Mike Oldfield albums discography

For Mike Oldfield's singles, see Mike Oldfield singles discography.

This is the albums discography of English musician Mike Oldfield.

Mike Oldfield discography
Studio albums	26
EPs	6
Soundtrack albums	1
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	14
Video albums	11
Orchestral arrangements	1
Remix albums	2
Box sets	7

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications
		UK [1][2]	AUS [3]	AUT [4]	CAN [5]	GER [6]	NL [7]	SPA [8][9]	SWE [10][11]	SWI [12]	US [13]
Tubular Bells	Released: 25 May 1973 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC, 8-track, reel-to-reel	1	1	67[A]	1	22	2	4	—	21[A]	3	BPI: 9× Platinum[14] ARIA: 3× Platinum[15] MC: 2× Platinum[16] NVPI: Gold[17] RIAA: Gold[18]
Hergest Ridge	Released: 30 August 1974 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC, 8-track	1	12	—	91	—	12	54[B]	11	—	87	BPI: Gold[14]
Ommadawn	Released: 7 November 1975 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC, 8-track	4	60	—	74	—	2	5	42	—	146	BPI: Gold[14] NVPI: Gold[17]
Incantations	Released: 1 December 1978 Label: Virgin Formats: 2×LP, MC	14	54	—	—	41	27	9	32	—	—	BPI: Platinum[14]
Platinum	Released: 23 November 1979 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC Released in North America as Airborn	24	98	17	—	11	—	27	—	—	—	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
QE2	Released: 31 October 1980 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC	27	23	8	—	12	—	45[C]	—	—	174	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
Five Miles Out	Released: 19 March 1982 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC	7	16	10	29	7	34	3	5	—	164	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
Crises	Released: 27 May 1983 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	6	17	2	57	1	2	1	1	5	—	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Platinum[19] NVPI: Gold[17] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
Discovery	Released: 25 June 1984 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	15	56	3	44	1	2	1	3	1	—	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
Islands	Released: 28 September 1987 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	29	—	10	—	9	71	4	12	4	138	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] IFPI SWI: Gold[21] PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
Earth Moving	Released: 10 July 1989 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	30	—	21	—	1	55	21	21	3	—	BVMI: Gold[19] IFPI SWI: Gold[22] PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
Amarok	Released: 28 May 1990 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	49	—	26	—	16	66	27	50	30	—
Heaven's Open	Released: 18 February 1991 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	—	—	—	—	13	80	—	—	16	—
Tubular Bells II	Released: 31 August 1992 Label: WEA Formats: CD, LP, MC	1	12	4	—	7	15	1	18	19	—	BPI: 2× Platinum[14] BVMI: Gold[19] PROMUSICAE: 5× Platinum[20]
The Songs of Distant Earth	Released: 21 November 1994 Label: WEA Formats: CD, LP, MC	24	—	20	—	33	81	1	12	23	—	BPI: Gold[14] PROMUSICAE: 2× Platinum[20]
Voyager	Released: 26 August 1996 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	12	—	16	—	15	41	1	13	15	—	BPI: Gold[14] PROMUSICAE: 3× Platinum[20]
Tubular Bells III	Released: 31 August 1998 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	4	96	4	—	9	46	1	31	26	—	BPI: Gold[14] PROMUSICAE: 4× Platinum[20]
Guitars	Released: 24 May 1999 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	40	—	35	—	16	—	3	—	34	—	PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
The Millennium Bell	Released: 26 November 1999 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	133	—	43	—	39	—	5	—	94	—	PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
Tres Lunas	Released: 3 June 2002 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	—	—	8	—	19	—	5	32	44	—	PROMUSICAE: Platinum[20]
Tubular Bells 2003	Released: 27 May 2003 Label: WEA Formats: CD, MC	51	—	—	—	29	41	11	—	55	—
Light + Shade	Released: 26 September 2005 Label: Mercury Formats: 2×CD	175	—	—	—	26	—	9	—	76	—
Music of the Spheres	Released: 17 March 2008 Label: Universal Classics and Jazz, Mercury Formats: CD	9	—	62	—	14	—	7	31	37	—	BPI: Silver[14]
Man on the Rocks	Released: 3 March 2014 Label: Virgin EMI Formats: CD, 2×LP, digital download	12	—	10	—	3	16	5	48	9	—
Return to Ommadawn	Released: 29 January 2017 Label: Virgin EMI Formats: CD, LP, digital download	4	—	6	—	3	28	1	38	8	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

There is only one officially released Oldfield live audio album, Exposed, although others have been released on video: Warner's Sight&Sound edition of The Art in Heaven Concert includes a CD of Oldfield's new millennium live performance in Berlin; and the special edition of Music of the Spheres also contains the only live performance of the piece by Oldfield (Bilbao 2008).

The North America alternate version of Platinum, Airborn, features a live version of Tubular Bells part one and a live/studio version of Incantations on the second LP. Note, they are not the same recordings as Exposed.

Live CDs were also included in the 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 at Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour).

