| Artist: | The Cure |
| Studio: | 14 |
| Live: | 6 |
| Compilation: | 7 |
| Ep: | 12 |
| Singles: | 47 |
| Video: | 12 |
| Music Videos: | 44 |
| 1Option: | 2 |
| 1Option Name: | Remix albums |
| 2Option: | 8 |
| 2Option Name: | Box sets |
| 3Option: | 6 |
| 3Option Name: | Other sets |
| 4Option: | 20 |
| 4Option Name: | Promotional singles |
| 5Option: | 11 |
| 5Option Name: | Other appearances |
The English rock band the Cure has released fourteen studio albums, six live albums, two remix albums, seven compilation albums, eight box sets, twelve extended plays, and forty-seven singles on Fiction Records and Geffen Records. They have also released twelve video albums and forty-four music videos.
Formed in 1976,[1] [2] [3] the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure[4] before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael Dempsey. The band has continued through various line-ups; Smith is the group's only remaining original member. The line-up as of 2024 consisted of Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell, multi-instrumentalist Perry Bamonte, guitarist Reeves Gabrels and drummer Jason Cooper.
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart.[5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively.[5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK.[5] The most successful of these was Wish (1992) which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200.[5] [6] They released the next album Wild Mood Swings in 1996. The following three studio albums – Bloodflowers (2000), The Cure (2004) and (2008) – had mixed success, reaching numbers 14, 8 and 33 in the UK respectively.[5] [7] The group released their fourteenth album, Songs of a Lost World, on 1 November 2024. It marks the group's first new album in sixteen years.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||||||||
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| UK | AUS [8] | AUT [9] | FRA [10] | GER [11] | NL [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US | |||||
| Three Imaginary Boys | 44 | — | — | 140 | — | — | 37 | — | — | — |
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| Seventeen Seconds |
| 20 | 39 | — | 80 | — | 15 | 9 | — | — | 186 | |||
| Faith |
| 14 | 38 | — | 84 | — | 9 | 1 | 38 | — | 193 |
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| Pornography |
| 8 | 39 | — | 81 | — | 17 | 9 | 45 | — | 133 | |||
| The Top | 10 | 55 | — | 18 | 44 | 12 | 23 | 31 | — | 180 |
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| The Head on the Door |
| 7 | 6 | — | 6 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 14 | 59 | |||
| Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 35 |
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| Disintegration |
| 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 12 | |||
| Wish |
| 1 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Wild Mood Swings |
| 9 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 17 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 12 |
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| Bloodflowers |
| 14 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 41 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
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| The Cure | 8 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 7 |
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| 33 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 21 | 38 | 32 | 36 | 15 | 16 |
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| Songs of a Lost World | 1 | 5 [29] | 1 [30] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 [31] | 1 [32] | 1 | 4 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [33] | AUS | AUT | GER | NL | NZ | SWE | SWI | US | |||||
| 26 | 86 | — | — | 31 | 37 | — | — | — | ||||
| Entreat |
| 10 | 25 | 19 | 15 | 88 | 8 | — | 31 | — | |||
| Show |
| 29 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 71 | 36 | 34 | 37 | 42 |
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| Paris |
| 56 | 72 | — | 11 | — | — | — | 20 | 118 |
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| Bestival Live 2011 |
| 119 | — | — | 79 | 98 | — | — | 94 | — | |||
| 40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) |
| — | — | — | 2 | 33 | — | — | 14 | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | AUT | FRA | GER | NL | NZ | SWE | SWI | US | ||||
| Mixed Up |
| 8 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 18 | 51 | 16 | 31 | 26 | 14 |
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| Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 |
| — | — | — | — | — | 135 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | AUT | FRA | GER | NL | NZ | SWE | SWI | US | |||||
| Boys Don't Cry |
| 71 | 60 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | — |
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| Japanese Whispers |
| 26 | 18 | — | 18 | 46 | — | 8 | — | — | 181 |
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| Standing on a Beach: The Singles (Staring at the Sea: The Singles) |
| 4 | 13 | — | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 48 |
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| Galore: The Singles 1987–1997 |
| 37 | 45 | — | — | 51 | 81 | 31 | 54 | — | 32 |
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| Greatest Hits |
| 19 | 27 | 34 | 9 | 22 | — | 17 | 48 | 24 | 58 |
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| Alternative Rarities 1988–1989 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Acoustic Hits |
