Ian Gillan discography

With Wainwright's Gentlemen

Rare Mod – Vol. 3 (2010, compilation, "Ain't That Just Like Me")

With Episode Six (Compilation albums of songs recorded between 1965 and 1969)

Put Yourself in My Place (1987)
The Complete Episode Six (1991)
BBC Radio 1 Live 1968/1969 (1997)
Cornflakes and Crazyfoam (2002)
Love, Hate, Revenge (2005)

With Deep Purple (1969-1973, 1984-1988),(1993-)

Numerical values indicate highest position achieved in the United Kingdom album charts.

Studio albums

Deep Purple in Rock (1970, No. 4 UK)
Fireball (1971, No. 1 UK)
Machine Head (1972, No. 1 UK)
Who Do We Think We Are (1973, No. 4 UK)
Perfect Strangers (1984, No. 5 UK)
The House of Blue Light (1987, No. 10 UK)
The Battle Rages On (1993, No. 21 UK)
Purpendicular (1996, No. 58 UK)
Abandon (1998, No. 76 UK)
Bananas (2003, No. 85 UK)
Rapture of the Deep (2005, No. 81 UK)
Now What?! (2013, No. 19 UK)
Infinite (2017, No. 6 UK)
Whoosh! (2020, No. 4 UK)
Turning to Crime (2021, No. 28 UK)
=1 (2024)

Live albums

Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969)
Made in Japan (1972)
Deep Purple in Concert (1980) (Live 1970 & 1972)
Scandinavian Nights (1988) (Live 1970)
Nobody's Perfect (1988)
In the Absence of Pink (1991) (Live 1985)
Gemini Suite Live (1993) (Live 1970)
Live in Japan (1993) (Live 1972)
Come Hell or High Water (1994)
Live at the Olympia '96 (1997)
Total Abandon: Live in Australia (1999)
The Soundboard Series (2001)
In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra (2000)
Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy (2001)
Live in Europe 1993 (2006)
Live at Montreux 1996 (2006) (Live 1996 & 2000)
They All Came Down To Montreux (2007)
Live at Montreux 2011 (2011)
The Now What?! Live Tapes (2013)
Live in Verona (2014)
From The Setting Sun... (In Wacken) (2015)
...To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo) (2015)
The Infinite Live Recordings, Vol 1 (2017)

With Ian Gillan Band

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	UK ^[1]	SWE ^[2]
1976	Child in Time Date: July 1976 Label: polydor records	55	36
1977	Clear Air Turbulence Date: 4 April 1977 Label: Island	—	—
1977	Scarabus Date: 7 October 1977 Label: Island	—	—
1978	Live at the Budokan Date: March 1978 Label: Eastworld, Virgin	—	—

With Gillan

Year	Title	Peak chart positions	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Title	UK ^[1]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1978	Gillan Date: September 1978 Label: East World	—
1979	Mr. Universe Date: 12 October 1979 Label: Acrobat	11
1980	Glory Road Date: 8 August 1980 Label: Virgin	3	UK: Silver^[3]
1981	Future Shock Date: 17 April 1981 Label: Virgin	2	UK: Silver^[3]
1981	Double Trouble (live) Date: 30 October 1981 Label: Virgin	12
1982	Magic Date: September 1982 Label: Virgin	17
1990	Live at Reading '80 Date: 1990 Label: Raw Fruit	—
1991	Toolbox Date: 1991 East West	---
1998	The BBC Tapes Vol 1: Dead of Night 1979 Date: 1998 Label: RPM	—
1998	The BBC Tapes Vol 2: Unchain Your Brain 1980 Date: 1998 Label: RPM	—
2007	The Gillan Singles Box Set Date: 23 October 2007 Label: Phantom Sound & Vision	—
2008	The Glory Years (DVD) Date: 8 April 2008 Label: Eagle Rock	—
2009	Live: Triple Trouble Date: 9 November 2009 Label: Edsel	—

With Black Sabbath

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	UK	USA
1983	Born Again Date: 9 September 1983^[4] Label: Vertigo	4	39

Solo

Studio albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	GER ^[5]	SWE ^[2]	UK ^[1]	FIN ^[6]	JPN ^[7]
1988	Accidentally on Purpose (as Gillan & Glover, with Roger Glover) Date: February 1988 Label: Virgin Records	–	–	–	–	–
1990	Naked Thunder Date: 16 July 1990 Label: Teldec, Eagle	–	27	63	–	–
1991	Toolbox Date: 14 October 1991 Label: East West	–	–	–	–	–
1992	Cherkazoo and Other Stories (archive recordings) Date: 1992 Label: RPM Records	–	–	–	–	–
1997	Dreamcatcher Date: October 1997 Label: Ark 21, Forbidden	–	–	–	–	–
2006	Gillan's Inn Date: 18 April 2006 Label: Immergent	72	–	–	30	176
2009	One Eye to Morocco Date: 6 March 2009 Label: Edel	97	–	–	–	–

