Leonard Cohen discography

Leonard Cohen discography
Leonard Cohen in 1988, around the release of I'm Your Man.
Studio albums	13
Live albums	8
Compilation albums	5
Singles	44

Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet active in music since 1967. Cohen has released 13 studio albums and 6 live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years, throughout which he has remained an active poet. His entire catalogue is available on Columbia Records. His 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen earned an RIAA gold record; he followed up with three more highly acclaimed albums: Songs From A Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin For The Old Ceremony (1974), before allowing Phil Spector to produce Death of a Ladies' Man for Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Cohen returned to Columbia in 1979 for Recent Songs, but the label declined to release his next album, Various Positions (1984) in the US, leaving it to American shops to import it from CBS Canada. In 1988, Columbia got behind Cohen again and gave full support to I'm Your Man, which brought his career to new heights, and Cohen followed it with 1992's The Future. Cohen then took a nine-year hiatus, and returned with Ten New Songs in (2001), which he made with Sharon Robinson, following this with Dear Heather (2004). In 2008 Cohen began touring for the first time in 15 years and, as well as the release of several live albums, he released Old Ideas (2012) which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. This was the highest ranking ever for a Leonard Cohen album, and became his first to top the Canadian Albums Chart, a feat he repeated with his followup, Popular Problems, released in 2014. His live albums include Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009) and Songs from the Road, (2010) from his 2008–2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Base chart positions											Certifications
		CAN [1]	AUS [2]	AUT [3]	FIN [4]	GER [5]	IRE [6]	NLD [7]	NOR [8]	SWE [9]	UK [10]	US [1]
1967	Songs of Leonard Cohen Released: December 27, 1967 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	13	83	US: Gold[11] UK: Silver[12]
1969	Songs from a Room Released: March 24, 1969 Label: Columbia Records	10 [13]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	63
1971	Songs of Love and Hate Released: March 19, 1971 Label: Columbia Records	63 [14]	8	—	—	24	—	2	11	—	4	145
1974	New Skin for the Old Ceremony Released: August 11, 1974 Label: Columbia Records	—	86	2	—	17	—	18	—	—	24	—	UK: Silver[12]
1977	Death of a Ladies' Man Released: November 13, 1977 Original Label: Warner/Spector Current Label: Columbia Records	—	85	—	—	—	—	—	20	15	35	—
1979	Recent Songs Released: September 27, 1979 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	24	—	56	—	—	—	—	—	—
1984	Various Positions Released: December 11, 1984 Label: Columbia Records	60 [15]	52	18	2	43	99	—	3	12	52	—	FIN: Gold[16] UK: Silver[12]
1988	I'm Your Man Released: February 2, 1988 Label: Columbia Records	34 [17]	—	22	2	32	84	16	1	6	48	—	CAN: Gold[18] FIN: Gold[16] NOR: 4× Platinum[19] SWE: Platinum[20] UK: Gold[12]
1992	The Future Released: November 24, 1992 Label: Columbia Records	7 [17]	—	5	19	79	—	56	3	5	36	—	CAN: 2× Platinum[18] SWE: Gold[20] UK: Silver[12]
