# DJ Shadow discography

The discography of DJ Shadow, an American music producer and disc jockey, consists of seven studio albums, six live albums, six compilation albums, two remix albums, two mix albums, five extended plays, twenty-eight singles and fourteen music videos. He released his debut single – a split release featuring his track "Lesson 4" and "Real Deal" by American hip hop ensemble Lifers Group – in 1991. After signing to Mo' Wax Records in 1993, he released the singles "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", both of which became minor hits in the United Kingdom. Shadow attained his first top 75 single in 1995 with "What Does Your Soul Look Like", which peaked at number 59 in the UK. In November 1996, his debut studio album Endtroducing..... was released to critical acclaim. It peaked at numbers 17 and 75 in the UK and the Netherlands respectively, later being certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The album's first single, "Midnight in a Perfect World", charted at number 54 in the UK. "Stem", the album's second single, became a top fifteen hit in Ireland. Remix singles of the Endtroducing..... tracks "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit)" and "The Number Song" were also issued. The compilation album Preemptive Strike peaked at number 118 on the United States Billboard 200, becoming Shadow's first album to chart in the country. It produced one single, "High Noon", which peaked at number 22 in the UK.
Shadow's second studio album The Private Press was released in June 2002, peaking at number 44 on the Billboard 200. It also charted in several other countries, peaking at number eight in the UK and earning a gold certification from the BPI. The album's first two singles – "You Can't Go Home Again" and "Six Days" – became top ten hits on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales and Hot Dance Singles Sales charts. In 2005, Shadow collaborated with English alternative rock band Keane on the single "We Might as Well Be Strangers", which peaked at number 123 in the UK and number 27 on the Hot Singles Sales chart. He released his third studio album The Outsider in September 2006; it peaked at number 77 on the Billboard 200. The album produced four singles, including the UK top 60 hit "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)".
The Less You Know, the Better, Shadow's fourth studio album, was released in September 2011 and peaked at number 149 on the Billboard 200. It also became his third consecutive top five album on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart, where it peaked at number five. "Scale It Back", the album's third single, charted in the Belgian region of Flanders.

## Albums
### Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | US Dance | AUS | BEL (FL) | FIN | FRA | JPN | NLD | NOR | UK | Sales | Certifications |
| Endtroducing..... | Released: November 19, 1996 (US) Label: Mo' Wax Formats: CD, cassette, LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 75 | — | 17 | US: 290,000 | BPI: Platinum |
| The Private Press | Released: June 4, 2002 (US) Label: Island, MCA Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 44 | 3 | 21 | 20 | 37 | 21 | 68 | 54 | 16 | 8 | US: 160,000 | BPI: Gold |
| The Outsider | Released: September 19, 2006 (US) Label: Island, Universal Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 77 | 2 | 44 | 68 | — | 105 | 67 | — | — | 24 | US: 40,000 | |
| The Less You Know, the Better | Released: October 4, 2011 (US) Label: Island, A&M, Verve Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 149 | 5 | — | 80 | — | 118 | 86 | — | — | 34 | | |
| The Mountain Will Fall | Released: June 24, 2016 (US) Label: Mass Appeal Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 77 | 1 | 31 | 21 | — | 106 | — | 81 | — | 19 | | |
| Our Pathetic Age | Released: November 15, 2019 Label: Mass Appeal Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming | — | — | — | 143 | — | — | — | — | — | 53 | | |
| Action Adventure | Released: October 27, 2023 Label: Mass Appeal Formats: Digital download, streaming | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||||||

