 | 17 years, 7 days | [158] |
| Linda Thompson | One Clear Moment | 1985 | Fashionably Late | 30 July 2002 | 17 years | [159] |
| Self | Gizmodgery | 5 September 2000 | Ornament & Crime | 25 August 2017 | 16 years, 11 months, 21 days | [160] |
| The Lox | We Are the Streets | 25 January 2000 | Filthy America... It's Beautiful | 16 December 2016 | 16 years, 10 months, 22 days | [161] |
| X-Ray Spex | Germfree Adolescents | 10 November 1978 | Conscious Consumer | 28 September 1995 | 16 years, 10 months, 18 days | [162] |
| Agnetha Fältskog | I Stand Alone | 9 November 1987 | My Colouring Book | 19 April 2004 | 16 years, 9 months, 15 days | [163] |
| Blondie | The Hunter | May 1982 | No Exit | 23 February 1999 | 16 years, 9 months | [100] |
| Kraftwerk | Electric Café | 10 November 1986 | Tour de France Soundtracks | 4 August 2003 | 16 years, 8 months, 24 days | [45] |
| Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come | 27 October 1998 | Freedom | 29 June 2015 | 16 years, 8 months, 2 days | [164] |
| At the Drive-In | Relationship of Command | 12 September 2000 | in•ter a•li•a | 5 May 2017 | 16 years, 7 months, 23 days | [165] |
| The Band | Islands | 15 March 1977 | Jericho | 2 November 1993 | 16 years, 7 months, 19 days | [166] |
| Cadaver | Necrosis | 20 April 2004 | Edder & Bile | 27 November 2020 | 16 years, 7 months, 7 days | [167] |
| Mütiilation | Sorrow Galaxies | 1 September 2007 | Black Metal Cult | 29 March 2024 | 16 years, 6 months, 29 days | [168] |
| Thelonius Monster | California Clam Chowder | 20 April 2004 | Oh That Monster | 3 November 2020 | 16 years, 6 months, 14 days | [169] |
| Soundgarden | Down on the Upside | 21 May 1996 | King Animal | 13 November 2012 | 16 years, 5 months, 23 days | [170] |
| Gang Starr | The Ownerz | 24 June 2003 | One of the Best Yet [a] | 1 November 2019 | 16 years, 4 months, 7 days | [171] |
| Violent Femmes | Freak Magnet | 22 February 2000 | We Can Do Anything | 4 March 2016 | 16 years, 12 days | [172] |
| The Cure | 4:13 Dream | 27 October 2008 | Songs of a Lost World | 1 November 2024 | 16 years, 6 days | [173] |
| Jaguar | This Time | 1984 | Wake Me | 2000 | 16 years | [174] |
| Eddie and the Hot Rods | Been There Done That, | 2006 | Guardians of the Legacy | October 2022 | 16 years | [175] |
| Skid Row | Revolutions per Minute | 24 October 2006 | The Gang's All Here | 14 October 2022 | 15 years, 11 months, 20 days | [176] |
| Vida Blue | The Illustrated Band | 14 October 2003 | Crossing Lines | 20 September 2019 | 15 years, 11 months, 7 days | [177] |
| Gil Scott-Heron | Spirits | 29 March 1994 | I'm New Here | 8 February 2010 | 15 years, 10 months, 11 days | [178] |
| The Beach Boys | Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 | 19 August 1996 | That's Why God Made the Radio | 5 June 2012 | 15 years, 9 months, 17 days | [1] |
| Stray | Valhalla | 1 January 2008 | About Time | 15 September 2023 | 15 year, 9 months, 15 days | [179] |
| The B-52's | Good Stuff | 23 June 1992 | Funplex | 25 March 2008 | 15 years, 9 months, 3 days | [180] |
| Dr. Dre | 2001 | 16 November 1999 | Compton | 7 August 2015 | 15 years, 8 months, 22 days | [45] [111] |
| The Avalanches | Since I Left You | 27 November 2000 | Wildflower | 1 July 2016 | 15 years, 7 months, 4 days | [181] |
| Clipse | Til the Casket Drops | 8 December 2009 | Let God Sort Em Out | 11 July 2025 | 15 years, 7 months, 3 days | [182] |
| Headless | Inside You | 1 January 1998 | Growing Apart | 7 June 2013 | 15 years, 6 months, 7 days | [183] |
| John Petrucci | Suspended Animation | 1 March 2005 | Terminal Velocity | 28 August 2020 | 15 years, 5 months, 27 days | [184] |
| Be Your Own Pet | Get Awkward | 18 March 2008 | Mommy | 25 August 2023 | 15 years, 5 months, 8 days | [185] |
| Nasty Savage | Penetration Point | 1 January 1989 | Psycho Psycho | 22 March 2004 | 15 years, 3 months, 22 days | [186] |