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions		Certifications
		UK [1]	GER [6]
Exposed	Released: 27 July 1979 Label: Virgin Formats: 2×LP, MC	16	43	BPI: Silver[14]

Soundtrack albums

The only full film score which Oldfield has written, was for the 1984 film The Killing Fields. 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. He also contributed to the movie soundtrack album on The X-Files, with his rendition of Mark Snow's main theme, entitled "Tubular X".

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions				Certifications
		UK [1]	CAN [5]	GER [6]	SPA [8]
The Killing Fields	Released: 26 November 1984 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	97	90	64	16	BPI: Silver[14]

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, but only The Orchestral Tubular Bells was released to the public as an album. Even though The Orchestral Hergest Ridge was not released, sections were used in the soundtrack to The Space Movie.

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certifications
		UK [1]
The Orchestral Tubular Bells	Released: January 1975 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC, 8-track	17	BPI: Silver[14]

Remix albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		AUT [4]	GER [6]	NL [7]	SPA [8]	SWE [9]
Tubular Beats	Released: 1 February 2013 Label: Ear Music Formats: CD, digital download	67	55	54	96	55
The 1984 Suite	Released: 29 January 2016 Label: Mercury/Virgin EMI Formats: LP, digital download	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions							Certifications
		UK [1]	AUT [4]	GER [6]	NL [7]	SPA [8][9]	SWE [11]	SWI [12]
Music Wonderland	Released: March 1981 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC Continental Europe-only release	—	—	5	12	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[19]
Episodes	Released: June 1981[23] Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC France-only release	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Complete Mike Oldfield	Released: 21 October 1985 Label: Virgin Formats: 2×CD, 2×LP, 2×MC	36	—	17	—	7	—	27	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] IFPI SWI: Gold[22] PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield	Released: 13 September 1993 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, LP, MC	5	24	13	54	5	4	21	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[19] IFPI SWI: Gold[22] PROMUSICAE: 2× Platinum[20]
XXV: The Essential	Released: 17 November 1997 Label: WEA/Virgin Formats: CD, MC	78	19	42	—	19	—	—	PROMUSICAE: Gold[20]
The Best of Tubular Bells	Released: 4 June 2001 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, MC	60	—	—	—	—	—	—
Collection	Released: February 2002 Label: Virgin Formats: 2×CD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Platinum Collection	Released: 13 March 2006 Label: Virgin Formats: 3×CD	36	—	—	—	12	—	—
The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–1983	Released: 8 June 2009 Label: Mercury Formats: 2×CD	11	—	—	—	—	—	—
Icon	Released: 31 May 2012 Label: Universal Music Formats: CD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield	Released: 30 July 2012 Label: Mercury/Universal Music Formats: 2×CD, digital download	6	—	22	—	38	—	86
Moonlight Shadow: The Collection	Released: 22 April 2013 Label: Mercury/Universal Music Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Best of 1992–2003	Released: 24 April 2015 Label: Warner Music Formats: 2×CD, digital download	—	—	—	—	70	—	91
Lo mejor de...	Released: 10 July 2015 Label: Universal Music Formats: CD Spain-only release	—	—	—	—	93	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [1][2]	SPA [8][9]
Boxed	Released: 29 October 1976 Label: Virgin Formats: 4×LP, 2×MC	22	—
Collector's Edition Box	Released: 1990 Label: Virgin Formats: 2×CD	—	—
Elements Box	Released: November 1993 Label: Virgin Formats: 4×CD	—	—
The Complete Tubular Bells	Released: November 1993 Label: WEA Formats: 3×CD+DVD	167	13
Classic Album Selection – Six Albums 1973–1980	Released: 30 July 2012 Label: Mercury/Universal Music Formats: 6×CD	—	68
The Studio Albums 1992–2003	Released: 21 October 2014 Label: Warner Music Formats: 8×CD	—	—
Original Album Series	Released: 11 November 2016 Label: Rhino/Warner Music Formats: 5×CD	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certifications
		UK [1]
The Essential Mike Oldfield	Released: October 1981[24] Label: Virgin Video Formats: VHS	—
Tubular Bells – Live in Concert	Released: 1984 Label: WOT Video/Festival Formats: VHS Australia-only release	—
The Wind Chimes	Released: June 1988 Label: Virgin Music Video Formats: VHS, CD-V	8[25]
Tubular Bells II – The Performance Live at Edinburgh Castle	Released: October 1992 Label: Warner Music Vision Formats: VHS, LD	4[26]
Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield	Released: September 1993 Label: Virgin Formats: VHS, LD	5[27]
Tubular Bells III Live	Released: October 1998 Label: Warner Music Video Formats: VHS	9
Tubular Bells II & III Live	Released: 20 September 1999 Label: Warner Music Video Formats: DVD	16	BPI: Gold[14]
The Art in Heaven Concert	Released: 10 February 2000 Label: Warner Music Video Formats: DVD, VHS	20
Esposed	Released: 24 October 2005 Label: EMI/Virgin Formats: 2×DVD	33
Live at Montreux 1981	Released: 15 May 2006 Label: Eagle Vision Formats: DVD	40
The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour	Released: 7 November 2022 Label: Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment Formats: 2×DVD, 2×Blu-ray	1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [1]
Take Four	Released: 1 December 1978 Label: Virgin Formats: 7", 12"	72
The Singles	Released: 1981 Label: Virgin Formats: 12" Japan-only release	—
The Mike Oldfield EP	Released: September 1982 Label: Virgin Formats: 7", 12" Germany-only release	—
Tattoo – Live at Edinburgh Castle EP	Released: 7 December 1992 Label: WEA Formats: CD	—
In Dulci Jubilo – The Mike Oldfield Christmas EP	Released: November 1993 Label: Virgin Formats: CD, MC	—
The X-Files Theme EP	Released: 16 December 1998 Label: EastWest Japan Formats: CD Japan-only release	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Collaborations

Year	Title	Artist	Notes
1968	Children of the Sun	The Sallyangie	As part of a duo with his sister Sally Oldfield. Sallyangie also released two singles.
1969	"Two Ships" / "Colours of the World"	The Sallyangie	Single
1969	"Child of Allah" / "Lady Go Lightly"	The Sallyangie	Single
1970	Shooting at the Moon	Kevin Ayers and the Whole World	Bass guitar, lead guitar and backing vocals
1970	"If You've Got Money" / "Yep"	Bridget St. John	Elektra single; Bridget St. John featuring Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, including Mike Oldfield on lead guitar
1971	Edgar Broughton Band	The Edgar Broughton Band	Mandolin on one track
1971	Ear of Beholder	Lol Coxhill
1971	Whatevershebringswesing	Kevin Ayers and the Whole World	Bass guitar and lead guitar
1972	Nurses Song with Elephants	David Bedford
1973	Legend	Henry Cow
1974	Rock Bottom	Robert Wyatt	Lead guitar on one track
1974	The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories	Kevin Ayers	Lead guitar on one track
1974	June 1, 1974	Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico and Brian Eno	Live album recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 1 June 1974.
1974	Star's End	David Bedford
1974	Unrest	Henry Cow
1974	Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974	Robert Wyatt	Live album released in 2005; lead guitar.
1975	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	David Bedford
1976	Odd Ditties	Kevin Ayers	A compilation of singles and unreleased tracks.
1976	The Odyssey	David Bedford
1976	Bandages	The Edgar Broughton Band
1977	Instructions for Angels	David Bedford
1977	Mathematicians Air Display	Pekka Pohjola	Also 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.
1977	Song of the White Horse	David Bedford
1977	Fine Old Tom	Tom Newman
1978	Water Bearer	Sally Oldfield	Mandolin on "Child of Allah"; a song that Oldfield had previously recorded with his sister, Sally, as Sallyangie.
1979	Faerie Symphony	Tom Newman
1979	Downwind	Pierre Moerlen's Gong
1979	Strange Man, Changed Man	Bram Tchaikovsky
1979	"Judy's Gone Down/Jung Lovers"	James Vane	Single
1980	Live	Pierre Moerlen's Gong	Live album
1980	The Concertina Record	Lea Nicholson	Guitar, sleigh bells and bodhrán on one track
1980	Joy	The Skids
1983	Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places in Devon/The Song of the White Horse	David Bedford	Produced and Engineered by Oldfield. Also the only LP issued by Oldfield Music.
1990	Natasha	Sally Nathasha Oldfield
1990	Kâma-Sûtra	Michel Polnareff
1992	Still Life with Guitar	Kevin Ayers
1992	BBC Radio 1: Live in Concert	Kevin Ayers
1992	Pavarotti & Friends	Luciano Pavarotti
1995	Variations on a Rhythm of Mike Oldfield	David Bedford
1996	Singing the Bruise	Kevin Ayers
1997	Snow Blind	Tom Newman
1998	The Garden of Love	Kevin Ayers
2000	Official Bootleg One	Phil Beer
2000	Do Ya Wanna Play, Carl	Carl Palmer
2002	From the Banks of the River Irwell	Max Bacon
2005	Tag und Nacht	Schiller
2006	Night of the Proms 2006	Night of the Proms	Various artists live concert album; orchestral sections of Tubular Bells and Ommadawn, and "Shadow on the Wall" with John Miles. Tubular Bells on DVD "Best of the Night of the Proms Vol.2". Moonlight Shadow with Miriam Stockley on DVD "Best of Night of the Proms Vol 3".
2008	"Song for Survival" featuring the Anuta tribe	Songs for Survival	Various artists charity album for Survival International. In support of the BBC television series Tribe and Amazon.[28]
2012	Journey into Space	Terry Oldfield	Guitar on "Origin", "Flight of the Eagle" and "Dancer in the Void".
2012	Isles of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games	Various	Soundtrack 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.[29][30] Live performance also released on BBC DVD/Blu-ray.
2012	Islanders	York	"Islanders"

Notes

1. Chart peak for the 2023 50th Anniversary Edition re-release.
2. Chart peak in 2010.
3. Chart peak in 2012.