The Cure discography | |
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![]() The Cure performing live at Madison Square Garden in 2016 | |
Studio albums | 14 |
EPs | 12 |
Live albums | 7 |
Compilation albums | 7 |
Singles | 47 |
Video albums | 12 |
Music videos | 44 |
Remix albums | 3 |
Box sets | 8 |
Other sets | 6 |
Promotional singles | 20 |
Other appearances | 12 |
The English rock band the Cure has released fourteen studio albums, seven live albums, three remix albums, seven compilation albums, eight box sets, twelve extended plays, and forty-seven singles on Fiction Records and Geffen Records. They have also released twelve video albums and forty-four music videos.
Formed in 1976, [1] [2] [3] the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure [4] before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael Dempsey. The band has continued through various line-ups; Smith is the group's only remaining original member. The line-up as of 2024 consisted of Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell, multi-instrumentalist Perry Bamonte, guitarist Reeves Gabrels and drummer Jason Cooper.
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. [5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. [5] The most successful of these was Wish (1992) which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200. [5] [6] They released the next album Wild Mood Swings in 1996. The following three studio albums – Bloodflowers (2000), The Cure (2004) and 4:13 Dream (2008) – had mixed success, reaching numbers 14, 8 and 33 in the UK respectively. [5] [7] The group released their fourteenth album, Songs of a Lost World , on 1 November 2024, the group's first new album in sixteen years.
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
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UK [7] [5] | AUS [8] | AUT [9] | FRA [10] | GER [11] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US [6] | ||||
Three Imaginary Boys | 44 | — | — | 140 [A] | — | — | 37 | — | — | — |
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Seventeen Seconds |
| 20 | 39 | — | 80 [B] | — | 15 | 9 | — | — | 186 [C] | ||
Faith |
| 14 | 38 | — | 84 [B] | — | 9 | 1 | 38 | — | 193 [D] |
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Pornography |
| 8 | 39 | — | 81 [A] | — | 17 | 9 | 45 | — | 133 [E] |
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The Top | 10 | 55 | — | 18 | 44 | 12 | 23 | 31 | — | 180 |
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The Head on the Door |
| 7 | 6 | — | 6 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 14 | 59 | ||
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 35 | ||
Disintegration |
| 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 12 | ||
Wish |
| 1 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 2 | ||
Wild Mood Swings |
| 9 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 17 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 12 |
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Bloodflowers |
| 14 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 41 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
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The Cure | 8 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 7 |
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4:13 Dream |
| 33 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 21 | 38 | 32 | 36 | 15 | 16 |
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Songs of a Lost World | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||||||
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UK [7] [30] | AUS [8] | AUT [9] | GER [11] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US [6] | ||||
Concert: The Cure Live |
| 26 | 86 | — | — | 31 | 37 | — | — | — | ||
Entreat |
| 10 | 25 | 19 | 15 | 88 | 8 | — | 31 | — | ||
Show |
| 29 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 71 | 36 | 34 | 37 | 42 |
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Paris |
| 56 | 72 | — | 11 | — | — | — | 20 | 118 |
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Bestival Live 2011 |
| 119 | — | — | 79 | 98 | — | — | 94 | — | ||
40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) [F] |
| — | — | — | 2 | 33 | — | — | 14 | — | ||
