The Divine Comedy discography

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The Divine Comedy discography
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Studio albums12
Live albums2
Compilation albums2
EPs5
Singles26
Box sets1

The discography of Northern Irish chamber pop band the Divine Comedy consists of twelve studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, five extended plays and twenty-six singles.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
BEL
[3]
EUR
[4]
FRA
[5]
GER
[6]
IRE
[7]
SPA
[8]
SWI
[9]
SCO
[10]
Fanfare for the Comic Muse
  • Released: July 1990
  • Label: Setanta (SET2)
Liberation
  • Released: 16 August 1993
  • Label: Setanta (SET11)
39
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Promenade
  • Released: 28 March 1994
  • Label: Setanta (SET13)
29
[upper-alpha 2]
Casanova
  • Released: 29 April 1996
  • Label: Setanta (SET25)
4824
[upper-alpha 3]
73
A Short Album About Love
  • Released: 10 February 1997
  • Label: Setanta (SET36)
1321
[upper-alpha 4]
65822
Fin de Siècle
  • Released: 31 August 1998
  • Label: Setanta (SET57)
913823416
Regeneration
  • Released: 12 March 2001
  • Label: Parlophone (5317612)
1440
[upper-alpha 5]
39211516
Absent Friends
  • Released: 29 March 2004
  • Label: Parlophone (5962802)
2334
[upper-alpha 6]
20623
Victory for the Comic Muse
  • Released: 19 June 2006
  • Label: Parlophone (3653722)
4347
[upper-alpha 7]
3383228749
Bang Goes the Knighthood
  • Released: 31 May 2010
  • Label: Divine Comedy (DCRL101)
203342788331
Foreverland
  • Released: 2 September 2016
  • Label: Divine Comedy (DCRL107)
71311841333369
Office Politics
  • Released: 7 June 2019
  • Label: Divine Comedy (DCRL112)
511594251933782
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Footnotes

  1. Liberation peaked at No. 39 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  2. Promenade peaked at No. 29 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  3. Casanova peaked at No. 24 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  4. A Short Album About Love peaked at No. 21 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  5. Regeneration peaked at No. 40 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  6. Absent Friends peaked at No. 34 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy
  7. Victory for the Comic Muse peaked at No. 47 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsNotes
UK
Indie

[12]
Live at Somerset House
  • Released: 25 April 2011
  • Label: Concert Live (CLCD288)
  • Recorded live at Somerset House, London on 17 July 2010
  • 24-track double-CD digipack
Loose Canon:
Live in Europe 2016–2017
  • Released: 16 February 2018
  • Label: Divine Comedy (DCRL111)
25
  • Recorded live from their European tours of 2016 and 2017
  • 17-track CD included an interpretation of New Order's "Blue Monday"
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[13]
UK
Vinyl

[14]
EUR
[15]
IRE
[7]
SCO
[16]
A Secret History...
The Best of the Divine Comedy
  • Released: 30 August 1999
  • Label: Setanta (SET100)
312226
Charmed Life – The Best of the Divine Comedy
  • Released: 4 February 2022
  • Label: Divine Comedy
515
[17]
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
Indie

[13]
UK
Vinyl

[14]
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time – Thirty Years of the Divine Comedy
  • Released: 9 October 2020
  • Label: Divine Comedy (DCRL117)
68

Extended plays

YearTitleTracks
1991Timewatch
  • Timewatch
  • Jerusalem
  • The Rise and Fall
1992Europop
  • Europop
  • New Wave
  • Intifada
  • Monitor
  • Timewatch
  • Jerusalem
  • The Rise and Fall
1993Indulgence No. 1
  • Hate My Way
  • Untitled Melody
  • Europe by Train
1994Indulgence No. 2
  • A Drinking Song
  • When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe
  • Tonight We Fly
2004Bavarian EP
  • No One Knows (Recorded Live At The Dublin Gaiety 2004)
  • Our Mutual Friend (Live Demo From 2003)
  • Three Sisters (Recorded Live At The Dublin Gaiety 2004)

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[18]
EUR
[19]
IRE
[20]
SCO
[21]
1993"Lucy" Liberation
1996"Something for the Weekend"148814 Casanova
"Becoming More Like Alfie"2721
"The Frog Princess"1514
1997"Everybody Knows (Except You)"14612310 A Short Album About Love
1998"I've Been to a Marvellous Party"28 Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
"Generation Sex"195802415 Fin de Siècle
"The Certainty of Chance"491049
1999"National Express"8236187
"The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count"173582413 A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy
"Gin Soaked Boy"381554
2001"Love What You Do"26904824 Regeneration
"Bad Ambassador"3433
"Perfect Lovesong"4246
2004"Come Home Billy Bird"253426 Absent Friends
"Absent Friends"3849
2006"Diva Lady"523637 Victory for the Comic Muse
"To Die a Virgin"6745
"A Lady of a Certain Age"
2010"At the Indie Disco"17317 Bang Goes the Knighthood
"I Like"
2016"Catherine the Great" Foreverland
"How Can You Leave Me on My Own"
2017"To the Rescue"
2019"Queuejumper" Office Politics
"Norman and Norma"
"Infernal Machines"
"Don't Mention the War" Modern Love: Season 1
2021"The Best Mistakes"Charmed Life – The Best of The Divine Comedy
"Home for the Holidays"
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

DVDs

Contributions

Appearing as either the Divine Comedy or Neil Hannon:

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