Sweet discography
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Discography
Discography is the study and listing of the details concerning sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres...

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United Kingdom
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 rock
Rock music
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 band Sweet
Sweet (band)
Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...

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Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


(sales thresholds)
Studio album
GBR
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

AUS
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

AUT
Austria
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CAN
Canada
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CHE
Switzerland
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DEN
Denmark
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GER
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

IRL
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

NLD
Netherland
Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...

NOR
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

NZL
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

SWE
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....



USA
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

ZAF
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

1968 "Slow Motion" Non-album single
1969 "Lollipop Man"
1970 "All You'll Ever Get from Me"
"Get on the Line"
1971 "Funny Funny" 13 93 1 5
7 1 2 1 1
GBR
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...

: Silver
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be was Sweet's first official album, released in 1971 on RCA Records in the UK. The same year it was released in West Germany under the title Funny Funny, How Sweet Co-Co Can Be with a different album cover and an extra song.This song was included as an extra track on...

"Co-Co" 2 42 1 1 1 3 3 2 2 99 1
GBR: Gold
"Alexander Graham Bell" 33 24 38 Non-album single
1972 "Poppa Joe" 11 70 2 1 3 16 1 2 2 12
GBR: Silver
"Little Willy" 4 65 1
Charted in 1973.
2 1 1 9 7 7 3 9
GBR: Gold

USA
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...

: Gold
"Wig-Wam Bam" 4 15 5 2 1 1 4 6 6 18 8
GBR: Gold
1973 "Block Buster!
Block Buster!
"Block Buster!" is a popular song by The Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK #1 hit...

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1 29 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 73 7
GBR: Gold
"Hell Raiser" 2 49 4 3 1 1 2 4 5
GBR: Silver
"The Ballroom Blitz" 2 1 5 1
Charted in 1975.
3 1 1 1 4 2 3 5 3
GBR: Silver / Gold

CAN
Canadian Recording Industry Association
Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...

: Gold
1974 "Teenage Rampage" 2 10 16 2 1 1 1 11 2 7
GBR: Silver / Gold
"The Six Teens" 9 48 9 6 1 4 15 7 7
GBR: Gold
Desolation Boulevard
Desolation Boulevard
Desolation Boulevard, released in 1974, is the second album by Sweet that year. It contains an original variant of one of the band's best known songs, "Fox on the Run"....

"Turn It Down" 41 14 2 4 4 10
"Peppermint Twist
Peppermint Twist
"Peppermint Twist" is a song written by Joey Dee and Henry Glover, recorded and released by Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1961. Capitalizing on the Twist dance craze and the nightclub in which Dee performed , the song hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in early 1962...

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1 Sweet Fanny Adams
Sweet Fanny Adams (album)
Sweet Fanny Adams is the first of two 1974 albums by Sweet, and also their first album simply as Sweet. The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound...

1975 "Fox on the Run" 2 1 3 2 Charted in 1976.
3 1 1 2 2 2 3 6 5 1
GBR: Silver

USA: Gold

CAN: Gold
Desolation Boulevard
"Action" 15 4 3 9
4 3 2 7 6 2 12 2 20 Give Us a Wink
Give Us a Wink
Give Us a Wink is an album released in March 1976 by the British rock band Sweet. It was their first album to be fully written and produced by the band themselves...

1976 "The Lies in Your Eyes" 35 14 17 3 5 9 11 6
"4th of July"
"Lost Angels" 74 11 18 13
5 Off the Record
Off the Record (Sweet album)
-Original European LP release :# "Fever of Love" - 4:02# "Lost Angels" - 4:04# "Midnight to Daylight" - 3:32# "Windy City" - 7:30# "Live for Today" - 3:24# "She Gimme Lovin'" - 4:05# "Laura Lee" - 4:17# "Hard Times" - 4:02# "Funk It Up" - 3:36...

1977 "Fever of Love" 12 9
7 10
"Funk It Up (David's Song)" 87
88
"Stairway to the Stars" 15
1978 "Love Is Like Oxygen" 9 9 23 8
6 10
8 16 4 8
GBR: Silver
Level Headed
"California Nights" 86
23 76
1979 "Call Me" 29 Cut Above the Rest
Cut Above the Rest
Cut Above the Rest is an album by Sweet, released via Polydor Records in October 1979. It was the first album release by Sweet following the departure of their original lead vocalist Brian Connolly...

"Big Apple Waltz"
1980 "Give the Lady Some Respect" Waters Edge
"Sixties Man"
1984 "The Sixteens" / "Action" Non-album single
"It's... It's... The Sweet Mix" 45 36
1985 "Sweet 2 - The Wigwam Willy Mix" 85
Although officially a Top 75, a "Next 25" section was printed at this point in time - see UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 for more details.
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.


Notes

Studio albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


(sales thresholds)
GBR
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

AUS
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

AUT
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

CAN
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

DEN
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

GER
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

NLD
Netherland
Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...

