Mike Oldfield singles discography
This page is a singles discography for the musician Mike Oldfield.
Singles[]
| Year | Title | Album | Notes | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [3] |
CAN [4] |
DEN [5] |
FRA [6] |
GER [7] |
IRE [8] |
IT [9] |
NL [10] |
NZ [11][12] |
SPA [13][14] |
SWI [15] |
US [16] | ||||
| 1974 | "Mike Oldfield's Single" ("Tubular Bells") |
Tubular Bells | Note that US version is a very different edit. The UK version was featured on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells. |
31 | 12 | — | 3 | — | 48 | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | — | 7 |
| 1975 | "Don Alfonso" | Non-album single | Featuring David Bedford on vocals | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "In Dulci Jubilo" / "On Horseback" | Ommadawn | Double A-side. "In Dulci Jublio" is an instrumental; "On Horseback" features vocals by Mike Oldfield |
4 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | 7 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1976 | "Portsmouth" | Non-album singles | 3 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1977 | "William Tell Overture" | 51[A] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Cuckoo Song" | Credited to Mike Oldfield with Les Penning | 53[A] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1979 | "Guilty" | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ��� | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Blue Peter" | 19 | — | — | — | 12[B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1980 | "Arrival" | QE2 | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Sheba" / "Wonderful Land" | B-side only ("Wonderful Land") charted in Australia | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1982 | "Five Miles Out" | Five Miles Out | Vocals by Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly | 43 | 61 | — | — | — | 41 | 42 | — | — | — | 44 | 4 | — | — |
| "Family Man" | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 45 | — | — | 29 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | ||
| "(It Was A) Mistake" | Non-album single (UK/Europe/Japan) Crises (North American release only) |
Vocals by Maggie Reilly | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1983 | "Moonlight Shadow" | Crises | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 4 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — |
| "Shadow on the Wall" | Vocals by Roger Chapman | 95 | — | 1 | — | 9 | — | 3 | 22 | — | 9 | — | 10 | 4 | — | ||
| 1984 | "Crime of Passion" | Non-album single | Vocals by Barry Palmer | 61 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 17 | 22 | 8 | — | — | — | 17 | — |
| "To France" | Discovery | Vocals by Maggie Reilly | 48 | 97 | 9 | — | 1 | 1 | 6 | — | 12 | 4 | — | 3 | 7 | — | |
| "Tricks of the Light" | Vocals by Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Étude" | The Killing Fields | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985 | "Pictures in the Dark" | Non-album singles | Vocals by Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and Aled Jones | 50 | — | 3 | — | 8 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — |
| 1986 | "Shine" | Vocals by Jon Anderson | 100 | — | — | — | 11 | — | 31 | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1987 | "In High Places" | Crises | Vocals by Jon Anderson | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Islands" | Islands | Vocals by Bonnie Tyler | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | 41 | — | 40 | — | — | — | 22 | — | |
| "The Time Has Come" | Vocals by Anita Hegerland | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Magic Touch" | Vocals by Max Bacon. Charted at No. 10[17] on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart |
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| 1988 | "Flying Start" | Vocals by Kevin Ayers | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1989 | "Earth Moving" | Earth Moving | Vocals by | 93 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Innocent" | Vocals by Anita Hegerland | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | 42 | 45 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "(One Glance is) Holy" | Vocals by Adrian Belew | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1990 | "Étude (Nurofen Advert)" | Non-album single | Reissue of 1984 single | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1991 | "Heaven's Open" | Heaven's Open | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Gimme Back" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1992 | "Sentinel" | Tubular Bells II | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Tattoo" | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1993 | "The Bell" | Many different mixes exist. The UK charting version featured Master of Ceremonies Vivian Stanshall |
50 | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Moonlight Shadow" | Elements | Reissue of 1983 single | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "In Dulci Jubilo" | Reissue of 1975 single A-side | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994 | "Hibernaculum" | The Songs of Distant Earth | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1995 | "Let There Be Light" | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996 | "The Voyager" | Voyager | Promo Single | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1997 | "Women of Ireland" | 70 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998 | "Man in the Rain" | Tubular Bells III | Vocals by Cara Dillon, with additional vocals by Heather Burnett | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | 94 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1999 | "Far Above the Clouds" | 53 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002 | "To Be Free" | Tres Lunas | Vocals by | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| "Thou Art in Heaven" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | — | |||
| 2008 | "Spheres" | Music of the Spheres | Download only | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | "Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo" (Music from the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games) |
