Mike Oldfield singles discography

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Mike Oldfield singles discography
Singles52
Music videos38
Promotional singles33

This is the singles discography of English musician Mike Oldfield.

Contents

Singles

TitleVocalsYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
DEN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NL
[7]
SPA
[8] [9]
SWI
[10]
US
[11]
"Mike Oldfield's Single" [A]
("Tubular Bells")
197431127 Tubular Bells
"Froggy Went a-Courting" [B] Non-album singles
"Don Alfonso" David Bedford 1975
"In Dulci Jubilo" / "On Horseback"Mike Oldfield on "On Horseback"472Non-album single [C]
"Theme from Ommadawn" [D] 1976Ommadawn
"Portsmouth"32319Non-album singles
"William Tell Overture"197751
"Cuckoo Song" [E] 53
"Guilty"197922
"Guilty" (live) [F] Exposed
"Blue Peter"19Non-album single
"North Star/Platinum Finale" [G] 1980 Platinum
"Arrival"1312 [H] QE2
"Sheba" / "Wonderful Land"
40
"Five Miles Out"Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly 19824361424 Five Miles Out
"Family Man"Maggie Reilly4573
"Mistake" [I] Maggie Reilly1056Non-album single [J]
"Moonlight Shadow"Maggie Reilly1983461121111 Crises
"Shadow on the Wall" Roger Chapman 95193229104
"Crime of Passion" Barry Palmer 1984611172217Non-album single
"To France"Maggie Reilly4897916437 Discovery
"Tricks of the Light"Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer9146
"Étude"111 The Killing Fields
"Pictures in the Dark" Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and Aled Jones 1985503845Non-album singles
"Shine" Jon Anderson 19861001131
"In High Places"Jon Anderson1987161Non-album single [K]
"Islands" Bonnie Tyler 100412222 Islands
"The Time Has Come"Anita Hegerland190
"Magic Touch" [L] Max Bacon
"Flying Start" Kevin Ayers 1988132
"Earth Moving"Nikki Bentley198993 Earth Moving
"Innocent"Anita Hegerland845
"(One Glance Is) Holy" [M] Adrian Belew
"Étude" (reissue) [N] 1990Non-album single
"Heaven's Open"1991 Heaven's Open
"Gimme Back"
"Sentinel"19921014 Tubular Bells II
"Tattoo"33
"The Bell" Vivian Stanshall (UK) [O] 19935013
"Moonlight Shadow" (reissue)Maggie Reilly199352 Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield
"Hibernaculum"199447 The Songs of Distant Earth
"Let There Be Light"199551
"Women of Ireland"199770 Voyager
"Man in the Rain" Cara Dillon, and additionally Heather Burnett19989894 Tubular Bells III
"Far Above the Clouds" Clodagh Simonds 199953
"To Be Free"Jude Sim2002253 Tres Lunas
"Thou Art in Heaven" Sally Oldfield 17
"Spheres" Hayley Westenra 2008 Music of the Spheres
"Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo" [P] 2012 Isles of Wonder
"Sailing"Luke Spiller2014118 Man on the Rocks
"Moonshine"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

TitleYearAlbum
"Hergest Ridge" [Q] 1974 Hergest Ridge
"Extract from The Orchestral Tubular Bells" [R] 1975 The Orchestral Tubular Bells
"Foreign Affair" [S] 1983Crises
"Discovery" [T] 1984Discovery
"The Wind Chimes" [U] 1987Islands
"Blue Night" [V] 1989Earth Moving
"Nothing But" [V]
"Hostage" [U]
"Tubular Bells" (edit) [U] 1990Tubular Bells
"Amarok X-Traks" [W] Amarok
"Tubular Bells"/"Moonlight Shadow" [X] 1993Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield
"Tubular Bells" [V]
"Moonlight Shadow" [V]
"Ommadawn" [V]
"Family Man" [V]
"To France" [V]
"Islands" [V]
"Five Miles Out" [V] 1994
"Foreign Affair" [V]
"Heaven's Open" [V]
"A Shot of Moonshine" [Y] Non-album single
"The Voyager" [W] 1996Voyager
"Mont St. Michel" [V]
"The Song of the Sun" [V]
"The Top of the Morning" [V] 1998Tubular Bells III
"Cochise" [V] 1999 Guitars
"Out of Mind" [V]
"Pacha Mama" [V] The Millennium Bell
"Amber Light" [Z]
"Introduction" [AA] 2003 Tubular Bells 2003
"Surfing" [AA] 2005 Light + Shade
"Mike Oldfield's Single" [AB] 2013Tubular Bells
"Nuclear" [AC] 2016Man on the Rocks

Music videos

YearVideoAlbum
1975"Don Alfonso" (with David Bedford)non-album
"In Dulci Jubilo"
1976"Portsmouth"
1977"William Tell Overture"
1979"Guilty"
"Blue Peter"
1980"Wonderful Land"QE2
1982"Five Miles Out"Five Miles Out
1983"Moonlight Shadow"Crises
"Shadow on the Wall"
1984"Crime of Passion"non-album
"To France"Discovery
"Tricks of the Light"
"Étude"The Killing Fields
1985"Pictures in the Dark"non-album
1986"Shine"
1988"The Wind Chimes"Islands
"North Point"
"Islands"
"The Time Has Come"
"Flying Start"
"Magic Touch"
1989"Innocent"Earth Moving
"Earth Moving"
1991"Heaven's Open"Heaven's Open
1992"Sentinel"Tubular Bells II
1993"The Bell" (feat. Vivian Stanshall)
1994"Hibernaculum"The Songs of Distant Earth
1995"In the Beginning"/"Let There Be Light"
1997"Women of Ireland" (remix)Voyager
2002"To Be Free"Tres Lunas
2003"Introduction 2003"Tubular Bells 2003
2014"Sailing"Man on the Rocks
"Man on the Rocks" (Acoustic and electric versions)
"Moonshine"
2015"Zombies (Halloween Special)"The 1984 Suite
2023"Tubular Bells 4 Intro (Edit)"Tubular Bells (50th Anniversary Edition)

Notes

  1. Note that US version is a very different edit. The UK version was featured on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells.
  2. "Froggy Went A-Courting" was only released as a single in the Netherlands.
  3. Whilst "In Dulci Jubilo" was released as a non-album single, "On Horseback" had featured as the final section of the side two of Ommadawn .
  4. "Theme from Ommadawn" was only released as a single in the US, Canada and France.
  5. Credited to Mike Oldfield with Les Penning.
  6. The live version of "Guilty" was only released as single in Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.
  7. "North Star/Platinum Finale" was only released as a single in Spain.
  8. Charted in 1983
  9. Credited to the Mike Oldfield Group.
  10. "Mistake" was released as a non-album single in the UK/Europe, but was included on the North American release of Crises .
  11. "In High Places" was originally released in 1983 on Crises, but was released as a single in 1987 to promote Richard Branson's launch of the then-largest ever hot air balloon.
  12. "Magic Touch" was not released as a single in the UK, but was released in the majority of other territories.
  13. "(One Glance Is) Holy" was only released as a single in Germany.
  14. "Étude" was reissued in 1990 after being used in an advert for Nurofen.
  15. Many different mixes exist and on the UK charting version Stanshall features as the Master of Ceremonies.
  16. Released as download and limited edition vinyl as Music from the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
  17. Released as a promotional single in the UK, US, Australia and Japan.
  18. Released as a promotional single in the UK and Australia.
  19. Released as a promotional single in Argentina.
  20. Released as a promotional single in Canada.
  21. 1 2 3 Released as a promotional single in the US.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Released as a promotional single in Spain.
  23. 1 2 Released as a promotional single in the UK and Germany.
  24. Released as a promotional single in the Netherlands.
  25. Released as a promotional single in the UK. Credited to MOT2.
  26. Released as a promotional single in Germany and Spain.
  27. 1 2 Released as a promotional single in the UK and Europe.
  28. Released as a promotional single for Record Store Day and the 40th Anniversary of Virgin and Tubular Bells
  29. Released as a Record Store Day exclusive.

References

  1. For all the chart positions apart from the below-mentioned, see: "MIKE OLDFIELD | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 222, 223. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  3. "Das österreichische Hitparaden- und Musik-Portal". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. "Danish Chart Archive - Singles 1979 - ____ (B.T./IFPI DK)". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  7. "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  8. Salaverri, Fernando (2015). Sólo éxitos 1959–2012 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN   978-84-8048-866-2.
  9. "spanishcharts.com - Spanish charts portal". spanishcharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade - hitparade.ch". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  11. "Mike Oldfield". Billboard. Retrieved 31 October 2021.