Wire discography
# Wire discography

The discography of Wire, an English rock band, consists of seventeen studio albums, twenty-six live albums, eleven compilation albums, eleven EPs, and twenty-four singles.

## Albums

### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Title | Album details | UK | UK Indie | BEL (FL) | SCO | US | US Heat. |
| Pink Flag | Released: November 1977 Label: Harvest Formats: LP, MC, 8-track | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chairs Missing | Released: 8 September 1978 Label: Harvest Formats: LP, MC | 48 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 154 | Released: 21 September 1979 Label: Harvest Formats: LP, MC, 8-track | 39 | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Ideal Copy | Released: April 1987 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC | 87 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck | Released: 16 May 1988 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| It's Beginning to and Back Again | Released: May 1989 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | 3 | — | — | 135 | — |
| Manscape | Released: May 1990 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| The Drill | Released: April 1991 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The First Letter | Released: 14 October 1991 Label: Mute Formats: CD, LP, MC As Wir | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Object 47 | Released: 7 July 2008 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Red Barked Tree | Released: 20 December 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | 49 |
| Change Becomes Us | Released: 18 March 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download | — | 44 | 165 | — | — | 23 |
| Wire | Released: 13 April 2015 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 71 | 12 | 92 | 61 | — | — |
| Nocturnal Koreans | Released: 22 April 2016 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 98 | 9 | 181 | 50 | — | — |
| Silver/Lead | Released: 31 March 2017 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 96 | 8 | 124 | 54 | — | — |
| Mind Hive | Released: 24 January 2020 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 82 | 6 | 155 | 22 | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. ||||||||

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| - | - | - |
| Title | Album details | UK Indie |
| Document and Eyewitness | Released: July 1981 Label: Rough Trade Formats: 2xLP, MC | 3 |
| It's All in the Brochure | Released: May 2000 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD Limited release | — |
| Wire on the Box: 1979 | Released: 4 October 2004 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD+DVD | — |
| The Scottish Play: 2004 | Released: 28 March 2005 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD+DVD | — |
| Live at the Roxy, London – April 1st & 2nd 1977/Live at CBGB Theatre, New York – July 18th 1978 | Released: 13 November 2006 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 25 Oct 1978 Bradford University | Released: 5 July 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 21 Jul 1988 Astoria, London | Released: 5 July 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 08 Dec 2000 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Released: 5 July 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 14 Sept 2002 Metro, Chicago | Released: 5 July 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 01 Dec 1987 The Town & Country, London | Released: 29 November 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 19 April 2002 Fleece & Firkin, Bristol | Released: 29 November 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 12 Nov 1978, SO36, Berlin | Released: 27 April 2011 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 17 Dec 1985 Paradiso, Amsterdam | Released: 27 April 2011 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 02 May 2000 Great American, San Francisco | Released: 27 April 2011 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| The Black Session: Paris, 10 May 2011 | Released: 14 February 2012 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 23 February 2000 Nottingham Social (Recycling Sherwood Forest) | Released: 16 January 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 04 April 2011 WFMU, Jersey City – 13 April 2011 KEXP, Seattle | Released: 16 January 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: 10 Nov 1979 Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, London | Released: 18 February 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 12 June 1987 Maxwell's, Hoboken | Released: 18 February 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 21 May 1990 Hibernian, London | Released: 18 February 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 17 February 1978 West Runton Pavilion, Cromer | Released: 18 February 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 12 July 1991 Mean Fiddler, London | Released: 21 October 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 05 March 1979 Carre, Amsterdam | Released: 21 October 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 09 August 2009 Off Festival, Myslowice | Released: 21 October 2013 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 09 March 1979 Pavilion, Montreux | Released: 23 June 2014 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 19 July 1979 Notre Dame Hall, London | Released: 23 June 2014 Label: Pinkflag Formats: digital download | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| - | - | - |
| Title | Album details | UK Indie |
| And Here It Is...Again... | Released: November 1984 Label: Sneaky Pete Formats: LP Germany-only release | — |
| Wire Play Pop | Released: March 1986 Label: The Pink Label Formats: LP | 4 |
| In the Pink | Released: August 1986 Label: Dojo Formats: LP | — |
| On Returning (1977–1979) | Released: July 1989 Label: Harvest/EMI Formats: CD, LP, MC | — |
| The Peel Sessions Album | Released: January 1990 Label: Strange Fruit Formats: CD, LP, MC | — |
| 1985–1990: The A List | Released: 17 May 1993 Label: Mute Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC | — |
| Behind the Curtain: Early Versions 1977 & 78 | Released: 5 May 1995 Label: EMI Formats: CD | — |
| Turns and Strokes | Released: May 1996 Label: WMO Formats: CD, 2xLP | — |
| Coatings | Released: 21 October 1997 Label: WMO Formats: CD | — |
| PF456 Redux | Released: 28 April 2003 (LP) Rereleased: 13 August 2021 (CD) Label: Pinkflag Formats: LP, CD Limited release LP | — |
| Send | Released: 28 April 2003 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Send Ultimate | Released: 1 July 2010 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| 10:20 | Released: 19 June 2020 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 23 |
| PF456 Deluxe | Released: 12 June 2021 Label: Pinkflag Formats: LP, digital download |
| Not About To Die | Released: 23 April 2022 (LP) Released: 24 June 2022 (CD) Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, LP, digital download |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |||

