Shirley Bassey discography

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This is the discography of Dame Shirley Bassey.

Bassey has sold approximately 135 million records worldwide as of January 2008.^{[citation needed]} Shirley's biggest-selling albums are the Shirley Bassey Singles Album, peaking in 1975 at #2, and the limited edition double-vinyl gatefold LP Shirley Bassey 25th Anniversary Album, a platinum record charting at #3 in 1978. Her top ten album Something is her biggest-selling record, remaining in the UK album charts for six months. Goldfinger was the biggest-selling soundtrack of 1964 and a #1 U.S. album. Bassey has four number-one singles to her credit, including the number-one dance chart hit "History Repeating" (1997). In the late 90s Shirley also released a top ten music video, Divas are Forever. The definitive Greatest Hits CD This is My Life did less well on initial release, though its sales have now earned Bassey another gold disc. With thirty-two hits in the UK Singles Chart, plus thirty-five hit LPs in the corresponding UK Albums Chart, she has maitained her position as Britain's most successful female chart artist of all time.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 UK albums 1.1 Philips 1.2 EMI Columbia 1.3 EMI United Artists 1.4 Various labels 2 U.S. albums 2.1 EMI Columbia 2.2 Top R&B albums 3 UK singles 4 U.S. Singles 4.1 Hot 100 4.2 Adult contemporary chart 4.3 Hot Dance Club Play 4.4 Hot R&B/Hip Hop chart

[edit] UK albums

[edit] Philips

• Born To Sing The Blues (1957)
• Shirley Bassey At The Café De Paris (1957)
• Bewitching Miss Bassey (1959)

[edit] EMI Columbia

• The Fabulous Shirley Bassey (#12 1959)
• Shirley (#9 1961)
• Shirley Bassey (#14 1962)
• Let's Face The Music (#12 1962)
• Goldfinger [Soundtrack] (#14 1964) (biggest selling soundtrack of the year)
• Shirley Bassey At The Pigalle (#15 1965)
• Shirley Stops The Shows (1965)

[edit] EMI United Artists

• I've Got A Song For You (#26 1966)
• And We Were Lovers (1967)
• 12 Of Those Songs (#38 1968)
• This Is My Life (1968)
• La Vita - This Is My Life (1968 Italian release only)
• Golden Hits Of Shirley Bassey (#28 1968)
• Does Anybody Miss Me (1969)
• Live at Talk of the Town (#38 1970)
• Something (#5 1970)
• Something Else (#7 1971)
• Big Spender (#27 1971)
• It's Magic (#32 1971)
• The Fabulous Shirley Bassey (#48 1971)
• What Now My Love (#17 1971)
• The Shirley Bassey Collection (#37 1972)
• And I Love You So (#24 1972)
• I Capricorn (#13 1972)
• Never, Never, Never (#10 1973)
• Nobody Does It Like Me (1974)
• The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (#2 1975)
• Good Bad But Beautiful (#13 1975)
• Love Life And Feelings (#13 1976)
• Thoughts Of Love (#15 1976)
• You Take My Heart Away (#34 1977)
• 25th Anniversary Album (#3 1978)
• Yesterdays (1978)
• The Magic Is You (#40 1978)
• What I Did For Love (1979)

[edit] Various labels

• Love Songs (#48 1982)
• I Am What I Am (#25 1984)
• La Mujer (1987)
• Keep the Music Playing (#25 1991)
• The Best Of Shirley Bassey (#27 1992)
• Sings Andrew Lloyd Webber (#34 1993)
• Sings The Movies (#24 1995)
• The Show Must Go On (#47 1996)
• The Birthday Concert (1997) (Grammy nomination)
• Land Of My Fathers (#1 UK compilation chart 1999) (#1 NZ album chart 1999)
• The Remix Album: Diamonds Are Forever (#62 2000)
• The Greatest Hits - This Is My Life (#54 2000, #1 HMV Easy Listening Sales Chart)
• Thank You For The Years (#19 2003)
• The Columbia/EMI Singles Collection (2006)
• Get The Party Started (#6 June 25, 2007)