Isles of Wonder | Download and limited edition (500 copies) blue/pink vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014 | "Sailing" | Man on the Rocks | Radio single / Video download | 118 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Moonshine" | Radio single / Video download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||||
Extended plays[]
| Year | Title | Album | Notes | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | ||||
| 1978 | Take Four | 4-track 12" single, featuring "Portsmouth", "In Dulci Jublio", "Wrekorder Wrondo", and "The Sailor's Hornpipe" | 72 | |
| 1981 | The Singles | 6-track 12" EP, featuring "The William Tell Overture", "Blue Peter", "Polka", "Cuckoo Song", "Pipe Tune" and "Portsmouth". Released only in Japan | — | |
| 1982 | The Mike Oldfield EP | 4-track EP, featuring "(It Was A) Mistake", "Waldberg (The Peak)", "Family Man" and "Mount Teide". Released only in Germany during Oldfield's 1982 "World Tour/Who's Next Tour". |
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| 1998 | The X-Files Theme EP | The X-Files: The Album | Features four versions of Mark Snow's "The X-Files Theme", one of these being Oldfield's "Tubular X" which is a reworking of Snow's original theme combined with his own "Tubular Bells". EP also includes Oldfield's track "The Source of Secrets", from Tubular Bells III. Released only in Japan |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||
Other singles[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | "Tubular Bells (Excerpts)" | USA Promo 13 245 AT[18] |
| 1974 | "Tubular Bells" | [18] |
| 1974 | "Tubular Bells/Froggy Went A-Courting" | [18] |
| 1974 | "Froggy Went A-Courting" | 13 245 AT[18] |
| 1974 | "Hergest Ridge" | PR-223[18] |
| 1974 | "Extract from The Orchestral Tubular Bells" | VDJ 1[18] |
| 1974 | "Don Alfonso (Deutsche version)" | German language single, 13 927 AT[18] |
| 1975 | "An extract from Ommadawn" | VDJ.9[18] |
| 1975 | "Theme from Ommadawn" | USA/Canada[18] |
| 1975 | "Ommadawn" / "In Dulci Jubilo" | France[18] |
| 1979 | "Guilty" (Live) | Germany, Portugal and Netherlands[18] |
| 1979 | "Extract from Tubular Bells" (Live) | Germany[18] |
| 1979 | "North Star/Platinum Finale" | Spain, 101 468[18] |
| 1979 | "Alright Now" | UK promo single sided flexi-disc |
| 1980 | "In Concert" | Germany, 696 009-000[18] |
| 1980 | "Celt" | Australia, VS 374/MX 194891[18] |
| 1980 | "Wonderful Land" | |
| 1981 | "The Singles" | Japan only EP |
| 1982 | "The Mike Oldfield EP" | Germany only EP |
| 1983 | "Foreign Affair" | Argentina, S-0425[18] |
| 1984 | "Discovery" | Canada, VDJ006[18] |
| 1985 | "The Complete Mike Oldfield" | UK, SWALLOW 1 / Spain VP 020 (12-inch)[18] |
| 1988 | "The Wind Chimes" | USA, "Keyboard" magazine, 1032431XS[18] |
| 1989 | "Blue Night" | Spain, SP-MIKE 1[18] |
| 1989 | "Nothing But" | Spain, SP-MIKE 2[18] |
| 1989 | "Hostage" | USA, PRCD 3208[18] |
| 1989 | "Tubular Bells (Edit)" | USA, PRCD 3572[18] |
| 1990 | "Amarok album sampler" | Germany, 663 271-000[18] |
| 1990 | "Amarok X-Traks" | AMACD 1 / AMACD 1DJ "Insight" (WhSmith magazine)[18] |
| 1991 | "Moonlight Shadow" | Reissue, France |
| 1992 | "Tubular Bells II" | Medley cassette-tape[18] |
| 1993 | "Tubular Bells/Moonlight Shadow (Elements Promo)" | France, FROLD 1[18] |
| 1993 | "Tubular Bells (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD1[18] |
| 1993 | "Moonlight Shadow (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD2[18] |
| 1993 | "Ommadawn (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD3[18] |
| 1993 | "Family Man (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD4[18] |
| 1993 | "To France (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD5[18] |
| 1993 | "Islands (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD6[18] |
| 1994 | "Five Miles Out (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD7[18] |
| 1994 | "Foreign Affair (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD8[18] |
| 1994 | "Heaven's Open (Elements Promo)" | Spain, SPOLD9[18] |
| 1994 | "Highlights from the Album – The Songs of Distant Earth" | Netherlands, WARNER 2[18] |
| 1994 | "The Songs of Distant Earth" | Sweden, WMSPROM68[18] |
| 1994 | "A Shot of Moonshine" | UK, SAM 1470[18] |
| 1995 | "Tubular World" | Spain, 2033[18] |
| 1996 | "The Voyager" | German/UK Promo only, PRCD 386[18] |
| 1996 | "The Song of the Sun" | Spain, PRCD 486[18] |
| 1996 | "Mont St. Michel" | Spain, PRCD 363[18] |
| 1997 | "XXV – The Essential Radio Sampler" | Germany, PRCD 949[18] |
| 1998 | "The X-Files Theme" | X-Files Theme, Japanese release (AMCY-2917) |
| 1998 | "More Secrets" | UK, 333 00067 2[18] |
| 1998 | "The Top of the Morning" | Spain, PRO 1116[18] |
| 1999 | "Cochise" | Spain, PRO 2018[18] |
| 1999 | "Out of Mind" | Spain, PRO 2019[18] |
| 1999 | "Pacha Mama" | Spain, SP008W |
| 1999 | "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud" | Spain Promo-only |
| 1999 | "Amber Light" | Spain/Germany, PRCD 1783 |
| 2003 | "Introduction 2003" | Spain/Germany Promo-only (PRO3962)/(PRO3692) |
| 2005 | "Surfing" | England Promo-only (SURFCJ1) |
| 2009 | "Mike Oldfield's Single" ("Tubular Bells") |
Promo single. Re-released due to the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells |
| 2013 | "Mike Oldfield's Single" ("Tubular Bells") |
Promo single. Re-released for Record Store Day and the 40th Anniversary of Virgin and Tubular Bells |
| 2014 | "Nuclear" | Charted at number 1 on Spotify's Viral Charts |
| 2015 | "Zombies" | A light-hearted halloween-themed rework of "Poison Arrows", released for halloween 2015 and to be included on the 2016 reissue of Discovery. |
Notes[]
References[]
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External links[]
- Mike Oldfield Discography at Tubular.net
- Mike Oldfield Discography at Amadian.net
- Mike Oldfield singles discography discography at Discogs
- Argiers – Mike Oldfield's collector corner, includes Rainer-Muenz's lists
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