Boney M. discography
Boney M. in 1981
Studio albums8

The discography of German disco group Boney M. includes 8 studio albums, 50 singles , and numerous compilation albums.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
GER
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[4]
NLD
[5]
NOR
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
UK
[9]
US
[10]
Take the Heat off Me
  • Released: June 1976
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
22665234140
Love for Sale
  • Released: May 1977
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
12712222113
Nightflight to Venus
  • Released: July 1978
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
171711311134
Oceans of Fantasy
  • Released: September 1979
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
12114431551
Boonoonoonoos
  • Released: September 1981
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
1514352131
Christmas Album
  • Released: December 1981
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
1453804210
Ten Thousand Lightyears
  • Released: May 1984
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
23
Eye Dance
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or not available.

Charting and/or certified compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
GER
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[16]
NLD
[5]
NZ
[7]
NOR
[6]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[17]
UK
[9]
The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits
  • Released: May 1980
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: Cassette, vinyl
235162214301
The Best of 10 Years – 32 Superhits
  • Released: January 1986
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
335
Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88
  • Released: October 1988
  • Label: Hansa
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
48
The Greatest Hits of Boney M / The Village People
  • Released: October 1990
    (with The Village People) (Available in Australia only)
  • Label: Concept
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
68
Daddy Cool – Star Collection
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Ariola
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
Happy Christmas
  • Released: November 1991
  • Label: Ariola
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
Gold – 20 Super Hits
  • Released: November 1992
  • Label: MCI
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
5406226145
The Greatest Hits
  • Released: March 1993
    (Available in UK only)
  • Label: Telstar
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
14
More Gold – 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  • Released: October 1993
  • Label: MCI
  • Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl
388743
The Best of Boney M.
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Camden
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Norske Hits
  • Released: November 1998 (Available in Norway only)
  • Label: Ariola
  • Formats: CD, cassette
17
20th Century Hits
  • Released: November 1999
  • Label: MCI
  • Formats: CD, cassette
3050837
25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool
  • Released: September 2000
    (Available in the Netherlands only)
  • Label: Ariola
  • Formats: CD, cassette
27
The Greatest Hits
  • Released: 2001
    (Available in UK, Australia & New Zealand only)
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: CD, cassette
7866
The Magic of Boney M.
  • Released: October 2006
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Formats: CD, cassette
7281094223945
Feliz Navidad – A Wonderful Christmas
  • Released: November 2010
  • Label: Farian (Sony Music)
  • Formats: CD, cassette
93
The Essential Boney M.
  • Released: 27 August 2012
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: 2× CD
Diamonds
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: MCI
  • Format: CD
20
Worldmusic for Christmas
  • Released: November 2017
  • Label: MCI
  • Formats: CD
53
Gold
  • Released: November 2019 (Available in UK only)
  • Label: Crimson (Demon Music Group)
  • Formats: CD
41
"—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
GER
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
IRE
[24]
NLD
[25]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[26]
UK
[9]
US
[27]
"Baby Do You Wanna Bump" 1975 12 Take the Heat off Me
"Daddy Cool" 1976 15131511665
"Sunny" 136141171123
"Ma Baker" 1977 15141211296 Love for Sale
"Still I'm Sad" 17
"Belfast" 15721318
"Rivers of Babylon" /
"Brown Girl in the Ring"
1978 11111111130 Nightflight to Venus
"Rasputin" 11135422
"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" 133312811185 Christmas Album
"Dancing in the Streets" 1979 Non-album track
"Painter Man"
(UK/Ireland and Netherlands only)
510 Nightflight to Venus
"Voodoonight"
(Japan only)
"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" 4735171143 Non-album track
"Gotta Go Home" /
"El Lute"
14411124210212 Oceans of Fantasy
"I'm Born Again" / "Bahama Mama" 7912717635
"I See a Boat on the River" / "My Friend Jack" 1980 58134957 The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits
"Children of Paradise" /
"Gadda-Da-Vida"
11121366 Non-album tracks
"Felicidad (Margherita)" 663
"Malaika" / "Consuela Biaz" 1981 137144 Boonoonoonoos
"We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World)" 1213339
"Little Drummer Boy" 20 Christmas Album
"6 Years of Boney M. Hits" 1982 Non-album tracks
"The Carnival Is Over" / "Going Back West" 4111
"Zion's Daughter" Christmas Album
"Jambo – Hakuna Matata (No Problems)" 1983 4811 Non-album track
"Somewhere in the World" 1984 49 Ten Thousand Lightyears
"Kalimba de Luna" 16112023 Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs
"Happy Song" (with Bobby Farrell) 71521
"My Chérie Amour" 1985 55 Eye Dance
"Young, Free and Single" 48
"Daddy Cool '86" 1986 Non-album track
"Bang Bang Lulu" Eye Dance
"Rivers of Babylon (Remix '88)" 1988 46 Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88
"Megamix" 52 Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '89 – Volume II
"The Summer Mega Mix" 1989 92
"Malaika (Lambada Remix)"
"Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" (short available, withdrawn) Non-album tracks
"Stories" 1990 2694
"Megamix" 1992 267011312497 Gold - 20 Super Hits
"Brown Girl in the Ring (Remix)" 1993 252038
"Ma Baker (Remix '93)" More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
"Papa Chico"
(featuring Liz Mitchell)
1994
"Ma Baker (Somebody Scream)"
(vs. Horny United/Sash!)
1999 281911349102122 20th Century Hits
"Daddy Cool '99"
(featuring Mobi T.)
47161949
"Hooray! Hooray! (Caribbean Night Fever) 2000" 794780
"Sunny (Remix) 2000" 2000 5980
"Daddy Cool 2001" 2001 47 Greatest Hits
"Sunny (Mousse T. Remix)" 2006 The Magic of Boney M.
"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord"
(featuring Daddy Cool Kids)
2007 Christmas with Boney M.
"Felicidad America (Obama-Obama)"
(featuring Sherita O. & Yulee B.)
2009 Non-album track
"Rasputin"
(Majestic x Boney M)
2021 382618217262711 Non-album track
"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

