Wendy Matthews discography
# Wendy Matthews discography

Wendy Matthews is a Canadian-born Australian adult contemporary singer and songwriter. Her discography consists of nine studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, four video albums and twenty-four singles.

Matthews started recording as a session and jingles singer in Los Angeles in 1981, one of her early vocals was for "Willow Pattern" which appeared on Osamu Kitajima's album Dragon King in 1982. Further session work was followed by touring Australia with Glenn Shorrock (ex-Little River Band) into 1983. Matthews relocated to Sydney and continued her session work and joined bands including Models in 1985, Rockmelons in 1988 and Absent Friends in 1989. Matthews also supplied vocals for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV series, Dancing Daze (1986), she supplied lead vocals on four tracks for the related soundtrack, Dancing Daze – Rock and three singles, "Dancing Daze" (duet with Jenny Morris), "Dare to Be Bold" and "Might Have Been" (trio with Morris and Mark Williams). A second ABC TV series was Stringer (1987), where Matthews and Kate Ceberano released a duet album, You've Always Got the Blues – Songs from the ABC TV Series "Stringer" in 1988. The album peaked in the Top 10 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart.

Matthews released her debut solo studio album Émigré in 1990, which peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

## Albums

### Studio albums

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| - | - | - | - |
| Title | Details | AUS | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Émigré | Released: November 1990 Label: RooART (846 649-2) Formats: CD, cassette | 11 | ARIA: Platinum |
| Lily | Released: 28 September 1992 Label: RooArt (4509-90547-2) Formats: CD, cassette | 2 | ARIA: 3× Platinum |
| The Witness Tree | Released: 14 November 1994 Label: RooArt (7432-144415-2) Formats: CD, cassette | 16 | ARIA: Platinum |
| Ghosts | Released: 25 August 1997 Label: BMG Australia (74321510092) Formats: CD, cassette | 43 | |
| Beautiful View | Released: 17 July 2001 Label: BMG Australia (74321861512) Formats: CD | 36 | |
| Café Naturale | Released: 31 May 2004 Label: BMG Australia (82876617202) Formats: CD, digital download | 42 | |
| She | Released: 8 November 2008 Label: Barking Bear/MGM (9324690032587) Formats: CD, digital download | — | |
| The Welcome Fire | Released: 13 August 2013 Label: Ambition Entertainment/EMI Australia Formats: CD, digital download | 31 | |
| Billie and Me: The White Room Sessions | Released: 27 July 2015 Label: Barking Bear Formats: CD | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. ||||

### As featured artist albums

| Title | Details |
| - | - |
| Awakening (Hiroshi Sato featuring Wendy Matthews) | Released: 1982 (Japan) Label: Alfa (ALC-28035) Formats: CD, cassette |

### Live albums

| Title | Details |
| - | - |
| The Way It Has to Be | Released: 1991 Label: RooART (510 408-2) Formats: CD, cassette |
| Live at Mudgee RSL '91 and Bunnamah Estate '94 | Released: 7 May 2021 Label: Black Box Records/ MGM Distribution Formats: CD (limited), digital |

### Soundtracks

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| - | - | - | - |
| Title | Details | AUS | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Dancing Daze (by Jenny Morris, Wendy Matthews, Mark Williams, Marc Hunter & Jane Clifton) | Released: February 1986 Label: ABC Music (RML 53191) Formats: LP, Cassette | — | |
| Illusion (by Mark Williams, Wendy Matthews, Martin Armiger & Peter Blakeley) | Released: 1986 Label: ABC Music (L 38529) Formats: LP | — | |
| You've Always Got the Blues – Songs from the ABC TV Series "Stringer" (with Kate Ceberano) | Released: April 1988 Label: ABC Music (L 38863) Formats: CD, cassette | 7 | ARIA: Platinum |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. ||||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| - | - | - | - |
| Title | Details | AUS | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Stepping Stones: The Best of Wendy Matthews | Released: 15 March 1999 Label: BMG Australia (74321648252) Formats: CD, cassette | 4 | ARIA: Platinum |
| The Essential Wendy Matthews | Released: 2007 Label: Sony BMG (88697120052) Formats: CD, digital download | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. ||||

