| Releases | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↙Studio albums | 15 | |
| ↙Compilation albums | 8 | |
| ↙EPs | 2 | |
| ↙Singles | 68 | |
| ↙Video albums | 1 | |
| ↙Soundtracks | 1 | |
The discography of French singer Amanda Lear consists of fifteen full-length studio albums, eight compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), sixty-six singles and one video album.
Lear achieved her greatest international success between 1976 and 1983 when she was signed to West German label Ariola Records. The six Ariola albums were all released in Continental Europe as well as Scandinavia, Japan, South America and some parts of the former Eastern Bloc. Lear was in fact one of the very few Western artists in the 1970s to have her music officially released in the Soviet Union, on state-owned label Melodiya.
Amanda Lear's debut single "La Bagarre", a cover of Elvis Presley's 1958 classic, was released by the French subsidiary of Polydor Records as well as on the British market on Creole Records in late 1975. The single passed fairly unnoticed, however, it did gain some attention in West Germany. It was subsequently licensed and re-released by German Polydor in March 1976, with Lear promoting the single on German TV show Musikladen in May of that same year, which resulted in her being offered a seven year and six albums recording contract by the Ariola Records label. "La Bagarre" appeared on the first European editions of 1977 debut album I Am a Photograph which also contained her international breakthrough single "Blood and Honey".
Following her initial signing to Ariola, various other labels were used to distribute her records in other nations, for example Chrysalis Records in the United States, Les Disques Direction Records, Siamese Records and Inter Global Records/Epic Records in Canada, RCA Victor in Australasia and South America, Columbia Records/Nippon Columbia in Japan, Eurodisc and Arabella in France, Epic Records in Greece and Cyprus, RTB in Yugoslavia, and both Polydor, RCA Victor and Ariola in Italy. In other European countries like Sweden, the albums and singles were first imported West German Ariola pressings. With Lear achieving mainstream success in Sweden in 1980 with album Diamonds for Breakfast, the Scandinavian Ariola distributor, CBS Records, did however start manufacturing its own pressings of both albums and singles to meet with public demand. They also issued singles like "When" in 1980 and "Nymphomania" in 1981, targeted for the Scandinavian market specifically, although these tracks were never A-side releases in West Germany or any other territory.
In 1982 Lear took legal action against Ariola-Eurodisc in order to be released from her recording contract on the grounds of artistic differences. The lawsuit was unsuccessful and she remained with the label as stipulated in the original deal until the end of 1983, resulting in single "Incredibilmente donna" and album Tam-Tam being recorded in Italy and double A-side single "Love Your Body"/"Darkness and Light" with Anthony Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann. The relationship between Lear, Monn and her former record company was to stay strained all the way into the early 2000s.[1]
Since parting with Ariola-Eurodisc, as of the late eighties a daughter label of BMG-Ariola and eventually absorbed into what is now Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Lear has been signed to the following labels:
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| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [2] |
AUT [3] |
NET [4] |
ITA [5] |
FRA [6] |
SWE [7] |
NOR [8] |
THA [9] |
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| 1977 | I Am a Photograph [A] | 26 | 25 | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1978 | Sweet Revenge | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 17 | — | — | 1 | |
| 1979 | Never Trust a Pretty Face [B] | 24 | — | — | — | 8 | 20 | — | — | |
| 1980 | Diamonds for Breakfast | 43 | 11 | — | — | — | 4 | 10 | — | |
| 1981 | Incognito | — | — | — | — | — | 28 | 19 | — | |
| 1983 | Tam-Tam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1987 | Secret Passion | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1989 | Uomini più uomini | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1990 | Tant qu'il y aura des hommes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1993 | Cadavrexquis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1995 | Alter Ego | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | Back in Your Arms [C] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2001 | Heart [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | With Love [E] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2009 | Brief Encounters | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Year | Title | Album | Chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [12] |
AUT [3] |
SWI [13] |
NET [4] |
ITA [14] |
FRA [6] |
BEL [15] |
SWE [7] |
NOR [8] |
RUS [16] |
SA [17] |
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| 1975 | "La Bagarre" | I Am a Photograph | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1976 | "Blood and Honey" | 12 | — | — | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1977 | "Tomorrow" | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Blue Tango" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Alphabet" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Queen of Chinatown" | 2 | 11 | 5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978 | "Follow Me" | Sweet Revenge | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 3 |
| "Run Baby Run" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)" | — | — | — | 11 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | ||
| "Gold" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Sphinx" | Never Trust a Pretty Face | 19 | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1979 | "Fashion Pack" | 24 | — | — | 50 | 26 | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | |
| "Lili Marleen" | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Fabulous (Lover, Love Me)" | Diamonds for Breakfast | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | |
| 1980 | "Diamonds" | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 18 | 7 | — | — | |
| "Japan" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Ho fatto l'amore con me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "When" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Solomon Gundie" | single only | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1981 | "Egal" | Incognito | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Love Amnesia" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Nymphomania" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Hollywood Is Just a Dream" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Red Tape" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "New York" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1982 | "Fever" | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Incredibilmente donna" | Ieri, oggi | — | — | — | — | 39 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1983 | "Love Your Body" | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "No Regrets" | Tam-Tam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Bewitched" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984 | "Assassino" | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Ritmo Salsa" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985 | "No Credit Card" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Women" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986 | "Les Femmes" | Secret Passion | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1987 | "Wild Thing" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Aphrodisiaque" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Time's Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Follow Me" (New Mix) | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1988 | "Tomorrow" (feat. CCCP Fedeli alla linea) | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Thank You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989 | "Gold"/"Follow Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Métamorphose" | Tant qu'il y aura des hommes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1990 | "L'école d'amour" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Do You Remember Me?" | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1992 | "Fantasy" | Cadavrexquis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1995 | "Everytime You Touch Me" | Alter Ego | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Peep!" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996 | "Angel Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | "Follow Me"/"Tomorrow" | Back in Your Arms | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Queen of Chinatown" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Blood and Honey" (New Remix '98) | Amanda '98 – Follow Me Back in My Arms | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "I'll Miss You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2000 | "From Here to Eternity" (feat. Eric D. Clark) | A Tribute to Giorgio Moroder | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2001 | "Love Boat" | Heart | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2002 | "I Just Wanna Dance Again" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Beats of Love" (feat. Get Ready!) | Tendance | — | — | — | — | — | — | 48 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2004 | "Martini Disease" (feat. Jetlag) | Paris by Night – Greatest Hits | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2005 | "Paris by Night" | — | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | — | 77 | — | |
| "Copacabana" | Forever Glam! | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | "Queen of Chinatown 2006" (feat. DJenetix) | single only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | "Someone Else's Eyes" (feat. Deadstar) | Brief Encounters | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Brand New Love Affair (In the Mix)" | Brand New Love Affair | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2010 | "I Am What I Am" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "I'm Coming Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Chinese Walk" | I Don't Like Disco | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "La Bete et la Belle" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "I Don't Like Disco" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Year | Title | Album | GER | AUT | SWI | NET | ITA | FRA | BEL | SWE | NOR | RUS | SA |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1980 | Live in Concert 1979 |
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