Donna Summer Discography

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Donna Summer discography

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Donna Summer discography

Releases
↙Studio albums	17
↙Live albums	2
↙Compilation albums	32
↙Singles	89

This is the discography of American pop singer Donna Summer. Twenty of her singles have reached the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, fourteen of the singles reached the top ten, and four of them reached number-one.

Summer's first ever single, "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", was released in Europe in 1971 under her maiden name, Donna Gaines. She would become known as Donna Summer from 1974 onwards.

"Love to Love You Baby" was her first single in the US; it was recorded on Oasis Records, which would join with Casablanca Records to release it in the US. Casablanca would assume responsibility for recording and distributing Summer's albums during the 1970s and also become one of the premier labels of that decade. Later, in 1977, PolyGram Records acquired a 50% ownership of Casablanca from ownerNeil Bogart. Bogart was considered a good music executive in the industry, and had a "whatever it takes" approach to selling product. However, Casablanca routinely spent enormous sums of money, unbeknownst at the time to half-owner PolyGram, which was headquartered in Europe. In 1980, Summer informed Casablanca that she wanted to release other genres of music; but she and Casablanca could not find common ground on this issue. That same year Summer signed with the newly-formed Geffen Records.Label associations

Also in 1980, PolyGram began noticing the huge amount of revenue that was being spent at Casablanca, money spent as fast as it came in. In addition, Casablanca had allowed Summer to depart; she being one of the label's few acts that, if handled properly, could evolve into a successful post-disco artist in the new decade. Aside from Summer's releases, Casablanca had not been scoring as many hits as it had in the past and was now in debt. PolyGram purchased the remaining 50% of Casablanca and then it promptly fired Bogart. Casablanca continued to struggle for hits in the early 1980s, but only found sporadic success. Meanwhile, Summer had released her first two albums on Geffen Records, "The Wanderer (album)" (1980) and "Donna Summer (album) (1982), scoring one top ten hit on each. She was subsequently notified by PolyGram Records that she owed them another album, per her agreement with Casablanca. She delivered the album "She Works Hard for the Money" (1983) which PolyGram chose to release on its Mercury Records imprint as opposed to Casablanca, Summer's former label. The Mercury album became Summer's most successful album of the entire 1980s, and the title song was her most successful single of the decade. After this release Summer went back to recording for Geffen Records up until her final Geffen release in 1987 (she subsequently signed with Atlantic Records). PolyGram, which had been pouring money into Casablanca for years in an effort to save it, had decided to shut down the fading label in 1984.

In 1990, Geffen Records was sold to MCA Records, which was owned by alcoholic beverage-maker Seagram; although Summer was no longer an artist on Geffen Records.

In 1998, PolyGram and its imprints were purchased by Seagram, which merged the company with its MCA Records label and imprints to create the gigantic Universal Music Group. This had the result of Summer's MCA, Oasis, Casablanca, Geffen, and Mercury releases now being owned by one conglomerate, Universal Music. This catalgoue of Summer's material stretches from 1971 to 1987 for Universal Music Group.

Post 1987, Warner Music Group owns her Atlantic Records material, and Sony BMG owns her Epic Records material.

Albums

• All albums were released internationally unless otherwise stated. The record labels given are those used to release the records in the US (unless of course they were not released in that country). As explained in the previous paragraph other labels were sometimes used to distribute Summer's work in other countries (most notably for the Casablanca/Geffen/Atlantic albums). From Once Upon a Time through to the end of the Casablanca albums, this label was used to distribute Summer's work in most nations.

