Sampha discography

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Sampha discography
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Studio albums2
EPs2
Singles6

English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer Sampha has released two studio albums, two extended plays, and six singles. He joined label Young in 2009 as an intern, which led to his signing. He released his EPs Sundanza and Dual in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He released his debut album Process in 2017 and was met with critical acclaim, eventually winning the 2017 Mercury Prize.

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Sampha is also known for his collaborative work with other artists, as a producer, vocalist and musician. He has appeared on recordings by Beyoncé, Drake, Florence + the Machine, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Robyn, Solange, and among many others. He is also known for frequently collaborating with English musician and producer Sbtrkt.

Albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
CAN
[4]
GER
[5]
NLD
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWI
[8]
US
[4]
Process
  • Released: 3 February 2017 [9]
  • Label: Young Turks
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
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Lahai
  • Released: 20 October 2023
  • Label: Young
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[11]
67

Extended plays

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
UK
Indie

[12]
Sundanza
  • Released: 21 June 2010 [13]
  • Label: Young Turks
  • Format: CD-R
Dual
  • Released: 29 July 2013 [14]
  • Label: Young Turks
  • Format: CD, 12", digital download
24
Process Remixes
  • Released: 15 December 2017 [15]
  • Label: Young Turks
  • Format: 12"

Singles

As lead artist

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[16]
FRA
[17]
"Valentine"
(with Jessie Ware)
2011Non-album singles
"Too Much"20137
"Happens"49
"Timmy's Prayer"2016Process
"Blood on Me"36
"(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano"2017927182
"Spirit 2.0"2023 Lahai
"Only"
"Satellite Business 2.0"
(with Little Simz)
2024Lahai (Deluxe)
"I'm on your team"
(with Romy)
2024Non-album singles

"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US
[19]
US
R&B/Hip-Hop

US
Rap

[19]
UK
[1]
UK
R&B

[20]
UK
Indie

[21]
"On Your Own"
(Lil Silva featuring Sampha)
2011The Patience EP
"Hold On"
(Sbtrkt featuring Sampha)
201238 Sbtrkt
"Too Much"
(Drake featuring Sampha)
20136423168614 Nothing Was the Same
"Temporary View"
(Sbtrkt featuring Sampha)
2014 Wonder Where We Land
"Don't Touch My Hair"
(Solange featuring Sampha)
20169138 A Seat at the Table
"Mountains of Gold"
(Everything is Recorded featuring Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki, and Kamasi Washington)
201760 Everything is Recorded by Richard Russell
"Show Love"
(Everything is Recorded featuring Syd and Sampha)
"Illusions"
(Roses Gabor featuring Sampha)
2018Fantasy & Facts
"Soldiers"
(Headie One and Fred Again featuring Sampha)
2020Gang
"Walking Flames"
(Actress featuring Sampha)
Karma & Desire
"Backwards"
(Lil Silva featuring Sampha)
2022Yesterday Is Heavy
"What If?"
(Lil Silva featuring Skiifall and Sampha)
"Can We Do This?"
(Speakers Corner Quartet featuring Sampha)
2023 Further Out Than the Edge
"L.F.O."
(Sbtrkt featuring Sampha and George Riley)
The Rat Road
"Open Up"
(Kwes featuring Sampha and Tirzah)
Rye Lane (Original Score)
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

As lead artist

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
Indie

[16]
"Plastic 100°C"201737Process
"Under"44
TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
UK
[1]
US US
R&B/HH
CAN
"4422"
(Drake featuring Sampha)
201750502827 More Life
"Father Time"
(Kendrick Lamar featuring Sampha)
202239 [24] 11910 Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Guest appearances

TitleYearOther artist(s)Album
"Neon Blue"2009251109 EP
"Break Off"2010SBTRKTBreak Off EP
"Evening Glow"
"Evening Glow (reprise)"
"Living Like I Do"2011Non-album single
"Sanctuary"SBTRKT, Jessie WareSBTRKT
"Trials of the Past"SBTRKT
"Something Goes Right"
"Never Never"
"Salient Sarah"2013Lil SilvaThe Distance EP
"The Motion"DrakeNothing Was the Same
"Play"2014 Katy B Little Red
"Wonder Where We Land"SBTRKTWonder Where We Land
"If It Happens"
"Gon Stay"
"Maybe"SBTRKT, Andrew Ashong
"AnswerYoung Turks 2014
"A Kiss Goodbye"2015 Emile Haynie, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dev Hynes We Fall
"Dolphy"CKtrlForest EP
"Saint Pablo"2016 Kanye West The Life of Pablo
"TBD"SBTRKTSAVE YOURSELF
"Close But Not Quite"2017Everything Is RecordedClose But Not Quite EP and Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell
"All These Words (A Close But Not Quite Reprise)"Close But Not Quite EP
"Mountains of Dub"Everything Is Recorded, Kamasi WashingtonNon-album single
"Everything Is Recorded"2018Everything Is Recorded, Owen Pallett Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell
"Treasure" Beautiful Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"Desoleil (Brilliant Corners)"2019 Loyle Carner Not Waving, but Drowning
"3 Hour Drive"2020 Alicia Keys ALICIA
"VVY"ActressKarma & Desire
"Many Seas, Many Rivers"
"Capo"2021 Mustafa When Smoke Rises
"Father Time"2022 Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
"Still"Lil Silva, Ghetts Yesterday Was Heavy
"Limitless"2023SBTRKT, LEILAHThe Rat Road
"LGOYH (Let Go of Your Hurt)"Kwes, Tirzah Rye Lane (Original Score)
"Double Standards"2024Ghetts On Purpose, With Purpose
"Memories" Headie One The Last One

