| Artist: | Thomas Dolby |
| Studio: | 5 |
| Live: | 4 |
| Soundtrack: | 5 |
| Compilation: | 9 |
| Video: | 6 |
| Ep: | 6 |
| Singles: | 25 |
This is the discography of British singer-songwriter and musician Thomas Dolby.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||
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| UK [1] [2] | AUS [3] [4] | CAN [5] | FIN [6] | NL [7] | NZ [8] | SWE [9] | US [10] | US R&B [11] | |||
| The Golden Age of Wireless |
| 65 | 72 | 8 | — | — | 21 | — | 13 | 45 | |
| The Flat Earth |
| 14 | 71 | 21 | 25 | 18 | 28 | 50 | 35 | — | |
| Aliens Ate My Buick |
| 30 | 76 | 76 | — | 72 | 43 | — | 70 | — | |
| Astronauts & Heretics |
| 35 | 123 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| A Map of the Floating City |
| 171 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | |
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| Forty |
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| The Sole Inhabitant |
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| Live at SXSW |
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| Live in Tokyo 2012 |
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| Title | Album details | |
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| Howard the Duck |
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| Gothic |
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| The Gate to the Mind's Eye |
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| The Invisible Lighthouse |
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| Double Switch – 25 Anniversary Edition |
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| Title | Album details | |
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| Retrospectacle – The Best of Thomas Dolby |
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| Premium Gold Collection |
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| Hyperactive |
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| Hyperactive |
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| 12x12 Original Remixes |
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| Blinded with Science |
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| The Singular Thomas Dolby |
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| Original Album Series |
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| Hyperactive |
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| Title | Album details | |
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| "Live Wireless" |
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| Thomas Dolby |
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| The Golden Age of Video – 12 of His Best Videos |
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| The Gate to the Mind's Eye |
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| The Sole Inhabitant |
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| Live in Chicago |
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [12] | US | |||
| Blinded by Science |
| 3 | 20 | |
| One of Our Submarines |
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| Amerikana |
| — | — | |
| Oceanea |
| — | — | |
| Return to Oceanea – Remix EP |
| — | — | |
| Halloween: A Thomas Dolby Creation |
| — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [13] | AUS | CAN [14] | ": 7 April 1984 . RPM 50 Singles . . 40 . 5 . 13 April 2022 . Library and Archives Canada. | FIN | GER [15] | NL [16] | NZ [17] | US [18] | US Dance [19] | US Main [20] | |||
| "Urges" | 1981 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Europa and the Pirate Twins" | 48 | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | 67 | — | 37 | The Golden Ages of Wireless | ||
| "Airwaves" | 1982 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Radio Silence" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Windpower" | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "She Blinded Me with Science" (b/w "One of Our Submarines") | 49 | 19 | 1 | — | 52 | — | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 17 | |||
| "Get Out of My Mix" (as Dolby's Cube) | 1983 | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Hyperactive!" | 1984 | 17 | 26 | 16 | 21 | — | — | 41 | 62 | 37 | 39 | The Flat Earth | |
| "I Scare Myself" | 46 | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Dissidents" | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | |||
| "Field Work" (Ryuichi Sakamoto featuring Thomas Dolby) | 1985 | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "May the Cube Be with You" (as Dolby's Cube) | 82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Howard the Duck" (as Dolby's Cube featuring Cherry Bomb) | 1986 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Howard the Duck soundtrack | |
