Morrissey Central Updated chart history (December 3, 2023)

Updated chart history - MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY - MORRISSEY CENTRAL - Updated chart history

MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY on MORRISSEY CENTRAL

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Singles
The Smiths:
1983 Hand in Glove (Rough Trade) UK only
1983 This Charming Man (Rough Trade) #25 UK
1984 What Difference Does It Make? (Rough Trade) #12 UK 1984 Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (Rough Trade) #10 UK 1984 William, It Was Really Nothing (Rough Trade) #17 UK
1985 How Soon Is Now? (Rough Trade) #24 UK
1985 Shakespeare’s Sister (Rough Trade) #26 UK
1985 That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (Rough Trade) #49 UK
1985 Barbarism Begins at Home (Rough Trade)
1985 The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (Rough Trade) #23 UK 1986 Bigmouth Strikes Again (Rough Trade) #26 UK
1986 Panic (Rough Trade) #11 UK
1986 Ask (Rough Trade) #14 UK
1987 Shoplifters of the World Unite (Rough Trade) #12 UK
1987 Sheila Take a Bow (Rough Trade) #10 UK
1987 Girlfriend in a Coma (Rough Trade) #13 UK
1987 I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish (Rough Trade) #23 UK 1987 Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
(Sire) US only 1987 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
(Rough Trade) #30 UK 1992 This Charming Man (WEA) #8 UK
1992 How Soon Is Now? (WEA) #16 UK
1992 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (WEA) #25 UK 1995 Ask (WEA) #62 UK
1995 Sweet and Tender Hooligan (Reprise) US only
2019 The Queen is Dead #4 (Warner) UK only

Morrissey:
1988 Suedehead (HMV) #5 UK
1988 Everyday Is Like Sunday (HMV) #9 UK
1989 The Last of the Famous International Playboys
(HMV) #6 UK 1989 Interesting Drug (HMV) #9 UK
1989 Ouija Board, Ouija Board (HMV) #18 UK
1990 November Spawned a Monster (HMV) #12 UK 1990 Piccadilly Palare (HMV) #18 UK
1991 Our Frank (HMV) #26 UK
1991 Sing Your Life (HMV) #33 UK
1991 Pregnant for the Last Time (HMV) #25 UK
1991 My Love Life (HMV) #29 UK
1991 At KROQ (Sire) US only
1992 We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
(HMV) #17 UK
1992 You’re the One for Me, Fatty (HMV) #19 UK
1992 Tomorrow (Sire) US only
1992 Certain People I Know (HMV) #35 UK 1994 The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
(Parlophone) #8 UK / #46 US
1994 Hold On to Your Friends (Parlophone) #47 UK
1994 Interlude (Parlophone) #25 UK with Siouxsie
1994 Now My Heart Is Full (Sire) US only 1995 Boxers (Parlophone) #23 UK
1995 Dagenham Dave (RCA) #26 UK 1995 The Boy Racer (RCA) #36 UK
1995 Sunny (Parlophone) #42 UK
1997 Alma Matters (Island) #16 UK
1997 Roy’s Keen (Island) #42 UK
1997 Satan Rejected My Soul (Island) #39 UK 2004 Irish Blood, English Heart (Attack) #3 UK 2004 First of the Gang to Die (Attack) #6 UK 2004 Let Me Kiss You (Attack) #8 UK
2004 I Have Forgiven Jesus (Attack) #10 UK
2005 Redondo Beach / There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
(Attack) #11 UK
2006 You Have Killed Me (Attack) #3 UK
2006 The Youngest Was the Most Loved (Attack) #14 UK 2006 In the Future When All’s Well (Attack) #17 UK
2006 I Just Want to See the Boy Happy (Attack) #16 UK 2008 That’s How People Grow Up (Decca) #14 UK
2008 All You Need Is Me (Decca) #24 UK
2009 I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Polydor) #21 UK 2009 Something Is Squeezing My Skull (Polydor) #46 UK 2010 Everyday Is Like Sunday (Major Minor) #42 UK
2011 Glamorous Glue (Major Minor) #69 UK
2012 Suedehead (Liberty) UK only
2013 The Last of the Famous International Playboys
(Parlophone) UK only
2014 World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest) #80 UK
2016 Spent the Day in Bed (BMG) #64 UK / #1 UK vinyl
2017 Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up On The Stage (BMG) #1 UK vinyl
2017 All The Young People Must Fall in Love (BMG) #2 UK vinyl 2017 My Love, I’d Do Anything For You (BMG) #24 UK / #1 UK vinyl
2017 Lover-to-Be (BMG) #10 UK vinyl
2018 Wedding Bell Blues (BMG) #1 UK vinyl
2018 Back on the Chain Gang (BMG) #1 UK vinyl
2018 It’s Over (BMG) #1 UK vinyl
2019 Honey, You Know Where to Find Me (BMG) #1 UK vinyl
2021 Cosmic Dancer (Parlophone) #62 UK / #1 UK vinyl
with David Bowie
2022 Rebels Without Applause (Capitol Records) #73 UK

