The Rolling Stones discography
The English rock group the Rolling Stones have released 31 studio albums, 12 contemporary live albums, 27 archival live albums, 28 compilation albums, 3 extended plays, 123 singles, 31 box sets, 51 video albums, 2 video box sets and 77 music videos. Throughout their career, they have sold over 250 million albums worldwide. Billboard ranked them as the 2nd Greatest artist of all time. The Rolling Stones have scored 38 top-10 albums on the [Billboard 200|Billboard 200] and 8 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. According to the Recording [Industry Association of America], they have sold 66.5 million albums in the US, making them the 16th best-selling group in history.
From 1963 to 1970, the band were signed to Decca Records in the United Kingdom, and Decca's subsidiary label London Records in the United States. During 1971 to 1992, the band ran their own record company, Rolling Stones Records, distributed by WEA, EMI and CBS. They were then signed to Virgin Records from 1993 to 2006, and Universal Music Group since 2007. The band maintain ownership of their catalogue from 1971 onwards, while the pre-1971 catalogue is owned by ABKCO Records.
Before 1967, it was common practice for British releases to be reconfigured for the American market. In some cases, the US version would be an entirely different album with different tracks, cover photos and liner notes. The first five British Rolling Stones studio albums were converted into seven studio albums for the American market, adding material from singles and the UK EPs were spread across three American albums - Now!, Out of Our Heads and December's Children (And Everybody's) ). The first two greatest hits albums, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) and Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), also differ in each nation. The 1966 live album Got Live [If You Want It! (album)|Got Live If You Want It!] and the 1967 compilation album Flowers were US-only releases. Studio and live albums starting with Their Satanic Majesties Request, released in December 1967, are uniform in both the UK and the US, although compilation albums still sometimes vary.
Albums
Studio albums
Contemporary live albums
Archival live albums
Compilation albums
Others
Extended plays
Singles
- In some cases the single's B-side charted separately.
- Second single in the US is "Not Fade Away" b/w "I Wanna Be Your Man", released on 6 March 1964, respectively the A-sides of the group's third and second singles in the UK. The group's first single in the US was "I Wanna Be Your Man" b/w Stoned, released in February 1964.
- On 9 and 16 July 1963, the band recorded "Poison Ivy" and "Fortune Teller" to be their second single. A few hundred copies were pressed, but the single was withdrawn. These recordings would be included on the album Saturday Club, a compilation of tracks from various artists appearing on the Saturday Club show of the time.
1960s