### Box sets

| Title | Album details |
| - | - |
| The Drill | Released: 1991 Label: Mute Formats: 3xLP+7" Limited release |
| Wire: 1977–1979 | Released: 14 May 2006 Label: Pinkflag Formats: 5xCD US-only limited release |
| Nine Sevens | Released: 21 April 2018 Label: Pinkflag Formats: 9x7" |

## EPs

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| - | - | - |
| Title | Album details | UK Indie |
| Snakedrill | Released: November 1986 Label: Mute Formats: 12" | 3 |
| Ahead | Released: March 1987 Label: Mute Formats: 12" | — |
| The Peel Sessions | Released: November 1987 Label: Strange Fruit Formats: 12", MC | 18 |
| Silk Skin Paws | Released: June 1989 Label: Mute Formats: CD, 12" | — |
| The Third Day | Released: 1 February 2000 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Read & Burn 01 | Released: 17 June 2002 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Read & Burn 02 | Released: 1 October 2002 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Read & Burn 03 | Released: 5 November 2007 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD | — |
| Daytrotter Session | Released: 10 November 2008 Label: Daytrotter Formats: digital download | — |
| Strays | Released: January 2011 Label: Pinkflag Formats: CD, digital download Limited release with Red Barked Tree Rereleased as part of 10:20 | — |
| Daytrotter Session | Released: 23 January 2013 Label: Daytrotter Formats: digital download | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |||

## Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Title | Year | UK | UK Indie | US Alt | Album |
| "Mannequin" | 1977 | — | — | — | Pink Flag |
| "I Am the Fly" | 1978 | — | — | — | Chairs Missing |
| "Dot Dash" | 1978 | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Outdoor Miner" | 1979 | 51 | — | — | Chairs Missing |
| "A Question of Degree" | 1979 | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Map Ref. 41˚N 93˚W" | 1979 | — | — | — | 154 |
| "Our Swimmer" | 1981 | — | 13 | — | Document & Eyewitness |
| "Crazy About Love" | 1983 | — | 28 | — | Non-album single |
| "Ahead" | 1987 | — | 2 | — | The Ideal Copy |
| "Kidney Bingos" | 1988 | 88 | 8 | — | A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck |
| "Silk Skin Paws" | 1988 | — | 4 | — | A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck |
| "Eardrum Buzz" | 1989 | 68 | 5 | 2 | It's Beginning to and Back Again |
| "In Vivo" | 1989 | — | 11 | 24 | It's Beginning to and Back Again |
| "Life in the Manscape" (US-only release) | 1990 | — | — | — | Manscape |
| "In Every City?" (US promo-only release) | 1991 | — | — | — | The Drill |
| "So and Slow It Grows" (as Wir) | 1991 | — | — | — | The First Letter |
| "The First Letter" (as Wir) | 1997 | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Twelve Times You" (limited release) | 2000 | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Short Elevated Period" | 2017 | — | — | — | Silver/Lead |
| "Joust & Jostle" | 2017 | — | — | — | Wire |
| "Cactused" | 2019 | — | — | — | Mind Hive |
| "Primed and Ready" | 2020 | — | — | — | Mind Hive |
| "Small Black Reptile" | 2020 | — | — | — | 10:20 |
| "The Art of Persistence" | 2020 | — | — | — | 10:20 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. ||||||
