# Bobby Womack discography

The discography of American recording artist Bobby Womack consists of 28 studio albums, 3 live albums, 9 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

## 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 | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | US R&B | UK | Sales | Certifications |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Released: January 1969 Label: Minit | 174 | 34 | — | | |
| My Prescription | Released: February 1970 Label: Minit | — | 44 | — | | |
| Communication | Released: September 15, 1971 Label: United Artists | 83 | 7 | — | | |
| Understanding | Released: May 30, 1972 Label: United Artists | 43 | 7 | — | | |
| Facts of Life | Released: June 8, 1973 Label: United Artists | 37 | 6 | — | | |
| Lookin' for a Love Again | Released: January 11, 1974 Label: United Artists | 85 | 5 | — | | |
| I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To | Released: March 28, 1975 Label: United Artists | 126 | 20 | — | | |
| Safety Zone | Released: October 27, 1975 Label: United Artists | 147 | 40 | — | | |
| BW Goes C&W | Released: 1976 Label: United Artists | — | — | — | | |
| Home Is Where the Heart Is | Released: 1977 Label: Columbia | — | — | — | | |
| Pieces | Released: 1978 Label: Columbia | — | — | — | | |
| Roads of Life | Released: 1979 Label: Arista | — | 55 | — | | |
| The Poet | Released: 1981 Label: Beverly Glen | 29 | 1 | — | | |
| The Poet II | Released: 1984 Label: Beverly Glen | 60 | 5 | 31 | | |
| So Many Rivers | Released: 1985 Label: MCA | 66 | 5 | 28 | | |
| Someday We'll All Be Free | Released: 1985 Label: Beverly Glen | — | 59 | — | | |
| Womagic | Released: 1986 Label: MCA | — | 68 | — | | |
| The Last Soul Man | Released: 1987 Label: MCA | — | — | — | | |
| Save the Children | Released: 1989 Label: SOLAR | — | — | — | | |
| Resurrection | Released: August 16, 1994 Label: Continuum | — | 91 | 87 | | |
| Back to My Roots | Released: August 24, 1999 Label: Capitol | — | — | — | | |
| Traditions | Released: November 4, 1999 Label: Capitol | — | — | — | | |
| Christmas Album | Released: 2000 Label: Indigo | — | — | — | | |
| The Bravest Man in the Universe | Released: June 12, 2012 Label: XL | 181 | 21 | 49 | | |
| The Best Is Yet to Come | Released: TBA Label: XL | — | — | — | | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |||||||

### Live albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | US R&B | Sales | Certifications |
| Your Navy Presents Bobby Womack | Released: 1968 Label: United States Navy Recruitment | — | — | | |
| The Womack "Live" | Released: 1970 Label: United Artists | 188 | 13 | | |
| Soul Sensation Live | Released: 1998 Label: Sequel | — | — | | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. ||||||

### Compilation albums

* 1975: Greatest Hits (United Artists) – US No. 142, R&B No. 30
* 1975: I Can Understand It (United Artists) – same tracks as on Greatest Hits
* 1986: Check it Out (Stateside) – UK SSL 6013
* 1993: Midnight Mover – The Bobby Womack Collection (EMI USA)
* 1998: Red Hot + Rhapsody
* 1999: Traditions (The Right Stuff/Capitol/EMI)
* 2003: Lookin' For a Love: The Best of 1968–1976 (Stateside Records)
* 2004: Fly Me to the Moon/My Prescription on one CD ($tateside/EMI Records)
* 2004: Understanding/Communication ($tateside/EMI Records)
* 2004: Womack Live/The Safety Zone ($tateside/EMI Records)
* 2004: Lookin' For A Love Again/BW Goes CW ($tateside/EMI Records)
* 2004: Facts of Life/I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To ($tateside/EMI Records)
* 2013: Everything's Gonna Be Alright: The American Singles 1967-76 (Charly Records)
* 2014: Icon (Capitol/UMe/Universal)