[edit] U.S. albums

[edit] EMI Columbia

• Goldfinger [Soundtrack] (#1 1964) (biggest selling soundtrack of the year)
• Something (#105 1970)
• Something Else (#123 1971)
• And I Love You So (#171 1972)
• I Capricorn (#174 1972)
• Never, Never, Never (#60 1973)
• Shirley Bassey Belts The Best! (#85 1973)
• Nobody Does Like Me (#142 1974)
• Live At The Carnegie Hall (#136 1975)
• Good, Bad, But Beautiful (#176 1975)
• Love, Life And Feelings (#149 1976)
• Get The Party Started (# 2008)

[edit] Top R&B albums

• Something (#29 1970)
• Never, Never, Never (#34 1973)
• Live At The Carnegie Hall (#20 1975)
• Good, Bad, But Beautiful (#54 1975)

[edit] UK singles

• "Burn the Candle at Both Ends" (1956) (Failed to chart)
• "Banana Boat Song" (#8 1957) (Debut UK chart single)
• "Fire Down Below" (#30 1957)
• "You, You Romeo" (#29 1957)
• "Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me" (#3 1958)
• "As I Love You" (#1 1959) (First number one)
• "With These Hands" (#31 1960)
• "As Long As He Needs Me" (#2 1960) (#2, with 30 weeks of chart presence)
• "Reach For The Stars" b/w "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (#1 1961) (Second number one)
• "I'll Get By" (#10 1961)
• "Tonight" (#21 1962)
• "Ave Maria" (#31 1962)
• "Far Away (#24 1962)
• "What Now My Love?" (#5 1962)
• "What Kind Of Fool Am I" (#47 1963)
• "I (Who Have Nothing)" (#6 1963)
• "My Special Dream" (#32 1964)
• "Gone" (#36 1964)
• "Goldfinger" (#21 1964) (Bond movie theme song)
• "No Regrets" (#39 1965)
• "Big Spender" (#21 1967)
• "Something" (#4 1970) (only artist to surpass any Beatles original by making #4 but with a longer run)
• "The Fool On The Hill" (#48 1971)
• "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" (#34 1971)
• "Diamonds Are Forever" (#38 1972) (Bond movie theme song)
• "For All We Know" (#6 1972)
• "Never, Never, Never" (#8 1973)
• "Moonraker" (1979) (Bond movie theme song)
• "Sometimes" (#86 1984)
• "To All The Men I've Loved Before" (#86 1986)
• "The Rhythm Divine" (#54 1987) (Yello featuring Shirley Bassey)
• "Disco" La Passione" (#41 1996) (Duet with Chris Rea)
• "History Repeating" (#19 1997) (#1 UK dance chart) (Features on There's Something About Mary original soundtrack)
• "World In Union" (#35 1999) (Official theme song of the Rugby World Cup) - with Bryn Terfel
• "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" (#8 2005) (Kanye West featuring Shirley Bassey)
• "The Living Tree" (#37 2007)
• "Get The Party Started" (#47 2007)

[edit] U.S. Singles

[edit] Hot 100

• "Goldfinger" - charted 01-30-1965; #8 (13 weeks) b/w "Strange How Love Can Be"
• "Something" - charted 09-19-1970; #55 (9 weeks) b/w "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
• "Diamonds Are Forever" - charted 01-29-1972; #57 (9 weeks) b/w "For The Love Of Him"
• "Never, Never, Never (Grande, Grande, Grande)" - charted 06-02-1973; #48 (11 weeks) b/w "Day By Day"
• "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" - charted 2005; #43 (Kanye West featuring [an uncredited] Shirley Bassey)

[edit] Adult contemporary chart

• "Goldfinger" - four weeks at #2, 1965
• "It's Yourself" - #38, 1965
• "Something" - #9, 1970
• "Diamonds Are Forever" - #14, 1972
• "Never, Never, Never (Grande, Grande, Grande)" - #8, 1973
• "Davy" - #44, 1974

[edit] Hot Dance Club Play

• "History Repeating" - #10, 1998
• "Get The Party Started" - #3, 2008 ^[1]

[edit] Hot R&B/Hip Hop chart

• "Never, Never, Never" - #67, 1973
• "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" - #21, 2005 (Kanye West featuring [an uncredited] Shirley Bassey)

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