Metric discography
| Metric discography | |
|---|---|
 Metric, Coachella Festival, April 2008 From left to right: James Shaw, Joules Scott-Key, Emily Haines, Joshua Winstead | |
| Studio albums | 7 |
| Video albums | 2 |
| Music videos | 29 |
| EPs | 7 |
| Singles | 25 |
| Soundtrack albums | 3 |
Metric is a Canadian indie rock and new wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles. Metric consists of vocalist Emily Haines (who also plays the synthesizer and guitar), guitarist James Shaw (who also plays the synthesizer and theremin), bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key.
The Metric discography includes seven studio albums, seven extended plays, 25 singles, two video albums, 29 music videos and three soundtrack albums.
Albums[]
Studio albums[]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL (FL) [3] |
BEL (WA) [4] |
FRA [5] |
GER [6] |
SCO [7] |
SWI [8] |
UK [9] |
US [10] | |||
| Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? |
|
— | — | — | — | 188 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Live It Out |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[A] |
|
| Grow Up and Blow Away |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Fantasies |
|
6 | 48 | — | — | 110 | — | — | — | 164 | 76 |
|
| Synthetica |
|
2 | 21 | 132 | 113 | 91 | 78 | 53 | 59 | 51 | 12 |
|
| Pagans in Vegas |
|
5 | 87 | — | 143 | — | — | 94 | — | 124 | 36 | |
| Art of Doubt |
|
5 | — | — | — | — | — | 61 | — | —[B] | 95 | |
Soundtrack albums[]
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Twilight Saga: Eclipse |
|
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
|
| Cosmopolis (with Howard Shore) |
|
Video albums[]
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Live at Metropolis |
|
| Dreams So Real |
|
Extended plays[]
- Mainstream EP (1998)
- Static Anonymity (2001)
- Live at Metropolis (2007)
- Plug In, Plug Out (2009)
- Spotify Acoustic EP (2010)
- Spotify Covers EP (2010)
- iTunes Session EP (2011)
- The Shade EP [Cassette only] (2015)
Singles[]
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [22] |
CAN Rock [23] |
BEL (FL) [3] |
BEL (WA) [4] |
MEX Air. [24] |
SCO [25] |
UK [26] |
US [27] |
US Alt. [28] |
US Rock [29] | ||||
| 2004 | "Combat Baby" | — | × | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? | |
| "Dead Disco" | — | × | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2006 | "Poster of a Girl" | — | × | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Live It Out | |
| "Monster Hospital" | — | × | — | — | — | 43 | 55 | — | — | — | |||
| 2007 | "Empty" | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[C] | — | — | — | ||
| 2008 | "Help I'm Alive" | 21 | 15 | 63 | — | — | — | 160 | —[D] | 17 | 30 |
|
Fantasies |
| 2009 | "Front Row"[32] | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Gimme Sympathy"[33] | 52 | 16 | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | — |
| ||
| "Sick Muse"[34] | —[E] | 26 | — | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Gold Guns Girls" | 85 | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | 28 | |||
| "Waves"[36] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2010 | "Stadium Love" | —[F] | 22 | — | — | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Eclipse (All Yours)"[37] | — | — | — | 86 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | ||
| "Black Sheep"[38] (original or featuring Brie Larson) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[G] | —[H] | 34 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | ||
| 2012 | "Youth Without Youth" | 63 | 12 | — | — | 32 | — | — | — | 15 | 28 |
|
Synthetica |
| "Speed The Collapse"[41] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[I] | — | — | |||
| "Breathing Underwater"[43] | 22 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | —[J] |
| ||
| 2013 | "Synthetica"[45] | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2015 | "The Shade" | 92 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | Pagans in Vegas | |
| "Cascades" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Too Bad, So Sad" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fortunes" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Governess" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2018 | "Dark Saturday"[46] | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Art of Doubt | |
| "Dressed to Suppress"[47] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Now or Never Now"[48] | — | 11 | —[K] | —[L] | — | — | — | —[M] | — | — | |||
| 2019 | "Love You Back"[49] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Risk"[50] | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | —[N] | — | — | |||
| "Common Lives"[51] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "Dark Saturday (Dirt Road version)"[52] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2020 | "Empty (Dirt Road version)"[53] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Police and the Private (Dirt Road version)"[54] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Live It Out (Dirt Road version)"[55] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Auld Anxi"[56] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2021 | "Cascades (Dirt Road version)"[57] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Now or Never Now (Dirt Road version)"[57] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "×" denotes periods where charts did not exist or were not archived. | |||||||||||||
Other charting songs[]
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Rock [23] | |||
| 2015 | "Lie Lie Lie" | 25 | Pagans in Vegas |
Notes[]
- ^ Live It Out did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 37 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[14]
- ^ Art of Doubt did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 68 on the UK Album Downloads chart.[17]
- ^ "Empty" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 68 on the UK Physical Singles Chart Top 100.[30]
- ^ "Help I'm Alive" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 34 on the Hot Singles Sales chart.[31]
- ^ "Sick Muse" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 28 on the Canada Emerging Artists chart.[35]
- ^ "Stadium Love" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 24 on the Canada Emerging Artists chart.[35]
- ^ "Black Sheep" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 16 on the LyricFind U.S. chart.[39]