Songs of a Live World – Troxy London MMXIV |
| — | — | — | — | 87 | — | — | — | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
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UK [7] | AUS [8] | AUT [9] | FRA [10] | GER [11] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US [6] | |||
Mixed Up |
| 8 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 18 | 51 | 16 | 31 | 26 | 14 | |
Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 |
| — | — | — | — | — | 135 | — | — | — | — | |
Mixes of a Lost World |
| 9 | — | 9 | 29 | 5 | 21 | — | — | 4 | — | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
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UK [7] | AUS [8] | AUT [9] | FRA [10] | GER [11] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US [6] | ||||
Boys Don't Cry |
| 71 [G] | 60 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | — |
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Japanese Whispers |
| 26 | 18 | — | 18 | 46 | — | 8 | — | — | 181 |
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Standing on a Beach: The Singles (a.k.a.Staring at the Sea: The Singles) |
| 4 | 13 | — | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 48 |
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Galore: The Singles 1987–1997 |
| 37 | 45 | — | — | 51 | 81 | 31 | 54 | — | 32 | ||
Greatest Hits |
| 19 | 27 | 34 | 9 | 22 | — | 17 | 48 | 24 | 58 | ||
Alternative Rarities 1988–1989 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Acoustic Hits |
| — | — | — | — | — | 110 | — | — | — | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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UK [39] | FRA [10] | ITA [40] | US [6] | ||
First Aid Box |
| — | — | — | — |
Integration |
| — | — | — | — |
Assemblage CD Collection |
| — | — | — | — |
Limited Edition CD Box |
| — | — | — | — |
Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 (The Fiction Years) |
| 98 | 29 | 50 | 106 |
Into the Dark: The Early Cure (1979–1982) |
| — | — | — | — |
Fade Away: The Early Years Vinyl Box Set |
| — | — | — | — |
Classic Album Selection (1979–1984) |
| — | — | — | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details |
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...Happily Ever After |
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The Head on the Door & Wish |
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3 for One |
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Three Imaginary Boys / Faith |
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Pornography / Seventeen Seconds |
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The Head on the Door / Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me |
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Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | |||
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UK Indie [41] | AUS [8] | FRA [10] | SPA [42] | ||
Singles |
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A Single |
| — | — | — | — |
The Walk |
| — | — | — | — |
Half an Octopuss & Quadpus | — | — | — | — | |
The Cure |
| — | — | — | — |
The Peel Sessions |
| 7 | — | — | — |
Sideshow |
| — | 63 | — | — |
Lost Wishes |
| — | — | — | — |
Five Swing Live |
| — | — | — | — |
Sessions@AOL |
| — | — | — | — |
From Festival 2005 |
| — | — | — | — |
Hypnagogic States |
| — | — | 39 | 1 |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
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UK [7] | AUS [8] | FRA [10] | GER [11] | IRE [45] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SPA [46] [47] | US [48] [49] | US Dance [50] | |||||
"Killing an Arab" | 1978 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single [H] | ||
"10:15 Saturday Night" [I] | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Three Imaginary Boys | ||
"Boys Don't Cry" | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | 22 | — | — | 70 |
| Non-album singles [H] | ||
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"I'm a Cult Hero" (as Cult Hero) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"A Forest" | 1980 | 31 | — | — | — | — | 26 | 38 | — | — | 47 |
| Seventeen Seconds | |
"Primary" | 1981 | 43 | 94 | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | 25 | Faith | ||
