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Foreigner discography

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Foreigner discography
Studio albums9
Live albums7
Compilation albums20
Singles47
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

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Studio albums

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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 14, 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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

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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 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

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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 — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

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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 —[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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

References

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  1. ^ Rhino Newsletter, September 2014
  2. ^ a b c "Foreigner Chart History: The Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Foreigner full Official Chart History". Official Charts. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 116. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ a b c d "Foreigner ARIA chart history". ARIA. Retrieved July 20, 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  6. ^ a b c "Canadian peaks". Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
  7. ^ a b c d "Discographie von Foreigner". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). Retrieved March 22, 2022.
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  15. ^ "Foreigner is no stranger Down Under" (PDF). Cash Box. September 3, 1983. p. 17. Retrieved December 7, 2021 – via World Radio History.
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  19. ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Inside Information". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  20. ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Can't Slow Down". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
  21. ^ "Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
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  25. ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – The Very Best ... and Beyond". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  26. ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – The Definitive". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  27. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
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  29. ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Cold As Ice". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
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  31. ^ devops (January 2, 2013). "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Week of December 19, 1992". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
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