Kirsty MacColl discography

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This is the discography of British singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
NL
[3]
SWE
[4]
Desperate Character
  • Released: June 1981
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP, MC, CD (2012)
44
Kite
  • Released: 8 May 1989
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
34 110 48
Electric Landlady
  • Released: 24 June 1991
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
17 86
Titanic Days
  • Released: 5 October 1993
  • Label: I.R.S., ZTT
  • Formats: CD, MC, LP (2024)
47 187
Tropical Brainstorm
  • Released: 20 March 2000
  • Label: V2
  • Formats: CD, LP (2021)
39
Real
  • Released: 27 October 2023 (Recorded 1983; Previously Unreleased)
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: Streaming (also included in the See That Girl box set)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
Kirsty MacColl
  • Released: March 1985
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • Re-worked version of Desperate Character
The Essential Collection
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Stiff
  • Formats: CD
Galore – The Best of Kirsty MacColl
  • Released: 6 March 1995
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
6
What Do Pretty Girls Do?
  • Released: February 1998
  • Label: Hux
  • Formats: CD
  • Live sessions from BBC Radio 1
The One and Only
  • Released: 6 August 2001
  • Label: Metro
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Best of Kirsty MacColl
  • Released: 1 August 2005
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
12
The Stiff Singles
The Stiff Singles Collection
  • Released: 4 October 2006
  • Label: Stiff
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
The Collection
  • Released: 8 September 2008
  • Label: EMI Gold
  • Formats: CD
A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl
  • Released: 25 February 2013
  • Label: Union Square Music
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD
41
All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology
  • Released: 7 April 2014
  • Label: Salvo
  • Formats: 2xCD
Other People's Hearts (B.Sides 1988-1989)
  • Released: 29 August 2020
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: LP
  • Collection of B-sides from Kite
Free World: The Best Of 1979-2000
  • Released: 19 January 2024
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: LP
  • First ever Kirsty MacColl vinyl compilation
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Box sets

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology
  • Released: 28 March 2005
  • Label: Virgin/EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD
98
Days (1989–1991)
  • Released: 15 June 2018
  • Label: Edsel
  • Formats: 4xCD+DVD
See That Girl 1979–2000
  • Released: 27 October 2023
  • Label: Universal Music Recordings
  • Formats: 8xCD Artbook.
  • Collection of music spanning her career, including the unreleased album Real
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL (FL)
[6]
GER
[7]
IRE
[8]
NL
[9]
NZ
[10]
SWE
[11]
US Alt
[12]
"They Don't Know" 1979 Template:Efn Non-album singles
"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" 1981 Template:Efn
"There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" 14 37 9 31 13 Desperate Character
"See That Girl" Template:Efn
"You Still Believe in Me" Non-album single
"I Want Out" (Matchbox featuring MacColl) 1983 137[13] 58 Crossed Line (Matchbox album)
"Berlin" (unreleased) Real
"Terry" 82 34 43 Non-album singles
"A New England" 1984 7 8 18
"He's on the Beach" 1985 109
"Greetings to the New Brunette" (with Billy Bragg and Johnny Marr) 1986 58 6 Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (Billy Bragg album)
"Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues featuring MacColl) 1987 2 1 5 If I Should Fall from Grace with God
(Pogues album)
"Free World" 1989 43 162 Kite
"Days" 12 45 9
"Innocence" 80
"Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!" 1990 82
"Miss Otis Regrets"/"Just One of Those Things" (with the Pogues) 85 Red Hot + Blue
"Walking Down Madison" 1991 23 58 12 85 4 Electric Landlady
"My Affair" 56
"All I Ever Wanted" 91[15] 154
"Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues featuring MacColl; reissue) 36 10 The Best of the Pogues
"Titanic Days" (US-only release) 1993 Titanic Days
"Can't Stop Killing You" (Australia and US-only release) 131 20
"Angel" 87[16] 228 26
"Caroline" 1995 58 Galore – The Best of Kirsty MacColl
"Perfect Day" (with Evan Dando) 75
"Days" (reissue) 42 Non-album singleTemplate:Efn
"Mambo de la Luna" 1999 89 Tropical Brainstorm
"In These Shoes?" 2000 81
"Sun on the Water" 2005 The Best of Kirsty MacColl
"Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues featuring MacColl; 2nd reissue) 3 45 62 3 74 14
  • UK: 5× Platinum[5]
"Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues featuring MacColl; 3rd reissue) 2012 Template:Non-album single
"You Caught Me Out" 2023 See That Girl 1979–2000
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

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  • "Fairytale of New York" has subsequently reached the UK top 20 every year since 2005, including peaking at number 4 five times (in 2007, and every year 2018-2021) number 5 in 2017, plus number 6 in 2006.[17]

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