Jean Michel Jarre discography

Jean Michel Jarre discography

Jarre in Milan, 2008
Studio albums 18
Live albums 8
Compilation albums 28
Video albums 19
Music videos 31
Singles 41
Remix and cover albums 4
Books 11

Jean Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and new-age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.

Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents, and trained on the piano. From an early age he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including those of street performers, jazz musicians, and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.

His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as a musician.

Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles.[1] He was the first Western musician to be allowed to perform in the People's Republic of China, and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
FRA
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
NL
[6]
NOR
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[11]
1972 Deserted Palace
  • Released: 1972
  • Format: LP
1973 Les Granges Brûlées
  • Released: May 30, 1973
  • Format: LP, CD
1976 Oxygène
  • Released:
    • December 1976 (France)
    • July 1977 (international)
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
1 10 12 8 4 9 3 2 78 UK: Platinum
1978 Équinoxe
  • Released: December 1978
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
1 14 22 3 11 126 UK: Gold
1981 Magnetic Fields
(Les Chants Magnétiques)
  • Released: May 1981
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
1 4 20 9 5 20 22 6 98 UK: Gold
1983 Music for Supermarkets
(Musique pour Supermarché)
  • Released: July 6, 1983
  • Format: LP (one single copy)
1984 Zoolook
  • Released: November 1984
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
28 24 27 21 30 47 UK: Silver
1986 Rendez-Vous
  • Released: April 1986
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
1 15 6 20 12 8 24 9 52 UK: Gold
1987 Revolutions
  • Released: August 1987
  • Format: CD, MC, LP
6 13 9 28 4 13 13 2 UK: Silver
1990 Waiting for Cousteau
(En Attendant Cousteau)
  • Released: June 11, 1990
  • Format: CD, MC, LP
2 19 11 27 27 11 22 21 14
1993 Chronologie
  • Released: May 1993
  • Format: CD, MC, LP
2 32 10 50 56 25 21 11
1997 Oxygène 7–13
  • Released: May 20, 1997
  • Format: CD, MC, LP
6 2 11 19 10 4 16 24 11
2000 Métamorphoses
  • Released: 2000
  • Format: CD, MC, MD
7 28 7 17 42 19 30 32 37
2001 Interior Music
  • Released: 2001
  • Format: CD (1000 copies)
2002 Sessions 2000
  • Released: November 2002
  • Format: CD
140
2003 Geometry of Love
  • Released: October 2003
  • Format: CD
2007 Téo & Téa
  • Released: March 26, 2007
  • Format: CD, CD/DVD
8 46 43 103
2007 Oxygène: New Master Recording
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: CD, CD/DVD
40 140
2015 Electronica 1 The Time Machine
  • Released: October 16, 2015
  • Format: CD, LP
3 12 30 4 5 14 20 2 8

Live albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
FRA
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
NL
[6]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
1982 The Concerts in China /
Les Concerts en Chine
  • Released: 1982
  • Format: LP, CD
5 35 9 6 UK: Gold
1987 En Concert Houston-Lyon /
In Concert Houston-Lyon /
Cities In Concert Houston-Lyon
  • Released: 1987
  • Format: LP, CD,
2 19 31 14 11 10 18 UK: Silver
1989 Jarre: Live /
Destination Docklands
  • Released: 1989
  • Re-released 1996 with new title
  • Format: CD, LP
16 22 57 45 16 UK: Silver
1994 Hong Kong
  • Released: 1994
  • Format: CD
21
1998 Paris Live "Electronic Night"
Featuring Tetsuya "TK" Komuro
  • Released: 1998
  • included in the TK 1998 box set with Paris Live "Rendez-Vous '98 Electronic Night" VHS
  • Format: CD
2004 Jarre in China
  • Released: 2004
  • Format: CD/DVD
2005 Live From Gdańsk (Koncert w Stoczni)
  • Released: 2005
  • Format: CD
2006 Live Printemps de Bourges 2002

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
FRA
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
NL
[6]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
1982 Synthesis
  • Released: 1983
  • Italian-only release
  • Format: LP, CS
1983 Musik aus Zeit und Raum
  • Released: 1983
  • Central European-release only
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
5 3
The Essential Jean Michel Jarre
  • Released: 1983
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
14 UK: Gold
1985 The Essential 1976-1986
  • Released: 1985
  • Format: LP, MC, CD
1989 Les Années Laser
  • Released: 1989
  • Format: 10-CD (Box Set)
1991 Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre
  • Released: 1991
  • Format: CD, LP
2 15 20 85 23 14 UK: Gold
1997 Complete Oxygene
  • Released: 1997
  • Limited edition
  • Format: 2CD
2004 The Essential
  • Released: 2004
  • Format: CD
23
AERO
  • Released: 2004
  • Format: CD
2 60 37 33 61 14 UK: Silver
2006 Sublime Mix
2007 The Complete Oxygene
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: 3CD
2011 Essentials & Rarities
  • Released: 2011
  • Format: 2CD
70 89
Rarities
  • Released: 2011
  • Format: LP

Other compilation albums

Remix albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
FRA
[2]
NL
[6]
UK
[10]
1994 Chronologie Part 6 (Remixes)
  • Released: May 1994
  • Format: CD
60
1995 Jarremix
  • Released: 1995
  • Format: CD
24
1998 Odyssey Through O2
  • Released: 1998
  • Format: CD
10 92 50
2015 Remix EP (I)
  • Released: 2015
  • Format: Digital

Singles

Below are the main singles, produced by Jean Michel Jarre for himself. Jarre also composed many songs for other various artists, in late '60s and early '70s, which were released as singles (Jean Michel Jarre is credited on each one).

Video albums

Music videos

Remix and cover albums

Books

References

  1. Dreyfus Records – News – The Jean Michel Jarre Collection, dreyfusrecords.com, 2004-02-17, retrieved 2009-05-26
  2. 1 2 3 4 French Album Charts:
  3. 1 2 3 "Discographie Jean Michel Jarre - austriancharts.at". Hubg Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  4. 1 2 3 Finnish charts:
    • Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 168. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
    • "finnishcharts.com – Discography Jean Michel Jarre". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  5. 1 2 3 German Album Charts
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Discografie Jean Michel Jarre - dutchcharts.nl". Hubg Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  7. "Discography Jean Michel Jarre - norwegiancharts.com". Hubg Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  8. 1 2 "Discography Jean Michel Jarre - swedishcharts.com". Hubg Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  9. 1 2 3 "Discographie Jean Michel Jarre - hitparade.ch". Hubg Medien. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  10. 1 2 3 4 UK Charts:
  11. "Billboard charts". Billboard. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
  12. Publisher idesine

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