Live albums

Chris Tetley Presents: Garth Rockett & The Moonshiners (1989) [mini-album]
Live at the Ritz '89 (2000, as Ian Gillan & The Moonshiners)
Live in Anaheim (2008)
Contractual Obligation #2: Live In Warsaw (2019, with The Don Airey Band and Orchestra)
Contractual Obligation #3: Live In St. Petersburg (2019, with The Don Airey Band and Orchestra)

Compilations

What I Did on My Vacation (1986)
Trouble – The Best of Ian Gillan (1991)
The Japanese Album (1993) (including different versions of 3 songs)
The Best of Ian Gillan (1992)
Rock Profile (1995)
Mercury High - The Story Of Ian Gillan (2004)

Video

Garth Rockett & The Moonshiners Live at the Ritz (1990)
Ian Gillan Live (1990)
Highway Star - A Journey in Rock (2007)
Live in Anaheim (2008)

Singles

South Africa (1988) [special single]

With The Javelins

Sole Agency and Representation (1994) (rereleased as Raving with Ian Gillan & The Javelins in 2000)
Ian Gillan and The Javelins (2018)

With WhoCares

(also known as Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi & Friends)

Albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	NOR ^[8]	BEL ^[9]	SWE ^[10]	GER ^[11]
2012	Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi: WhoCares Date: 13 July 2012 (Europe), 28 August 2012 (North America) Label: EarMusic	29	184	26	60

Singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	GER ^[12]
2011	Out of My Mind	86

Other projects

Performances

Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
Rock Aid Armenia (1990)
Pretty Maids – In Santa's Claws [EP] (1990)
The Bolland Project – Darwin (The Evolution) (1991)
Michalis Rakintzis – Get Away (1993)
Ray Slijngaard & Ian Gillan – Smoke on the Water Rock 'N' Rap Extravaganza (1997)
Jill Towers – Miserably Happy (2001)
Dean Howard – Volume One (2004)
Rock School [TV series soundtrack album] (2005)
Leslie West – Guitarded (2005)
Michael Lee Jackson – In a Heartbeat [SP] (2006)
Nobuo Uematsu with Ian Gillan – Eternity (2006)
Hoochie Coochie Men & Jon Lord – Danger. White Men Dancing (2007)
Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors (2014)
Celebrating Jon Lord (2014, with Deep Purple)

Production

Sammy – Sammy (1972)
Jerusalem – Jerusalem (1972)
Pussy – Feline Woman/Ska Child [SP] (1972)
Cliff Bennett – Nightride (1981)
Zero Nine – Blank Verse (1982)
Jill Towers – Welcome to Dreamfield (1999)

Selected film and TV appearances

The Butterfly Ball (1977)
Deep Purple – Heavy Metal Pioneers (1991)
The Making of Bolland Project (1991)
The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 2 (1992)
Tony Iommi: The Guitar That Drives Black Sabbath (1992)
Rock Family Trees, ep. Deep Purple (1995)
Pat Boone: In A Metal Mood (1996)
Classic Albums, ep Deep Purple: Machine Head (2002)
Roger Glover – Made in Wales (2004)
Ian Gillan – Highway Star: A Journey in Rock (2007)
Seven Ages of Rock, ep. Never Say Die: Heavy Metal (2007)
Heavy Metal Britannia (2010)
The Seventies, ep. 1970 (2010)
Chopin's Story (2011)
Behind The Music Remastered, ep. Deep Purple (2013)
Heaven on Their Minds: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar (2015)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Artists". OfficialCharts.com.
^ ^a ^b Steffen Hung. "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
^ "Born Again".
^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de". musicline.de. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
^ Steffen Hung. "Finnish charts portal". finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ "イアン・ギランのアルバム売上ランキング".
^ Steffen Hung. "Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ "Ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". Ultratop.
^ Steffen Hung. "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de". musicline.de. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013.
^ "Out of My Mind by WhoCares - Music Charts". αCharts.

[ukalbumschart-1] "Artists". OfficialCharts.com.

[dwedish-2] Steffen Hung. "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

[bpi-3] "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.

[4] "Born Again".

[5] "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de". musicline.de. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.

[6] Steffen Hung. "Finnish charts portal". finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

[7] "イアン・ギランのアルバム売上ランキング".

[8] Steffen Hung. "Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

[9] "Ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". Ultratop.

[10] Steffen Hung. "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

[11] "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de". musicline.de. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013.

[12] "Out of My Mind by WhoCares - Music Charts". αCharts.

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