Albums
The Smiths:
1984 The Smiths (Rough Trade) #2 UK / #150 US
1984 Hatful of Hollow (Rough Trade) #7 UK
1985 Meat Is Murder (Rough Trade) #1 UK / #110 US 1986 The Queen Is Dead (Rough Trade) #2 UK / #71 US
1987 The World Won’t Listen (Rough Trade) #2 UK
1987 Louder Than Bombs (Rough Trade) #38 UK / #62 US 1987 Strangeways, Here We Come (Rough Trade) #2 UK /
#55 US 1988 Rank (Rough Trade) #2 UK / #77 US
1992 Best…I (WEA) #1 UK / #139 US
1992 …Best II (WEA) #29 UK
1995 Singles (WEA) #5 UK
1995 Hatful of Hollow (WEA) #26 UK
1995 The Queen Is Dead (WEA) #30 UK
1995 Strangeways, Here We Come (WEA) #38 UK 1995 Meat Is Murder (WEA) #39 UK
1995 The Smiths (WEA) #42 UK
1995 The World Won’t Listen (WEA) #52 UK
2000 Louder Than Bombs (WEA) #52 UK
2001 The Very Best Of (WEA) #30 UK
2008 The Sound of The Smiths (Rhino) #21 UK / #98 US 2014 Complete (Rhino) #62 UK
2019 The Queen is Dead (Warner) #10 UK / #197 U.S. 2023 The Queen is Dead (Warner) #11 UK
2023 Hatful of Hollow (Warner) #18 UK
2023 The Sound of the Smiths (Rhino) #20 UK

Morrissey:
1988 Viva Hate (HMV) #1 UK / #48 US
1990 Bona Drag (HMV) #9 UK / #59 US
1991 Kill Uncle (HMV) #8 UK / #52 US
1992 Your Arsenal (HMV) #4 UK / #21 US
1993 Beethoven Was Deaf (HMV) #13 UK
1994 Vauxhall and I (Parlophone) #1 UK / #18 US
1995 World of Morrissey (Parlophone) #15 UK / #134 US 1995 Southpaw Grammar (RCA) #4 UK / #66 US
1997 Viva Hate (Parlophone) UK only 1997 Maladjusted (Island) #8 UK / #61 US 1997 Suedehead (EMI) #26 UK
1998 My Early Burglary Years (Reprise) US only
2001 ¡The Best Of! (Rhino) US only
2004 You Are the Quarry (Attack) #2 UK / #11 US
2005 Live at Earls Court (Attack) #18 UK / #119 US
2006 Ringleader of the Tormentors (Attack) #1 UK / #27 US 2008 Greatest Hits (Decca) #5 UK / #178 US
2009 Years of Refusal (Polydor) #3 UK / #11 US 2009 Southpaw Grammar (RCA) #63 UK
2009 Maladjusted (Universal) #103 UK
2009 Swords (Polydor) #55 UK
2010 Bona Drag (Major Minor) #62 UK
2011 Very Best Of (Major Minor) #80 UK
2012 Viva Hate (Liberty) #147 UK
2013 Kill Uncle (Parlophone) #106 UK
2014 World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest) #2 UK /
#14 U.S.
2016 Low In High School (BMG) #5 UK / #10 U.S.
2018 California Son (BMG) #4 UK / #7 U.S.
2020 I Am Not a Dog On A Chain (BMG) #3 UK / #18 U.S.

This discography lists official UK and US pressings only, with UK and US chart positions.
If any discrepancies appear above please let us know.

 

[The Wild Turkey]

Kinda hopin' Moz studies this list and decides
to start singin' Shelia Take A Bow again.
It's a top tener!

 

[Tea with the taste]

He doesn’t need awards , awards, awards.
But he remains as obsessed as ever with charts pisitions

they are the measure of his dreams, the measure of his dreams ......

