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James Blunt discography
James Blunt performing in 2022
Studio albums7
EPs11
Live albums3
Compilation albums1
Singles34
Music videos37

The discography of James Blunt, a British pop rock singer, contains seven studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, eleven extended plays and thirty-four singles.

Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, was released by Atlantic Records in the United Kingdom in October 2004 and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart in July 2005 and within the top five across most of Europe. It also peaked at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and number two on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has been certified 11× Platinum in the UK.[1] Back to Bedlam produced the singles "High", "Wisemen" and "Goodbye My Lover". The most successful single released from the album, "You're Beautiful", went to number one on the UK Singles Chart, Irish Singles Chart, Dutch Top 40 and the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It also peaked at number two in Australia and Germany.

Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions, a live album and DVD package, was released in February 2006. Blunt's second studio album, All the Lost Souls, was released in September 2007 and contained the singles "1973", "Same Mistake", "Carry You Home", "I Really Want You" and "Love, Love, Love". The album was less successful than Back to Bedlam, but still managed to top the charts around the world. Blunt's third album, Some Kind of Trouble was released in November 2010 and debuted at number four in the UK.[2] Blunt's fourth studio album Moon Landing, was released in October 2013. It debuted and peaked at number two in the UK. His fifth and sixth albums The Afterlove and Once Upon a Mind were released in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

His first compilation album The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004–2021) was released in 2021 and was certified Gold in the UK.[3][4] Blunt's seventh studio album, Who We Used to Be, was released in October 2023. It was preceded by the singles: "Beside You", "All The Love That I Ever Wanted" and "The Girl That Never Was".

Blunt has sold more than 20 million records worldwide.[5]

Albums

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Studio albums

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List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
UK
[2]
AUS
[6]
AUT
[7]
CAN
[8]
FRA
[9]
GER
[10]
IRE
[11]
NLD
[12]
SWI
[13]
US
[14]
Back to Bedlam 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
All the Lost Souls
  • Released: 17 September 2007
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 7
  • BPI: 3× Platinum[4]
  • ARIA: Platinum[27]
  • BVMI: 5× Gold[19]
  • IFPI AUT: Platinum[20]
  • IFPI SWI: 3× Platinum[21]
  • IRMA: 3× Platinum[28]
  • MC: 2× Platinum[23]
  • NVPI: Gold[24]
  • RIAA: Gold[25]
  • SNEP: Diamond[26]
Some Kind of Trouble
  • Released: 8 November 2010
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download
4 5 3 6 3 2 6 2 1 11
Moon Landing
  • Released: 21 October 2013
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2 2 1 2 5 2 5 6 1 20
The Afterlove
  • Release date: 24 March 2017
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download
6 7 7 6 14 6 7 10 4 177
Once Upon a Mind
  • Released: 25 October 2019
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download
3 5 6 40 26 8 38 29 4 [a]
Who We Used to Be
  • Released: 27 October 2023
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download
5 61 5 29 11 15 4

Live albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
FRA
[9]
NLD
[12]
SWI
[13]
Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions
  • Released: 21 February 2006
  • Labels: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD/DVD digital download
8 17 2
  • BPI: 2× Platinum[4]
  • ARIA: 5× Platinum (DVD)[32]
  • BVMI: Platinum[19]
  • IFPI SWI: Gold[21]
  • SNEP: Gold[26]
Les Sessions Lost Souls
  • Released: 25 November 2008
  • Labels: Warner
  • Formats: CD/DVD digital download
39
Trouble Revisited
  • Released: 5 December 2011
  • Labels: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD/DVD
87 47
"—" denotes singles that did not chart or were not released.

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
AUS
[6]
AUT
[7]
FRA
[9]
GER
[10]
IRE
[11]
SWI
[13]
The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004–2021)
  • Released: 19 November 2021
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: LP, CD, 2×CD, digital download, streaming
9 45 13 61 12 41 12

Box sets

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Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
Certifications Notes
AUS
[6]
I'll Take Everything: The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 4 September 2015
  • Labels: Warner
  • Formats: 4×CD, digital download
5 Collection of Blunt's first four studio albums
(Back to Bedlam, All the Lost Souls, Some Kind of Trouble and Moon Landing)

Extended plays

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Physical EPs

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Title Details
Monkey on My Shoulder EP
Bonfire Heart EP
  • Released: 4 October 2013
  • Labels: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Digital EPs

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Title Details
James Blunt: Live from London
James Blunt: Up Close
  • Released: 25 October 2005[35]
  • Label: Atlantic
James Blunt... Live in Berlin
  • Released: 28 October 2005[36]
  • Label: Atlantic
Introducing... James Blunt
  • Released: 19 May 2008[37]
  • Label: Atlantic
James Blunt Live: London Festival '08
  • Released: 17 July 2008[38]
  • Label: Atlantic
Love, Love, Love
  • Released: 7 November 2008[39]
  • Label: Atlantic
Amazon Artist Lounge Live EP
  • Released: 30 September 2013[40]
  • Label: Atlantic
When I Find Love Again EP
  • Released: 31 October 2014[41]
  • Label: Atlantic
Smoke Signals EP
  • Released: 15 December 2014 (US)[42]
  • Label: Custard, Atlantic

Singles

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As lead artist

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List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[2]
AUS
[6]
AUT
[7]
CAN
[43]
FRA
[9]
GER
[10]
IRE
[11]
NLD
[44]
SWI
[13]
US
[45]
"High" 2004 16 42 13 22 18 15 100 Back to Bedlam
"You're Beautiful" 2005 1 2 6 1 5 2 1 1 2 1
  • BPI: 2× Platinum[4]
  • ARIA: Platinum[46]
  • BVMI: Platinum[19]
  • IFPI AUT: Gold[20]
  • IFPI SWI: Gold[21]
  • MC: 2× Platinum[23]
  • RIAA: 4× Platinum[25]
"Goodbye My Lover" 9 3 36 6 6 28 13 4 19 66
"Wisemen" 2006 23 11 15 10 40 36 9 23
"No Bravery" 2007 15
"1973" 2007 4 11 1 13 2 5 8 1 73 All the Lost Souls
"Same Mistake" 57 12 69 27 29 21
"Carry You Home" 2008 20 50 43 53 16
"I Really Want You" 171 75
"Love, Love, Love" 121 100 56 59
"Stay the Night" 2010 26 10 6 53 31 4 28 5 1 94 Some Kind of Trouble
"So Far Gone" 2011 40 82 15
"If Time Is All I Have" 53
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"I'll Be Your Man" 45 40 53 64
"Dangerous"
"Bonfire Heart" 2013 4 3 1 51 26 1 13 51 1 Moon Landing
"Heart to Heart" 2014 42 26 10 17 52 37
"Postcards" 90 10 50 31
"When I Find Love Again" 78 27 44 78 59
"Love Me Better" 2017 93 140 87 The Afterlove
"Bartender" [b]
"Cold" 2019 [c] 59 Once Upon a Mind
"Champions" 65
"I Told You"
"Monsters" 90 71 [d]
"The Truth" [e] 55
"Halfway"
(solo or featuring Ward Thomas)
2020 [f]
"The Greatest" [g]
"Love Under Pressure" 2021 [h] The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004–2021)
"Unstoppable" [i]
"Adrenaline" 2022
"Beside You" 2023 [j] Who We Used to Be
"All The Love That I Ever Needed"
"The Girl That Never Was" [k]
"—" denotes singles that did not chart or were not released.
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List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUT
[7]
FRA
[9]
GER
[10]
NLD
[44]
SWI
[13]
"Je réalise"
(Sinik & James Blunt)
2008 3 38 Le toit du monde
"Primavera in Anticipo
(It Is My Song)
"
(Laura Pausini & James Blunt)
2009 1 16 5 Primavera in anticipo
"OK"
(Robin Schulz featuring James Blunt)
2017 2 21 2 23 2 Uncovered
"Bridge over Troubled Water"
(as part of Artists for Grenfell)
32 28 Non-album single
"Melody"[63]
(Lost Frequencies featuring James Blunt)
2018 19 26 8 Alive and Feeling Fine
"Walk Away"
(Alle Farben featuring James Blunt)[64]
2019 98 Sticker on My Suitcase
"Can't Forget You"
(James Carter and Ofenbach featuring James Blunt)[65]
2023 Non-album single
"—" denotes singles that did not chart or were not released.

