The National discography

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The National discography
The National at Brooklyn Academy of Music.jpg
The National performing at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2010.
Studio albums 9
Live albums 4
Music videos 21
EPs 2
Singles 24

The discography of American indie rock band the National consists of nine studio albums, two extended plays (EPs), thirteen singles and nine music videos. The band's first two albums, were released by Brassland Records. Their next two albums were released by Beggars Banquet Records, and their fifth, sixth and seventh albums were released by 4AD.

The documentary film, A Skin, a Night, accompanied the band's 2008 EP, The Virginia. The National's fifth studio album, High Violet (2010), reached the top ten of a dozen national charts, including peaks of number three in the United States and number five in the United Kingdom. It was certified gold in the UK, Denmark, Ireland and Belgium. The album's lead single, "Bloodbuzz Ohio", peaked at number 16 on the Belgian Ultratop chart.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
Title Details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
CAN
[4]
DEN
[5]
FIN
[6]
IRL
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
The National
  • Released: October 30, 2001
  • Label: Brassland
  • Formats: CD
133 [upper-alpha 1]
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
  • Released: September 2, 2003
  • Label: Brassland
  • Formats: CD, LP
[upper-alpha 2] [upper-alpha 3]
Alligator 165
Boxer
  • Released: May 22, 2007
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
68 32 23 31 53 57
High Violet
  • Released: May 11, 2010
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
3 29 3 2 2 9 3 5 5 5
Trouble Will Find Me
  • Released: May 17, 2013
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
3 2 2 3 3 3 2 2 6 3
Sleep Well Beast
  • Released: September 8, 2017
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 2 1
I Am Easy to Find
  • Released: May 17, 2019
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
5 6 2 4 8 8 3 6 11 2
First Two Pages of Frankenstein
  • Released: April 28, 2023[23]
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
14 9 1 16 8 15 1 4 18 4
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Track listing
US
[1]
US
Indie

[24]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
POR
[25]
UK
[10]
UK
Indie

[10]
SCO
[10]
Daytrotter Session[26]
  • Released: July 9, 2007
  • Label: Daytrotter
  • Format: Digital download
iTunes Festival: London 2010
  • Released: July 20, 2010
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: Digital download
Tiny Desk Concert[27]
  • Released: June 10, 2013
  • Label: NPR
  • Format: Digital download
A Lot of Sorrow
  • Released: June 30, 2015
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: Vinyl
Boxer (Live in Brussels)[28]
  • Released: April 21, 2018
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: Vinyl
[upper-alpha 4] 14 37 17 70 5 26
Juicy Sonic Magic
  • Released: November 29, 2019[30]
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: Cassette
46
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions
Title Details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US
Indie

[24]
BEL
(FL)
DVD

[31]
IRL
[7]
UK
[10]
UK
Indie

[10]
SCO
[10]
Cherry Tree
  • Released: July 20, 2004
  • Label: Brassland
  • Formats: CD, 10" vinyl
[upper-alpha 5] [upper-alpha 6] 21 30
The Virginia EP [upper-alpha 8] 31 3 87 26
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
US
Rock

[32]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
BEL
(WA)

[33]
CAN
Rock

[34]
ICE
[35]
IRL
[7]
ITA
[36]
MEX
[37]
NZ
Hot

[38]
UK
[39]
"Slipping Husband" 2003 Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
"Abel"[40] 2005 83 Alligator
"Secret Meeting"[41]
"Lit Up"[42]
"Mistaken for Strangers" 2007 183 Boxer
"Apartment Story"
"Fake Empire" 2008
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" 2010 16 [upper-alpha 9] 20 [upper-alpha 10] High Violet
"Anyone's Ghost" 48 [upper-alpha 11] 24
"Terrible Love"[44] [upper-alpha 12] 23 61 [upper-alpha 13]
"Wake Up Your Saints" 2011 [upper-alpha 14]
"Conversation 16" [upper-alpha 15] [upper-alpha 16]
"Think You Can Wait"[46] Win Win (soundtrack)
"Exile Vilify" Non-album single
"Demons" 2013 [upper-alpha 17] 64 32 Trouble Will Find Me
"Don't Swallow the Cap" [upper-alpha 18] [upper-alpha 19]
"Sea of Love" [upper-alpha 20] 40
"Graceless"[48] [upper-alpha 21]
"I Need My Girl" 2014 34 [upper-alpha 22] 43
"Sunshine on My Back"[49] 2015 Non-album single
"The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness"[50] 2017 31 [upper-alpha 23] [upper-alpha 24] 41 48 Sleep Well Beast
"Guilty Party"[51]
"Carin at the Liquor Store" [upper-alpha 25]
"Day I Die"[52] 40 [upper-alpha 26] [upper-alpha 27] 32 28
"I'll Still Destroy You"[53]
"You Had Your Soul with You"[54] 2019 48 [upper-alpha 28] [upper-alpha 29] I Am Easy to Find
"Light Years"[56] [upper-alpha 30] 31
"Hairpin Turns"[57] [upper-alpha 31]
"Rylan"[58] 44 [upper-alpha 32] 40
"Hey Rosey"[59] [upper-alpha 33]
"Never Tear Us Apart"[60] 2020 [upper-alpha 34] [upper-alpha 35] Songs for Australia[61]
"Somebody Desperate"[62] 2021 [upper-alpha 36] Cyrano (soundtrack)
"Weird Goodbyes"[64]
(featuring Bon Iver)
2022 [upper-alpha 37] [upper-alpha 38] Non-album single
"Tropic Morning News"[67] 2023 [upper-alpha 39] 38 First Two Pages of Frankenstein
"New Order T-Shirt"[68] 39
"Eucalyptus"[69]
"Your Mind Is Not Your Friend"[70]
(featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
"The Alcott"
(featuring Taylor Swift)
13 63 5 90
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As featured artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[71]
US
AAA

[72]
US
Rock

[32]
AUS
[2]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
CAN
[73]
POR
[74]
UK
[39]
WW
[75]
"Coney Island"
(Taylor Swift featuring the National)
2020 63 18 12 42 [upper-alpha 40] 31 150 [upper-alpha 41] 45 Evermore
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted or certified songs

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
US
Lyric

[77]
US
Rock

[32]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
NZ
Hot

[78]
POR
[74]
"About Today" 2004 Cherry Tree
"Mr. November" 2005 9 Alligator
"Sorrow" 2010 [upper-alpha 42] High Violet
"Nobody Else Will Be There" 2017 6 Sleep Well Beast
"Turtleneck"
"Sleep Well Beast" 95
"Fake Empire" (Live in Brussels) 2018 [upper-alpha 43] Boxer (Live in Brussels)
"Quiet Light" 2019 12 I Am Easy to Find
"Roman Holiday" 23
"Oblivions" 5
"I Am Easy to Find" 14
"Where Is Her Head" 16
"Not in Kansas" 3
"So Far So Fast" 22
"Once Upon a Poolside"
(featuring Sufjan Stevens)
2023 30 First Two Pages of Frankenstein
"This Isn't Helping"
(featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
33
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Other appearances

Year Track Album
2003 "Clampdown" (The Clash cover) White Riot Vol. Two (A Tribute to the Clash)
2005 "High Beams" Music for Robots Volume 1
2006 "Minor Star of Rome" The Believer: 2006 Music Issue
2009 "So Far Around the Bend" Dark Was the Night
"Sleep All Summer" (with St. Vincent) (Crooked Fingers cover) Score: 20 Years of Merge Records
"Ashamed of the Story I Told" (Polaris cover) Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy
2011 "Exile Vilify" digital single (recorded for Portal 2)
"Think You Can Wait" Win Win soundtrack
"Twenty Miles to NH (Part 2)" (The Philistines Jr. cover) If a Lot of Bands Play in the Woods reissue various artists disc
"About Today (alternate version)" Warrior soundtrack
2012 "The Rains of Castamere" Game of Thrones: Season 2 (soundtrack)
2013 "Lean" The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2015 "Sunshine on My Back" digital single (recorded for Mistaken for Strangers)
2016 "Peggy-O" Day of the Dead (Grateful Dead cover album)
"Morning Dew"
"Terrapin Station" (with Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear)
"I Know You Rider" (live with Bob Weir)
2017 "Sailors in Your Mouth" The Bob's Burgers Music Album
"Christmas Magic"
"Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom" (with Låpsley)
2018 "Le violon blanc de Monsieur Souris" Souris Calle[79]
2019 "Turn on Me" For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones
2020 "Never Tear Us Apart" Songs for Australia[80]
2021 "Somebody Desperate" Cyrano[81]