### Video albums

| Year | Details |
| - | - |
| Live at the Sydney Opera House | Released: 1994 Label: BMG Australia (1120811-4) Format: Video |
| Ghosts EPK | Released: 1998 Label: BMG Australia Format: Video |
| Stepping Stones - Best of | Released: 1999 Label: BMG Australia (74321650202) Format: Video |
| Stepping Stones - Best of | Released: 2003 Label: BMG Australia (82876566769) Format: DVD |

## Singles

List of singles as credited artist, with Australian chart positions and certifications :

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
| - | - | - | - |
| Year | Single | AUS | Album |
| 1986 | "Dancing Daze" (with Jenny Morris) | — | Dancing Daze |
| 1986 | "Dare to Be Bold" | — | Dancing Daze |
| 1986 | "Might Have Been" (with Morris and Mark Williams) | — | Dancing Daze |
| 1988 | "You've Always Got the Blues" (with Kate Ceberano) | — | You've Always Got the Blues |
| 1988 | "Guilty (Through Neglect)" (with Ceberano) | — | You've Always Got the Blues |
| 1988 | "Jump" (Rockmelons featuring Wendy Matthews) | — | Tales of the City (Rockmelons album) |
| 1990 | "I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" (Absent Friends featuring Wendy Matthews) | 4 | Here's Looking Up Your Address (Absent Friends album) |
| 1990 | "Token Angels" | 18 | Émigré |
| 1991 | "Woman's Gotta Have It" | 34 | Émigré |
| 1991 | "Let's Kiss (Like Angels Do)" | 14 | Émigré |
| 1992 | "The Day You Went Away" | 2 | Lily |
| 1993 | "Friday's Child" | 15 | Lily |
| 1993 | "If Only I Could" | 41 | Lily |
| 1993 | "T.K.O." | 118 | Lily |
| 1994 | "Standing Strong" | 37 | The Witness Tree |
| 1995 | "Love Will Keep Me Alive" | 68 | The Witness Tree |
| 1995 | "Say a Prayer" | — | The Witness Tree |
| 1997 | "Then I Walked Away" | 75 | Ghosts |
| 1997 | "Big" | 200 | Ghosts |
| 1998 | "Beloved" | 49 | Ghosts |
| 1999 | "I've Got to Have You" | — | Stepping Stones |
| 2000 | "Day by Day" | — | Godspell (Australian Cast Recording) |
| 2000 | "Free" | 131 | Beautiful View |
| 2001 | "Beautiful View" | 88 | Beautiful View |
| 2001 | "Like the Sun" | 195 | Beautiful View |
| 2008 | "Fallen Angels" | — | She |
| 2013 | "Amelia" | — | The Welcome Fire |
| 2013 | "Keeping My Distance" | — | The Welcome Fire |
| 2016 | "F U Cancer" (with Catherine Britt with Kasey Chambers, Beccy Cole, Lyn Bowtell, Josh Pyke, Wes Carr & Wendy Matthews) | — | non-album single |
| 2019 | "Help Is on Its Way" (with Glenn Shorrock, The McClymonts, Beccy Cole, Jasmine Rae, Travis Collins, Busby Marou and Fanny Lumsden) | — | non-album single |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. ||||

## Other appearances

| Year | Song | Artist | Album |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1982 | "Willow Pattern" | Osamu Kitajima | Dragon King |
| 1987 | "Oh! Darling" | Models | Non-album single |
| 1989 | "Skye Boat Song" | various artists | Five |
| 1989 | "The Sound of the Wind" | various artists | Six |
| 1989 | "Golden Slumbers" (with Rick Price) | various artists | Zzzero |
| 1989 | "Hallelujah" | Absent Friends | Here's Looking Up Your Address |
| 1990 | "Hullabaloo" | Absent Friends | Here's Looking Up Your Address |
| 1990 | "Harmony" | Absent Friends | Here's Looking Up Your Address |
| 1993 | "Silent Night" | various artists | The Spirit of Christmas 1993 |
| 1998 | "Here Am I" | various artists | Good Vibrations – A Concert for Marc Hunter – The Live Event |
| 2000 | "Pure Inspiration" | various artists | Olympic Record |
| 2001 | "White Christmas" | various artists | The Spirit of Christmas 2001 |
| 2009 | "Day You Went Away" | Phrase | Clockwork |
| 2009 | "Easy" | Adam Harvey | Both Sides Now |
| 2010 | "Flower on the Water" | John Williamson | Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
