Nine Inch Nails discography


American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released 11 studio albums, one live album, three remix albums, one box set, six extended plays, 20 singles, 10 promotional singles, four video albums and 31 music videos. Nine Inch Nails has also contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well as the soundtrack to the video game Quake.
Initial ambitions for Nine Inch Nails in 1988 were to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. With the addition of future singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin", many of these demo tracks would later appear in revised form on the band's debut studio album, Pretty Hate Machine. The album was released in October 1989 and peaked at number 75 on the Billboard 200 the following year. In response to pressures from TVT Records for a follow-up to Nine Inch Nails' commercially successful debut, Reznor began recording the Broken extended play in secret. The EP was released in September 1992 and reached number seven on the Billboard 200. Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral, reached number two on the Billboard 200 and has sold over four million copies in the United States, remaining the band's highest-selling release in the US.
Five years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next major album, The Fragile, a double album that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 228,000 copies in its first week, but dropped from the top 10 afterward. Another six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, With Teeth, which also debuted atop the Billboard 200. In 2007, the band released their fifth studio album, Year Zero, alongside an accompanying alternate reality game. Reznor announced in late 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual obligations with Interscope Records, and would distribute its next major album independently. The band's final Interscope release was a remix album based on material from Year Zero. The first Nine Inch Nails album released independently was the instrumental Ghosts I–IV in March 2008, followed two months later by The Slip. Hesitation Marks, the band's eighth studio album, was released in August 2013 through Columbia Records, reaching number three on the Billboard 200. After teasing a release in early 2016, Nine Inch Nails began releasing a trilogy of new releases: the EPs Not the Actual Events in December 2016 and Add Violence in July 2017, followed by the band's ninth studio album, Bad Witch, in June 2018. On March 26, 2020, the band released the albums ' and '.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Box sets

Extended plays

Singles

Promotional singles

Chronology

Each official Nine Inch Nails release is chronologically ordered with a sequential number prefixed by the word "Halo". For example, the fifth Nine Inch Nails release, Broken, is identified with the phrase "Halo Five". These numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release, such as the multiple releases of The Downward Spiral. Promotional-only releases do not have their own numbers, although the promotional singles for "Piggy" and "Hurt" were both labeled as "Halo Ten", a title later officially used for Further Down the Spiral. A US promo for "Into the Void" is mislabeled as Halo 16 because this number actually belongs to the Things Falling Apart remix album.
;Pretty Hate Machine era
;Broken era
;The Downward Spiral era
;The Fragile era
;With Teeth era
  • Halo 18: "The Hand That Feeds"
  • Halo 19: With Teeth
  • * Halo 19 DVD-A: With Teeth, DualDisc release
  • Halo 20: "Only"
  • Halo 21: "Every Day Is Exactly the Same"
  • Halo 22: Beside You in Time
  • * Halo 22 HD: Beside You in Time, Live Blu-ray
;Year Zero era
  • Halo 23: "Survivalism"
  • Halo 24: Year Zero
  • Halo 25: Year Zero Remixed
;Ghosts I–IV era
  • Halo 26: Ghosts I–IV, digital download
  • * Halo 26 CD: Ghosts I–IV, 2× CD
  • * Halo 26 V: Ghosts I–IV, 4× vinyl
  • * Halo 26 DE: Ghosts I–IV, Deluxe Edition
  • * Halo 26 LE: Ghosts I–IV, Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition
;The Slip era
  • Halo 27: The Slip
  • * Halo 27 CD-LE: The Slip, Limited Edition CD with bonus DVD
;Hesitation Marks era
  • Halo 28: Hesitation Marks
  • * Halo 28dcd: Hesitation Marks, Deluxe Edition
;The Trilogy era
  • Halo 29: Not the Actual Events
  • Halo 31: Add Violence
  • Halo 32: Bad Witch
;Ghosts V–VI era
TitleYearAlbum
"Dead Souls"1994'
"Something I Can Never Have" 1994Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film
"A Warm Place"1994Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film
"Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man"2009'
"Zoo Station"2011AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered

Remixes

TitleYearArtistAlbumNotes
"Light "1994KMFDM"Light"
"I'm Afraid of Americans" 1997David Bowie"I'm Afraid of Americans"
  • Reznor added his vocals to the chorus, making it a duet with Bowie; he also appeared in the music video.
"Victory" 1998Puff Daddy & the FamilyVictory
"Democracy" 1998Killing JokeWardance: The Remixes
  • Alternate versions of this remix appear on the "Democracy" single and promotional releases of the single, credited to Charlie Clouser, Dave Ogilvie and Danny Lohner.
    • "Deaf Ears "2017Todd Rundgren"I Got Your Back "

    Videography

    Video albums

    Music videos

    Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish", and "Happiness in Slavery" as well as a video for "Help Me I am in Hell" and a different video for "Gave Up" than the one on Closure. The short film contains graphic depictions of a seemingly helpless victim being tortured and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos.