This page is a singles discography for the musician Mike Oldfield.
Contents |
Year | Title | Album | Notes | Chart positions | ||||||
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UK | AUS | CAN | NZ | U.S. | NL | GER | ||||
1974 | "Mike Oldfield's Single" ("Tubular Bells") |
Tubular Bells | Note that US version is a very different edit. The UK version was featured on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells. |
31 | 12 | 3 | 7 | |||
1975 | "Don Alfonso" | Featuring David Bedford on vocals | ||||||||
"In Dulci Jubilo" / "On Horseback" | Ommadawn | Double A-side. "In Dulci Jublio" is an instrumental; "On Horseback" features vocals by Mike Oldfield |
4 | 3 | ||||||
1976 | "Portsmouth" | 3 | 23 | |||||||
1977 | "William Tell Overture" | |||||||||
"Cuckoo Song" | Credited to Mike Oldfield with Les Penning | |||||||||
1979 | "Guilty" | 22 | ||||||||
"Blue Peter" | 19 | 48 | ||||||||
1980 | "Arrival" | QE2 | ||||||||
"Sheba" / "Wonderful Land" | B-side only ("Wonderful Land") charted in Australia | 40 | ||||||||
1982 | "Five Miles Out" | Five Miles Out | Vocals by Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly | 43 | 61 | 44 | 42 | |||
"Family Man" | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 45 | 29 | |||||||
"Mistake" | Crises | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 56 | |||||||
1983 | "Moonlight Shadow" | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
"Shadow on the Wall" | Vocals by Roger Chapman | 95 | 10 | 3 | ||||||
1984 | "Crime of Passion" | Vocals by Barry Palmer | 61 | 17 | ||||||
"To France" | Discovery | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 48 | 97 | 3 | 6 | ||||
"Tricks of the Light" | Vocals by Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer | 91 | 46 | |||||||
"Étude" | The Killing Fields | |||||||||
1985 | "Pictures in the Dark" | Vocals by Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and Aled Jones | 50 | 4 | ||||||
1986 | "Shine" | Vocals by Jon Anderson | 100 | 31 | ||||||
1987 | "In High Places" | Crises | Vocals by Jon Anderson | |||||||
"Islands" | Islands | Vocals by Bonnie Tyler | 100 | 41 | ||||||
"The Time Has Come" | Vocals by Anita Hegerland | |||||||||
"Magic Touch" | Vocals by Max Bacon. Charted at #10[1] on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart |
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1988 | "Flying Start" | Vocals by Kevin Ayers | ||||||||
1989 | "Earth Moving" | Earth Moving | Vocals by Nikki Bentley | 93 | ||||||
"Innocent" | Vocals by Anita Hegerland | 8 | ||||||||
"(One Glance is) Holy" | Vocals by Adrian Belew | |||||||||
1990 | "Étude (Nuforen Advert)" | Reissue of 1984 single | ||||||||
1991 | "Heaven's Open" | Heaven's Open | ||||||||
"Gimme Back" | ||||||||||
1992 | "Sentinel" | Tubular Bells II | 10 | |||||||
"Tattoo" | 33 | |||||||||
1993 | "The Bell" | Many different mixes exist. The UK charting version featured Master of Ceremonies Vivian Stanshall |
50 | |||||||
"Moonlight Shadow" | Elements | Reissue of 1983 single | 52 | |||||||
"In Dulci Jubilo" | Reissue of 1975 single A-side | |||||||||
1994 | "Hibernaculum" | The Songs of Distant Earth | 47 | |||||||
1995 | "Let There Be Light" | 51 | ||||||||
1996 | "The Voyager" | Voyager | Promo Single | |||||||
1997 | "Women of Ireland" | 70 | ||||||||
1998 | "Tubular X" | The X-Files: The Album | Also known as The X-Files Theme EP | |||||||
"Man in the Rain" | Tubular Bells III | Vocals by Cara Dillon, with additional vocals by Heather Burnett | 130 | 94 | ||||||
1999 | "Far Above the Clouds" | 53 | ||||||||
2002 | "To Be Free" | Tres Lunas | Vocals by Jude Sim | |||||||
"Thou Art in Heaven" | ||||||||||
2008 | "Spheres" | Music of the Spheres | Download only |
Year | Title | Album | Notes | Chart positions | ||||
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UK | AUS | CAN | NZ | U.S. | ||||
1978 | Take Four | 4-track 12" single, featuring "Portsmouth", "In Dulci Jublio", "Wrekorder Wrondo", and "The Sailor's Hornpipe" | 72 | |||||
1981 | The Singles | 6-track 12" EP, featuring "The William Tell Overture", "Blue Peter", "Polka", "Cuckoo Song", "Pipe Tune" and "Portsmouth". Released only in Japan | ||||||
