Dido (singer)

**Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong** (born 25 December 1971) is a female English singer who has released five albums. She is of French<nowiki/>descent. Dido is married to Rohan Gavin.

### 1999–2001: _No Angel_

Her debut studio album, _No Angel_, was released on 1 June 1999 and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart, by 2003 the album had sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and in the UK it was the second biggest selling album behind _Back to Bedlam_ by James Blunt. The album included the singles "Here with Me", "Thank You" and "Hunter".

### 2003–2004: _Life for Rent_

She released her second studio album, _Life for Rent_, on 29 September 2003 and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart, making it her second number one album in the UK, it was also certified 9× Platinum. The album includes the singles "White Flag", "Life for Rent", "Don't Leave Home" and "Sand in My Shoes". Her single "White Flag" reached number one in seven countries.

### 2008–2009: _Safe Trip Home_

Her third studio album, _Safe Trip Home_, was released on 17 November 2008 and peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart. The album includes the singles "Don't Believe in Love" and "Quiet Times".

### 2013: _Girl Who Got Away_

She released her fourth studio album, _Girl Who Got Away_, was released on 4 March 2013 and peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart. The album includes the singles "No Freedom" and "End of Night".

### 2019: _Still on My Mind_

Her fifth studio album, _Still on My Mind_, was released on 8 March 2019 and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The album includes the singles "Give You Up", "Take You Home" and "Friends".

### Studio albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:24em;"|Details|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 14 June 1999 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: CD, DVD, LP, cassette, digital download|1|1|4|1|2|1|3|1|2|4|* BPI: 10× Platinum * ARIA: 6× Platinum * : 3× Gold * IFPI SWI: 3× Platinum * MC: 4× Platinum * : Platinum * RIAA: 4× Platinum * RMNZ: 5× Platinum * SNEP: Diamond|
|* Released: 29 September 2003 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download|1|1|2|1|1|1|1|1|1|4|* BPI: 9× Platinum * ARIA: 6× Platinum * BVMI: 3× Platinum * IFPI SWI: 3× Platinum * MC: 3× Platinum * NVPI: Platinum * RIAA: 2× Platinum * RMNZ: 4× Platinum * SNEP: 2× Platinum|
|* Released: 17 November 2008 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: CD, digital download|2|6|9|3|3|11|8|6|1|13|* BPI: Gold * ARIA: Gold * BVMI: Gold * IFPI SWI: Platinum * IRMA: Gold * RMNZ: Gold * SNEP: Gold|
|* Released: 4 March 2013 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: RCA * Formats: CD, LP, digital download|5|12|10|3|2|14|8|11|2|32|* BPI: Silver|
|* Released: 8 March 2019 * Label: BMG * Formats: CD, LP, digital download|3|14|12|11|6|18|19|31|4|45|* BPI: Silver * SNEP: Gold|

### Live albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:24em;"|Details|scope="col" colspan="2"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 21 June 2005 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: CD, DVD, digital download|53|50|* ARIA: Platinum|||||

### Compilation albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:24em;"|Details|scope="col" colspan="5"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 25 November 2013 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: RCA * Formats: CD, digital download|27|96|170|41|57|* BPI: Gold||

### Demo albums

|scope="col" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" style="width:24em;"|Details|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 1995 * Label: Nettwerk * Formats: CD-R||||

### Collaborative albums

|scope="col" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" style="width:24em;"|Details|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 19 July 2020 * Label: BMG * Formats: CD, digital download||||

### Extended plays

|scope="col" style="width:14em;"|Title|scope="col" style="width:24em;"|Details|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 1999 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: CD||||
|* Released: 2 June 2005 <small>(UK)</small> * Label: Arista * Formats: Digital download||||

### Singles

- As lead artist
|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"|Year|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1999|4|52|9|4|16|8|22|3|6|—|* BPI: Platinum * RMNZ: Gold * SNEP: Gold|rowspan="5"|_No Angel_||
|rowspan="2"|2000|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|3|—|25|30|41|5|29|3|16|3|* BPI: Platinum * RIAA: Gold * RMNZ: Platinum|||||
|rowspan="2"|2001|17|50|—|45|—|48|73|28|59|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|rowspan="2"|2003|2|1|1|5|1|2|5|12|2|18|* BPI: 2× Platinum * ARIA: Gold * BVMI: Gold * IFPI AUT: Gold * IFPI SWI: Gold * RIAA: Gold * RMNZ: Platinum|rowspan="4"|_Life for Rent_|
|8|28|31|24|33|8|24|17|19|—|* BPI: Silver|||||
|rowspan="2"|2004|25|—|54|—|67|35|38|—|45|—||||
|29|37|57|—|54|27|59|—|95|—||||||
|2008|54|—|29|—|—|—|83|—|16|—||rowspan="2"|_Safe Trip Home_||
|2009|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|||||
|2010|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_Sex and the City 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack_|||
|rowspan="2"|2013|51|—|—|64|59|—|98|—|28|—||rowspan="2"|_Girl Who Got Away_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|rowspan="3"|2019|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Still on My Mind_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|2023|50|—|14|85|16|36|14|—|14|—|* BPI: Gold * IFPI AUT: Gold * IFPI SWI: Platinum * RMNZ: Gold * SNEP: Gold||||
|colspan="20" style="font-size:85%"|"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that country.||||||||||||||