### Live albums

List of live albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Brainfreeze (with Cut Chemist) | Released: 1999 (US) Label: Sixty7 Formats: CD |
| Product Placement (with Cut Chemist) | Released: November 1, 2001 (US) Label: One29 Formats: CD |
| Live! In Tune and On Time | Released: June 15, 2004 (US) Label: Island, Geffen Formats: CD, LP |
| Live at Brixton Academy December 2006 | Released: December 15, 2006 (US) Label: Island Formats: CD, digital download |
| The Hard Sell (with Cut Chemist) | Released: 2007 (US) Label: Pillage Roadshow Formats: CD, digital download |
| The Hard Sell (Encore) (with Cut Chemist) | Released: June 3, 2008 (US) Label: Pillage Roadshow Formats: CD, digital download |
| Live in Manchester: The Mountain Has Fallen Tour | Released: July 13, 2018 Label: Mass Appeal Formats: Digital download |

### Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales |
| Title | Album details | US | UK | |
| Preemptive Strike | Released: January 13, 1998 (US) Label: Mo' Wax Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 118 | 161 | US: 147,000 |
| Excessive Ephemera | Released: 2005 (US) Label: Island Records Formats: LP | — | — | |
| The 4-Track Era Volume 1: Best of the KMEL Mixes (1991) | Released: August 27, 2007 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | |
| The 4-Track Era Volume 2: Best of the Remixes and Megamixes (1990–1992) | Released: December 11, 2007 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | |
| The 4-Track Era Volume 3: Best of the Original Productions (1990–1992) | Released: November 11, 2008 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | |
| Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions from the MPC Era 1992–1996 | Released: June 5, 2012 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | |
| Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow | Released: September 25, 2012 (US) Label: Island Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | 124 | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |

### Remix albums

List of remix albums :
| Title | Album details |
| The Private Repress | Released: March 29, 2003 (JPN) Label: Island Formats: CD, LP |
| The DJ Shadow Remix Project | Released: July 15, 2010 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, LP, digital download |
| Endtroducing Re-Emagined | Released: October 28, 2016 (US) Label: Island Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download |

### Mix albums

List of mix albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Diminishing Returns | Released: July 15, 2003 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD, LP |
| Funky Skunk (with Shepard Fairey) | Released: 2005 (US) Label: Reconstruction Productions Formats: CD |

### Extended plays

List of extended plays :
| Title | Album details |
| Bay Area EP | Released: June 19, 2007 (US) Label: Island Formats: CD, 12" |
| I Gotta Rokk | Released: May 11, 2011 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, 12", digital download |
| I'm Excited | Released: July 29, 2011 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, 12", digital download |
| The Liquid Amber EP | Released: 2014 Label: Liquid Amber Formats: Digital download |
| The Mountain Has Fallen | Released: July 7, 2017 Label: Mass Appeal Formats: Digital download |

## Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | US Sales | US Dance Sales | US R&B Sales | BEL (FL) | CAN | IRL | MEX Air. | UK | Album |
| "Real Deal" (Shadow Remix) / "Lesson 4" (with Lifers Group) | 1991 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | BASIC Beats Sampler |
| "Send Them" / "Entropy" (with Asia Born) | 1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "In/Flux" | 1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 110 | Non-album singles |
| "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)" / "Kemuri" (with DJ Krush) | 1994 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 88 | Non-album singles |
| "What Does Your Soul Look Like" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | Non-album singles |
| "A Whim" / "89.9 Megamix" (with DJ Krush) | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop" / "Fully Charged on Planet X" (with Chief Xcel) | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Midnight in a Perfect World" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | Endtroducing..... |
| "Stem" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | 74 | Endtroducing..... |
| "Camel Bobsled Race" | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 62 | Non-album single |
| "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit)" (Remixes) | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | Endtroducing..... |
| "High Noon" | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | Preemptive Strike |
| "The Number Song" (Cut Chemist Party Mix) / "Painkiller" (Kill the Pain Mix) (with Depeche Mode) | 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Endtroducing..... |
| "Dark Days" | 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 140 | Dark Days (soundtrack) |
| "You Can't Go Home Again" | 2002 | 9 | 2 | — | — | 25 | — | — | 30 | The Private Press |
| "Six Days" | 2002 | 10 | 1 | 38 | — | — | — | — | 28 | The Private Press |
| "Mashin' on the Motorway" | 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Private Press |
| "We Might as Well Be Strangers" (with Keane) | 2005 | 27 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 123 | Hopes and Fears |
| "3 Freaks" (featuring Keak da Sneak and Turf Talk) | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Outsider |
| "Enuff" (featuring Lateef the Truth Speaker and Q-Tip) | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Outsider |
| "You Made It" (featuring Chris James) | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Outsider |
| "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | The Outsider |
| "Gabracabara" (featuring Gift of Gab) | 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Def Surrounds Us" / "I've Been Trying" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Less You Know, the Better |
| "I Gotta Rokk" | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Less You Know, the Better |
| "Warning Call" (featuring Tom Vek) | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 39 | — | The Less You Know, the Better |
| "Scale It Back" (featuring Little Dragon) | 2011 | — | — | — | 93 | — | — | 28 | — | The Less You Know, the Better |
| "Listen" (featuring Terry Reid) | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow |
| "Nobody Speak" (featuring Run the Jewels) | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Mountain Will Fall |
| "Rocket Fuel" (featuring De La Soul) | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Our Pathetic Age |
| "Rosie" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Our Pathetic Age |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||||||||

