The Cure discography


The English rock band The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, five live albums, twelve compilation albums, ten extended plays, and 37 singles on Fiction Records and Geffen Records. They have also released ten video albums and 43 music videos.
Formed in 1978,
the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of Robert Smith, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey. The band has continued through various line-ups; Smith is the group's only remaining original member. The line-up of the band for their most recent album, ', consisted of Smith, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup and Jason Cooper.
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, reached number forty-four on the UK Albums Chart. The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds and Faith, were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number twenty and number fourteen respectively. Between 1982 and 1996, The Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. The most successful of these was Wish which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200. The last three studio albums – Bloodflowers, The Cure and ' – have had mixed success, reaching numbers fourteen, eight and thirty-three in the UK respectively. As of March 2019, the band are in the process of recording their fourteenth studio album, their first in eleven years, and hope to have it released around October 2019.

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles

Notes

Promotional singles

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Video albums

Music videos

Other appearances