Jimmy Page with Robert Plant during a 1977 concert in Chicago |
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| Releases | ||
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| ↙Studio albums | 9[A] | |
| ↙Live albums | 3 | |
| ↙Compilation albums | 9 | |
| ↙Singles | 16 | |
| ↙Video albums | 2 | |
| ↙Music downloads | 8 | |
| ↙Other charted songs | 3 | |
The discography of the English rock band Led Zeppelin consists of nine studio albums, three live albums, nine compilation albums, sixteen singles, eight music downloads, three charted songs and two video albums. Formed in London in 1968, the group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bass player John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band pioneered the concept of album-oriented rock and often refused to release popular songs as singles.[1] Their debut album, Led Zeppelin (1969), released by Atlantic Records, charted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and at number ten on the United States Billboard 200. It received several sales certifications, including an 8 times multi-platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Diamond from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Led Zeppelin's second studio album, Led Zeppelin II, recorded when the band were on tour, was released a few months after the first. It reached number one in several countries, including the UK and the US, where it was certified 12 times multi-platinum. The album produced Led Zeppelin's most successful single, "Whole Lotta Love", which peaked at several music charts in the top 10. Led Zeppelin III (1970) was a softer, more folk-based effort compared to the hard rock of the band's previous releases.[2] It also peaked at number one in the UK and in the US.
Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album, often called Led Zeppelin IV and released on 8 November 1971, is their most commercially successful album. It received a 23 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA, the third-highest of all albums.[3] The band's fifth album, Houses of the Holy, was released in 1973. Again a transatlantic chart-topper, it has received an 11 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA. In 1974, the band set up their own vanity label, Swan Song Records, which would release the rest of Led Zeppelin's studio albums. The first was the 1975 double album Physical Graffiti, which has received a 16 times platinum certification from RIAA. However, Zeppelin's seventh album, Presence (1976), did not perform as well as their previous releases, receiving a triple Platinum certification from RIAA. On 20 October 1976 Led Zeppelin released their first concert film The Song Remains the Same. The recording of the film took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during the band's 1973 concert tour of the United States.[4] The band's eighth album, In Through the Out Door, received a sextuple platinum certification. This was the last album released by the band before Bonham died of alcohol intoxication in 1980; Led Zeppelin disbanded immediately afterwards.[5]
In 1982 Led Zeppelin released the album Coda, a compilation of outtakes from the band's previous recordings, but still considered to be a studio album.[A] Since their break-up, the band have released numerous compilation and live albums from older concerts, including How the West Was Won, which peaked at number one on the Billboard charts, and the compilation album Mothership, which produced seven music downloads and was released on the same day Led Zeppelin's entire catalog became available in digital stores, including in the iTunes Store.[6] "Stairway to Heaven", which has never been released as an official single before, was one of these songs released in digital stores.[7] The band has sold over 300 million albums worldwide,[8] including 111.5 million certified units in the United States.[9]
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| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||||
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| UK [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
CAN [13] |
FRA [14] |
DE [15] |
NLD [16] |
NZ [17] |
NOR [18] |
US [19] |
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| 1969 | Led Zeppelin | 6 | 9 | — | 11 | 19 | 32 | — | — | 16 | 10 | |||||
Led Zeppelin II
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1 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 1970 | Led Zeppelin III
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1 | 1 | — | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 1971 | Led Zeppelin IV[B]
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1 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 34 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 1973 | Houses of the Holy
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1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | — | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 1975 | Physical Graffiti
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1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 1976 | Presence
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1 | 4 | — | 16 | 5 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 1979 | In Through the Out Door
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1 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 28 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |||||
| 1982 | Coda[A]
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4 | 9 | — | 3 | 17 | 43 | — | 7 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||||
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| UK [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
CAN [13] |
FRA [14] |
DE [15] |
NLD [16] |
NZ [17] |
NOR [18] |
US [19] |
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| 1976 | The Song Remains the Same
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1 | 8 | — | 8 | — | 6 | — | 6 | 21 | 2 | |||||
| 1997 | BBC Sessions
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23 | — | — | 30 | 38 | — | — | 26 | 36 | 12 | |||||
| 2003 | How the West Was Won
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5 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 47 | 13 | 10 | 1 | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||||
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| UK [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
CAN [13] |
FRA [14] |
DE [15] |
NLD [16] |
NZ [17] |
NOR [18] |
US [19] |
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| 1990 | Led Zeppelin Boxed Set
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48 | 46 | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | 18 | |||||
Led Zeppelin Remasters
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10 | 1 | 19 | 46 | 3 | 13 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 47 | ||||||
| 1993 | Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2
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56 | — | — | — | 67 | — | — | 48 | — | 87 |
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The Complete Studio Recordings
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| 1999 | Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume One
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55 | — | 23 | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | 71 | |||||
| 2000 | Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two
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40 | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | 81 | |||||
| 2002 | Early Days and Latter Days
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11 | — | — | — | 21 | 96 | — | 17 | — | 114 | |||||
| 2007 | Mothership
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4 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| 2008 | Definitive Collection
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
Notes
| Year | Song | Chart positions | Album | |||||||||||||
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| US Main [19] |
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| 1982 | "Darlene" | 4 | Coda | |||||||||||||
| "Ozone Baby" | 14 | |||||||||||||||
| "Poor Tom" | 18 | |||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Song | Chart positions | Album | |||||||||||||
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| UK [10][36] |
CAN [38] |
DE [15] |
CH [39] |
US Digital [19] |
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| 2007 | "Whole Lotta Love" | 64[10] | 49 | — | — | — | Mothership | |||||||||
| "Immigrant Song" | 109[41] | 54 | — | — | 71 | |||||||||||
| "Black Dog" | 119[41] | 59 | — | — | 66 | |||||||||||
| "Stairway to Heaven" | 37[36] | 17 | 15 | 17 | 30 | |||||||||||
| "Kashmir" | 80[42] | 33 | — | 64 | 42 | |||||||||||
| "Ramble On" | — | 66 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Fool in the Rain" | — | 69 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Video details | Certifications |
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| 1976 | The Song Remains the Same
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| 2003 | Led Zeppelin
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