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Depeche Mode discography
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The discography of English electronic music band Depeche Mode consists of 15 studio albums, six live albums, nine compilation albums, 24 box sets and 61 singles. The band's music has been released on several labels, including Some Bizzare, Mute Records, Sire Records, Reprise Records, and Columbia Records. Formed in Basildon, Essex, England in 1980, the group's original line-up was Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy Fletcher (keyboards, bass guitar) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter through 1981). Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album Speak & Spell. Gahan, Gore and Fletcher recruited Alan Wilder (production, keyboards, drums) initially as a touring musician, while recording their second album A Broken Frame as a trio. In late 1982, Wilder was promoted to full band membership, remaining with Depeche Mode until 1995. Following Wilder's departure, Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher continued as a trio until Fletcher's death in 2022, since which time Gahan and Gore have continued as a duo.
Since their debut in 1981, Depeche Mode have had 54 songs in the UK Singles Chart, as well as one US, and two UK number one albums (Songs of Faith and Devotion and Ultra). All studio albums have reached Top 10 in the UK. Also they had seven number one albums in the German Album Charts from 1993 to 2017. According to their record company, Depeche Mode have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide.[1] The group's concert video Devotional was nominated for "Best Long Form Music Video" at the 37th Grammy Awards in 1995.[2] "Suffer Well", the third single off the album Playing the Angel, was nominated in the category for "Best Dance Recording" at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2007. On 19 December 2006, Depeche Mode's back catalogue was released on the iTunes Store as The Complete Depeche Mode. On 3 December 2009, Sounds of the Universe was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. They received a second nomination for the video "Wrong": for Best Short Form Music Video at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.
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Starting with their sixth single ("Leave in Silence"), most official European Depeche Mode single releases are chronologically ordered with a sequential number prefixed by the word "BONG", named after the Bong drug paraphernalia, which Gore had read about around the time of the single's release and found funny enough to make it the official catalogue designation for Depeche Mode's singles.[119]
For example, the fifth Depeche Mode single to follow this pattern, "People Are People", is identified with the code "BONG5", printed on the single's cover, spine and on the record or CD itself. The "BONG" designation is preceded with numbers or letters that indicate the format of the release, such as "7" for a 7" single, "CD" for a CD-single, or "i" for an iTunes-only release. Additional letters such as "L" or "XL" denote a limited edition release. Promotional-only releases include a "P" prefix. For example, "PL12BONG37" indicates the limited, promotional-only 12" single release of "Suffer Well". This scheme was modified for one release: "Little 15" was labeled as "12 LITTLE 15" instead of being given a "BONG" designation. Some singles also had unique prefixes, such as the gatefold 7" single of "Personal Jesus", which was designated GBONG17.
The first five Depeche Mode singles did not use "BONG" and instead followed their label's "MUTE" single numbering scheme. Depeche Mode used the BONG numbering scheme until their departure from Mute Records after 2011.
Non-UK single releases (such as the US-only "Strangelove '88"), which were not given BONG designations, are omitted from the following list.
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Interludes
Several of Depeche Mode's albums have included short unlisted or hidden tracks.
- Construction Time Again ends with a reprise of "Everything Counts".
- Music for the Masses ends with "Interlude #1 (Mission Impossible)".
- Violator includes "Interlude #2 (Crucified)" and "Interlude #3".
- Songs of Faith and Devotion includes "Interlude #4", an excerpt from the Brian Eno "Swamp" mix of "I Feel You".
- Ultra ends with "Junior Painkiller", a short excerpt from "Painkiller", the B-side to "Barrel of a Gun".
- Sounds of the Universe ends with "Interlude #5", a reprise of "Wrong".
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- Recording the Angel and Recording the Universe were released a series of albums recorded live during the Touring the Angel and Tour of the Universe tours respectively.
- "Dreaming of Me" first charted in Germany in March 2011.
- The non-fade-out version of "Dreaming of Me" appears on CD issues of Speak & Spell, despite being officially a non-album single.
- In the Netherlands, "Love, in Itself" charted as an extended play and peaked at number one on the albums chart.
- "Shake the Disease" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #33 on the Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales chart.[90]
- In the United States, "But Not Tonight" was released as the A-side of the single to promote the film Modern Girls, with "Stripped" serving as the B-side.
- "A Question of Time" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #34 on the Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales chart.[91]
- In Australia, "Route 66" charted in May 1988 as an A-side, with "Behind the Wheel" as the B-side (not AA-side).
- "Walking in My Shoes" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #15 on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[95]
- "Walking in My Shoes" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #36 on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[96]
- "Barrel of a Gun" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #5 on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[97]
- The "Home" / "Useless" single did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #15 on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[98]
- "Only When I Lose Myself" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #2 on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[99]
- "Goodnight Lovers" was deemed ineligible to enter the UK Singles Chart by the Official Charts Company, as rules at the time disqualified singles exceeding three tracks from entering the chart; it did, however, peak at number one on the UK Budget Albums Chart.[3]
- "Personal Jesus 2011" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #3 on the Dance Singles Sales chart.[102]
- "Should Be Higher" did not enter the Dance Club Songs chart, but it peaked at #1 on the Dance Singles Sales chart.[104]
- First charted in December 2004.
- First charted in December 2004.
- The "Condemnation" (live) single charted separately to "Condemnation" in Australia.
- Sometimes known as the "FlexiPop! mix". Note transposed "Sometimes I" and "I Sometimes" (on the album version published a month later).
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