## Singles
### As lead artist

| Year | Titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certification | Title |
| Year | Titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated | US | US R&B | UK | Certification | Title |
| 1965 | "Nothing You Can Do" b/w "Get It While You Can" | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1965 | "I Found a True Love" b/w "A Lonesome Man" | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1966 | "What Is This" b/w "I Wonder" | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1967 | "Find Me Somebody" b/w "How Does It Feel" | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1967 | "Baby, I Can't Stand It" b/w "Trust Me" | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1967 | "Broadway Walk" b/w "Somebody Special" (from Fly Me to the Moon) | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1968 | "What Is This" b/w "What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Is Gone)" (Non-album track) | — | 33 | — | | Fly Me to the Moon |
| 1968 | "Fly Me to the Moon" b/w "Take Me" | 52 | 16 | — | | Fly Me to the Moon |
| 1968 | "California Dreamin'" b/w "Baby, You Oughta Think It Over" | 43 | 20 | — | | Fly Me to the Moon |
| 1969 | "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" ?b/w "Love, the Time Is Now" (from Fly Me to the Moon) | — | 48 | — | | My Prescription |
| 1969 | "It's Gonna Rain" b/w "Thank You" | — | 43 | — | | My Prescription |
| 1969 | "How I Miss You Baby" b/w "Tried and Convicted" | 93 | 14 | — | | My Prescription |
| 1970 | "More Than I Can Stand" b/w "Arkansas State Prison" | 90 | 23 | — | | My Prescription |
| 1970 | "I'm Gonna Forget About You" b/w "Don't Look Back" | — | 30 | — | | My Prescription |
| 1970 | "Everybody's Talkin'" b/w "Something" | — | — | — | | The Womack "Live" |
| 1971 | "Breezin'" b/w "Azure Blue" Both sides with Gábor Szabó | — | 43 | — | | High Contrast (Gábor Szabó's album) |
| 1971 | "The Preacher"—Part 2 / "More Than I Can Stand" b/w Part 1 | — | 30 | — | | The Womack "Live" |
| 1971 | "Communication" b/w "Fire and Rain" | — | 40 | — | | Communication |
| 1972 | "That's the Way I Feel About Cha" b/w "Come L'Amore" | 27 | 2 | — | | Communication |
| 1972 | "Woman's Gotta Have It" b/w "(If You Don't Want My Love) Give It Back" (from Communication) | 60 | 1 | — | | Understanding |
| 1972 | "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)" / | 51 | 16 | — | | Understanding |
| 1973 | "Harry Hippie" | 31 | 8 | — | US: Gold | Understanding |
| 1973 | "Across 110th Street" b/w "Hang On in There" | 56 | 19 | — | BPI: Silver | Across 110th Street |
| 1973 | "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out" | 29 | 2 | — | | Facts of Life |
| 1973 | "I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You" | — | 80 | — | | Facts of Life |
| 1974 | "Lookin' for a Love" (solo re-recording) b/w "Let It Hang Out" | 10 | 1 | — | US: Gold | Lookin' for a Love Again |
| 1974 | "You're Welcome, Stop On By" b/w "I Don't Want to Be Hurt by Ya Love Again" | 59 | 5 | — | | Lookin' for a Love Again |
| 1974 | "I Don't Know" b/w "Yes Jesus Loves Me" | — | — | — | | I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To |
| 1975 | "Check It Out" b/w "Interlude #2" | 91 | 6 | — | | I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To |
| 1975 | "It's All Over Now" b/w "Git It" | — | 68 | — | | I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To |
| 1975 | "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" b/w "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" | — | 13 | — | | Safety Zone |
| 1976 | "Daylight" b/w "Trust Me" | — | 5 | — | | Safety Zone |
| 1977 | "Home Is Where the Heart Is" b/w "We've Only Just Begun" | — | 43 | — | | Home Is Where the Heart Is |
| 1977 | "Standing in the Safety Zone" b/w "A Change Is Gonna Come" | — | — | — | | Home Is Where the Heart Is |
| 1978 | "Wind It Up" b/w "Stop Before We Start" | — | — | — | | Pieces |
| 1978 | "Trust Your Heart" b/w "When Love Begins Friendship Ends" | — | 47 | — | | Pieces |