| — | — | — | — | — | 110 | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [41] | FRA | ITA [42] | US | |||
| First Aid Box |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Integration |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Assemblage CD Collection |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Limited Edition CD Box |
| — | — | — | — | |
| 98 | 29 | 50 | 106 | ||
| Into the Dark: The Early Cure (1979–1982) |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Fade Away: The Early Years Vinyl Box Set |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Classic Album Selection (1979–1984) |
| — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||
| Title | Album details | |
|---|---|---|
| ...Happily Ever After |
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| The Head on the Door & Wish |
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| 3 for One |
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| Three Imaginary Boys / Faith |
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| Pornography / Seventeen Seconds |
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| The Head on the Door / Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me |
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| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [43] | AUS | FRA | SPA [44] | |||
| Singles |
| — | — | — | — | |
| A Single |
| — | — | — | — | |
| The Walk |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Half an Octopuss & Quadpus | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Cure |
| — | — | — | — | |
| The Peel Sessions |
| 7 | — | — | — | |
| Sideshow |
| — | 63 | — | — | |
| Lost Wishes |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Five Swing Live |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Sessions@AOL |
| — | — | — | — | |
| From Festival 2005 |
| — | — | — | — | |
| Hypnagogic States |
| — | — | 39 | 1 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | AUS | FRA | GER | IRE [47] | NL | NZ | SPA [48] [49] | US [50] [51] | US Dance [52] | ||||||
| "Killing an Arab" | 1978 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "" | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Three Imaginary Boys | |||
| "Boys Don't Cry" | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | 22 | — | — | 70 |
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| "Jumping Someone Else's Train" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "I'm a Cult Hero" (as Cult Hero) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "A Forest" | 1980 | 31 | — | — | — | — | 26 | 38 | — | — | 47 |
| Seventeen Seconds | ||
| "Primary" | 1981 | 43 | 94 | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | 25 | Faith | |||
| "Charlotte Sometimes" | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | — | — | |||||
| "The Hanging Garden" | 1982 | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Pornography | |||
| "Let's Go to Bed" | 44 | 15 | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | 109 | 32 | rowspan="3" | ||||
| "The Walk" | 1983 | 12 | 34 | — | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "The Lovecats" | 7 | 6 | — | — | 15 | — | 23 | — | 107 | 52 |
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| "The Caterpillar" | 1984 | 14 | 51 | — | — | 20 | 35 | — | — | — | — | The Top | |||
| "In Between Days" | 1985 | 15 | 16 | 23 | 45 | 17 | 26 | 15 | — | 99 | 39 |
| The Head on the Door | ||
| "Close to Me" | 24 | 7 | 17 | — | 19 | 16 | 45 | — | — | 32 |
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| "The Blood" | 1986 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Boys Don't Cry" (New Voice – New Mix) | 22 | 26 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 27 | 10 | 31 | — | — | |||||
| "Why Can't I Be You?" | 1987 | 21 | 16 | 29 | 29 | 12 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 54 | 27 | Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | |||
| "Catch" | 27 | 77 | — | 59 | 16 | 57 | — | 30 | — | — | |||||
| "Just Like Heaven" | 29 | 89 | 33 | — | 15 | 82 | 31 | 25 | 40 | 28 |
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| "Hot Hot Hot!!!" | 1988 | 45 | — | — | — | 18 | 79 | — | 8 | 65 | 11 | ||||
| "Lullaby" | 1989 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 74 | 31 |
| Disintegration | ||
| "Fascination Street" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | 7 | |||||
| "Lovesong" | 18 | 82 | — | 21 | 13 | 48 | 39 | — | 2 | 8 |
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| "Pictures of You" | 1990 | 24 | 89 | — | 18 | 9 | 77 | — | — | 71 | 33 |
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| "Never Enough" | 13 | 22 | — | 17 | 6 | — | 11 | 14 | 72 | 6 | Mixed Up | ||||
| "Close to Me" (remix) | 13 | 55 | — | 49 | 4 | — | 27 | 18 | 97 | 33 | |||||
| "A Forest" (Tree Mix) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "High" | 1992 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 37 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 22 | Wish | |||
| "Friday I'm in Love" | 6 | 39 | — | 16 | 4 | 32 | 7 | — | 18 | 32 |
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| "A Letter to Elise" | 28 | 103 | — | — | 23 | — | 13 | — | — | — | |||||
| "The 13th" | 1996 | 15 | 31 | — | 55 | 22 | — | 37 | — | 44 | — | Wild Mood Swings | |||
| "Mint Car" | 31 | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | — | |||||
| "Strange Attraction" | — | 145 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Gone!" | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Wrong Number" | 1997 | 62 | 70 | — | — | — | 88 | 43 | — | — | — | Galore: The Singles 1987–1997 | |||
| "Cut Here" | 2001 | 54 | 83 | 85 | 79 | — | — | — | 10 | — | — | Greatest Hits | |||
| "The End of the World" | 2004 | 25 | — | 70 | 47 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | The Cure | |||
| "Taking Off" | 39 | — | 67 | 73 | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | |||||
| "alt.end" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "The Only One" | 2008 | 48 | 80 | 28 | 77 | — | 86 | — | 1 | — | — | 4:13 Dream | |||
| "Freakshow" | 89 | 91 | 30 | 78 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | |||||
| "Sleep When I'm Dead" | 68 | 84 | 36 | 80 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | |||||
| "The Perfect Boy" | 78 | 91 | 37 | 86 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | |||||
| "Want" (Time Mix 2018) | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 | |||
| "Disintegration" (live) | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) | |||
| "Alone" | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs of a Lost World | |||
| "Novembre: Live in France 2022" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | [53] | ||||
| "A Fragile Thing" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs of a Lost World | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Alt [54] | ||||
| "Grinding Halt" | 1979 | x | Three Imaginary Boys | |
| "Lament" | 1982 | x | ||
| "One Hundred Years"[55] | x | Pornography | ||
| "Shake Dog Shake" | 1984 | x | The Top | |
| "A Night Like This" | 1985 | x | The Head on the Door | |
| "Hello, I Love You | 1990 | 6 | ||
| "Just Like Heaven" (live) | 1993 | — | Show | |
| "Friday I'm in Love" (live) | — | |||
| "Purple Haze" | 2 | |||
| "Dredd Song" | 1995 | — | Judge Dredd (soundtrack) | |
| "This Is a Lie" | 1996 | — | Wild Mood Swings | |
| "Out of This World" | 2000 | — | Bloodflowers | |
| "Maybe Someday" | 10 | |||
| "The Last Day of Summer" | — | |||
| "Just Say Yes" (featuring Saffron) | 2002 | — | Greatest Hits | |
| "Love" | 2005 | — | ||
| "Hello Goodbye" (featuring James McCartney) "C Moon" (Credited to Robert Smith) | 2014 | — | The Art of McCartney | |
| "It's Over" (Whisper Mix 2018) | 2018 | — | Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 | |
| "Like Cockatoos" (Lonely in the Rain Mix 2018) | — | |||
| "A Strange Day" (Drowning Waves Mix 2018) | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. "x" denotes that chart did not exist at the time. | ||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| NZ Hot [56] | |||
| "And Nothing Is Forever" | 2024 | 25 | Songs of a Lost World |
| "Warsong" | 37 | ||
| "All I Ever Am" | 28 |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [57] | GER [58] | NL | SWI | US [59] | |||
| Live in Japan | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Tea Party |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| Staring at the Sea: The Images |
| 1 | — | — | — | 4 | |
| The Cure in Orange |
| 19 | — | — | — | 4 | |
| Picture Show |
| 1 | — | — | — | 3 | |
| Play Out |
| 7 | — | — | — | 11 | |
| Show |
| 2 | — | — | — | 30 | |
| Galore: The Videos 1987–1997 |
| 17 | — | — | — | 6 | |
| Greatest Hits | 26 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 7 | 28 | 16 | — | 4 | ||
| Festival 2005 |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| 40 Live (Curætion-25 + Anniversary) |
| 1 | — | — | 4 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
| Title | Year | Director[62] [63] [64] |
|---|---|---|
| "10:15 Saturday Night" | 1978 | Piers Bedford |
| "A Forest" | 1980 | David Hillier |
| "Play for Today" | ||
| "Primary" | 1981 | Bob Rickerd |
| "Other Voices" | ||
| "Charlotte Sometimes" | Mick Mansfield | |
| "The Hanging Garden" | 1982 | Chris Gabrin |
| "Let's Go to Bed" | Tim Pope | |
| "The Walk" | 1983 | |
| "The Lovecats" | ||
| "The Caterpillar" | 1984 | |
| "In Between Days" | 1985 | |
| "Close to Me" | ||
| "A Night Like This" | ||
| "The Blood" | 1986 | Gerard de Thame |
| "Boys Don't Cry" | Tim Pope | |
| "Killing an Arab" | ||
| "Jumping Someone Else's Train" | ||
| "Why Can't I Be You?" | 1987 | |
| "Catch" | ||
| "Just Like Heaven" | ||
| "Hot Hot Hot | !!" | 1988 |
| "Lullaby" | 1989 | |
| "Fascination Street" | ||
| "Lovesong" | ||
| "Pictures of You" | 1990 | |
| "Never Enough" | ||
| "Close to Me" (remix) | ||
| "High" | 1992 | |
| "Friday I'm in Love" | ||
| "A Letter to Elise" | Aubrey Powell | |
| "The 13th" | 1996 | Sophie Muller |
| "Mint Car" | Richard Heslop | |
| "Gone | " | Steve Hanft |
| "Wrong Number" | 1997 | Tim Pope |
| "Cut Here" | 2001 | Richard Anthony[65] |
| "Just Say Yes" | ||
| "The End of the World" | 2004 | Floria Sigismondi[66] |
| "Taking Off" | The Saline Project[67] [68] | |
| "alt.end" | ||
| "The Only One" | 2008 | Unknown |
| "Freakshow" | ||
| "Sleep When I'm Dead" | ||
| "The Perfect Boy" |
| Track | Year | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "One Hundred Years" (demo) | 1981 | Fast Forward 008/009: Annual Report[69] | |
| "Lullaby" (remix) | 1990 | Gänsehaut & Herzklopfen | |
| "A Walk with the Cure" | November 90: Mixes 1 | ||
| "Close to Me" (Closer Mix) | 1991 | The Brits 1991 | |
| "Burn" | 1994 | The Crow (soundtrack) | |
| "Young Americans" | 1995 | 104.9 | |
| "World in My Eyes" | 1998 | For the Masses | |
| "More Than This" | |||
| "Watching Me Fall" (Underdog remix) | 2000 | American Psycho (soundtrack) | |
| "A Forest" (Acoustic Version) | 2004 | Essential Glastonbury | |
| "Make Me Bad"/"In Between Days" (with Korn) | 2007 | MTV Unplugged: Korn |
