The discography of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg consists of 16 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 compilation album, 80 singles and EPS, and several soundtrack albums.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album Chart Sales Certifications
FR
[1][2][3]
1958Du chant à la une137
1959N° 2
1961L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
1962Serge Gainsbourg N° 4
1963Gainsbourg Confidentiel
1964Gainsbourg Percussions
1968Bonnie & Clyde (with Brigitte Bardot)
1968Initials B.B.
1969Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg4
1971Histoire de Melody Nelson56
1973Vu de l'extérieur
1975Rock around the bunker5
1976L'Homme à tête de chou85
1979Aux armes et cætera1
  • FRA: 650,000[5]
  • SNEP: Platinum[4]
1981Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles47
1984Love on the Beat3
  • SNEP: Platinum[4]
1987You're Under Arrest2
  • SNEP: Platinum[4]

Live albums

Compilation albums

  • 2021: L'ALbum de sa vie (100 titles) (Peak FR: #19, BEL (Wa): #89)

Selected film scores

Editions

  • De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre (1989, 1994, Philips)
A 207-track survey of Gainsbourg's career from 1959 to 1981 on nine CDs, issued both separately and in a box: Vol. 1 Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas, 1959-1960; Vol. 2 La Javanaise, 1961-1963; Vol. 3 Couleur Café, 1963-1964; Vol. 4 Initials B.B., 1966-1968; Vol. 5 Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, 1969-1971; Vol. 6 Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais, 1973-1975; Vol. 7 L'Homme à Tête de Chou, 1975-1981; Vol. 8 Aux Armes et Cætera, 1979-1981; and Vol. 9 Anna, 1967–1980. A two-CD highlights collection, also called De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre, was culled from this edition in 1990. The box was reissued in 1994 with two more discs containing the later albums Love on the Beat (1984) and You're Under Arrest (1987).
  • Gainsbourg Forever (2001, Mercury)
An 18-CD box issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Gainsbourg's death containing each of his sixteen studio albums and the EP Essais Pour Signature (1958) in its original format (one per CD), plus a disc of rarities, Inédits, Les Archives 1958-1981. A separate 3-CD box, Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg: Musiques de Films 1959–1990 (2001, Mercury) covered his film music.
  • Serge Gainsbourg Intégrale (2011, Philips)
A 20-CD, 271-track box issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of Gainsbourg's death. The first sixteen discs contain his studio albums and related tracks. They are followed by a disc of singles, a disc of television and radio recordings, and two discs of film music.

Albums written for other artists

Selected tribute albums and posthumous releases

Singles and EPs

The majority of his EPs (represented in italics) were also released as 7-inch promo jukebox singles.