Videography

  • Boney M – VHS, Mirror Vision (1981)
  • Gold – VHS/VCD (in Hong Kong) (1993)
  • Gold DVD (2001, Europe)
  • Greatest Hits (2001, UK)
  • Special Edition (2002, South Korea)
  • Special Edition EP (2003, UK)
  • The Magic of Boney M. (2006)
  • Fantastic Boney M. – On Stage and on the Road (2007)
  • Legendary TV Performances (2010)
  • Diamonds (2015)

Songs that were re-worked into Boney M. titles

Frank Farian's right hand Hans-Jörg Mayer (aka Georg Reyam) sought out songs from all over the world, often public domain (non-copyrighted) folk tunes but as well works from other musicians/composers (usually not credited) and rewrote them for Boney M.

Borrowed themes

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Offizielle Deutsche Charts: Boney M". GfK Entertainment (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Australian chart peaks:
    • Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 19 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). Sydney: Australian Chart Book. p. 41. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
    • Top 50 (ARIA Chart) peaks from 26 June 1988: "australian-charts.com – Discography Boney M." Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
    • Top 100 (ARIA Chart) peaks from January 1990 until December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  3. 1 2 3 "Boney M. in der Österreicherischen Hitparade". Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  4. For Canadian peaks:
  5. 1 2 "Artiest: Boney M. (Albums)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  6. 1 2 "Boney M. in Norwegian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 "Boney M. in New Zealand's Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 "Boney M. in Swedish Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  9. 1 2 3 "Official Charts Company: Boney M." Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  10. "Billboard 200 (Boney M)". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Boney M.)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "British certifications – Boney M". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 23 October 2022. Type Boney M in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Music Canada: Boneyb M". Music Canada. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "NVPI: Goud/Platina". NVPI. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  15. 1 2 "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  16. For Canadian peaks:
  17. "Artist: Boney M. (Albums)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  18. 1 2 "IFPI Austria – Gold & Platin" (in German). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Austria. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  19. 1 2 3 "Boney M's Finnish Certifications". IFPI Finland. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  20. "Hitparade: Boney M". SwissCharts. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Switzerland. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  21. 1 2 "InfoDisc: Les Certifications depuis 1973" [InfoDisc: Certifications from 1973] (in French). InfoDisc. Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  22. 1 2 Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  23. "Trofeer: 1993–2011" (in Norwegian). ifpi.no. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  24. "Search for Irish singles by Boney M." Irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  25. "Peak chart positions of Boney M. singles in the Netherlands". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  26. "Peak chart positions of Boney M. singles in Switzerland". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  27. "Boney M Chart History | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  28. 1 2 "InfoDisc Les Certifications depuis 1973 (singles)". InfoDisc. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  29. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2022" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  30. "ARIA Accreditations 2020". ARIA. January 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  31. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2021 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  32. "Boney M. cover of Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's 'Polly Wolly Doodle All Day'". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  33. "Images for Nighttrain (2)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  34. "Boney M. – Full Discography (1975–2009) – Форум ShareReactor.ru". Forum.sharereactor.ru. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
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