"Charlotte Sometimes" | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
"The Hanging Garden" | 1982 | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Pornography | ||
"Let's Go to Bed" | 44 | 15 | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | 109 | 32 | Non-album singles [J] | |||
"The Walk" | 1983 | 12 | 34 | — | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
"The Lovecats" | 7 | 6 | — | — | 15 | — | 23 | — | 107 | 52 |
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"The Caterpillar" | 1984 | 14 | 51 | — | — | 20 | 35 | — | — | — | — | The Top | ||
"In Between Days" | 1985 | 15 | 16 | 23 | 45 | 17 | 26 | 15 | — | 99 | 39 |
| The Head on the Door | |
"Close to Me" | 24 | 7 | 17 | — | 19 | 16 | 45 | — | — | 32 |
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"The Blood" [K] | 1986 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
"Boys Don't Cry" (New Voice – New Mix) | 22 | 26 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 27 | 10 | 31 | — | — | Non-album single [L] | |||
"Why Can't I Be You?" | 1987 | 21 | 16 | 29 | 29 | 12 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 54 | 27 | Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | ||
"Catch" | 27 | 77 | — | 59 | 16 | 57 | — | 30 | — | — | ||||
"Just Like Heaven" | 29 | 89 | 33 | — | 15 | 82 | 31 | 25 | 40 | 28 |
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"Hot Hot Hot!!!" | 1988 | 45 | — | — | — | 18 | 79 | — | 8 | 65 | 11 | |||
"Lullaby" | 1989 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 74 | 31 |
| Disintegration | |
"Fascination Street" [M] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | 7 | ||||
"Lovesong" | 18 | 82 | — | 21 | 13 | 48 | 39 | — | 2 | 8 |
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"Pictures of You" | 1990 | 24 | 89 | — | 18 | 9 | 77 | — | — | 71 | 33 |
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"Never Enough" | 13 | 22 | — | 17 | 6 | — | 11 | 14 | 72 | 6 | Mixed Up | |||
"Close to Me" (remix) | 13 | 55 | — | 49 | 4 | — | 27 | 18 | 97 | 33 | ||||
"A Forest" (Tree Mix) [N] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"High" | 1992 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 37 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 22 | Wish | ||
"Friday I'm in Love" | 6 | 39 | — | 16 | 4 | 32 | 7 | — | 18 | 32 |
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"A Letter to Elise" | 28 | 103 | — | — | 23 | — | 13 | — | — | — | ||||
"The 13th" | 1996 | 15 | 31 | — | 55 | 22 | — | 37 | — | 44 | — | Wild Mood Swings | ||
"Mint Car" | 31 | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | — | ||||
"Strange Attraction" [O] | — | 145 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Gone!" | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Wrong Number" | 1997 | 62 | 70 | — | — | — | 88 | 43 | — | — | — | Galore: The Singles 1987–1997 | ||
"Cut Here" | 2001 | 54 | 83 | 85 | 79 | — | — | — | 10 | — | — | Greatest Hits | ||
"The End of the World" | 2004 | 25 | — | 70 | 47 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | The Cure | ||
"Taking Off" | 39 | — | 67 | 73 | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | ||||
"alt.end" [P] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"The Only One" | 2008 | 48 | 80 | 28 | 77 | — | 86 | — | 1 | — | — | 4:13 Dream | ||
"Freakshow" | 89 | 91 | 30 | 78 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||||
"Sleep When I'm Dead" | 68 | 84 | 36 | 80 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||||
"The Perfect Boy" | 78 | 91 | 37 | 86 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | ||||
"Want" (Time Mix 2018) | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 | ||
"Disintegration" (live) | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) | ||
"Alone" | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — [Q] | — | — | — | Songs of a Lost World | ||
"Novembre: Live in France 2022" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single [52] | |||
"A Fragile Thing" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs of a Lost World | |||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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US Alt [53] | |||
"Grinding Halt" | 1979 | x | Three Imaginary Boys |
"Lament" [R] | 1982 | x | Non-album single |
"One Hundred Years" [54] | x | Pornography | |
"Shake Dog Shake" | 1984 | x | The Top |
"A Night Like This" [S] | 1985 | x | The Head on the Door |
"Hello, I Love You [T] | 1990 | 6 | Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary |
"Just Like Heaven" (live) [U] | 1993 | — | Show |
"Friday I'm in Love" (live) [V] | — | ||
"Purple Haze" [W] | 2 | Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix | |
"Dredd Song" [X] | 1995 | — | Judge Dredd (soundtrack) |
"This Is a Lie" [Y] | 1996 | — | Wild Mood Swings |
"Out of This World" | 2000 | — | Bloodflowers |
"Maybe Someday" | 10 | ||
"The Last Day of Summer" [Z] | — | ||
"Just Say Yes" (featuring Saffron) [AA] | 2002 | — | Greatest Hits |
"Love" | 2005 | — | Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur |
"Hello Goodbye" (featuring James McCartney) "C Moon" (Credited to Robert Smith) | 2014 | — | The Art of McCartney |
"It's Over" (Whisper Mix 2018) | 2018 | — | Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 |
"Like Cockatoos" (Lonely in the Rain Mix 2018) | — | ||
"A Strange Day" (Drowning Waves Mix 2018) | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. "x" denotes that chart did not exist at the time. |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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NZ Hot [55] | |||
"And Nothing Is Forever" | 2024 | 25 | Songs of a Lost World |
"Warsong" | 37 | ||
"All I Ever Am" | 28 |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
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UK [56] | GER [57] | NL [57] | SWI [58] | US [59] | ||
Live in Japan | — | — | — | — | — | |
Tea Party |
| — | — | — | — | — |
Staring at the Sea: The Images |
| 1 | — | — | — | 4 |
The Cure in Orange |
| 19 | — | — | — | 4 |
Picture Show |
| 1 | — | — | — | 3 |
Play Out | 7 | — | — | — | 11 | |
Show |
| 2 | — | — | — | 30 |
Galore: The Videos 1987–1997 |
| 17 | — | — | — | 6 |
Greatest Hits | 26 | — | — | — | — | |
The Cure: Trilogy |
| 7 | 28 | 16 | — | 4 |
Festival 2005 |
| — | — | — | — | — |
40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) |
| 1 | — | — | 4 | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Director [63] [64] [65] |
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"10:15 Saturday Night" | 1978 | Piers Bedford |
"A Forest" | 1980 | David Hillier |
"Play for Today" | ||
"Primary" | 1981 | Bob Rickerd |
"Other Voices" | ||
"Charlotte Sometimes" | Mick Mansfield | |
"The Hanging Garden" | 1982 | Chris Gabrin |
"Let's Go to Bed" | Tim Pope | |
"The Walk" | 1983 | |
"The Lovecats" | ||
"The Caterpillar" | 1984 | |
"In Between Days" | 1985 | |
"Close to Me" | ||
"A Night Like This" | ||
"The Blood" | 1986 | Gerard de Thame |
"Boys Don't Cry" | Tim Pope | |
"Killing an Arab" | ||
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" | ||
"Why Can't I Be You?" | 1987 | |
"Catch" | ||
"Just Like Heaven" | ||
"Hot Hot Hot!!!" | 1988 | |
"Lullaby" | 1989 | |
"Fascination Street" | ||
"Lovesong" | ||
"Pictures of You" | 1990 | |
"Never Enough" | ||
"Close to Me" (remix) | ||
"High" | 1992 | |
"Friday I'm in Love" | ||
"A Letter to Elise" | Aubrey Powell | |
"The 13th" | 1996 | Sophie Muller |
"Mint Car" | Richard Heslop | |
"Gone!" | Steve Hanft | |
"Wrong Number" | 1997 | Tim Pope |
"Cut Here" | 2001 | Richard Anthony [66] |
"Just Say Yes" | ||
"The End of the World" | 2004 | Floria Sigismondi [67] |
"Taking Off" | The Saline Project [68] [69] | |
"alt.end" | ||
"The Only One" | 2008 | Unknown |
"Freakshow" | ||
"Sleep When I'm Dead" | ||
"The Perfect Boy" |
Track | Year | Album |
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"One Hundred Years" (demo) | 1981 | Fast Forward 008/009: Annual Report [70] |
"Lullaby" (remix) | 1990 | Gänsehaut & Herzklopfen |
"A Walk with the Cure" [AB] | November 90: Mixes 1 | |
"Close to Me" (Closer Mix) | 1991 | The Brits 1991 |
"Burn" | 1994 | The Crow (soundtrack) |
"Young Americans" | 1995 | 104.9 |
"World in My Eyes" | 1998 | For the Masses |
"More Than This" | The X-Files: The Album | |
"To The Sky" | 1989 | Stranger Than Fiction |
"Watching Me Fall" (Underdog remix) | 2000 | American Psycho (soundtrack) |
"A Forest" (Acoustic Version) | 2004 | Essential Glastonbury |
"Make Me Bad"/"In Between Days" (with Korn) | 2007 | MTV Unplugged: Korn |