1982 | The Mike Oldfield EP | 4-track EP, featuring "Mistake", "Waldberg (The Peak)", "Family Man" and "Mount Teide". Released only in Germany during Oldfield's 1982 "World Tour/Who's Next Tour". |
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1998 | The X-Files Theme EP | The X-Files: The Album | Features four versions of Mark Snow's "The X-Files Theme", one of these being Oldfield's "Tubular X" which is a reworking of Snow's original theme combined with his own "Tubular Bells". EP also includes Oldfield's track "The Source of Secrets", from Tubular Bells III. Released only in Japan |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1973 | "Tubular Bells (Excerpts)" | USA Promo 13 245 AT[2] |
1974 | "Tubular Bells" | [2] |
1974 | "Tubular Bells/Froggy Went A-Courting" | [2] |
1974 | "Froggy Went A-Courting" | 13 245 AT[2] |
1974 | "Hergest Ridge" | PR-223[2] |
1974 | "Extract from The Orchestral Tubular Bells" | VDJ 1[2] |
1974 | "Don Alfonso (Deutsche version)" | German language single, 13 927 AT[2] |
1975 | "An extract from Ommadawn" | VDJ.9[2] |
1975 | "Theme from Ommadawn" | USA/Canada[2] |
1975 | "Ommadawn" / "In Dulci Jubilo" | France[2] |
1979 | "Guilty" (Live) | Germany, Portugal and Netherlands[2] |
1979 | "Extract from Tubular Bells" (Live) | Germany[2] |
1979 | "North Star/Platinum Finale" | Spain, 101 468[2] |
1979 | "Alright Now" | UK promo single sided flexi-disc |
1980 | "In Concert" | Germany, 696 009-000[2] |
1980 | "Celt" | Australia, VS 374/MX 194891[2] |
1980 | "Wonderful Land" | |
1981 | "The Singles" | Japan only EP |
1982 | "The Mike Oldfield EP" | Germany only EP |
1983 | "Foreign Affair" | Argentina, S-0425[2] |
1984 | "Discovery" | Canada, VDJ006[2] |
1985 | "The Complete Mike Oldfield" | UK, SWALLOW 1 / Spain VP 020 (12-inch)[2] |
1988 | "The Wind Chimes" | USA, "Keyboard" magazine, 1032431XS[2] |
1989 | "Blue Night" | Spain, SP-MIKE 1[2] |
1989 | "Nothing But" | Spain, SP-MIKE 2[2] |
1989 | "Hostage" | USA, PRCD 3208[2] |
1989 | "Tubular Bells (Edit)" | USA, PRCD 3572[2] |
1990 | "Amarok album sampler" | Germany, 663 271-000[2] |
1990 | "Amarok X-Traks" | AMACD 1 / AMACD 1DJ "Insight" (WhSmith magazine)[2] |
1991 | "Moonlight Shadow" | Reissue, France |
1992 | "Tubular Bells II" | Medley cassette-tape[2] |
1993 | "Tubular Bells/Moonlight Shadow (Elements Promo)" | France, FROLD 1[2] |
1993 | "Tubular Bells (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD1[2] |
1993 | "Moonlight Shadow (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD2[2] |
1993 | "Ommadawn (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD3[2] |
1993 | "Family Man (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD4[2] |
1993 | "To France (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD5[2] |
1993 | "Islands (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD6[2] |
1994 | "Five Miles Out (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD7[2] |
1994 | "Foreign Affair (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD8[2] |
1994 | "Heaven´s Open (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD9[2] |
1994 | "Highlights from the Album - The Songs of Distant Earth" | Netherlands, WARNER 2[2] |
1994 | "The Songs Of Distant Earth" | Sweden, WMSPROM68[2] |
1994 | "A Shot of Moonshine" | UK, SAM 1470[2] |
1995 | "Tubular World" | Spain, 2033[2] |
1996 | "The Voyager" | German/UK Promo only, PRCD 386[2] |
1996 | "The Song of the Sun" | Spain, PRCD 486[2] |
1996 | "Mont St. Michel" | Spain, PRCD 363[2] |
1997 | "XXV - The Essential Radio Sampler" | Germany, PRCD 949[2] |
1998 | "The X-Files Theme" | X-Files Theme, Japanese release (AMCY-2917) |
1998 | "More Secrets" | UK, 333 00067 2[2] |
1998 | "The Top of the Morning" | Spain, PRO 1116[2] |
1999 | "Cochise" | Spain, PRO 2018[2] |
1999 | "Out of Mind" | Spain, PRO 2019[2] |
1999 | "Pacha Mama" | Spain, SP008W |
1999 | "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud" | Spain Promo-only |
1999 | "Amber Light" | Spain/Germany, PRCD 1783 |
2003 | "Introduction 2003" | Spain/Germany Promo-only (PRO3962)/(PRO3692) |
2005 | "Surfing" | England Promo-only (SURFCJ1) |
2009 | "Mike Oldfield's Single" ("Tubular Bells") |
Promo single. Re-released due to the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells |