Idlewild discography

Idlewild discography
Idlewild at The Outsider in 2008
Studio albums	7
Compilation albums	3
Singles	23

The discography of Idlewild, a Scottish rock band, consists of seven studio albums, three compilations and twenty-three singles.^[1]

Studio albums

Year	Details	Peak chart positions				Certifications (sales thresholds)
		UK [2]	FRA [3]	IRE [4]	SCO
1998	Captain^1 Released: January 1998 Label: Deceptive Records	—^2	—	—	—
	Hope Is Important Released: 19 October 1998 Label: Food Records	53	—	—	44 [5]	UK: Silver[6]
2000	100 Broken Windows Released: 9 May 2000 Label: Food Records	15	—	—	6 [7]	UK: Gold[6]
2002	The Remote Part Released: 15 July 2002 Label: Parlophone	3	135	39	2 [8]	UK: Gold[6]
2005	Warnings/Promises Released: 7 March 2005 Label: Parlophone	9	—	50	5 [9]	UK: Silver[6]
2007	Make Another World Released: 5 March 2007 Label: Sequel Records	24	—	100	8 [10]
2009	Post Electric Blues^3 Released: 5 October 2009 Label: Cooking Vinyl	90	—	—	37 [11]
2015	Everything Ever Written^4 Released: 9 February 2015 Label: Empty Words	20	—	—	4 [12]

• ¹ Often considered to be a mini-album.
• ² Charted at number 2 on the UK Indie Chart.^[2]
• ³ Initially self-released to fans on 11 June through idlewildmusic.com.
• ⁴ Pre-orders through Pledge Music announced on 3 November 2014.

Compilation albums

Year	Details	Peak chart positions				Certifications (sales thresholds)
		UK [2]	FRA [3]	IRE [4]	SCO
2007	Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007 Released: 1 October 2007 Label: Parlophone/EMI	79	—	—	21 [13]
	A Distant History - Rarities 1997-2007^1 Released: 29 October 2007 Label: Parlophone/EMI	—	—	—	—
2010	The Collection Released: 23 April 2010 Label: EMI	—	—	—	—

• ¹ Download-only.

Singles

Year	Title	UK [2]	IRE [4]	SCO	Album
1997	"Queen of the Troubled Teens"^[A]	—	—	—	—
	"Chandelier"^[A]	—	—	—
1998	"Satan Polaroid"	160	—	—	Captain
	"A Film for the Future"	53	—	39 [14]	Hope Is Important
	"Everyone Says You're So Fragile"	47	—	42 [15]
	"I'm a Message"	41	—	31 [16]
1999	"When I Argue I See Shapes"	19	—	15 [17]
	"Little Discourage"	24	—	12 [18]	100 Broken Windows
2000	"Actually It's Darkness"	23	—	14 [19]
	"These Wooden Ideas"	32	—	18 [20]
	"Roseability"	38	—	25 [21]
2002	"You Held the World in Your Arms"	9	—	4 [22]	The Remote Part
	"American English"	15	—	8 [23]
	"Live in a Hiding Place"	26	—	17 [24]
2003	"A Modern Way of Letting Go"	28	—	21 [25]
2005	"Love Steals Us from Loneliness"	16	37	6 [26]	Warnings/Promises
	"I Understand It"	32	—	—
	"El Capitan"	39	—	—
2006	"If It Takes You Home" (download-only)	—	—	—	Make Another World
2007	"No Emotion"	36	—	7 [27]
	"A Ghost in the Arcade" (download-only)	—	—	—
2009	"Readers & Writers" (download-only)	—	—	—	Post Electric Blues
	"City Hall"	—	—	—
2014	"Collect Yourself" (download-only)	—	—	—	Everything Ever Written
2015	"Come On Ghost" (download-only)	—	—	—

Notes

• A ^Chart ineligible.

Other appearances

• 1998 - Gran Turismo - "A Film For The Future"
• 2003 - FIFA 2003 - "You Held The World In Your Arms"
• 2005 - Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition - "A Modern Way of Letting Go"
• 2006 - Saints Row - "Too Long Awake"
• 2007 - Ballads of the Book - "The Weight Of Years"

References

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