| 1979 | "How Could You Break My Heart" b/w "I Honestly Love You" | — | 40 | — | | Roads of Life |
| 1981 | "Secrets" / | — | 55 | — | | The Poet |
| 1982 | "If You Think You're Lonely Now" | — | 3 | — | | The Poet |
| 1982 | "Where Do We Go from Here" b/w "Just My Imagination" | — | 26 | — | | The Poet |
| 1984 | "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye" (with Patti LaBelle) b/w "Who's Foolin' Who" | — | 76 | — | | The Poet II |
| 1984 | "Love Has Finally Come at Last" (with Patti LaBelle) b/w "American Dream" | 88 | 3 | — | | The Poet II |
| 1984 | "Tell Me Why" b/w "Through the Eyes of a Child" (with Patti LaBelle) | — | 54 | 60 | | The Poet II |
| 1985 | "Someday We'll All Be Free" b/w "I Wish I Had Someone to Go Home To" | — | 74 | — | | Someday We'll All Be Free |
| 1985 | "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" b/w "Got to Be with You Tonight" | — | 2 | 64 | | So Many Rivers |
| 1985 | "Let Me Kiss It Where It Hurts" b/w "Check It Out" | — | 50 | — | | So Many Rivers |
| 1985 | "I'm So Proud" (with Cecil Womack) b/w "Searching for My Love" | — | — | — | | Someday We'll All Be Free |
| 1986 | "Gypsy Woman" b/w "Whatever Happened to the Times?" | — | — | — | | So Many Rivers |
| 1986 | "(I Wanna) Make Love to You" b/w "Whatever Happened to the Times?" (from So Many Rivers) | — | 57 | 100 | | Womagic |
| 1987 | "How Could You Break My Heart" b/w "Give It Up" UK-only release | — | — | 86 | | Roads of Life |
| 1987 | "So the Story Goes" b/w "The Liam McCoy" Both sides with Living in a Box | 81 | — | 34 | | Non-album tracks |
| 1987 | "Living in a Box" b/w "I Can't Stay Mad" (from Womagic) | — | — | 70 | | The Last Soul Man |
| 1988 | "Outside Myself" b/w "A Woman Likes to Hear That" | — | — | — | | The Last Soul Man |
| 1989 | "Priorities" b/w Instrumental version of B-side | — | — | — | | Save the Children |
| 1989 | "Save the Children" b/w Instrumental version of A-side | — | 83 | — | | Save the Children |
| 1991 | "I Wish I'd Never Met You" (with Mica Paris) Featured on "If I Love U 2 Nite" CD single by Mica Paris | — | — | — | | Non-album tracks |
| 1993 | "I'm Back for More" (with Lulu) CD single with four different mixes | — | — | 27 | | Non-album tracks |
| 1995 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (with Jeanie Tracy) CD single with seven different mixes | — | — | 73 | | Non-album tracks |
| 2004 | "California Dreamin'" (re-release) 2. "Lookin' for a Love" 3. "Holding On to My Baby's Love" (Non-album track) CD single | — | — | 59 | | The Preacher |
| 2012 | "Please Forgive My Heart" CD single with two different mixes | — | — | — | | The Bravest Man in the Universe |
| "–" denotes releases that did not chart. |||||||

### As featured artist

| Year | Title | 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 | Peak chart positions |
| Year | Title | US Pop | US R&B | AUS | AUT | BEL | GER | IRL | NLD | NZ | SWI | US |
| 1962 | "Lookin' for a Love" (The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack) | 72 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1964 | "It's All Over Now" (The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack) | 94 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1985 | "(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up to You" (Wilton Felder featuring Bobby Womack and Altrinna Grayson) | 102 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2010 | "Stylo" (Gorillaz featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack) | — | — | 48 | 40 | 25 | 63 | — | 56 | — | 56 | 103 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |||||||||||||

## Other appearances (non-comprehensive)

| Year | Song | Other artists | Album |
| 2001 | "Get a Life" | Rae & Christian | Sleepwalking |
| 2001 | "Wake Up Everybody" | Rae & Christian | Sleepwalking |
| 2010 | "Cloud of Unknowing" | Gorillaz & Sinfonia ViVA | Plastic Beach |
| 2011 | "Bobby in Phoenix" | Gorillaz | The Fall |
| 2015 | "New Day Coming" | Rudimental | We the Generation |