2001	Ten New Songs Released: October 9, 2001 Label: Columbia Records	4	67	5	35	16	7	18	1	3	26	143	CAN: Platinum[18] NOR: Platinum[19] SWE: Gold[21] UK: Silver[12]
2004	Dear Heather Released: October 26, 2004 Label: Columbia Records	5	98	13	22	19	5	34	2	8	34	131	NOR: Gold[19] UK: Silver[12]
2012	Old Ideas Released: January 31, 2012[22] Label: Columbia Records	1	2	2	1	4	2	1	1	2	2	3	CAN: Platinum[23] SWE: Gold[24] UK: Gold[12]
2014	Popular Problems Released: September 22, 2014 Label: Columbia Records	1	6	1	2	4	2	1	1	5	5	15	CAN: Gold[25]
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions											Certifications
		CAN [1]	AUS [2]	AUT [3]	FIN [4]	GER [5]	IRE [6]	NLD [7]	NOR [8]	SWE [9]	UK [10]	US [1]
1973	Live Songs Release: April, 1973 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	8	—	30	—	—	—	—	—	156
1994	Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert Release: June 28, 1994 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	—	—	97	—	—	—	25	35	—
2001	Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 Release: February 20, 2001 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	195	—
2009	Live in London Release: March 31, 2009 Label: Columbia Records	7	26	9	7	13	3	7	8	14	19	76	CAN: 3× Platinum[26] IRE: Gold[27] UK: Silver[12]
	Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 Release: October 19, 2009 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	—	—	—	73	56	—	—	169	—
2010	Songs from the Road Release: September 14, 2010 Label: Columbia Records	10	—	7	37	36	—	26	7	39	68	112
2014	Live in Dublin Release: December 2, 2014 Label: Columbia Records	—	—	33	—	53	—	—	—	—	84	—
2015	Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour Release: May 12, 2015 Label: Sony Legacy	—	39	17	—	23	—	—	—	39	_	—
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions											Certifications
		CAN [1]	AUS [2]	AUT [3]	FIN [4]	GER [5]	IRE [6]	NLD [7]	NOR [8]	SWE [9]	SWI [28]	UK [10]
1975	The Best of Leonard Cohen / Greatest Hits Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD, CS, LP, 8 TRACK	—	—	—	—	43	—	86 ^[A]	—	—	—	88 ^[A]	GER: Gold[29] AUS: 2× Platinum[30] UK: Platinum[12]
1980	Liebesträume – Leonard Cohen singt seine schönsten Lieder Released in Germany only Label: CBS Formats: LP	—	—	—	—	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
1989	So Long, Marianne Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1997	More Best of Leonard Cohen Released: October 7, 1997 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD, CS, LP	90 [31]	—	41	19	—	—	69	7	22	—	82	US: Gold[11]
2002	The Essential Leonard Cohen Released: October 22, 2002 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD, LP	—	9 ^[B]	23	6	76	16	10	3	8	98	57 ^[C]	AUS: Platinum[32] FIN: Gold[16] NOR: Platinum[19] SWE: Gold[21] UK: Gold[12]
2008	The Collection Released: June 27, 2008 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD Box set	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2009	Greatest Hits Released: July 13, 2009 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD Remastered version with new tracklisting	—	—	28	34	51	6	—	—	—	—	29
2011	The Complete Studio Albums Collection Released: October 10, 2011 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD Box set	—	—	—	—	—	—	72	33	—	—	—
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