Remixes

TitleYearArtist(s)
"Spoiled by Sampha"2008Palmstruck
"Basic Space"2009 The xx
"Sick Tonight"2010 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
"Doorstep"Othello Wolf
"Sidewalk Safari"2011 Chairlift
"Minata Waraba"2018 Oumou Sangare
"Midnight Sun"2022 Nilüfer Yanya

Other appearances

List of songs co-written, featuring production involvement, instrumentation, vocals, arrangement, engineering, and/or mixing for other artists, showing year released and album name
TitleYearLead artistAlbumCredit(s)
WritingProductionInstrumentationVocalsArrangementEngineeringMixing
"Break Off"2010SBTRKTBreak Off EPYesCoYesYes
"Evening Glow"YesCoYesYes
"Evening Glow (reprise)"YesCoYesYes
"Wonderland"H.A.SThe Unconscious State EPYes
"Impossible"Yes
"Nervous"Jessie Ware & SBTRKTNon-album singleYes
"Look At Stars"2011SBTRKTStep In Shadows EPYesYes
"Living Like I Do"Non-album singleYesYes
"On Your Own"
(feat. Sampha)
Lil SilvaThe Patience EPYesCoFeatured
"Heatwave"SBTRKTSBTRKTYesCoYes
"Never Never"
(feat. Sampha)
YesCoFeatured
"On The Way"2013Short StoriesNon-album singleYesCoYes
"Let It Go"YesCoYes
"Too Much"
(feat. Sampha)
DrakeNothing Was the SameYesYesFeatured
"The Motion"
(feat. Sampha)
YesFeatured
"Mine"
(feat. Drake)
Beyoncé BEYONCÉ Additional
"Find U"2014 Jean Deaux Non-album singleYes
"Play"
(feat. Sampha)
Katy BLittle RedYesYesFeatured
"Freedom of the Floor"NauticNavy Blue EPAdditional playing
"Numbers" FKA twigs LP1 YesCoDrums, synths, piano
"For You"Fabiana PalladinoNon-album singleCo
"Look Away"SBTRKTWonder Where We LandAdditional programmingYes
"Problem (Solved)"
(feat. Jessie Ware)
YesPiano
"You & I (Forever)"Jessie Ware Tough Love Backing
"A Kiss Goodbye"
(feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sampha & Dev Hynes)
2015Emile HaynieWe FallYesPianoFeatured
"Alabama"2016 Frank Ocean Endless Additional
"Don't You Wait" Solange A Seat at the Table Co
"Interlude: Tina Taught Me"Co
"Don't Touch My Hair"
(feat. Sampha)
YesCoFeatured
"Interlude: This Moment"Yes
"Don't Wish Me Well"Co
"Everybody's Coming to My House"2018 David Byrne American Utopia Piano
"Darth Vader" Chip TEN10 CoYes
"Grace" Florence + the Machine High as Hope YesPiano
"Send to Robin Immediately" Robyn Honey Bass synthesizer
"Softness As A Weapon" Kindness Something Like a WarSynth
"Hard To Believe"
(feat. Jazmine Sullivan)
YesSynthBacking
"Something Like a War"
(feat. Bahamadia)
Backing
"Time (is)"2019Solange When I Get Home YesAdditional
"05:10 AM / Dream I Never Had"
(feat. A. K. Paul)
2020Everything Is RecordedFRIDAY FOREVERSynths, piano
"Soldiers"
(feat. Sampha)
Headie One & Fred again..GANGYesPiano, programmingFeaturedVocal
"3 Hour Drive"
(feat. Sampha)
Alicia KeysALICIAYesCoKeyboards, pianoFeatured
"Amir"2021 serpentwithfeet DEACON YesCo
"Wood Boy"YesCo
"Fellowship"YesCoAdditional
"Stay Alive"MustafaWhen Smoke RisesBacking
"Capo"
(feat. Sampha)
YesPianoFeatured
"What About Heaven"BongosBacking
"Amir (Reprise)"serpentwithfeetDEACON's GroveYesCo
"Fellowship (Remix)"
(feat. Ambré and Alex Isley)
YesCoAdditional
"Rich (Interlude)"2022Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Additional
"dvd"
(feat. Choker)
Mount Kimbie MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City PlanningYesPiano
"Fire + Water" Stormzy This Is What I Mean Additional
"Firebabe"Additional
"Sampha's Plea"Yes
"My Eyes"2023 Travis Scott Utopia YesYes
"Memories"2024Headie OneThe Last OneYesYesPiano, programming, synthesizer

References

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  12. Sampha peaks in the UK:
  13. "Sampha – Sundanza". Young Turks. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  14. "Sampha – Dual". Young Turks. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  15. "Sampha announces remix EP featuring Bambounou, Batu". Resident Advisor . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  16. 1 2 Peak chart positions on the UK Independent Singles Chart:
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  20. Peak positions for the featured singles in the UK:
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