Cold Chisel discography
Studio albums9
Live albums9
Compilation albums11
EPs3
Singles31

Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band. The band have released nine studio albums. The band were included into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1993.

Albums

Moss and Barnes, 2012

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[1] 		NZ
[2] 		US
[3]
Cold Chisel 31 — —
Breakfast at Sweethearts
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Atlantic
 4 — —
  • ARIA: Platinum[5]
East
  • Released: 2 June 1980
  • Label: WEA
 2 32 171
Circus Animals
  • Released: 8 March 1982
  • Label: WEA
 1 1 —
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[8]
  • RIANZ: Platinum [9]
Twentieth Century
  • Released: April 1984
  • Label: WEA
 1 18 —
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[8]
The Last Wave of Summer
  • Released: 9 October 1998
  • Label: Mushroom
 1 13 —
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[10]
No Plans 2 14 —
The Perfect Crime 2 7 —
Blood Moon
  • Released: 6 December 2019[13]
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
 1 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[1] 		NZ
[2]
Swingshift
  • Released: April 1981
  • Label: WEA
 1 9
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[14]
Barking Spiders Live: 1983
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: WEA
 14 —
The Last Stand
(live soundtrack) 		8 —
Ringside 16
[16] 		—
The Live Tapes Vol. 1 27 —
The Live Tapes Vol. 2
  • Released: 14 November 2014
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
 19 —
The Live Tapes Vol. 3
  • Released: 2 December 2016
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
 11 —
The Live Tapes Vol. 4
  • Released: 10 November 2017
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
 9 —
The Live Tapes Vol. 5
  • Released: 11 December 2020[18]
  • Label: Cold Chisel Music, Universal Music Australia
 5 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[1] 		NZ
[2]
Northbound: The Best of Cold Chisel
  • Released: 1983 (Europe)
  • Label: Line
 — —
Radio Songs: A Best of Cold Chisel
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: WEA
 3 36
Razor Songs
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: WEA
 11 —
Chisel 3 16
  • ARIA: 9× Platinum[20]
Teenage Love
  • Released: October 1994
  • Label: Warner Music Group
 6 —
The Studio Sessions 1978–1984
  • Released: 6 December 1999
  • Label: Warner Music Group
  • Seven-disc, limited edition box set
 — —
Standing on the Outside
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Rhino
  • Tribute/Compilation albums
 2 —
Never Before
  • Released: 21 July 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
 — —
Besides
  • Released: 21 July 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
 — —
Covered
  • Released: 19 August 2011
  • Label: Cold Chisel
  • Digital only
 82[22] —
The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
  • Released: 14 October 2011
  • Label: WEA
 2 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

EPs

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[1]
You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine
  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: Elektra
 38
Triple J – Live at the Wireless 29.3.77
  • Released: 2011
  • Label:
 —
Triple J – Live in St Leonards Park 28.5.78
  • Released: 2011
  • Label:
 —

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
[1]
1978 "Khe Sanh" 41 Cold Chisel
"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)" 65 Breakfast at Sweethearts
1979 "Breakfast at Sweethearts" 63
"Shipping Steel" —
"Choirgirl" 14 East
1980 "Cheap Wine" 8
"My Baby" 40
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" — Swingshift
1981 "You Got Nothing I Want" 12 Circus Animals
1982 "Forever Now" 4
"When the War Is Over" 25
1983 "Hold Me Tight / No Sense" 14 Twentieth Century
1984 "Saturday Night" 11
"Twentieth Century" 91
"Flame Trees" 26
1991 "Misfits" 55 Chisel
1994 "Hands Out of My Pocket" 9 Teenage Love
"Nothing But You" 16
1995 "Yesterdays" 23
1998 "The Things I Love in You" 10 The Last Wave of Summer
"Water into Wine" 46
1999 "Way Down" 63
2011 "All for You" 80 The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
2012 "Everybody" — No Plans
2015 "Lost" 92[25] The Perfect Crime
"The Backroom"[26] —
2016 "Long Dark Road"[27] —
2019 "Getting the Band Back Together"[28] — Blood Moon
"I Hit the Wall"[29][30] —
2020 "Killing Time"[31] —

1 "Khe Sanh" originally peaked at number 41 in 1978. It re-entered the Australian Singles Chart at a new peak of number 40 in August 2011.

Video albums

Title Details Certification
Seeing Is Believing
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: WEA Music Video (WMV516)
Last Stand
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (450990740-3)
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[32]
Vision
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (0927409252)/(CCDVD001)
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[32]
Ringside The Movie
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Warner Music Vision (5046723882)/(CCDVD003)
Rockplalast
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Warner Vision Australia (5144218202)/(CCDVD002)
The Best of Cold Chisel – Vision
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Universal (CCDVD004)
The Live Tapes – Vol. 1
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: Universal (CCDVD005)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Australian chart peaks:
    • Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 62. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
    • Top 50 peaks after 1988: "australian-charts.com – Discography Cold Chisel". Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "charts.nz – Discography Cold Chisel". charts.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Cold Chisel – Chart history (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Australia" (PDF). Cash Box. 19 May 1979. p. 48. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
  5. ^ a b "New Faces to Watch" (PDF). Cash Box. 18 July 1981. p. 8. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
  6. ^ "Cold Chisel Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts 2020". Stereoboard. 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  7. ^ "East by Cold Chisel". sound distractions. 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  8. ^ a b c "ARIA Accreditations". ARIA. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Official Top 40 Albums". Recorded Music NZ. 5 December 1982. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  10. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1998 Albums". ARIA. 1998. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  11. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2012 Albums". ARIA. 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  12. ^ Ryan, Gavin (14 November 2015). "ARIA Albums: Elvis Presley Has the No. 1 Album in Australia Again". Noise11. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  13. ^ "Blood Moon by Cold Chisel". Apple Music. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  14. ^ "ARIA Albums Chart W/C 29 March 2021" (PDF). ARIA. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  15. ^ a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  16. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  17. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2003 Albums". ARIA. December 2003. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  18. ^ "Live Tapes Vol 5, The: Live at the Bondi Lifesaver February 29, 1980". JBHiFi. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  19. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1997 Albums". ARIA. 1997. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  20. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2000 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  21. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2007 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  22. ^ Wallace, Ian (5 September 2011). "Week Commencing ~ 5th September 2011 ~ Issue #1123" (PDF). The ARIA Report. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) (1123): 2, 6, 10, 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  23. ^ "ARIA CHART WATCH #518". auspOp. 30 March 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  24. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2019 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  25. ^ Ryan, Gavin (5 September 2015). "ARIA Singles: 'What Do You Mean?' Justin Bieber Is No 1". Noise11. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  26. ^ "Cold Chisel Release New Video For 'The Backroom', Second Single From Their Forthcoming Album, 'The Perfect Crime'". coldchisel.com.au. 22 September 2015.
  27. ^ "The Daily Edition: Ian Moss talks Cold Chisel". 2 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  28. ^ "Cold Chisel Debut New Song 'Getting The Band Back Together'". noise11. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  29. ^ "I Hit The Wall". You Tube. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  30. ^ "Cold Chisel - I Hit the Wall (music video)". You Tube. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  31. ^ "Cold Chisel Backdrop Australian Bushfires In 'Killing Time' Video". Noise11. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  32. ^ a b "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2007 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  33. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  34. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 11 December 2021.

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