## Other appearances
### Production

| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album |
| "Swan Lake"; "40oz for Breakfast"; "Rhymes for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" | 1994 | Blackalicious | Melodica (EP) |
| "Latyrx"; "The Quickening (The Wreckoning Part II)"; "Scratchapella"; "The Wreckoning (Live 45 Mix)" | 1997 | Latyrx | The Album |
| "Lady Don't Tek No" | 1997 | Latyrx | The Muzapper's Mixes EP |
| "Cliff Hanger" | 1999 | Blackalicious | Nia |
| "Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)" | 1999 | Handsome Boy Modeling School | So... How's Your Girl? |
| "Storm Warning"; "Divine Intervention"; "Hott People"; "Bombonyall" | 1999 | Various | Quannum Spectrum |
| "Fed Up and Low Down" | 2004 | Blues Explosion | Damage |
| "Grand Ol' Party Crash" | 2005 | Cage | Hell's Winter |
| "Kamikaze 108" | 2005 | Teriyaki Boyz | Beef or Chicken? |
| "4 Freaks" | 2006 | Keak da Sneak, Turf Talk, Mistah F.A.B., Droop-E | Thizz Iz Allndadoe |
| "Closer" | 2006 | DJ Fresh, MC Darrison, Sally Dury | Escape from Planet Monday |
| "Say What You Want" | 2011 | Lateef the Truth Speaker | Firewater |
| "Found It" | 2020 | Barny Fletcher | CANVAS2023 |

### Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
| "BASIC Mega-Mix" | 1992 | none | BASIC Beats Sampler |
| "Duality" | 1995 | DJ Krush | Meiso |
| "Groove Robber #1 in the Act" | 1995 | The Solesides Crew | Radio Sole 1 |
| "Live at Barony (Freestyles 6/94)" | 1995 | Lateef the Truth Speaker, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born | Radio Sole 1 |
| "Untitled Heavy Beat (Part 1 & 2)" | 1997 | none | The End of Violence (soundtrack) |
| "Concentration" | 1999 | Jurassic 5, Quannum MC's | Quannum Spectrum |
| "Divine Intervention" | 1999 | Divine Styler | Quannum Spectrum |
| "The Extravaganza" | 1999 | Quannum MC's, Souls of Mischief | Quannum Spectrum |
| "Flashback" | 2001 | none | Turntables by the Bay |
| "Emerge" | 2003 | Lifesavas, Blackalicious, Lateef the Truth Speaker, Lyrics Born | Spirit in Stone |
| "Bring Madlib Up" | 2004 | none | Keepintime: A Live Recording |
| "The Last Trumpet" (Halou Remix) | 2005 | Lyrics Born, Lateef the Truth Speaker | Same !@$ Different Day |

### Remix work

List of remix work for other artists, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
| "Doin' Damage in My Native Language" (Shadow's Legitimate Mix) | 1992 | Zimbabwe Legit | Zimbabwe Legit |
| "Real Deal" (Shadow Remix) | 1992 | Lifers Group | BASIC Beats Sampler |
| "Meiso" (Klub Mix)/(Instrumental Mix) | 1996 | DJ Krush | "Meiso" |
| "Waiting List" (DJ Shadow / Automator Mix) | 1996 | Dr. Octagon | Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| "Painkiller" (Kill the Pain Remix) | 1998 | Depeche Mode | "Only When I Lose Myself" |
| "The Gloaming" | 2004 | Radiohead | "The Gloaming" |
| "We Might As Well Be Strangers" | 2004 | Keane | Hopes and Fears |
| "Handlebars" | 2008 | Flobots | "Handlebars" |
| "Motorstorm: Apocalypse" | 2011 | Klaus Badelt | Motorstorm: Apocalypse soundtrack |
| "Eyesdontlie" | 2013 | Machinedrum | "Eyesdontlie" |
| "Here's a Little Something for Ya" (DJ Shadow Wet Remix) | 2013 | Beastie Boys | "Lee Majors Come Again" |
| "90s Music" (DJ Shadow x Salva Remix) | 2014 | Kimbra | The Golden Echo |
| "Dona Nobis Pacem" (DJ Shadow Remix) | 2014 | Supersister | "Dona Nobis Pacem" |
| "Powercurve" (DJ Shadow x Bleep Bloop Remix)" | 2016 | Hybrid | Driveclub (soundtrack) |
| "Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write)" | 2021 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Butterfly 3001 |

## Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released and director :
| Title | Year | Director(s) |
| "High Noon" | 1996 | Brian Cross |
| "Midnight in a Perfect World" | 1996 | Brian Cross |
| "Mashin' on the Motorway" | 2002 | Ben Stokes, Doug Carney |
| "Walkie Talkie" | 2002 | Ben Stokes |
| "Six Days" | 2002 | Wong Kar-wai |
| "You Can't Go Home Again" | 2002 | Paul Gore |
| "3 Freaks" (featuring Keak da Sneak and Turf Talk) | 2005 | Mickey Finnegan |
| "Enuff" (featuring Lateef the Truth Speaker and Q-Tip) | 2006 | ROJO |
| "You Made It" (featuring Chris James) | 2006 | Adam Bartley |
| "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" | 2006 | Mykola Dosenko |
| "I'm Excited" (featuring Afrikan Boy) | 2011 | Ian Pons Jewell |
| "I Gotta Rokk (Metal Madness)" | 2011 | ? |
| "Border Crossing" | 2011 | Dean Fernando |
| "Scale It Back" (featuring Little Dragon) | 2011 | Ewan Jones Morris, Casey Raymond |
| "Listen" (featuring Terry Reid) | 2012 | Franck Trebillac |
| "The Mountain Will Fall" | 2016 | Marti Romances |
| "The Sideshow" (featuring Ernie Fresh) | 2016 | Joseph Armario |
| "Nobody Speak" (featuring Run the Jewels) | 2016 | Sam Pilling |
| "Three Ralphs" | 2016 | RUFFMERCY |
| "Bergschrund" (featuring Nils Frahm) | 2016 | Matt Devine |
| "Corridors" (featuring Steven Price) | 2017 | Dan Emmerson |
| "Rocket Fuel" (featuring De La Soul) | 2019 | ? |
| "Rosie" | 2019 | Ben Stokes |
| "Slingblade" | 2020 | ? |
| "Ozone Scraper" | 2023 | Stefano Ottaviano |
| "You Played Me" | 2023 | the Reggies |
| "The Prophecy" | 2023 | Adam Warmington |