Foreigner discography

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Foreigner in San Francisco, 2009

The discography of Foreigner, a British-American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums, 7 live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, and American vocalist Lou Gramm. Since then, Foreigner has released nine studio albums, seven of which have reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. 4 was the band's only chart-topper in the US, while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieve the same feat on the UK Albums Chart. Overall, Foreigner's albums have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone.

Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3 ("Hot Blooded", "Double Vision", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is"). Despite its British roots, the band achieved only moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20.

In 2014, Rhino released a boxed set of the band's seven albums recorded for Atlantic entitled Foreigner: The Complete Atlantic Studios Albums 1977-1991. The first four albums that were expanded to include bonus tracks in 2002 were included in the set along with the remaining albums by the band. These were housed in cardboard replicas of the original vinyl sleeves.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[2]
UK
[3]
AUS
[4][5]
CAN
[6]
GER
[7]
NL
[8]
NOR
[9]
NZ
[10]
SWE
[11]
SWI
[12]
Foreigner 4 9 9
Double Vision
  • Released: June 20, 1978
  • Label: Atlantic Records
3 32 13 3 32
  • US: 7× Platinum[13]
  • CAN: 2× Platinum
Head Games
  • Released: September 11, 1979
  • Label: Atlantic Records
5 45 5 39 38
  • US: 5× Platinum[13]
  • CAN: Platinum
4
  • Released: July 3, 1981
  • Label: Atlantic Records
1 5 3 2 4 12 19 41
Agent Provocateur
  • Released: December 14, 1984
  • Label: Atlantic Records
4 1 2 3 1 12 1 4 1 1
  • US: 3× Platinum[13]
  • FRA: Gold
  • GER: Platinum[16]
  • UK: Platinum[18]
Inside Information
  • Released: December 7, 1987
  • Label: Atlantic Records
15 64 33 23 7 26 5 11 7
Unusual Heat
  • Released: June 24, 1991
  • Label: Atlantic Records
117 56 102 50 13 70 18 40 8
Mr. Moonlight 136 59 126 69 21 60 17
Can't Slow Down 29 105 16 26
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Live albums

Title Year Peak chart positions
US
[2]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[6]
GER
[7]
NL
[8]
NZ
[10]
SWI
[12]
Best of Live / Classic Hits Live 1993
Live in '05 / Extended Versions 2006
Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live! / Extended Versions 2010 88
Alive & Rockin' 2012
The Best of 4 & More 2014 162 26
In Concert: Unplugged 2016
Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018 120 9 171
[21]
14
The Greatest Hits of Foreigner: Live in Concert 2019 22
Live At The Rainbow '78 75
Double Vision: Then And Now Live.Reloaded 26
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Compilation albums

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[2]
UK
[3]
AUS
[4][22][5]
GER
[7]
NL
[8]
NOR
[9]
NZ
[10]
SWE
[11]
SWI
[12]
Records 1982 10 58 26 22 17
The Very Best of Foreigner 1992 19 119 23 2 20
The Very Best ... and Beyond 123 185 49
The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is 1998 81
The Platinum Collection 1999 178
Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology 2000
Complete Greatest Hits 2002 80
The Definitive 33 30 48 71 13 40
Hot Blooded and Other Hits 2004
The Essentials 2005
The Definitive Collection 2006
The Very Best of Toto & Foreigner (Toto & Foreigner) 2007 84
No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner 2008 132 46 34 64
Juke Box Heroes 2011 108
I Want to Know What Love Is – The Ballads 2014 60
The Soundtrack of Summer (Styx/Foreigner (with Don Felder)) 69
The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991
40 2017 106 79 183 94
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Singles

Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
US UK
[3]
AUS
[4][22][5]
BEL
[28]
CAN
[6]
GER
[7]
NL
[8]
NOR
[9]
NZ
[10]
SWI
[12]
"Feels Like the First Time" 1977 4 39 41 7 Foreigner
"Cold as Ice" 6 24 32 20 9 10
"Long, Long Way from Home" 20 70 22
"Hot Blooded" 1978 3 42 24 3 46 Double Vision
"Double Vision" 2 97 7
"Blue Morning, Blue Day" 15 45 21
"Dirty White Boy" 1979 12 14 Head Games
"Head Games" 14 14
"Love on the Telephone" 1980 34
"Women" 41 82
"I'll Get Even with You"
"Urgent" 1981 4 45 24 1 12 4
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" 2 8 3 18 2 29 13 10
"Juke Box Hero" 26 48 53 39 24
"Break It Up" 1982 26
"Luanne" 75
"I Want to Know What Love Is" 1984 1 1 1 6 1 3 2 1 1 2 Agent Provocateur
"That Was Yesterday" 1985 12 28 55 25 24 31 19 29
"Reaction to Action" 54
"Cold as Ice" (UK remix) 64 Non-album single
"Down on Love" 54 Agent Provocateur
"Growing Up the Hard Way"
"Say You Will" 1987 6 71 6 24 13 22 12 4 20 Inside Information
"I Don't Want to Live Without You" 1988 5 91 21 25 18 16
"Heart Turns to Stone" 56
"Lowdown and Dirty" 1991 110 123 50 Unusual Heat
"I'll Fight for You" 122
"With Heaven on Our Side" 1992 —<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] 85 The Very Best ... and Beyond
"Soul Doctor" 1993 48
"White Lie" 1994 58 120 51 Mr. Moonlight
"Until the End of Time" 1995 42 84 150 13
"Rain" 84
"All I Need to Know" 36
"Under the Gun" 55
"The Flame Still Burns" 2016 40
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References

  1. Rhino Newsletter, September 2014
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