Other charted songs

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List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Single Year Chart Album
AUS
[66]
FRA
[9]
SWI
[13]
"Face the Sun" 2013 133 Moon Landing
"The Only One" 49
"Don't Give Me Those Eyes" 2017 67 27 The Afterlove
"—" denotes singles that did not chart or were not released.

Music videos

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Year Song Director(s)
2004 "High" Mark Davis
2005 "Wisemen"
"You're Beautiful" Sam Brown
"High" (2005 video)
"Goodbye My Lover"
2006 "Wisemen" (2006 video) Paul Minor
"No Bravery" Paul Heyes
2007 "1973" Paul R. Brown
"Same Mistake" Jonas Åkerlund
2008 "Carry You Home" Jake Nava
"Je réalise"
(Sinik featuring James Blunt)
Thomas Peké
"I Really Want You" Jim Canty
"Love, Love, Love" Kinga Burza
2009 "Primavera in Anticipo" (It Is My Song)
(Laura Pausini featuring James Blunt)
Gaetano Morbioli
2010 "Stay the Night" Ray Kay
2011 "So Far Gone" Marc Klasfeld
"If Time Is All I Have" Robert Hales
"I'll Be Your Man" Giorgio Testi
"Dangerous" Luc Janin
2013 "Bonfire Heart" Vaughan Arnell
"Satellites" Official Lyric Video
"Heart to Heart" Vaughan Arnell
2014 "Postcards"
"When I Find Love Again"
2017 "Love Me Better"
"Time of Our Lives"
"Bartender" Declan Whitebloom
"Don't Give Me Those Eyes" video 1 Andrew Flakelar
"Don't Give Me Those Eyes" video 2 Travis Kopach
"OK"
(Robin Schulz featuring James Blunt)
Liza Minou Morberg
"Someone Singing Along"[67] Suzie Selman
2019 "Monsters"
"The Truth"
2021 "Unstoppable" Jamie Thraves
2022 "Adrenaline" Moon
2023 "Beside You" Craig Bingham[68]
"The Girl That Never Was" Vaughan Arnell[69]

Other appearances

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These songs have appeared on a studio album not released by Blunt.

Year Song Album
2005 "I Want You" Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute[70]
2006 "If There's Any Justice" Radio 1's Live Lounge
2011 "Why Do I Fall" Titeuf Original Soundtrack[71]
2014 "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" BBC Radio 2: Sounds of the 80s[72]
2020 "OK"
(with Helene Fischer)
Die Helene Fischer Show – Meine schönsten Momente, Vol. 1[73]

Notes

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  1. ^ Once Upon a Mind did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 71 on the Top Album Sales chart.[31]
  2. ^ "Bartender" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 31 March 2017.[51]
  3. ^ "Cold" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 18 October 2019.[52]
  4. ^ "Monsters" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 3 on the Digital Song Sales chart.[53]
  5. ^ "The Truth" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 88 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 29 November 2019.[54]
  6. ^ "Halfway" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but debuted and peaked at number 89 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 6 March 2020.[55]
  7. ^ "The Greatest" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 24 April 2020.[56]
  8. ^ "Love Under Pressure" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 74 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 1 October 2021.[57]
  9. ^ "Unstoppable" did not enter the UK Singles Chart Top 100 but peaked at number 84 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 26 November 2021.[58]
  10. ^ "Beside You" did not enter the UK Top 100 but peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart on 25 August 2023.[59]
  11. ^ "The Girl That Never Was" peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart Top 100 on 3 November 2023.[60]

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