| "The Devil Is an Englishman" (Screamin' Lord Byron featuring Thomas Dolby and Timothy Spall) | 1987 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gothic soundtrack | |
| "Airhead" | 1988 | 53 | 69 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | Aliens Ate My Buick | |
| "Hot Sauce" | 1989 | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "My Brain Is Like a Sieve" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Close but No Cigar" | 1992 | 22 | 107 | — | — | 88 | — | 14 | — | — | — | Astronauts & Heretics | |
| "I Love You Goodbye" | 36 | 155 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Silk Pyjamas" | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hyperactive | " (re-release) | 1994 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Retrospectacle |
| "Quantum Mechanic" (Germany-only release) | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Gate to the Mind's Eye soundtrack | |
| "Blinded by Chemicals" (vs. James Doman) | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Spice Train" (promo-only release) | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Map of the Floating City | |
| "I'm Thomas Dolby" (with JG and the Robots) | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Artist | Contribution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | English Garden | Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club | Keyboards | |
| 1980 | Drip Dry Zone | Local Heroes SW9 | ||
| 1981 | "New Toy" | Lene Lovich | Wrote, keyboards | |
| "Dream Soldiers" | The Fallout Club | Wrote, synthesiser, backing vocals, producer | ||
| Black Snake Diamond Röle | Robyn Hitchcock | Keyboards only on "Love" | ||
| "Ghost Train" | Bruce Woolley | Co-wrote, keyboards | ||
| 4 | Foreigner | Main synthesiser | ||
| "Year 2000" | Jane Kennaway | Wrote, producer | ||
| "Jungle Line" | Low Noise | Vocals, electronics, producer | ||
| Walk Under Ladders | Joan Armatrading | Synthesiser on 6 tracks | ||
| "Wonderlust" | The Fallout Club | Wrote, synthesiser, producer | ||
| Pleasure | Girls at Our Best! | Synthesiser | ||
| 1982 | "I Got You Babe" | Holly & Joey | ||
| Set | Thompson Twins | Additional synthesiser on 3 tracks | ||
| Famous Last Words | M | Synthesiser | ||
| No Man's Land | Lene Lovich | Synthesiser only on "Rocky Road" | ||
| "Sex Machine" | Jack Heard | Synthesiser | ||
| 1983 | Pyromania | Def Leppard | Keyboards (credited as Booker T. Boffin) | |
| Duck Rock | Malcolm McLaren | Keyboards | ||
| "Build Me a Bridge" | Adele Bertei | Producer | ||
| Beauty Life | Trevor Herion | Arrangement only of "Kiss of No Return" | ||
| Whodini | Whodini | Synthesiser, co-wrote and produced 2 tracks | ||
| 1984 | I Hear I See I Learn | The Group | Co-producer of "Technology" | |
| 1985 | Steve McQueen | Prefab Sprout | Instruments, producer, mixing | |
| Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends | George Clinton | Keyboards, synthesiser, producer and lead vocals on 2 tracks | ||
| Dog Eat Dog | Joni Mitchell | Keyboards, synthesiser, programming, vocals, co-producer | ||
| 1987 | Heaven on Earth | Belinda Carlisle | Additional keyboards | |
| 1988 | From Langley Park to Memphis | Prefab Sprout | Keyboards and producer of 4 tracks | |
| Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm | Joni Mitchell | Keyboards only on "Dancin' Clown" | ||
| Descanso dominical | Mecano | Engineer | ||
| Álex & Christina | Álex & Christina | |||
| Vivir al este del Edén | La Unión | |||
| 1989 | Desert Wind | Ofra Haza | Keyboards, backing vocals, programming, producer, mixing, producer, writing | |
| 1990 | The Wall – Live in Berlin | Roger Waters | Keytar, vocals | |
| Prefab Sprout | Producer | |||
| 1991 | Aidalai | Mecano | Engineer | |
| 1992 | Mirmama | Eddi Reader | Remix only of "What You Do with What You've Got" | |
| "Funny Five Minutes" | Chris Braide | Producer | ||
| El cielo lo sabe | Distrito 14 | Engineer | ||
| 1993 | We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story | James Horner | Keyboard, writing and producer of 2 tracks | |
| 1999 | Headspace Music Library V1: Reverie | Headspace | Composer of all tracks except 2 | |
| Headspace Music Library V6: Backyard Sunset | Co-composer of "Sunlane" | |||
| 2002 | Side Three | The Soft Boys | Keyboards only on "Evil Guy" | |
| 2007 | Live from New York at Studio 54 | Lene Lovich | Keyboards; archive material | |
| 2010 | Electro Pioneers | Space Cowboy | Remix only of "My Egyptian Lover" | |
| 2017 | Dangerous Friends | The Fallout Club | Keyboards; composer of 2 tracks, producer of 4 tracks; archive material | |
| 2022 | "I'm Not Your Dog" | Todd Rundgren | Co-writer |