 

[Gaylord Deepstar]

 

[Robert Neville]

Look in my eyes, what do you see
the cult of personality

 

[hand in glove]

The Greatest Hits Tour.

 

[SqueezingMySkull]

I find Morrissey's obsession with chart numbers to be really bizarre. Half of his autobiography is filled with this stuff. Morrissey fans don't care if a song is popular. We just have the songs that mean something to us. Financial success or however much a mainstream audience accepts a song is absolutely irrelevant. All of my favorite songs aren't even singles and nearly all of my favorite bands are essentially cult acts and outside the mainstream. I couldn't give a shit if a song charted high or low or never at all.

 

[Redacted]

Is he having another nervous breakdown?

 

[Vesper Nocturne]

Morrissey’s behemoth talent and incomparable dexterity in his artistry are what have propelled him to the incredible heights he has achieved. The quality of output in his canon, which speaks for itself and always has, is the reflection of those heights.

His creativity, his courage, and his singular vision have shown that his ability to tower over his peers and over other industry participants was never fluke - he still towers, and he will always tower.

When Rick Astley did his karaoke night at Glastonbury, Morrissey loomed so large over that open field that he might as well have filled up the entire night sky. Even the very fact of the reality of this seemed entirely lost on people.

This list of chart positions is a simple and great reminder, and a perfect and succinct snapshot of his most popular commercial highs - and still there’s more. He maintains every right to post what he wants on his own website, and clearly this wasn’t posted for the purpose trying to placate or amuse or pander to anyone here. A lot of the responses are eye-watering.

He is a remarkable person. Who deserves to be treasured, and appreciated, and loved.

I despair at the mentality and at the comments on this thread.

 

[marred]

I could not give a toss about chart positions. Are you turning up to any of these concerts? If not then please let us know, otherwise I will see you there with bells on

 

[Anonymous]

Morrissey is so obsessed with chart positions he probably recited this list from memory.

 

[SqueezingMySkull]

This list of chart positions is a simple and great reminder, and a perfect and succinct snapshot of his most popular commercial highs - and still there’s more. He maintains every right to post what he wants on his own website, and clearly this wasn’t posted for the purpose trying to placate or amuse or pander to anyone here. A lot of the responses are eye-watering.

He is a remarkable person. Who deserves to be treasured, and appreciated, and loved.

I despair at the mentality and at the comments on this thread.

I don't give a shit about chart positions. It is not an indicator of talent. I have friends who write songs better than anything on any chart and nobody has ever heard of them. It is absolutely, utterly meaningless to me how popular something manages to get. That is all right place, right time, who you know, and countless twists of fate that make one person famous for music and another person not famous for music. Some of my all-time favorite songs that have moved me to tears have never even been heard by anybody else.

I don't think Morrissey's obsession with chart placement is very productive or interesting, and it was a major flaw in his autobiography, which otherwise was quite enjoyable and moving.

 

[SuedeMoz]

These chart positions are overall not even that great... so why keep making them a focal point? "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" - a brilliant song - only reached #47 (proof that the charts are meaningless). I'm starting to wonder, does he think his music is only as good as the charts say?

 

[Anonymous]

The chart positions are overall not even that great... so why keep them a focal point? "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" - one of the most brilliant songs ever written - only reached #47 (proof that the charts are meaningless). I'm starting to wonder, does he think his music is only as good as the charts say?

Maybe that is the true reason he wants to be on a major label.

 

[Redacted]

 

[Anonymous]

This 100% says everything about morrissey the person.
He's a person to give a very wide berth too.
Deluded, unhinged.
100% catagorically lost.

 

[Thewlis]

 

[gashonthenail]

Moz Central posts nothing about the passing of the greatest poet and singer/song-writer that Ireland has produced in past 50 years - but posts this instead. Jesus.

 

[gordyboy9]

it is currently 7.10 pm in australia,less than 2 hours till kick-off.

 

[Phranc & Open]

Look in my eyes, what do you see
the cult of personality

I had to turn 52, till someone quoted Living Colour @ solo. Very cool.

 

[Phranc & Open]

These chart positions are overall not even that great... so why keep them a focal point? "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" - a brilliant song - only reached #47 (proof that the charts are meaningless). I'm starting to wonder, does he think his music is only as good as the charts say?

It wasn't a catchy hit single, tbh. A great and outstanding song, but no 80s chart fodder.