• A ^ The Best of Leonard Cohen, or Greatest Hits as it was released in Europe, didn't chart in Netherlands and UK when it was released in 1975, but the album did chart when re-issued on CD in 1988–1989. In UK it initially reached a peak at # 99 in 1988 and then at # 88 in 1995. In Netherlands it reached #86 in April 1989.
• B ^ The Essential Leonard Cohen was re-released in 2008 as The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0, a 3-Disc Edition which charted in Australia in February 2009
• C ^ The Essential Leonard Cohen initially peaked at #70 in 2003. The album re-entered the charts in 2008 when it reached its chart peak #57

Singles

Year	Title[33]	Chart positions								Album
		CAN [34]	CAN AC [35]	AUT [3]	FIN [4]	GER [36]	NLD [7]	SWE [9]	UK [10]
1967	"Suzanne"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Leonard Cohen
1968	"So Long, Marianne" / "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1969	"Bird on the Wire"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs from a Room
	"The Partisan"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1971	"Joan of Arc"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Love and Hate
	"Diamonds in the Mine"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Dress Rehearsal Rag" / "Avalanche"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"The Stranger Song"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Leonard Cohen / McCabe & Mrs. Miller
	"Winter Lady"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"So Long, Marianne" / "Bird on the Wire"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Leonard Cohen / Songs from a Room
1973	"Passing Through"	—	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	Live Songs
1974	"Lover Lover Lover"	—	—	—	—	9	—	—	—	New Skin for the Old Ceremony
1975	"Tonight Will Be Fine"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs from a Room
1976	"Suzanne" [re-issue]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Greatest Hits
	"Do I Have to Dance All Night" (Live) / "The Butcher" (Live)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	non-album single
1977	"Memories"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Death of a Ladies' Man
	"True Love Leaves No Traces"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1978	"Suzanne" / "Bird on the Wire" [re-issue]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Leonard Cohen/ Songs from a Room
1979	"The Guests"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Recent Songs
1984	"Dance Me to the End of Love"	—	29	—	5	—	—	—	—	Various Positions
	"Hallelujah"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1986	"Take This Waltz"	—	—	—	6	—	—	—	—	Poets in New York
1988	"First We Take Manhattan"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	I'm Your Man
	"I'm Your Man"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Ain't No Cure for Love"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Everybody Knows"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1989	"I Can't Forget"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1991	Solid Gold EP: "First We Take Manhattan" / "Suzanne" / "So Long, Marianne"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	I'm Your Man / Greatest Hits
	1991 Juno Hall of Fame Award Commemorative Sampler: "Hallelujah" / "Ain't No Cure for Love" / "Everybody Knows" / "Tower of Song"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Various Positions / I'm Your Man
1992	"Closing Time"	71	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	The Future
	"Democracy"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1993	"The Future"	—	17	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Be for Real"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1994	"Dance Me to the End of Love" (Live)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert
1997	"Never Any Good"	—	44	—	—	—	—	—	—	More Best of Leonard Cohen
2001	"In My Secret Life"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Ten New Songs
2002	"Boogie Street"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2004	"The Letters"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Dear Heather
2007	"So Long, Marianne" / "Bird on the Wire" [re-issue]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Songs of Leonard Cohen / Songs from a Room
	"Hallelujah" [re-issue]	—	—	67	—	—	27	16 ^[D]	36 ^[E]	The Essential Leonard Cohen
2009	"The Future" (Live) / "Suzanne" (Live) ^[F]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Live in London
2011	"Show Me the Place"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Old Ideas
2012	"Darkness"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

• D ^ Leonard Cohen's 1984 track "Hallelujah" charted in Sweden in December 2007 due to download sales. At the same time Jeff Buckley's version also entered the charts, and the week of 13 December 2007 Buckley's version peaked at #5 with Cohen's original reaching its peak position #16 the same week.^[37]
• E ^ Although not explicitly released as a single, Cohen's heavily covered 1984 track "Hallelujah" charted in the United Kingdom in December 2008 at position number 36.^[10] This was due to downloads of the track as a result of the publicity created by Alexandra Burke's cover version, which charted at #1 at the same time, and a campaign to get Jeff Buckley's version into the charts (which it did, peaking at #2 simultaneous to Burke's cover). Yet another version of Cohen's song by US-singer Kate Voegele charted in the UK at #53 short time before Christmas of 2008. This, as a result, became the first occasion since the early days of the UK Singles Chart that four versions of the same song were in the charts simultaneous to each other at the same period.
• F ^ Record Store Day 2009 (April 18, 2009) exclusive release.

Contributions

• Poets in New York (Federico García Lorca tribute album, 1986, CBS) - "Take This Waltz"
• Are You Okay? (1990, Fontana) – "Elvis' Rolls Royce" (Vocals with Was (Not Was))
• Hear Music Volume 7: Waking (2002, Hear Music) – "Boogie Street"
• Blue Alert – Anjani (2006) Cohen produced, arranged and provided lyrics
• Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Soundtrack (2006, Verve Forecast) – "Tower of Song" (with U2)
• Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins (2008, Wildflower) – "Since You've Asked" (Dialogue)
• Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest (2008, Hear Music) – "Anthem"

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