Chris Rea discography

The discography of the English rock and blues musician Chris Rea consists of 25 studio albums, 14 compilation albums, one live album, one soundtrack album, and 72 singles.

### Studio albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"|Details|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|||||||||||||||
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|* Released: April 1978 * Label: Magnet|align="center"|—|align="center"|94|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|49|* RIAA: Gold|
|*Released: March 1979 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|54|align="center"|27|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: March 1980 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|60|align="center"|60|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: March 1982 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|52|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: March 1983 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|64|align="center"|60|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|30|align="center"|33|align="center"|—|align="center"|7|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: April 1984 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|35|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|17|align="center"|25|align="center"|16|align="center"|13|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 17 May 1985 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|15|align="center"|41|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|12|align="center"|3|align="center"|—|align="center"|19|align="center"|18|align="center"|—|* BPI: Silver|
|*Released: 14 April 1986 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|11|align="center"|37|align="center"|20|align="center"|—|align="center"|2|align="center"|1|align="center"|7|align="center"|11|align="center"|10|align="center"|—|* BPI: Platinum|
|*Released: 14 September 1987 *Label: Magnet|align="center"|2|align="center"|7|align="center"|13|align="center"|—|align="center"|5|align="center"|7|align="center"|6|align="center"|7|align="center"|7|align="center"|—|* BPI: Platinum|
|*Released: 30 October 1989 *Label: Magnet / WEA / Geffen|align="center"|1|align="center"|35|align="center"|2|align="center"|—|align="center"|3|align="center"|43|align="center"|3|align="center"|2|align="center"|6|align="center"|107|* BPI: 6× Platinum * MC: Gold|
|*Released: 25 February 1991 *Label: EastWest / WEA|align="center"|1|align="center"|53|align="center"|5|align="center"|—|align="center"|1|align="center"|9|align="center"|3|align="center"|5|align="center"|2|align="center"|176|* BPI: 2× Platinum|
|*Released: 2 November 1992 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|4|align="center"|137|align="center"|26|align="center"|—|align="center"|16|align="center"|33|align="center"|14|align="center"|18|align="center"|16|align="center"|—|* BPI: Platinum|
|*Released: 1 November 1993 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|8|align="center"|109|align="center"|16|align="center"|—|align="center"|14|align="center"|46|align="center"|—|align="center"|29|align="center"|24|align="center"|—|* BPI: Gold|
|*Released: 19 January 1998 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|10|align="center"|178|align="center"|20|align="center"|43|align="center"|7|align="center"|32|align="center"|32|align="center"|43|align="center"|28|align="center"|—|* BPI: Silver|
|*Released: 8 November 1999 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|54|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|16|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|96|align="center"|—|* BPI: Silver|
|*Released: October 2000 *Label: Magnet / EastWest|align="center"|26|align="center"|—|align="center"|13|align="center"|—|align="center"|11|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|29|align="center"|—||
|*Released: September 2002 *Label: Jazzee Blue / Edel|align="center"|14|align="center"|—|align="center"|18|align="center"|115|align="center"|11|align="center"|21|align="center"|—|align="center"|29|align="center"|28|align="center"|—|* BPI: Gold|
|*Released: 28 July 2003 *Label: Jazzee Blue|align="center"|179|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 28 July 2003 *Label: Jazzee Blue|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: March 2004 *Label: Jazzee Blue|align="center"|27|align="center"|—|align="center"|41|align="center"|133|align="center"|30|align="center"|32|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|49|align="center"|—||
|*Released: October 2005 *Label: Ear Books / Edel|align="center"|85|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|180|align="center"|—|align="center"|29|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 10 February 2008 *Label: Ear Books / Edel|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|76|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 5 September 2011 *Label: Rhino|align="center"|13|align="center"|—|align="center"|30|align="center"|35|align="center"|10|align="center"|44|align="center"|27|align="center"|—|align="center"|31|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 29 September 2017 *Label: Jazzee Blue / BMG|align="center"|11|align="center"|—|align="center"|22|align="center"|188|align="center"|19|align="center"|52|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|18|align="center"|—||
|* Released: 4 October 2019 * Label: Warner Music|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|colspan="14" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"|"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.|||||||||||||||||||||

### Live albums

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|* Released: October 2006 * Label: Jazzee Blue / Polydor|align="center"|34|align="center"|18|align="center"|73|

