Guns N' Roses discography

Guns N' Roses discography
Guns N' Roses performing at Download Festival on June 11, 2006. From left to right: Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Axl Rose and Richard Fortus.
Studio albums	6
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	2
Video albums	4
Music videos	24
EPs	3
Singles	18

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 by members of the bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. The band has released six studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, two extended plays, seven video albums, one video single, eighteen singles and twenty four music videos.

Guns N' Roses signed a deal with Geffen Records in 1986 and released the EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide. The band's debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction, was released in 1987, reaching the top of the Billboard 200 and has sold 18 million units in the United States alone and approximately 30 million units worldwide.^[1] The band's next album, G N' R Lies, included the four Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide recordings on one side and four acoustic songs on the other. In 1990, Guns N' Roses returned to the studio to record their new studio album. The result was a double album, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, which were released simultaneously in 1991 and debuted on the two highest spots on the Billboard 200 with II leading the charts. In 1993, the band released "The Spaghetti Incident?", an album of cover versions. Following that, internal conflicts within the band led to most of the band members being fired or leaving, with just Axl Rose and Dizzy Reed remaining from the Use Your Illusion era. Their sixth studio album, Chinese Democracy was released in 2008 after several delays and multiple band lineups.

Guns N' Roses have sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide, including over 50 million in the United States.^[2]

Albums

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications (sales thresholds)	Worldwide sales
		US [3]	AUS [4]	AUT [5]	CAN [6]	GER [7]	IRE [8]	NL [9]	SWE [10]	SWI [11]	UK [12]
1987	Appetite for Destruction Released: July 21, 1987 Label: Geffen (#24148) Formats: CD, LP, CS	1	7	3	3	16	11	3	32	7	5	ARIA: Platinum[13] BPI: 3× Platinum[14] BVMI: Platinum[15] MC: Diamond[16] IFPI FIN: Platinum[17] PROMUSICAE: Gold[18] RIAA: Diamond (18× Platinum)[19] RIAJ: Platinum[20]	30,800,000[21]
1988	G N' R Lies Released: November 29, 1988 Label: Geffen (#24198) Formats: CD, LP, CS	2	18	10	13	37	—	12	7	15	22	BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[15] RIAA: 5× Platinum[19] RIAJ: Gold[22]
1991	Use Your Illusion I Released: September 17, 1991 Label: Geffen (#24415) Formats: CD, LP, CS	2	2	2	1	5	28	2	3	3	2	ARIA: 4× Platinum[13] BPI: Platinum[14] BVMI: 2× Platinum[15] IFPI FIN: 3 Platinum×[17] MC: Diamond[16] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[23] RIAA: 7× Platinum[19] RIAJ: 2× Platinum[22]	17,000,000[24]
	Use Your Illusion II Released: September 17, 1991 Label: Geffen (#24420) Formats: CD, LP, CS	1	1	1	1	3	29	2	4	2	1	ARIA: 5× Platinum[13] BPI: Platinum[14] BVMI: 5× Gold[15] IFPI FIN: 3× Platinum[17] MC: 9× Platinum[16] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[23] RIAA: 7× Platinum[19] RIAJ: 2× Platinum[25]	16,000,000[24]
1993	"The Spaghetti Incident?" Released: November 23, 1993 Label: Geffen (#24617) Formats: CD, LP, CS	4	1	4	3	5	—	4	2	3	2	ARIA: Platinum[13] BPI: Gold[14] BVMI: Gold[15] IFPI FIN: Platinum[17] MC: 3× Platinum[16] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[23] RIAA: Platinum[19] RIAJ: Platinum[26]
2008	Chinese Democracy Released: November 23, 2008 Label: Geffen (#0602517906075) Formats: CD, LP, DL	3	3	3	1	2	3	4	4	1	2	ARIA: Platinum[27] BPI: Platinum[14] BVMI: Gold[15] IFPI FIN: Platinum[17] MC: 3× Platinum[16] RIAA: Platinum[19] RIAJ: Gold[28]	2,600,000[29]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions									Certifications
		US [3]	AUS [4]	AUT [5]	CAN [6]	GER [7]	IRE [8]	NL [9]	SWE [10]	UK [12]
1999	Live Era '87–'93 Released: November 23, 1999 Label: Geffen (#490514) Formats: CD, LP, CS	45	57	29	25	53	49	16	49	45	BPI: Gold[14] MC: Platinum[16] RIAA: Gold[19] RIAJ: Gold[30]

Compilation albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications
		US [3]	AUS [4]	AUT [5]	CAN [3]	GER [7]	IRE [8]	NL [9]	SWE [10]	SWI [11]	UK [12]
1998	Use Your Illusion Released: August 25, 1998 Label: Geffen Format: CD, LP, CS	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	RIAA: Platinum[19]
2004	Greatest Hits Released: March 23, 2004 Label: Geffen (9862108) Format: CD, CS, DL	3	6	1	2	4	1	3	2	2	1	ARIA: 8× Platinum[31] BPI: 6× Platinum[14] BVMI: Platinum[15] MC: 5× Platinum[16] PROMUSICAE: Platinum[32] RIAA: 5× Platinum[19] RIAJ: Gold[33] Worldwide: 13,000,000
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released

EP albums

Year	Album details	Notes
1986	Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide Released: December 16, 1986 Label: UZI Suicide (USR-001) Format: 12"	US only release 10,000 copies only
1988	Guns N' Roses (Live from the Jungle) Released: 1988 Label: Geffen (25XD-977) Formats: 12", CD	Japan only release
1993	The "Civil War" EP Released: May 24, 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: CD	Included are songs from both Use Your Illusion I and II and an exclusive interview with Slash.