NOR
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

NZL
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

SWE
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....




USA
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

1971 Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be was Sweet's first official album, released in 1971 on RCA Records in the UK. The same year it was released in West Germany under the title Funny Funny, How Sweet Co-Co Can Be with a different album cover and an extra song.This song was included as an extra track on...

15 Charted in 1974.
1974 Sweet Fanny Adams
Sweet Fanny Adams (album)
Sweet Fanny Adams is the first of two 1974 albums by Sweet, and also their first album simply as Sweet. The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound...

27 33 6 1 2 12 4
GBR
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...

: Gold
Desolation Boulevard
Desolation Boulevard
Desolation Boulevard, released in 1974, is the second album by Sweet that year. It contains an original variant of one of the band's best known songs, "Fox on the Run"....

13 5
4 9 17 17 2 25
GBR: Silver

USA
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...

: Gold

CAN
Canadian Recording Industry Association
Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...

: Gold
1976 Give Us a Wink
Give Us a Wink
Give Us a Wink is an album released in March 1976 by the British rock band Sweet. It was their first album to be fully written and produced by the band themselves...

17 11
4 9 15 3 27
1977 Off the Record
Off the Record (Sweet album)
-Original European LP release :# "Fever of Love" - 4:02# "Lost Angels" - 4:04# "Midnight to Daylight" - 3:32# "Windy City" - 7:30# "Live for Today" - 3:24# "She Gimme Lovin'" - 4:05# "Laura Lee" - 4:17# "Hard Times" - 4:02# "Funk It Up" - 3:36...

51 5 90
11 20 14 151
1978 Level Headed 40 17 52
15 38 26 52
1979 Cut Above the Rest
Cut Above the Rest
Cut Above the Rest is an album by Sweet, released via Polydor Records in October 1979. It was the first album release by Sweet following the departure of their original lead vocalist Brian Connolly...

87 49 151
1980 Waters Edge
1982 Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis (Sweet album)
Identity Crisis is a 1982 album by Sweet. Originally only released in Germany via Polydor Records, was recorded between 1980/81 and finally released after the band split-up in 1981.- Track listing :...

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


(sales thresholds)
AUS
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

AUT
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

DEN
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

GER
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

NOR
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

SWE
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....



1975 Strung Up
(double live & compilation album)
9 10 5 17 12 4
1998 Live in Denmark 1976
1999 Live at the Rainbow 1973
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


(sales thresholds)
GBR
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

AUS
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

CAN
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

DEN
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

GER
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

NZL
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

USA
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

1970 Gimme Dat Ding
(one side only)
1972 The Sweet's Biggest Hits
The Sweet's Biggest Hits
The Sweet's Biggest Hits is a 1972 greatest hits album by Sweet.-Side one:# "Wig Wam Bam" 2:57 # "Little Willy" 3:10...

58 30
1973 The Sweet
(USA and Canada only)
46
191
Sweet and Middle of the Road
(one side only)
1975 The Sweet Singles Album
The Sweet Singles Album
The Sweet Singles Album is a 1975 compilation album by The Sweet released on RCA Records for Australia and New Zealand only.-LP Track listing:Side 1#"The Ballroom Blitz" – 3:59#"Man From Mecca" – 2:45...


(Australia & New Zealand only)
2 21
1977 The Golden Greats
The Golden Greats
-Side one:#"Block Buster!"#"Hellraiser"#"The Ballroom Blitz"#"Teenage Rampage"#"The Six Teens"#"Turn It Down"Written by Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman. Track 1 - 4 produced by Phil Wainman...

1981 Teenage Rampage
(Australia & New Zealand only)
53
1984 Sweet 16 - It's It's... Sweet's Hits 49 17
1987 Hard Centers - The Rock Years
1988 Starke Zeiten > 26
1992 The Ballroom Blitz & More Sweet Hits
The Ballroom Blitz & More Sweet Hits
The Ballroom Blitz & More Sweet Hits is a greatest hits album from British rock band Sweet, initially released in Australia in 1992 on the BMG label. Upon its release it reached number 19 on the Australian albums chart...

19
1992 The Best Of Sweet
1993 Gold - 20 Superhits 44
1993 Ballroom Hitz - The Very Best of Sweet 19
13
1995 Platinum Rare
1996 Ballroom Hitz A single CD release with 22 tracks, not to be confused with the 1993 40 tracks double CD release entitled Ballroom Hitz - The Very Best of Sweet. 15
1998 Sweet Originals
2005 The Very Best of Sweet 72
2009 Action: The Sweet Anthology
Action: The Sweet Anthology
- Personnel :* Andy Scott – guitar, synthesizer, background vocals* Steve Priest – lead vocals on "California Nights", "Call Me", "Big Apple Waltz", "Give the Lady Some Respect", and "Sixties Man", bass, background vocals...

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.


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