### Compilation albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"|Details|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|||||||||||||||
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|* Released: 1986 * Label: PolyGram|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|5|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|* BVMI: Gold|
|* Released: 17 October 1988 * Label: Magnet / WEA / Geffen|align="center"|5|align="center"|14|align="center"|7|align="center"|—|align="center"|9|align="center"|59|align="center"|15|align="center"|29|align="center"|24|align="center"|92|* BPI: 3× Platinum|
|*Released: 24 October 1994 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|3|align="center"|73|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|4|align="center"|35|align="center"|7|align="center"|7|align="center"|6|align="center"|—|* BPI: Platinum|
|*Released: 15 December 1998 *Label: EastWest|align="center"|165|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: November 2001 *Label: Magnet / EastWest|align="center"|69|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|5|align="center"|60|align="center"|—|align="center"|16|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|* BPI: Gold|
|*Released: 2005 *Label: Warner Strategic Marketing|align="center"|24|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|35|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|54|align="center"|—|* BPI: Silver|
|*Released: 2006 *Label: Rhino / Warner Platinum|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|* BPI: Silver|
|*Released: 2007 *Label: Crimson|align="center"|186|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 2007 *Label: Rhino|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|84|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 2008 *Label: Edel|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|98|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|98|align="center"|—||
|*Released: 5 October 2009 *Label: Rhino / Jazzee Blue|align="center"|8|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|37|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|10|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|* BPI: Gold|
|*Released: 3 October 2011 *Label: Music Club Deluxe|align="center"|66|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|* BPI: Gold|
|*Released: 28 September 2018 *Label: Jazzee Blue|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|* Released: 20 November 2020 * Label: Magnet|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|* Released: 17 October 2025 * Label: Magnet|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—||
|colspan="14" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"|"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.|||||||||||||||||||||

### Soundtrack albums

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|* Released: 11 November 1996 * Label: EastWest|align="center"|43|align="center"|44|align="center"|60|* BPI: Silver|

## Singles

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album||||
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|1974|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||Non-album single||
|rowspan="2"|1978||||||||||||
|30|39|—|—|—|—|30|31|—|12||rowspan="2"|_Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|71||||
|rowspan="2"|1979||||||||||||
|44|13|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|44||rowspan="2"|_Deltics_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|1980||||||||||||
|—|88|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="2"|_Tennis_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|1982||||||||||||
|65|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|88||rowspan="2"|_Chris Rea_|
|—|53|—|—|—|—|39|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1983||||||||||||
|85|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_Water Sign_|
|60|42|—|15|—|—|25|46|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|123|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1984||||||||||||
|65|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_Wired to the Moon_|
|154|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|86|—|—|40|—|46|—|—|—|—||||
|79|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1985||||||||||||
|26|94|—|33|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Shamrock Diaries_|
|67|79|—|13|—|31|8|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|32|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|78|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_Wired to the Moon_||
|rowspan="3"|1986||||||||||||
|69|—|—|32|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_On the Beach_|
|57|88|—|—|48|—|34|—|—|—||||
|79|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1987||||||||||||
|12|9|—|—|19|19|—|2|22|81||_Dancing with Strangers_||
|—|—|—|—|4|—|—|—|—|—||Non-album single||
|47|75|—|35|—|43|33|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Dancing with Strangers_|
|67|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="5"|1988||||||||||||
|73|—|—|36|—|71|36|—|—|—||||
|12|70|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="5"|_New Light Through Old Windows_|
|74|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|10|26|3|14|192|3|3|30|10|—|* BPI: 4x Platinum * IFPI DEN: 3× Platinum * RMNZ: Gold|||
|rowspan="3"|1989||||||||||||
|53|85|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|73||||
|10|78|6|35|30|35|—|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_The Road to Hell_|
|83|123|—|—|35|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|1990||||||||||||
|24|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|69|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1991||||||||||||
|16|101|29|31|46|20|45|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_Auberge_|
|57|—|—|—|—|94|—|—|—|—||||
|49|—|—|39|51|51|—|—|—|—||||
|27|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|1992||||||||||||
|16|164|—|—|—|—|—|—|38|—||rowspan="4"|_God's Great Banana Skin_|
|31|—|—|—|—|59|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1993||||||||||||
|53|—|—|—|—|54|—|—|—|—||||
|80|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|18|173|—|—|—|40|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Espresso Logic_|
|84|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="3"|1994||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|28|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="2"|_The Best of Chris Rea_|
|70|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|1996||||||||||||
|41|—|—|39|—|---|12|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_La Passione_|
|77|—|—|—|—|91|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="4"|1997||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|89|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|44|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||Non-album single||
|—|—|—|—|—|53|—|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_The Blue Café_|
|rowspan="3"|1998||||||||||||
|80|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|159|—|—|—|—|71|—|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|84|—|—|—|—||||
|1999|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_The Road to Hell: Part 2_||
|rowspan="2"|2000||||||||||||
|78|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_King of the Beach_||
|—|—|11|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||Non-album single||
|rowspan="2"|2001||||||||||||
|173|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_King of the Beach_||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||Non-album single||
|2009|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_Still So Far to Go: The Best of Chris Rea_||
|2011|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_Santo Spirito Blues_||
|colspan="20" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"|"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.||||||||||||

## Infobox (artist discography)

- **artist**: Chris Rea
- **image**: Chris Rea at the Heineken Music Hall - 2010-03-05.jpg
- **studio**: 25
- **compilation**: 14
- **live**: 1
- **soundtrack**: 1
- **singles**: 72