The discography of Idlewild, a Scottish rock band, consists of eight studio albums, three EPs, three compilations, one live album, and twenty-eight singles.[1]

Idlewild discography
Idlewild at The Outsider in 2008
Studio albums8
EPs3
Live albums2
Compilation albums3
Singles26

Studio albums

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Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2][3]
FRA
[4]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[6]
1998 Captain1 2
Hope Is Important 53 44
2000 100 Broken Windows
  • Released: 9 May 2000
  • Label: Food Records
15 6
2002 The Remote Part 3 135 39 2
2005 Warnings/Promises
  • Released: 7 March 2005
  • Label: Parlophone
9 50 5
2007 Make Another World 24 100 8
2009 Post Electric Blues3 90 37
2015 Everything Ever Written4
  • Released: 9 February 2015
  • Label: Empty Words
20 4
2019 Interview Music
  • Released: 5 April 2019[8]
  • Label: Empty Words
22 1
  • 1 Often considered to be a mini-album.
  • 2 Charted at number 2 on the UK Indie Chart.[3]
  • 3 Initially self-released to fans on 11 June through idlewildmusic.com.
  • 4 Pre-orders through Pledge Music announced on 3 November 2014.
Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
IRE SCO
2005 Love Steals Us From Loneliness
I Understand It
2020 Interview Music - Acoustic EP
  • Released: 15 January 2020
  • Label: Empty Words

Compilation albums

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Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[3]
FRA
[4]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[6]
2007 Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007 79 21
A Distant History - Rarities 1997-20071
  • Released: 29 October 2007
  • Label: Parlophone/EMI
2010 The Collection
  • Released: 23 April 2010
  • Label: EMI
  • 1 Download-only.

Live albums

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Year Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK FRA
IRE SCO
2015 Live at Duart Castle
  • Released: 16 Feb 2015

Given away free to people who pre-ordered Everything Ever Written

2016 Live
  • Released: 16 May 2016
  • Label: Empty Words

Singles

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Year Title Peak chart positions Album
UK
[3]
IRE
[5]
SCO
[9]
1997 "Queen of the Troubled Teens"[A]
"Chandelier"[A]
1998 "Satan Polaroid" 160 Captain
"A Film for the Future" 53 39 Hope Is Important
"Everyone Says You're So Fragile" 47 42
"I'm a Message" 41 31
1999 "When I Argue I See Shapes" 19 15
"Little Discourage" 24 12 100 Broken Windows
2000 "Actually It's Darkness" 23 14
"These Wooden Ideas" 32 18
"Roseability" 38 25
2002 "You Held the World in Your Arms" 9 4 The Remote Part
"American English" 15 8
"Live in a Hiding Place" 26 17
2003 "A Modern Way of Letting Go" 28 21
2005 "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" 16 37 6 Warnings/Promises
"I Understand It" 32
"El Capitan" 39
2006 "If It Takes You Home" Make Another World
2007 "No Emotion" 36 7
"A Ghost in the Arcade"
2009 "Readers & Writers" Post Electric Blues
"City Hall"
2014 "Collect Yourself" Everything Ever Written
2015 "Come on Ghost"
2019 "Dream Variations" Interview Music
"Same Things Twice"
"There's a Place for Everything (Acoustic)"

Notes

Other appearances

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References

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  1. ^ "Idlewild Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Idlewild | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "UK Chartlog: I Am Kloot – I Wayne". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  4. ^ a b "lescharts: Search – Idlewild chart positions". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  5. ^ a b c "irish-charts: Search – Idlewild chart positions". Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  6. ^ a b Scottish albums:
  7. ^ a b c d "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  8. ^ "Interview Music The New Album – Out 5 April". Idlewild. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  9. ^ Scottish singles: