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The following is a comprehensive discography of Scorpions, a German rock band. They sold between 100[1][2][3] and 150[4] million albums worldwide.

Discography

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
GER
[5]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
FIN
[8]
FRA
[9]
NLD
[10]
NOR
[11]
SWE
[12]
SWI
[13]
UK
[14]
US
[15]
CAN
[16]
GER
[17]
UK
[18]
US
[19]
1972 Lonesome Crow
1974 Fly to the Rainbow
1975 In Trance
  • Released: January, 1975
  • Label: RCA Records
Gold
1976 Virgin Killer
  • Released: November 21, 1976
  • Label: RCA Records
1978 Taken by Force
  • Released: January, 1978
  • Label: RCA Records
Gold
1979 Lovedrive 11 10 32 36 55 Platinum Gold Platinum
1980 Animal Magnetism
  • Released: March 31, 1980
  • Label: Harvest/EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
12 76 37 23 52 Platinum Gold Platinum
1982 Blackout
  • Released: April 10, 1982
  • Label: EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
10 11 1 12 11 10 2x Platinum Platinum Silver Platinum
1984 Love at First Sting
  • Released: May 4, 1984
  • Label: Harvest/EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
6 19 15 4 17 9 17 6 3x Platinum 2xPlatinum Silver 4x Platinum
1988 Savage Amusement
  • Released: April 18, 1988
  • Label: Harvest/EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
4 18 25 16 5 2 5 18 5 Platinum Gold Silver Platinum
1990 Crazy World
  • Released: November 6, 1990
  • Label: Mercury Records
1 1 20 2 4 6 3 27 21 3x Platinum 4x Platinum Gold 2x Platinum
1993 Face the Heat
  • Released: September 21, 1993
  • Label: Mercury Records
4 12 34 5 34 15 9 51 24 Gold Platinum
1996 Pure Instinct 8 20 10 11 95 38 15 99 Gold Gold
1999 Eye II Eye
  • Released: March 9, 1999
  • Label: EastWest Records
6 37 50 49
2000 Moment of Glory
  • Released: August 29, 2000
  • Label: EMI
  • Recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
3 70 48 Gold
2004 Unbreakable 4 30 15 42 14 19
2007 Humanity: Hour I
  • Released: August 28, 2007
  • Label: BMG Records
9 40 29 16 16 91 36 27 63
2010 Sting in the Tail
  • Released: March 19, 2010
  • Label: BMG Records
2 6 22 6 16 71 14 6 96 23 Gold Gold

Live albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
GER
[5]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
FIN
[8]
FRA
[9]
NLD
[10]
NOR
[11]
SWE
[12]
SWI
[13]
UK
[14]
US
[15]
CAN
[16]
GER
[17]
UK
[18]
US
[19]
1978 Tokyo Tapes
  • Released: 1978 (Europe), 1979 (USA)
  • Label: RCA Records
35 14 42 Gold
1985 World Wide Live
  • Released: June 20, 1985
  • Label: Harvest/EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
4 4 20 9 18 18 17 Platinum Gold 2x Platinum
1995 Live Bites
  • Released: April 3, 1995
  • Label: Mercury Records
66
2001 Acoustica
  • Released: May 14, 2001
  • Label: EastWest Records
13 46 35 Gold Platinum Gold

Compilations

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
GER
[5]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
FIN
[8]
FRA[!]
[9]
NLD
[10]
NOR
[11]
SWE
[12]
SWI
[13]
UK
[14]
US
[15]
CAN
[16]
GER
[17]
UK
[18]
US
[19]
1978 Best of Scorpions
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: RCA Records
180
1982 Hot & Heavy
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: RCA Records
1984 Best of Scorpions Vol. 2
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: RCA Records
175
1985 Gold Ballads
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Harvest/EMI
25 7
1989 Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads
  • Released: October 1989
  • Label: EMI (Europe)
    Mercury Records (US)
14 35 21 43 Gold Gold Platinum
1991 Hot & Slow: The Best of the Ballads
  • Released: October 1991
  • Label: RCA Records
Gold
1992 Still Loving You
  • Released: April 2, 1992
  • Label: Harvest/EMI
18 32 4 14 30 24
1993 Hot & Hard
  • Released: August 23, 1993
  • Label: RCA Records
1995 Deadly Sting 28 39 15 32 Gold
1995 Born To Touch Your Feelings
  • Released: March 20, 1995
  • Label: RCA Records
1997 Still Loving You - The Best Of
(1975 - 1995)
  • Released: March 14, 1997 (France)
  • Label: Odeon
8
1997 Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years
  • Released: July 15, 1997
  • Label: Mercury Records
Gold
1998 Hot & Slow: Best Masters of the 70's Gold
1998 Big City Nights Gold
1999 Best
  • Released: September 17, 1999
  • Label: EMI
12 8 10 19
2000 Pictured Life: All The Best
  • Released: March 13, 2000
  • Label: BMG
2001 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions
  • Released: June 12, 2001
  • Label: Mercury Records
Gold Silver Gold
2002 Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions 161 Gold Platinum Gold
2002 Classic Bites
  • Released: July 8, 2002
  • Label: Mercury
2003 Essential
  • Released: March 31, 2003
  • Label: EMI
Gold Gold
2004 Box Of Scorpions
  • Released: May 5, 2004
  • Label: Hip-O Records
2005 The Platinum Collection
  • Released: September 30, 2005
  • Label: EMI
7 5
2008 Gold
  • Released: April 25, 2006
    July 31, 2008 (Europe)
  • Label: Hip-O Records (USA)
    Universal (Europe)

^ In France compilation albums are not listed on the Top 200 Albums Chart, but instead on a separate chart for compilation albums only. The French chart positions here for the compilation albums are their peak positions on the French Compilation Albums Chart.

DVD & VHS

  • First Sting (1985)
Tracks: "Rock You Like a Hurricane"; "No One Like You"; "I‘m Leaving You"; "Still Loving You"

Singles

[20][21]

Year Song Album Chart positions
U.S. Hot 100 U.S. Mainstream Rock UK singles German singles Swiss singles French singles
1971 "I'm Going Mad" / "Action" Lonesome Crow - - - - - -
1975 "In Trance" In Trance - - - - - -
"Fuchs geh' voran" ("Fox on the Run")/"Wenn es Richtig Losgeht" ("Action")
(as "The Hunters", covers of The Sweet)
single only - - - - - -
"Speedy's Coming" Fly to the Rainbow - - - - - -
1976 "Virgin Killer" Virgin Killer - - - - - -
1977 "He's A Woman - She's A Man" Taken by Force - - - - - -
"Pictured Life" Virgin Killer - - - - - -
1978 "All Night Long" (Live) Tokyo Tapes - - - - - -
"Sails of Charon" / "Steamrock Fever" Taken by Force - - - - - -
1979 "Is There Anybody There?" Lovedrive - - - - - -
"Another Piece of Meat" - - - - - -
"Is There Anybody There?" / "Another Piece of Meat"
(UK-only release)
- - 39 - - -
"Lovedrive" - - 69 - - -
"Loving You Sunday Morning" - - - - - -
1980 "Make It Real" Animal Magnetism - - 72 - - -
"The Zoo" - - 75 - - -
"Hey You" single only - - - - - -
"Only a Man" Animal Magnetism - - - - - -
"Lady Starlight" - - - - - -
1982 "No One Like You" Blackout 65 1 64 - - -
"Can't Live Without You" - 47 63 - - 17
"Now!" - - - - - -
"When the Smoke Is Going Down" - - - - - -
1984 "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (Platinum US) Love at First Sting 25 5 78 - - 17
"Still Loving You" 64 36 - 14 3 2
"Big City Nights" - 14 76 - - -
"Coming Home" - - - - - -
"I'm Leaving You" - - - - - -
1985 "No One Like You" (Live) World Wide Live - - - 40 - -
1988 "Rhythm of Love" Savage Amusement 75 6 59 - - -
"Believe in Love" - 12 - - - -
1989 "Passion Rules the Game" - - 74 - - -
"Is There Anybody There?" (Long version) Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads - - - - - -
"Can't Explain" - 5 - - - -
1990 "Holiday" (Remix) - - - - -
"Tease Me, Please Me" Crazy World - 8 - - - -
1991 "Don't Believe Her" - 13 77 - - -
"Wind of Change" (Gold US), (UK Silver) 4 2 2 1 1 1
"Send Me an Angel" 44 8 27 5 14 8
"Ветер Перемен (Wind Of Change)" (Russian version) single only - - - 38 - -
"Vientos De Cambio (Wind Of Change)" (Spanish version) - - - - - -
1992 "Hit Between the Eyes" Crazy World / Freejack (Soundtrack) - 24 - - - -
"Still Loving You" (Remix) Still Loving You - - - 87 - -
"Living for Tomorrow" (Live) - - - - - -
1993 "Alien Nation" Face the Heat - 10 - 27 - -
"Under the Same Sun" - 16 - 99 - 19
"Woman" - 15 - - - -
1994 "No Pain No Gain" - - - - - -
1995 "White Dove" Live Bites - - - 18 20 -
"Edge of Time" Deadly Sting / Live Bites - - - - - -
"In Trance" (Studio/Live) Live Bites - - - - - -
1996 "You And I" Pure Instinct - - - 22 23 23
"Wild Child" - 19 - - - -
"Does Anyone Know" - - - 81 - -
"When You Came Into My Life" - - - 97 - -
1997 "Where the River Flows" - - - 97 - -
"Over the Top" Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years - - - - - -
1999 "To Be No. 1" Eye II Eye - - 168 55 - -
"Mysterious" - 26 - - - -
"10 Light Years Away" - - - - - -
"Eye to Eye" - - - - - -
"Aleyah" - - - - - -
2000 "Moment of Glory" Moment of Glory - - - 67 - -
"Hurricane 2000" - - - - - -
"Here In My Heart" - - 113 - - -
2001 "When Love Kills Love" Acoustica - - - - - -
2004 "Love 'em or Leave 'em" Unbreakable - - - - - -
"You Are the Champion" (Scorpions & Michael Kleitman) single only - - - 92 - -
"Miracle" download only - - - - - -
2007 "Humanity" Humanity - Hour 1 - - - - - -
"The Game of Life" - - - - - -
"Love Will Keep Us Alive" - - - - - -
2010 "Raised on Rock" Sting in the Tail - - - - - -
"The Good Die Young" - - - - - -

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