| Pendulum | Immersion | 21 May 2010 | Inertia | 22 August 2025 | 15 years, 3 months, 1 day | [187] |
| George Harrison | Cloud Nine | 2 November 1987 | Brainwashed | 19 November 2002 | 15 years, 17 days | [188] |
| Guns N' Roses | "The Spaghetti Incident?" | 23 November 1993 | Chinese Democracy | 23 November 2008 | 15 years | [45] [100] [70] |
| Sleep | Dopesmoker | 22 April 2003 | The Sciences | 20 April 2018 | 14 years, 11 months, 28 days | [189] |
| Foreigner | Mr. Moonlight | 24 October 1994 | Can't Slow Down | 29 September 2009 | 14 years, 11 months, 5 days | [190] |
| D'Angelo | Voodoo | 25 January 2000 | Black Messiah (with The Vanguard) | 15 December 2014 | 14 years, 10 months, 20 days | [111] |
| Shania Twain | Up! | 19 November 2002 | Now | 29 September 2017 | 14 years, 10 months, 10 days | [100] |
| TLC | 3D | 10 October 2002 | TLC | 30 June 2017 | 14 years, 7 months, 18 days | [100] |
| The Black Crowes | Before the Frost...Until the Freeze | 31 August 2009 | Happiness Bastards | 15 March 2024 | 14 years, 6 months, 15 days | [191] |
| Ole Børud | Alle Skal Få Vite Det | 1 January 1988 | Chi-Rho | 15 May 2002 | 14 years, 4 months, 15 days | [192] |
| Stereolab | Not Music | 16 November 2010 | Instant Holograms on Metal Film | 23 May 2025 | 14 years, 6 months, 8 days | [193] |
| Sweet Savage | Regeneration | 9 May 2011 | Bang | 12 September 2025 | 14 years, 4 months, 3 days | [194] |
| Algernon Cadwallader | Parrot Flies | 21 May 2011 | Trying Not to Have a Thought | 12 September 2025 | 14 years, 3 months, 22 days | [195] |
| King's X | XV | 20 May 2008 | Three Sides of One | 2 September 2022 | 14 years, 3 months, 13 days | [196] |
| Hootie & the Blowfish | Looking for Lucky | 9 August 2005 | Imperfect Circle | 1 November 2019 | 14 years, 2 months, 24 days | [197] |
| The Chicks | Taking the Long Way | 23 May 2006 | Gaslighter | 17 July 2020 | 14 years, 1 month, 24 days | [198] |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Universal | 2 September 1996 | History of Modern | 20 September 2010 | 14 years, 19 days | [199] |
| Alice in Chains | Alice in Chains | 7 November 1995 | Black Gives Way to Blue | 29 September 2009 | 13 years, 10 months, 22 days | [200] |
| Troll | Neo-Satanic Supremacy | 27 January 2010 | Trolldom | 8 December 2023 | 13 years, 10 months, 12 days | [201] |
| Biohazard | Reborn in Defiance | 20 January 2012 | Divided We Fall | 17 October 2025 | 13 years, 8 months, 28 days | [202] |
| Forbidden | Green | 25 March 1997 | Omega Wave | 22 October 2010 | 13 years, 6 months, 28 days | [203] |
| Dååth | Dååth | 26 October 2010 | The Deceivers | 3 May 2024 | 13 years, 6 months, 7 days | [204] |
| Luna Sea | Lunacy | 12 July 2000 | A Will | 11 December 2013 | 13 years, 5 months | [205] |
| Cancer | Spirit in Flames | 20 June 2005 | Shadow Gripped | 2 November 2018 | 13 years, 4 months, 12 days | [206] |
| Tool | 10,000 Days | 28 April 2006 | Fear Inoculum | 30 August 2019 | 13 years, 4 months, 3 days | [207] |
| Bill Fox | One Thought Revealed | 17 January 2012 | Resonance | 15 April 2025 | 13 years, 2 months, 29 days | [208] |
| Sweet Savage | Rune | 13 April 1998 | Regeneration | 9 May 2011 | 13 years, 26 days | [209] |
| Busted | A Present for Everyone | 17 November 2003 | Night Driver | 25 November 2016 | 13 years, 8 days | [100] |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs | 22 October 2001 | Syro | 22 September 2014 | 12 years, 11 months | [111] |
| Disco Biscuits | Otherwise Law Abiding Citizens | 7 July 2011 | Revolution in Motion | 29 March 2024 | 12 years, 8 months, 10 days | [210] |
| Patrick Wolf | Sundark and Riverlight | 15 October 2012 | Crying the Neck | 24 April 2025 | 12 years, 6 months, 10 days | [211] |
| Peter Gabriel | New Blood | 9 October 2011 | I/O | 1 December 2023 | 12 years, 1 month, 22 days | [212] |
| The Go-Betweens | 16 Lovers Lane | August 1988 | The Friends of Rachel Worth | 16 September 2000 | 12 years, 1 month | [213] |
| Zigzo | Add9 Suicide | 27 September 2000 | The Battle of Love | 10 October 2012 | 12 years, 14 days | [214] |
| Kate Bush | The Red Shoes | 2 November 1993 | Aerial | 7 November 2005 | 12 years, 5 days | [215] |
| Blur | Think Tank | 5 May 2003 | The Magic Whip | 27 April 2015 | 11 years, 11 months, 22 days | [100] |
| The Dismemberment Plan | Change | 23 October 2001 | Uncanney Valley | 14 October 2013 | 11 years, 11 months, 22 days | [216] |
| Trouble | Plastic Green Head | 24 April 1995 | Simple Mind Condition | 3 April 2007 | 11 years, 11 months, 10 days | [217] |
| Gossip | A Joyful Noise | 11 May 2012 | Real Power | 22 March 2024 | 11 years, 10 months, 11 days | [218] |
| Diamond Head | Death and Progress | 24 June 1993 | All Will Be Revealed | 14 February 2005 | 11 years, 7 months, 20 days | [219] |
| Cher | Living Proof | 26 February 2002 (U.S.) | Closer to the Truth | 24 September 2013 | 11 years, 6 months, 29 days | [100] |
| Take That | Nobody Else | 8 May 1995 | Beautiful World | 24 November 2006 | 11 years, 6 months, 17 days | [100] |
| Rainer Maria | Catastrophe Keeps Us Together | 4 April 2006 | S/T | 18 August 2017 | 11 years, 4 months, 15 days | [220] |
| LL Cool J | Authentic | 30 April 2013 | The FORCE | 6 September 2024 | 11 years, 4 months, 7 days | [221] |
| The Rolling Stones | A Bigger Bang | 6 September 2005 | Blue & Lonesome | 2 December 2016 | 11 years, 2 months, 27 days | [100] |
| Star One | Victims of the Modern Age | 25 October 2010 | Revel in Time | 18 February 2022 | 11 years, 2 months, 24 days | [222] [223] |
| Jaguar | Run Ragged | 14 July 2003 | Metal X | 29 August 2014 | 11 years, 1 month, 15 days | [224] |
| Journey | Eclipse | 24 May 2011 | Freedom | 8 July 2022 | 11 years, 1 month, 14 days | [225] |
| The Libertines | The Libertines | 30 August 2004 | Anthems for Doomed Youth | 11 September 2015 | 11 years, 12 days | [226] |
| Fergie | The Dutchess | 19 September 2006 | Double Dutchess | 22 September 2017 | 11 years, 3 days | [100] |
| Liz Phair | Funstyle | 3 July 2010 | Soberish | 4 June 2021 | 10 years, 11 months, 3 days | [227] |
| The 180 Gs | 180 D'Gs to the Future! | 23 October 2007 | Singin' to God | 3 July 2018 | 10 years, 8 months, 10 days | [228] |
| Portishead | Portishead | 29 September 1997 | Third | 28 April 2008 | 10 years, 6 months, 30 days | [229] |
| Mekong Delta | Pictures at an Exhibition | 27 January 1997 | Lurking Fear | 24 August 2007 | 10 years, 6 months, 28 days | [230] |
| Stevie Wonder | Conversation Peace | 21 March 1995 | A Time to Love | 18 October 2005 | 10 years, 6 months, 27 days | [231] |
| Easy Star All-Stars | Easy Star's Thrillah | 28 August 2012 | Ziggy Stardub | 21 April 2023 | 10 years, 6 months, 24 days | [232] [233] |
| OK Go | Hungry Ghosts | 14 October 2014 | And the Adjacent Possible | 11 April 2025 | 10 years, 5 months, 28 Days | [234] |
| Gin Blossoms | Congratulations I'm Sorry | 13 February 1996 | Major Lodge Victory | 8 August 2006 | 10 years, 5 months, 27 Days | [235] |
| Suede | A New Morning | 30 September 2002 | Bloodsports | 18 March 2013 | 10 years, 5 months, 18 days | [236] |
| Limp Bizkit | Gold Cobra | 28 June 2011 | Still Sucks | 31 October 2021 | 10 years, 4 months, 3 days | [237] |
| The Cranberries | Wake Up and Smell the Coffee | 22 October 2001 | Roses | 21 February 2012 | 10 years, 3 months, 30 days | [238] |
| Can | Can | July 1979 | Rite Time | October 1989 | 10 years, 3 months | [239] |
| Lyle Lovett | Release Me | 28 February 2012 | 12th of June | 13 May 2022 | 10 years, 2 months, 16 days | [240] |
| Jennifer Hudson | JHUD | 23 September 2014 | The Gift of Love | 18 October 2024 | 10 years, 25 days | [241] |
| Vanessa Amorosi | Hazardous | 6 November 2009 | Back to Love | 8 November 2019 | 10 years, 2 days | [242] |
The 2nd LP 'Tune-In to the Trudy Love-Ray!' was released in 1990, quickly followed by their 3rd LP 'Always Never Beautiful Forever', in 2016