Studio albums

Year	Title	Chart positions										Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US [1]	US R&B [1]	GER	ITA	JPN	NL	NOR [2]	NZ [3]	SWE [4]	UK [5]
1974	Lady of the Night Label: Groovy (The Netherlands/Germany/Belgium)	–	–	–	–	–	27	–	–	–	–	-
1975	Love to Love You Baby Label: Casablanca	11	6	23	6	64	–	9	–	7	16	UK: Gold[6] US: Gold[6]
1976	A Love Trilogy Label: Casablanca	21	16	24	1	–	–	9	–	18	41	UK: Gold[6] US: Gold[6]
	Four Seasons of Love Label: Casablanca	29	13	31	1	–	–	–	–	40	–	UK: Silver[6] US: Gold[6]
1977	I Remember Yesterday Label: Casablanca	18	11	7	1	77	11	5	12	13	3	UK: Gold[6] US: Gold[6]
	Once Upon a Time Label: Casablanca	26	13	–	2	31	–	9	–	–	24	UK: Gold[6] US: Gold[6]
1979	Bad Girls Label: Casablanca	1	1	7	2	9	8	3	3	3	23	US: 2x Platinum[6]
1980	The Wanderer Label: Geffen	13	12	54	7	22	–	18	16	15	55	US: Gold[6]
1981	I'm a Rainbow Label: Geffen (Unreleased until 1996 byMercury)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	-
1982	Donna Summer Label: Geffen	20	6	37	40	20	3	3	–	2	13	US: Gold[6]
1983	She Works Hard for the Money Label: Mercury	9	5	14	46	27	11	12	47	8	28	US: Gold[6]
1984	Cats Without Claws Label: Geffen	40	24	39	29	33	15	15	–	10	69	-
1987	All Systems Go Label: Geffen	122	53	–	27	69	49	–	–	27	–	-
1989	Another Place and Time Label: Atlantic	53	71	49	–	92	19	–	–	16	17	UK: Gold[6]
1991	Mistaken Identity Label: Atlantic	–	97	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	-
1994	Christmas Spirit Label: Mercury	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	-
2008	Crayons Label: Burgundy	17	5	73[7]	46	–	–	–	–	–	-	-

[edit]Live albums

Year	Title	Chart positions								Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US [1]	US R&B [1]	GER	ITA	JPN	NOR [2]	NZ [3]	UK [5]
1978	Live and More Label: Casablanca	1	4	–	14	52	–	4	16	UK: Gold[6] US: Platinum[6]
1999	Live & More Encore Label: Epic	43	33	75 [7]	30	–	–	–	–

[edit]Compilations

• All albums were released internationally unless otherwise stated. The record labels shown are those used to release the album in the US (unless of course they were not released in that country). For more information about labels used in other countries, see the first paragraph of this article. Please note that this is by no means a list of ALL compilation albums, as many minor labels have also released budget compilations of Summer's work. However some of these are included here.

Charting compilations

Year	Title	Chart positions									Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US [1]	US R&B [1]	GER	ITA	JPN	NZ [3]	NOR [2]	SWE [4]	UK [5]
1978	The Greatest Hits of Donna Summer Label: GTO (UK)	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	4	–
1979	On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 Label: Casablanca	1	4	42	15	20	2	39	29	24	UK: Gold[6] US: 2x Platinum[6]
1980	Walk Away - Collector's Edition (The Best of 1977-1980) Label: Casablanca	50	54	–	NR	78	–	–	–	NR	–
1990	The Best of Donna Summer Label: Warner Bros. Records (Europe)	NR	NR	–	–	–	–	–	–	24	UK: Gold[6]
1994	Endless Summer: Greatest Hits Label: PolyGram	–	–	–	–	–	10	–	–	37	–
2003	The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer Label: UTV	111	65	–	–	–	–	27	–	6	UK: Gold[6]

Complete list

Star Collection (1977, WEA, Germany) Greatest Hits (1977, Atlantic, Germany) The Greatest Hits of Donna Summer (1977, GTO, UK) Greatest Hits (1977, Groovy, Netherlands) Star Gold (1977, Global, Germany) The Greatest Hits of Donna Summer (1978, GTO, UK) Lo Mejor De Donna Summer Volume 1 (1978, Argentina) Lo Mejor De Donna Summer Volume 1 (1978, Argentina) On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 (1979, Casablanca) Greatest Hits - Volume One (1979, Casablanca) Greatest Hits - Volume Two (1979, Casablanca) Wereldsuccessen (1979, Philips, Netherlands - alternative release to On the Radio) Walk Away - Collector's Edition (The Best of 1977-1980) (1980, Casablanca) The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits (1985, Mercury) The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles (1987,Casablanca) 12"ers (1990, Japan) The Best of Donna Summer (1990, Warner Bros., Europe) The Complete Hits Collection (4-CD box set) (1991, Mercury, Japan)

Donna Summer Best (1991, Japan) The Dance Collection (1991, Phonogram, France) The Donna Summer Anthology (1993, PolyGram) This Time I Know It's For Real (1993, WEA, Europe) Donna Summer Retrospective (box set of back-to-back 12" singles) (1994, PolyGram, USA) Endless Summer: Greatest Hits (1994, Polygram) The Complete Donna Summer (1994, Razor & Tie, USA) Greatest Hits (1995, PolyGram, France - alternative release toEndless Summer) Master Series (1997, Mercury, Europe) Greatest Hits (1998, Polygram, USA) Millennium Edition (1999, Europe) Greatest Hits (2001, France) The Best Of/Millennium Collection (2003, USA) The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer (2003, UTV) The Ultimate Collection (2003) Gold (2005, Universal, USA) Chronicles (box set of first three international original albums) (2005, Universal, USA) The Best Of/Millennium Collection, Volume 2 (2006, USA)

[edit]Singles

[edit]1971–1979

Year	Title	Chart positions											Album
		US Hot 100 [8]	US Club [8][9]	US R&B [8]	AUS [10]	CAN	GER [11]	IRE [12]	JPN	NL [13]	NZ [3]	UK [5]
1971	"Sally Go Round the Roses"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	—
1972	"If You Walkin' Alone"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1974	"Denver Dream"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"The Hostage"	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	2	–	–	Lady of the Night
	"Lady of the Night"	–	–	–	–	–	40	–	–	4	–	–
1975	"Virgin Mary"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	—
	"Love to Love You Baby"	2	1	2	4	2	5	11	–	13	8	4	Love to Love You Baby
1976	"Could It Be Magic"	52	3	21	–	45	23	–	–	5	–	40	A Love Trilogy
	"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"	80	1	35	–	–	42	–	–	–	–	–
	"Wasted"	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"Spring Affair"	58	1	24	–	38	–	–	–	25	–	–	Four Seasons Of Love
1977	"Winter Melody"	43		21	–	41	–	20	–	–	–	27
	"Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)"	104	1	20	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	I Remember Yesterday
	"I Feel Love"	6		9	1	2	2	1	–	1	2	1
	"Shut Out" (with Paul Jabara)	–	31	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Shut Out (Paul Jabara album)
	"Down Deep Inside (Theme From The Deep)"	–	3	–	70	–	25	10	–	5	–	5	The Deep (OST)
	"I Remember Yesterday"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	20	–	14	I Remember Yesterday
	"Love's Unkind"	–		–	–	–	18	2	–	28	–	3
	"I Love You"	37	1	28	47	32	–	16	–	6	–	10	Once Upon a Time
	"Fairy Tale High"	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1978	"Rumour Has It"	53		21	–	37	21	–	–	20	–	19
	"Back in Love Again"	–	-	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	29	I Remember Yesterday
	"Last Dance"	3	1	5	69	3	–	–	–	10	3	51	Thank God It's Friday (OST)
	"Je t'aime... moi non plus"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"MacArthur Park"	1	1	8	8	1	39	7	–	8	4	5	Live & More
1979	"Heaven Knows" (with Brooklyn Dreams)	4	–	10	15	2	–	–	–	–	14	34
	"Hot Stuff"	1	1	3	1	1	5	4	7	21	3	11	Bad Girls
	"Bad Girls"	1		1	14	1	9	23	35	10	6	14
	"Dim All the Lights"	2	54	13	–	3	25	30	70	28	14	29
	"No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" (withBarbra Streisand)	1	1	20	8	1	31	7	59	27	7	3	On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2
	"Never Lose Your Sense of Humor" (withPaul Jabara)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	The Third Album(Paul Jabara album)

[edit]1980–1989

Year	Title	Chart positions											Album
		US Hot 100 [8]	US Club [8][9]	US R&B [8]	AUS [10]	CAN	GER [11]	IRE [12]	JPN	NL [13]	NZ [3]	UK [5]
1980	"On the Radio"	5	8	9	36	4	34	18	58	27	32	32	On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2
	"Sunset People"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	42	–	46	Bad Girls
	"Our Love"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"Walk Away"	36	–	35	–	36	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"The Wanderer"	3	8	13	6	3	–	–	63	30	5	48	The Wanderer
	"Cold Love"	33		–	–	29	–	30	–	–	–	44
1981	"Who Do You Think You're Foolin'"	40		–	100	39	–	–	–	–	–	–
1982	"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)"	10	3	4	17	10	–	14	71	12	40	18	Donna Summer
	"State of Independence"	41	–	31	30	35	–	10	–	3	–	14
	"I Feel Love" (Patrick Cowley Remix)	–	–	–	–	–	–	18	–	–	–	21	—
	"The Woman in Me"	33	–	30	–	18	–	–	–	12	–	62	Donna Summer
1983	"Protection"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"She Works Hard for the Money"	3	3	1	4	2	11	26	52	18	23	25	She Works Hard for the Money
	"Unconditional Love" (featuring Musical Youth)	43	–	9	57	28	–	28	–	–	24	14
	"People, People"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"He's a Rebel"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"Love Has a Mind of Its Own" (with Matthew Ward)	70	–	35	–	44	–	–	–	–	–	–
1984	"Stop, Look and Listen"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	57
	"There Goes My Baby"	21	–	20	52	22	–	–	–	31	–	99	Cat Without Claws
	"Supernatural Love"	75	39	51	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1985	"Eyes"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	97
1987	"Dinner with Gershwin"	48	13	10	–	39	–	13	–	43	–	13	All Systems Go
	"Only the Fool Survives" (with Mickey Thomas)	–	–	–	–	40	–	–	–	–	–	–
1988	"All Systems Go"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	54
1989	"This Time I Know It's for Real"	7	5	–	34	3	15	4	20	6	–	3	In Another Place And Time
	"I Don't Wanna Get Hurt"	–	–	–	–	–	25	3	–	29	–	7
	"Love's About to Change My Heart"	85	3	–	83	–	–	11	–	59	–	20
	"When Love Takes Over You"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	72
	"In Another Place and Time"	–	–	–	24	–	–	–	22	–	–	–

[edit]1990–present

Year	Title	Chart positions								Album
		US Hot 100 [8]	US Club [8][9]	US R&B [8]	CAN	GER [11]	IRE [12]	NL [13]	UK [5]
1990	"State of Independence" (New Bass Mix)	–	–	–	–	–	–	69	45	The Best of Donna Summer
1991	"Breakaway" (Remix)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	49
	"When Love Cries"	77	–	18	–	–	–	–	–	Mistaken Identity
	"Work That Magic"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	74
1992	"Carry On" (with Giorgio Moroder)	–	25	–	–	–	–	–	65	Forever Dancing (Giorgio Moroder album)
1993	"La Vie en Rose"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Tribute to Édith Piaf
1994	"Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	21	Endless Summer: Greatest Hits
	"Any Way at All"	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1995	"I Feel Love" (Remixes)	–	9	–	–	–	24	26	8	I Feel Love (Maxi Single)
1996	"Whenever There Is Love" (with Bruce Roberts)	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Daylight (OST)
	"State of Independence" (New Radio Millennium Mix)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13	—
	"Does He Love You" (with Liza Minnelli)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Gently (Liza Minnelli album)
1999	"I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)"	79	1	–	35	–	–	59	44	Live & More Encore
	"Love Is the Healer"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
	"Last Dance" (Re-release)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	—
2000	"The Power of One"	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (OST)
2004	"You're So Beautiful"	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer
	"Dream-A-Lot's Theme (I Will Live for Love)"	–	20	–	–	–	–	–	–
2005	"I Got Your Love"	–	4	–	–	–	–	–	-	I Got Your Love (Maxi Single)
2006	"Power of Love"	–	25	–	–	–	–	–	-	So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross
2008	"I'm a Fire"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	Crayons
	"Stamp Your Feet"	–	1	–	–	88	–	–	–
	"It's Only Love"	–	14	–	–	-	–	–	–
	"Sand on My Feet"	–	–	–	30	–	–	–	–
2009	"Fame (The Game)"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
2010	"To Paris with Love"	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	To Paris With Love (Maxi Single)

Dance Club Play chart entries

From the inception of the Billboard Dance Club Play chart (also known as Club Play Singles, and formerly known as Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance/Disco) until the week of February 16, 1991, several (or even all) songs on an EP or album could occupy the same position if more than one track from a release was receiving significant play in clubs. Beginning with the February 23, 1991 issue, the dance chart became "song specific," meaning only one song could occupy each position at a time. Therefore;

• "Spring Affair" and "Winter Melody" both appear on Summer's Four Seasons of Love album, these two count as one #1 on the Club Play chart.
• "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", "I Feel Love", "I Remember Yesterday", "Love's Unkind" and "Back in Love Again" all appear on Summer's I Remember Yesterday album, these three also count as one #1 on the Club Play chart.
• "I Love You", "Fairy Tale High" and "Rumour Has It" all appear on her Once Upon a Time album, these three songs also count as one #1 on the Club Play chart.
• "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" was a double A-side 12" single, so these two also count as one #1 on this chart.
• "The Wanderer", "Cold Love" and "Who Do You Think You're Foolin'" all appear on Summer's The Wanderer album, these two count as one #8 on the Club Play chart. According to Billboard, "To Paris with Love" is Summer's 16th #1 on this chart.

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