- As featured artist
|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"|Year|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000|1|1|1|4|1|1|3|14|1|51|* BPI: 4× Platinum * ARIA: 9× Platinum * BVMI: 3× Gold * IFPI AUT: Gold * IFPI SWI: Gold * RIAA: 4× Platinum * RMNZ: 4× Platinum * SNEP: Platinum|_The Marshall Mathers LP_|||
|2002|6|21|—|—|48|8|47|—|51|—||_Outrospective_|||
|2003|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|26|—|—||_Shaman_|||
|2004|1|9|15|72|7|1|3|1|7|—|* BPI: 2× Platinum||||
|2008|161|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_Songs of Mass Destruction_|||
|2010|125|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||_The Dance_|||
|rowspan="3"|2019|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||rowspan="4"|_The Last Summer_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||||
|2020|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|||||
|2023|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|* SNEP: Gold|_Nu King_|||
|colspan="20" style="font-size:85%"|"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that country.||||||||||||||

### Promotional singles

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"|Year|scope="col" colspan="1"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2012|—|_Girl Who Got Away_||||||
|rowspan="2"|2018|87|rowspan="4"|_Still on My Mind_||||
|—||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2019|—||||||
|—||||||||
|2025|—|||||||

### Guest appearances

|scope="col" style="width:19em;"|Title|scope="col" style="width:1em;"|Year|scope="col"|Other artist(s)|scope="col"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1996|rowspan="2"|Faithless|_Reverence_|||||
|rowspan="2"|1998|rowspan="2"|_Sunday 8PM_|||||
|Faithless, Pauline Taylor||||||||
|2002|Faithless|_NME Presents: 1 Love_||||||
|rowspan="3"|2004|2Pac|_Loyal to the Game_|||||
|Faithless|_No Roots_|||||||
|Rufus Wainright|_Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason_ soundtrack|||||||
|rowspan="3"|2005|rowspan="3"|Dusted|rowspan="3"|_Safe from Harm_|||
|2006|Faithless|_To All New Arrivals_||||||
|2007||_Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project_||||||
|rowspan="2"|2010|Faithless|_The Dance_|||||
|A. R. Rahman|_127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture_|||||||
|2017|Damien Dempsey|_Soulsun_||||||
|rowspan="3"|2019|rowspan="3"|R Plus|rowspan="3"|_The Last Summer_|||
|2023|Caroline Polachek, Grimes|_Desire, I Want to Turn into You_||||||

### Music videos

|scope="col" style="width:19em;"|Title|scope="col" style="width:1em;"|Year|scope="col"|Director(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1999|Big TV!|||||
|2000|Liz Friedlander|||||
|rowspan="3"|2001|David Meyers||||
|Matthew Rolston||||||
|Russell Thomas||||||
|rowspan="2"|2003|Joseph Kahn||||
|Sophie Muller||||||
|rowspan="2"|2004|Jake Nava||||
|Alex De Rakoff||||||
|rowspan="4"|2008|AlexandLiane||||
|Sally Williams||||||
|Tinge Krishnan||||||
|Cristiana Miranda||||||
|2009|Marcus Prado|||||
|2011||||||
|rowspan="2"|2013|Ethan Lader||||
|De La Muerte||||||
|rowspan="3"|2019|Peter Lawrie Winfield||||
|Sophie Muller||||||
|Rankin||||||
|2000|Dr. Dre, Philip Atwell|||||
|2002|Liz Friedlander|||||
|2004|Geoff Wonfor|||||
|2010||||||

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Dido
- **img**: Dido 2019 (cropped 2).jpg
- **caption**: Dido in 2019
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong
- **origin**: Kensington, London, England
- **occupation**: Singer, songwriter, musician
- **years active**: 1995–present
- **label**: RCA Records, Cheeky, Arista Records, Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music, Legacy, BMG Rights Management, BMG