Mike Oldfield discography

This page is a discography for the musician Mike Oldfield.

Mike Oldfield discography
Studio albums 26
Live albums 1
Compilation albums 21
Video albums 8
EPs 4
Singles 49

Studio albums

Year Title Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]		 DEN
[2]		 FRA
[3]		 GER NED
[4]		 NZL
[5]		 NOR
[6]		 SWE
[7]		 US
[8]
1973 Tubular Bells
  • Released: 2 July 1973
  • Format: LP, Quad, CD
 1 - 9 37 2 25 - - 3
  • 9× Platinum (UK)
  • 2× Platinum (CAN)
  • Gold (FR)
  • Gold (NLD)
  • Gold (US)
  • Gold (SWE)
1974 Hergest Ridge
  • Released: 2 September 1974
 1 - - - 12 - - - 87
  • Gold (UK)
1975 Ommadawn
  • Released: 3 November 1975
 4 - - - 2 - - 42 146
  • Gold (NLD)
  • Gold (UK)
1978 Incantations
  • Released: 27 November 1978
 14 - - 41 27 19 14 32 -
  • Platinum (UK)
1979 Platinum
  • Released: 26 November 1979
 24 - - 11 - - 24 - -
  • Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (UK)
1980 QE2
  • Released: 27 October 1980
 27 - - 12 - - 23 - 174
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (UK)
  • Gold (ESP)
1982 Five Miles Out
  • Released: 15 March 1982
 7 - 175 7 34 32 16 5 164
  • Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (UK)
1983 Crises
  • Released: 23 May 1983
 6 - 2 1 2 6 1 1 -
  • Platinum (GER)
  • Platinum (SWE)
  • Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (FRA)
  • Gold (NLD)
  • Gold (UK)
1984 Discovery
  • Released: 25 June 1984
 15 - 12 1 2 47 3 3 -
  • Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (FRA)
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (UK)
  • Gold (SWE)
The Killing Fields
  • Released: 3 December 1984
 97 - - 64 - - - - -
  • Silver (UK)
1987 Islands
  • Released: 28 September 1987
 29 - 21 9 71 - 9 12 138
  • Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (FRA)
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (UK)
1989 Earth Moving
  • Released: 10 July 1989
 30 - 36 1 55 - - 21 -
  • Gold (FRA)
  • Gold (GER)
  • Gold (CH)
  • Gold (ESP)
1990 Amarok
  • Released: 28 May 1990
 49 - 37 16 66 - - 50 - -
1991 Heaven's Open
  • Released: 18 February 1991
 - - - 13 18 - - - - -
1992 Tubular Bells II
  • Released: 31 August 1992
 1 - 32 7 15 27 - 18 -
  • 2x Platinum (UK)
  • 5x Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (GER)
1994 The Songs of Distant Earth
  • Released: 21 November 1994
 24 29 - 33 81 - - 12 -
  • 2x Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (UK)
1996 Voyager
  • Released: 26 August 1996
 12 16 30 15 41 - 30 13 -
  • 3x Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (UK)
1998 Tubular Bells III
  • Released: 31 August 1998
 4 - 47 9 46 - - 31 -
  • 4x Platinum (ESP)
  • Gold (UK)
1999 Guitars
  • Released: 24 May 1999
 40 - - 16 - - - - - -
The Millennium Bell
  • Released: 26 November 1999
 133 - - 39 - - - - - -
2002 Tr3s Lunas
  • Released: 3 June 2002
 - - 67 19 - - - 32 - -
2003 Tubular Bells 2003
  • Released: 26 May 2003
 51 - 44 29 41 - - - - -
2005 Light + Shade
  • Released: 26 September 2005
 175 - 78 26 - - - - - -
2008 Music of the Spheres
  • Released: 17 March 2008
 9 24 72 14 - - - 31 -
  • Silver (UK)
2014 Man on the Rocks
  • Released: 3 March 2014
 12 15 75 3 16 - - 48 - -
2017 Return to Ommadawn
  • Released: 20 January 2017
 4 - 44 3 28 - - 38 - -

Other albums

Soundtracks

Although the introduction theme was used in The Exorcist, Tubular Bells (1973) was not a soundtrack album.

Oldfield was commissioned to produce the music for NASA's The Space Movie in 1979; no soundtrack album was released at the time. However a DVD and CD soundtrack (though the CD content is just the audio track from the DVD, including voiceovers and sound effects) were issued in October 2015.

Mike Oldfield also contributed to the movie soundtrack album on The X-Files, with his rendition of Mark Snow's main theme, entitled "Tubular X". Note, this does not appear on all versions of the soundtrack album for the movie.

The only full film score which Oldfield has written, was for the 1984 film The Killing Fields (See The Killing Fields soundtrack album).

Orchestral arrangements

In 1975 David Bedford arranged Oldfield's first two albums, Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge, for orchestra. These were both performed and recorded, however only The Orchestral Tubular Bells was released to the public as an album, and reached number 17 in the UK Albums Chart. Even though The Orchestral Hergest Ridge was not released, sections were used in the soundtrack to The Space Movie.

Live albums

There is only one officially released Oldfield live audio album, Exposed, although others have been released on video (see below). Exposed reached number 16 in the UK Album Chart, was certified as Silver in the UK and was recorded in 1979.

The alternate version of Platinum, Airborn is a US-only 2-LP release from 1980. One LP being a version of Platinum, the other having a live version of Tubular Bells part one and a live/studio version of Incantations. Note, they are not the same recordings as Exposed.

Warner's Sight&Sound edition of The Art in Heaven Concert includes a cd of Mike Oldfield's new millennium live performance in Berlin.

The Special Edition of Music of the Spheres also contains the only live performance of the piece given by Oldfield (Bilbao 2008).

Live CDs are being included as well in Mercury Records Deluxe Editions of Oldfield's albums: Platinum (Live at Wembley Arena, May 1980), QE2 (Live from the European Adventure Tour), Five Miles Out (Live in Cologne – 6 December 1982 – Five Miles Out Tour), Crises (Live Highlights from Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour; Live at Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour).

Album reissues

There have been a number of reissue releases of Oldfield's work.

The most notable reissue sets have been of Oldfield's Virgin Records albums Tubular Bells through Heaven's Open:

  • In 2000 Virgin issued HDCD reissues of the albums.
    • This included a hybrid SACD version of Tubular Bells, containing a new remaster of the original LP in 2-channel CDDA and DSD, and a new remaster of the 1975 quadraphonic mix.
  • In the 2000s Virgin Japan released the albums with Mini-LP style artwork.
  • From 2009, when Oldfield's Virgin albums were transferred to Mercury Records (later Virgin EMI) they were slowly reissued with bonus material. In 2009 Tubular Bells was released in multiple editions including an Ultimate Edition and a Deluxe Edition. The Ultimate Edition contained 3 CDs, 1 DVD, 1 Vinyl, 1 Book and other items.
    • Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn were reissued in June 2010, and Incantations followed in July 2011.
    • On 30 July 2012 two more albums were re-issued, Platinum and QE2. Both are available as both a standard single CD edition, a 2 CD deluxe edition and a limited edition coloured vinyl LP (blue for Platinum, white for QE2). Both albums have been remastered and the releases were supervised by Mike Oldfield.
    • On 2 September 2013 Five Miles Out and Crises (also in a 5 disc edition) were reissued.
    • On 29 January 2016 Discovery and The Killing Fields were reissued. Discovery is a 2 CD, 1 DVD release including a CD of the 1984 Suite, a combination of the works from Oldfield's two 1984 albums.

Singles

Oldfield has had more than 25 charting singles in the UK. Oldfield's highest charting single in the UK is "Portsmouth", which charted at number 3, however "Moonlight Shadow" reached number 1 on many European charts.

Compilations and remixes

YearTitleNotesUK Album ChartGERNED
1976BoxedVersions of Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn encoded into SQ Quadraphonic. Also a 4th LP, Collaborations, of shorter tracks with some of the musicians he's worked with on the longer projects. The CD release preserves the quadraphonic encoding.[9]
22
1979Impressions
1980Mike Oldfield's Wonderland
1980Music Wonderland
5
12
1981Episodes
1985The Complete Mike Oldfield
36
1987A Virgin Compilation
1990Collector's Edition Box I & IIBoxed sets of three albums.
1993Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield1 CD
5
13
54
1993Elements Box4 CDs
1997XXV: The Essential
78
2001The Best of Tubular Bells
60
2002Collection
2003The Complete Tubular Bells3 CDs + 1 DVD. Includes Tubular Bells 2003, Tubular Bells II and Tubular Bells III.
167
2006The Platinum Collection3 CDs
36
2009The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–19832 CDs (1 is Tubular Bells)
11
2012Icon1 CD released by Universal Music Enterprises.
-
2012Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield2 CDs, personally compiled by Oldfield
6
2012Mike Oldfield Classic Album Selection 1973–19806 CDs (Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, Platinum, and QE2)
-
2013Tubular BeatsRemix album by Mike Oldfield and York (Torsten Stenzel). Released on 1 February 2013 in Germany by Edel Records.
-
55
54
2013Moonlight Shadow: The Collection1 CD Released on 22 April 2013 by Spectrum Audio.
-
2014The Studio Albums 1992–20038 CDs of Oldfield's Warner Music albums released in October 2014.
2015The Best of 1992–20032 CDs of music from Oldfield's Warner Music albums released in April 2015. It features a number of edits and remixes that had previously only been available as single B-sides.
2016The 1984 SuiteA compilation and remix album featuring pieces from Discovery and The Killing Fields.
2016CollaborationsA standalone reissue of the 4th LP from Boxed.

Video/DVD

YearTitleVHS releaseDVD releaseBlu-ray release
1977Reflection [10]Unknown [11]--
1979The Space Movie19832007, re-released in 2015.-
1979Exposed-2005-
1980The Essential Live1980--
1981Live at Montreux 1981-2006-
1984The Killing Fields199220012013
1988The Wind Chimes1988Included on DVD Elements (2004)-
1992Tubular Bells II, The Performance Live19921999 (with Tubular Bells III)-
1993Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield19932004-
1998Tubular Bells III, The Performance Live19981999 (with Tubular Bells II)-
2000The Art in Heaven Concert20002001-
2006Best of Night of the Proms – Volume 2-2007-
2006Best of Night of the Proms – Volume 3-2008-
20122012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony-20122012

Other:

Collaborations

YearTitleArtistNotes
1968Children of the SunThe SallyangieAs part of a duo with his sister Sally Oldfield. Sallyangie also released two singles.
1969"Two Ships" / "Colours of the World"The SallyangieSingle
1969"Child of Allah" / "Lady Go Lightly"The SallyangieSingle
1970Shooting at the MoonKevin Ayers and the Whole WorldBass guitar, lead guitar and backing vocals
1970"If You've Got Money" / "Yep"Bridget St. JohnElektra single; Bridget St. John featuring Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, including Mike Oldfield on lead guitar
1971Edgar Broughton BandThe Edgar Broughton BandMandolin on one track
1971Ear of BeholderLol Coxhill
1971WhatevershebringswesingKevin Ayers and the Whole WorldBass guitar and lead guitar
1972Nurses Song with ElephantsDavid Bedford
1973LegendHenry Cow
1974Rock BottomRobert WyattLead guitar on one track
1974The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other StoriesKevin AyersLead guitar on one track
1974June 1, 1974Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico and Brian EnoLive album recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 1 June 1974.
1974Star's EndDavid Bedford
1974UnrestHenry Cow
1974Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974Robert WyattLive album released in 2005; lead guitar.
1975The Rime of the Ancient MarinerDavid Bedford
1976Odd DittiesKevin AyersA compilation of singles and unreleased tracks.
1976The OdysseyDavid Bedford
1976BandagesThe Edgar Broughton Band
1977Instructions for AngelsDavid Bedford
1977Mathematicians Air DisplayPekka PohjolaAlso known as a collaboration with Pekka Pohjola or The Consequences of Indecisions album. The original title is Keesojen lehto, under which it is available on CD from Love Records. There was also a release with a Swedish title.
1977Song of the White HorseDavid Bedford
1977Fine Old TomTom Newman
1978Water BearerSally OldfieldMandolin on "Child of Allah"; a song that Oldfield had previously recorded with his sister, Sally, as Sallyangie.
1979Faerie SymphonyTom Newman
1979DownwindPierre Moerlen's Gong
1979Strange Man, Changed ManBram Tchaikovsky
1979"Judy's Gone Down/Jung Lovers"James VaneSingle
1980LivePierre Moerlen's GongLive album
1980The Concertina RecordLea NicholsonGuitar, sleigh bells and bodhrán on one track
1980JoyThe Skids
1983Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places in Devon/The Song of the White HorseDavid BedfordProduced and Engineered by Oldfield. Also the only LP issued by Oldfield Music.
1990NatashaSally Nathasha Oldfield
1990Kâma-SûtraMichel Polnareff
1992Still Life with GuitarKevin Ayers
1992BBC Radio 1: Live in ConcertKevin Ayers
1992Pavarotti & friendsLuciano Pavarotti
1995Variations on a Rhythm of Mike OldfieldDavid Bedford
1996Singing the BruiseKevin Ayers
1997Snow BlindTom Newman
1998The Garden of LoveKevin Ayers
2000Official Bootleg OnePhil Beer
2000Do Ya Wanna Play, CarlCarl Palmer
2002From the Banks of the River IrwellMax Bacon
2005Tag und NachtSchiller
2006Night of the Proms 2006Night of the PromsVarious artists live concert album; sections of Tubular Bells and Ommadawn, and "Shadow on the Wall" with John Miles.
2008"Song for Survival" featuring the Anuta tribeSongs for SurvivalVarious artists charity album for Survival International. In support of the BBC television series Tribe and Amazon.[12]
2012Journey into SpaceTerry OldfieldGuitar on "Origin", "Flight of the Eagle" and "Dancer in the Void".
2012Isles of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic GamesVariousSoundtrack from the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Features new arrangements of Tubular Bells introduction, "Far Above the Clouds" and "In Dulci Jubilo". This album charted in the top ten around the world.[13][14] Live performance also released on BBC DVD/Blu-ray.
2012IslandersYork"Islanders"

References

  1. ↑ "Mike Oldfield". Chart Stats. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  2. ↑ Peaks in Denmark:
    • For all except noted: "Mike Oldfield search". Danish Charts. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
    • For The Songs of Distant Earth: "Listen - Danmarks Officielle Hitliste - Udarbejdet af AIM Nielsen for IFPI Danmark - Uge 48". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Copenhagen. 1994-12-04.
    • For Voyager: "Listen - Danmarks Officielle Hitliste - Udarbejdet af AIM Nielsen for IFPI Danmark - Uge 36". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Copenhagen. 1996-09-08.
  3. ↑ Peaks in France:
    • Before 1996: "Mike Oldfield search". Infodisc. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
    • After 1996: "lescharts.com – Discography Mike Oldfield". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  4. ↑ "Mike Oldfield search". DutchCharts.nl. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  5. ↑ "Mike Oldfield search". Les Charts. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  6. ↑ "Mike Oldfield search". Norwegian Charts. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  7. ↑ "Mike Oldfield search". Swedish Charts. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  8. ↑ "Mike Oldfield search". Billboard Albums Charts. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  9. ↑ "Boxed". tubular.net. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  10. ↑ Keith Critchlow, Lawrence Moore (1977). Reflection (16 mm film with stereo sound). Music by Mike Oldfield & Alan Hacker. A Vortex Production, ©Arts Council of Great Britain. OCLC 51663848.
  11. ↑ "Reflection (VHS)". Rainer Muenz (mike-oldfield.es). Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Bruce Parry presents Amazon / Tribe Songs for Survival". Kensaltown Records. Archived from the original on 30 August 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  13. ↑ "Olympics opening ceremony soundtrack album tops download charts". Washington Post. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  14. ↑ "Opening Ceremony album tops the download charts". London2012.com. 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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