Year Single Peak chart positions
AUT[6] BE (WA)[7] FRA[8] NL[9] NOR[10] SUI[11] UK[12] US[13]
1958 Le Poinçonneur des Lilas
1959 La Jambe de bois (Friedland)
Le Claqueur de doigts
L'Anthracite
1960 L'Eau à la bouche 49
Les Loups dans la bergerie
Romantique 60
1961 La Chanson de Prévert
Les Oubliettes
1962 Les Goémons
1963 Vilaine fille, mauvais garçon [upper-alpha 1] [upper-alpha 1]
Strip-tease
1964 Comment trouvez-vous ma sœur ?
Chez les yé-yé
Couleur Café
1966 Qui est "In", Qui est "Out" 47
1967 Vidocq
Anna
Toutes folles de lui
Comic Strip 45
L'Horizon
1968 "Bonnie and Clyde" (with Brigitte Bardot)[upper-alpha 2] 18
"Manon 70"
"Requiem pour un con" 49[upper-alpha 3]
"Ce sacré grand-père"
"Initials B.B."[upper-alpha 2] 42 93[upper-alpha 4]
Mister Freedom 80[upper-alpha 5]
"L'anamour"
1969 "Élisa"
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (with Jane Birkin) 1 2 3[14] 2 1 1 1 58
"La Chanson de Slogan" (with Jane Birkin)
"La Horse" 94[upper-alpha 5]
1970 "Un petit garçon appelé Charlie Brown"
"Cannabis"
1971 "Ballade de Melody Nelson" 29[15]
1972 "La Décadanse" (with Jane Birkin) 13 47[15]
"Sex-Shop"
"Moogy-Woogy"
1973 "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" 35 73[upper-alpha 4]
1974 "Je t'aime... moi non plus" (re-release) 4 31
1975 "Rock Around the Bunker" 47
"L'Ami Caouette" 31
1976 "Marilou sous la neige" 50
"Ballade de Johnny-Jane"
1977 "Madame Claude"
"My Lady Héroïne" 47
"Good Bye Emmanuelle"
"Chanson du chevalier blanc"
1978 "Sea, Sex and Sun"
1979 "Des laids, des laids" / "Aux armes et cætera"
"Vieille Canaille"
1980 "Harley-Davidson"
"Requiem pour un twister"
"Dieu fumeur de Havanes" (with Catherine Deneuve) 8[16]
1981 "Souviens-toi de m'oublier" (with Catherine Deneuve)
"Le Physique et le figuré"
"Ecce Homo"
1982 "Bana Basadi Balalo"
1984 "Love on the Beat"
1985 "Lemon Incest" (with Charlotte Gainsbourg) 2
"No Comment"
1986 "Vieille Canaille" (with Eddy Mitchell) 17[16]
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (with Brigitte Bardot)
"Charlotte Forever" (with Charlotte Gainsbourg)
1987 "You're Under Arrest" 47
1988 "Aux enfants de la chance" 35
"Mon Légionnaire"
1989 "Hey Man Amen" (Live)[upper-alpha 2]
"Couleur Café" (Live)
1990 "Stan the Flasher"
1991 "Requiem Pour un Con" (Remix 91) 8
1995 "Élisa" (re-release) 36
2000 "Je t'aime" (The Mixes)
2003 "Lola Rastaquouère"
Marilou Reggae
"Aux Armes!" (featuring Big Youth)
2010 "Les Cœurs Verts"
Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil
Si j'étais un espion
2011 "Comme un boomerang" [upper-alpha 6] 40
2017 "Équateur"
2020 À la Maison de la Radio

Notes

  1. 1 2 "La Javanaise" on the B-side of the EP charted at number 38 in Belgium and when re-released in 2011, charted at number 87 in France
  2. 1 2 3 Also released as an EP
  3. Chart position in 2010
  4. 1 2 Chart position in 2011
  5. 1 2 Chart position in 2009
  6. "Comme un boomerang" did not chart on the Ultratop 50, but did reach #11 on the Ultratip chart[17]

Singles written for other artists

  • "Laisse tomber les filles" (1964) – France Gall
  • "N’écoute pas les idoles" (1964) – France Gall
  • "Les Incorruptibles" (1965) – Petula Clark
  • "La Gadoue" (1965) – Petula Clark
  • "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (1965) – France Gall
  • "Attends ou va-t'en" (1965) – France Gall
  • "Nous ne sommes pas des anges" (1965) – France Gall
  • "Baby Pop" (1966) – France Gall
  • "Les Sucettes" (1966) – France Gall
  • "Les Papillons Noirs" (1966) – Michèle Arnaud
  • "Teenie Weenie Boppie" (1967) – France Gall
  • "Ne dis rien" (1967) – Anna Karina
  • "Comment te dire adieu?" (1968) – Françoise Hardy (lyrics)
  • "Betty Jane Rose" (1978) – Bijou
  • "Joujou à la casse" (1979) – Alain Chamfort
  • "Manureva" (1979) – Alain Chamfort
  • "Amour Puissance Six" (1989) Viktor Lazlo
  • "Dis-lui toi que je t'aime" (1990) – Vanessa Paradis
  • "White and Black Blues" (1990) – Joëlle Ursull (lyrics by Gainsbourg)

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