- ^ "Black Sheep" did not enter the Alternative Songs chart, but peaked at number seven on the Alternative Digital Song Sales chart.[40]
- ^ "Speed The Collapse" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[42]
- ^ "Breathing Underwater" did not enter the Rock Songs chart, but peaked at number 31 on the Rock Airplay chart.[44]
- ^ "Now or Never Now" did not enter the Flemish Ultratop Top 50, but spent 4 weeks as an extra tip on the Flemish Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.[3]
- ^ "Now or Never Now" did not enter the Walloon Ultratop Top 50, but spent 4 weeks as an extra tip on the Walloon Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.[4]
- ^ "Now or Never Now" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 21 on the LyricFind U.S. chart.[39]
- ^ "Risk" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number five on the LyricFind U.S. chart.[39]
Music videos[]
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | "Calculation Theme" | Ramon Bloomberg |
| "IOU"[58] | Michael Lustig, Steve Hanft[59] | |
| "Combat Baby" | Michael Schiller[60] | |
| "Succexy" | Ashley Cahill[61] | |
| 2004 | "The List" | Chris Grismer |
| "Dead Disco" | ||
| 2005 | "Monster Hospital" | Micah Meisner |
| 2006 | "Poster of a Girl" | |
| 2007 | "Empty" | Jaron Albertin |
| 2009 | "Help, I'm Alive" | Deco Dawson |
| "Gimme Sympathy" | Frank Borin | |
| "Sick Muse" | Justin Broadbent[62] | |
| 2010 | "Gold Guns Girls" | Eady Bros., Metric[63] |
| "Stadium Love" | Deco Dawson, Robby Starbuck, Frank Borin[64] | |
| "Eclipse (All Yours)" | Brantley Gutierrez | |
| "Black Sheep" | Michael Gochanour[65] | |
| "Collect Call" | Christopher Mills | |
| 2011 | "Expecting to Fly" | |
| 2012 | "Youth Without Youth" | Justin Broadbent |
| "Breathing Underwater" | Lauren Graham | |
| 2013 | "Synthetica" | Justin Broadbent |
| "Lost Kitten" | Sammy Rawal | |
| 2015 | "The Shade" | Lauren Graham |
| "The Governess" | ||
| 2018 | "Dark Saturday" | Justin Broadbent |
| "Dressed to Suppress" | ||
| "Now or Never Now" | Lorraine Nicholson, Emily Haines | |
| 2019 | "Love You Back" | Kristina Fleischer, Jonny Sanders |
| "Risk" | Kristina Fleischer, Duane Fernandez |
References[]
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- For all except noted: "Metric". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
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- Pagans in Vegas: "Chartlog UK". The Zobbel Website. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
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- ^ "Metric Chart History: Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ^ MacNeil, Jason. "Grow Up and Blow Away – Metric". AllMusic. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ^ Sendra, Tim. "Synthetica – Metric". AllMusic. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ^ "Official Album Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Amazon.com. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
- ^ "Cosmopolis (Bof)". Amazon.com (in French). Retrieved March 19, 2013.
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- ^ "Metric 2018 Dreams So Real". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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- ^ "Chart History: Mexico Ingles Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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- Monster Hospital: "2006 08 13 Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
- ^
- Monster Hospital: "Chartlog UK: 1994–2008: M – My Vitriol". The Zobbel Website!. Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
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- ^ "Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
- ^ "Official Physical Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Metric Chart History: Hot Singles Sales". Billboard. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
- ^ "Front Row - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Gimme Sympathy - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Sick Muse - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Metric Chart History: Canada Emerging Artists". Billboard. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ "Waves - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Eclipse (All Yours) - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Black Sheep - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Metric – Chart History: LyricFind U.S." Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Metric Chart History: Alternative Digital Song Sales". Billboard. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
- ^ "Metric – "Speed The Collapse" - Stereogum". Stereogum. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Metric Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Breathing Underwater - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Metric Chart History: Rock Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ^ "Synthetica - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Dark Saturday - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Dressed to Suppress - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Now or Never Now - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Love You Back - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Risk - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ Metric (band) [@Metric] (November 1, 2019). "New single "Common Lives" METRIC x CDMX feat. Sergio Acosta, Rodrigo Guardiola, Sánchez Dub and Capri OUT NOW x" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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- ^ "Empty - Dirt Road Edition - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "The Police and the Private - Dirt Road Edition - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Live It Out - Dirt Road Edition - Single by Metric on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
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|title=(help) - ^ Metric. I.O.U. (Video). YouTube.
- ^ "Metric – IOU". MTV. Viacom. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ Metric. Combat Baby (Video) – via YouTube.
- ^ Metric. Succexy (Video) – via YouTube.
- ^ Metric. Sick Muse (Video) – via YouTube.
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External links[]
- Metric Official site
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