Shirley Bassey discography

This is the discography of Dame Shirley Bassey.

Bassey has sold approximately 135 million records worldwide as of January 2008, her single "Goldfinger" selling over one million copies in the US alone.fact|date=May 2008 "Goldfinger" was also the #1 soundtrack of 1964 in the UK and the US. Shirley's biggest-selling solo 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 (UK Chart placements). Her top ten album "Something" is her biggest-selling record, remaining in the UK album charts for six months. Many of Shirley's albums have been re-released to chart on separate occasions. For example, "Let's Face the Music" reached number 12 in 1962 and number 17 nine years later under the title "What Now My Love". Other albums that did not chart on initial release went on to chart on re-release, such as "Big Spender", a Top 30 hit album in 1971, which was initially released four years earlier as "And We Were Lovers". Bassey has four number-one singles to her credit, including the number-one dance chart hit "History Repeating" (1997). A decade later, "Get the Party Started" went to the Top 3 in the U.S. Dance Chart, being a Top 3 download in the UK. In the late 90s Shirley also released a top ten music video, "Divas are Forever", having previously earned a gold video for sales of 1985's "Live in Cardiff". 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, reaching Number One on the HMV Specialist Sales Chart. With thirty-two hits in the UK Singles Chart, plus thirty-five hit LPs in the corresponding UK Albums Chart, she has maintained her position as Britain's most successful female chart artist of all time ("Guinness Book of Records") and the artist with the longest span (50 years) of Top 40 hits ("Guinness Book of Records").

UK albums

Philips

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

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)

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)
*" [http://www.discogs.com/release/1178205 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)

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)

U.S. albums

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)

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)

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)

U.S. Singles

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)

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

Hot Dance Club Play

*"History Repeating" - #10, 1998
*"Get The Party Started" - #3, 2008 [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=Hot+Dance+Club+Play&pageNumber=Top+11-25&g=Singles Billboard.com chart page] ]

Hot R&B/Hip Hop chart

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

Film soundtrack appearances

* 1964 - "Goldfinger" – from the film of the same name
* 1965 - "The Liquator" – from the film of the same name
* 1968 - "My Love Has Two Faces" – from the film "Deadfall"
* 1971 - "Diamonds Are Forever" – from the film of the same name
* 1979 - "Moonraker" – from the film of the same name
* 1996 - "Disco' La Passione" – from the film "La Passione"
* 1998 - "Big Spender" – from the film "Little Voice"
* 1998 - "History Repeating" – from the film "There’s Something About Mary"
* 2002 - "Let’s Fall in Love" – from the film "Plots with a View"
* 2002 - "If You Go Away" – from the film "Merci Docteur Rey"
* 2004 - "Big Spender" – from the film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"

References