Music videos

Year Video Directors
2005 "Abel" Adam Levite
"Lit Up" Vincent Moon
"Daughters of the Soho Riots"
2007 "Mistaken for Strangers" Thread-Count
"Apartment Story" Banner Gwin
2010 "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
  • Hope Hall
  • Andreas Burgess
  • Carin Besser
"Terrible Love" (Alternate Version) Tom Berninger
"Conversation 16" Scott Jacobson
2013 "Sea of Love" Sophia Peer
"Graceless"
2014 "I Need My Girl"
2016 "Morning Dew" Michael Brown
2017 "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" Casey Reas
"Guilty Party"
"Carin at the Liquor Store"
"Day I Die"
"I'll Still Destroy You" Allan Sigurðsson and Ragnar Kjartansson
"Dark Side of the Gym" Justin Peck
"Sleep Well Beast" Casey Reas and Graham MacIndoe

Notes

  1. The National did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 68 on the UK Physical Album Chart.[11]
  2. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers did not enter the US Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 99 on the US Album Sales chart.[13]
  3. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 53 on the UK Physical Album Chart.[11]
  4. Boxer (Live in Brussels) did not enter the US Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 18 on the Vinyl Albums chart.[29]
  5. Cherry Tree did not enter the US Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 94 on the US Album Sales chart.[13]
  6. Cherry Tree did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 40 on the UK Physical Album Chart.[11]
  7. CD issues of The Virginia EP were packaged with a DVD of the film A Skin, A Night, directed by Vincent Moon.
  8. The Virginia EP did not enter the US Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 8 on the Vinyl Albums chart.[29]
  9. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 37 on the Ultratip chart.[33]
  10. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 31 on the UK Physical Chart.[43]
  11. "Anyone's Ghost" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 33 on the Ultratip chart.[33]
  12. "Terrible Love" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 11 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  13. "Terrible Love" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 38 on the UK Physical Singles Chart Top 100.[45]
  14. "Wake Up Your Saints" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 45 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  15. "Conversation 16" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 14 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  16. "Conversation 16" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 29 on the Ultratip chart.[33]
  17. "Demons" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 13 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  18. "Don't Swallow the Cap" did not enter the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, but peaked at number 48 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.[47]
  19. "Don't Swallow the Cap" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 7 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  20. "Sea of Love" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 18 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  21. "Graceless" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 20 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  22. "I Need My Girl" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 35 on the Ultratip chart.[33]
  23. "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 4 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  24. "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[33]
  25. "Carin at the Liquor Store" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 24 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  26. "Day I Die" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number three on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  27. "Day I Die" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 46 on the Ultratip chart.[33]
  28. "You Had Your Soul with You" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 17 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  29. "You Had Your Soul with You" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 3 on the UK Physical Chart.[55]
  30. "Light Years" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[3]
  31. "Hairpin Turns" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[3]
  32. "Rylan" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 39 on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  33. "Hey Rosey" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[3]
  34. "Never Tear Us Apart" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[3]
  35. "Never Tear Us Apart" did not enter the Wallonie Ultratop 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Wallonie Ultratip chart.[33]
  36. "Somebody Desperate" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the UK Physical Chart.[63]
  37. "Weird Goodbyes" did not enter the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, but peaked at number 50 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.[65]
  38. "Weird Goodbyes" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 81 on the UK Singles Sales Chart Top 100.[66]
  39. "Tropic Morning News" did not enter the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, but peaked at number 25 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.[65]
  40. "Coney Island" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number eight on the Ultratip chart.[3]
  41. "Coney Island" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 75 on the UK Streaming Chart.[76]
  42. "Sorrow" did not enter the Rock Songs chart, but peaked at number 33 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.[47]
  43. "Fake Empire" (Live in Brussels) did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 43 on the Ultratip chart.[3]

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