Singles

Main singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions											Certifications (sales thresholds)	Album
		US [34]	US Main [35]	AUS [4]	AUT [5]	GER [36]	IRE [8]	NL [37]	NZ [38]	SWE [10]	SWI [11]	UK [12]
1987	"It's So Easy"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	84		Appetite for Destruction
	"Welcome to the Jungle"	7	37	41	—	—	14	—	6	—	—	24	BPI: Silver[14] RIAA: Gold[19]
1988	"Sweet Child o' Mine"	1	7	11	11	—	4	20	5	27	15	6	BPI: Platinum[14] FIMI: Platinum[39] RIAA: Platinum[19]
	"Paradise City"	5	14	48	—	—	1	4	2	3	7	6	BPI: Silver[14]
1989	"Patience"	4	7	16	—	38	2	4	4	—	16	10	ARIA: Gold[13] BPI: Silver[14] RIAA: Platinum[19]	G N' R Lies
	"Nightrain"	93	26	61	—	—	2	—	21	—	—	17		Appetite for Destruction
1991	"You Could Be Mine"	29	3	3	8	5	1	4	1	2	1	3	ARIA: Platinum[13] RIAA: Gold[19]	Use Your Illusion II
	"Don't Cry"	10	3	5	5	22	1	6	2	9	3	8	ARIA: Gold[13] RIAA: Platinum[19]	Use Your Illusion I
	"Live and Let Die"	33	20	10	27	33	5	12	1	15	19	4
1992	"November Rain"	3	15	5	27	9	3	4	7	38	8	4	ARIA: 2× Platinum[13] BPI: Silver[14] BVMI: Gold[15] FIMI: Gold[39] RIAA: Platinum[19] RMNZ: Platinum[41]
	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	—	18	12	3	5	1	1	2	10	5	2	ARIA: Gold[13] FIMI: Gold[39]	Use Your Illusion II
	"Yesterdays"	72	13	14	18	23	5	6	7	16	19	8
1993	"Civil War"	—	4	45	—	—	15	22	27	—	—	11
	"Ain't It Fun"	—	8	—	—	34	14	20	36	5	15	9		"The Spaghetti Incident?"
1994	"Estranged"	—	16	40	—	—	—	—	28	26	41	—		Use Your Illusion II
	"Since I Don't Have You"	69	—	47	—	—	16	—	48	40	—	10		"The Spaghetti Incident?"
	"Sympathy for the Devil"	55	10	12	17	20	5	10	13	7	15	9	RIAJ: Gold[42]	Interview with the Vampire Soundtrack
2008	"Chinese Democracy"	34	5	54	26	38	3	15	27	3	11	27		Chinese Democracy

Promo singles

• "Mr. Brownstone" (1988) U.K. only
• "My Michelle" (1989)
• "14 Years" (1991)
• "Pretty Tied Up" (1992)
• "Dead Horse" (1993)
• "Hair of the Dog" (1993) – U.S. Mainstream Rock #11
• "Oh My God" (1999)
• "Better" (2008)
• "Street of Dreams" (2009)

Video albums

Year	Video details
1992	Use Your Illusion I Released: December 8, 1992 Label: Geffen (GEFV 39521) Format: VHS, DVD (2003)
	Use Your Illusion II Released: December 8, 1992 Label: Geffen (GEFV 39522) Format: VHS, DVD (2003)
1998	Welcome to the Videos Released: October 27, 1998 Label: Geffen (GEFV 39557) Format: VHS, DVD (2003)
2014	Appetite for Democracy 3D Released: July 1, 2014 Label: Interscope/Universal Format: DVD, BD, CD

Music videos

Year	Title	Director(s)[43][44]
1987	"It's So Easy" (unreleased)	Nigel Dick
	"Welcome to the Jungle"
	"Sweet Child o' Mine"
	"Sweet Child o' Mine" (alternate)
1988	"Paradise City"
1989	"Patience"
1991	"Mr. Brownstone" (unreleased)	Mark Racco
	"My Michelle" (unreleased)
	"You Could Be Mine" (unreleased)
	"You Could Be Mine" (Terminator 2: Judgment Day version)	Mark Racco Jeffrey Abelson Andy Morahan Stan Winston
	"Don't Cry" (original version)	Andy Morahan
	"Don't Cry" (with alt. lyrics)
	"Live and Let Die"	Josh Richman
1992	"November Rain"	Andy Morahan
	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (live)
	"Yesterdays"
	"Garden of Eden"
1993	"The Garden"	Del James
	"Dead Horse"	Unknown
	"Civil War" (live)
	"Estranged"	Andy Morahan
1994	"Since I Don't Have You"	Sante D'Orazio
2009	"Bad Apples"	Andy Morahan
	"Better" (unreleased, leaked in 2012)	Dale "Rage" Resteghini

See also

• List of songs recorded by Guns N' Roses

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External links

• Guns N' Roses official site