Mike Oldfield singles discography
Singles52
Promotional singles33

This is the singles discography of English musician Mike Oldfield.

Singles

Title Vocals Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
DEN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NL
[7]
SPA
[8][9]
SWI
[10]
US
[11]
"Mike Oldfield's Single" [upper-alpha 1]
("Tubular Bells")
1974 31 12 7 Tubular Bells
"Froggy Went a-Courting" [upper-alpha 2] Non-album singles
"Don Alfonso" David Bedford 1975
"In Dulci Jubilo" / "On Horseback" Mike Oldfield on "On Horseback" 4 7 2 Non-album single [upper-alpha 3]
"Theme from Ommadawn" [upper-alpha 4] 1976 Ommadawn
"Portsmouth" 3 23 19 Non-album singles
"William Tell Overture" 1977 51
"Cuckoo Song" [upper-alpha 5] 53
"Guilty" 1979 22
"Guilty" (live) [upper-alpha 6] Exposed
"Blue Peter" 19 Non-album single
"North Star/Platinum Finale" [upper-alpha 7] 1980 Platinum
"Arrival" 13 12[upper-alpha 8] QE2
"Sheba" / "Wonderful Land"
40
"Five Miles Out" Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly 1982 43 61 42 4 Five Miles Out
"Family Man" Maggie Reilly 45 7 3
"Mistake" [upper-alpha 9] Maggie Reilly 10 56 Non-album single [upper-alpha 10]
"Moonlight Shadow" Maggie Reilly 1983 4 6 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 Crises
"Shadow on the Wall" Roger Chapman 95 1 9 3 22 9 10 4
"Crime of Passion" Barry Palmer 1984 61 1 17 22 17 Non-album single
"To France" Maggie Reilly 48 97 9 1 6 4 3 7 Discovery
"Tricks of the Light" Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer 91 46
"Étude" 111 The Killing Fields
"Pictures in the Dark" Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and Aled Jones 1985 50 3 8 4 5 Non-album singles
"Shine" Jon Anderson 1986 100 11 31
"In High Places" Jon Anderson 1987 161 Non-album single [upper-alpha 11]
"Islands" Bonnie Tyler 100 41 Islands
"The Time Has Come" Anita Hegerland 190 22
"Magic Touch" [upper-alpha 12] Max Bacon
"Flying Start" Kevin Ayers 1988 132
"Earth Moving" Nikki Bentley 1989 93 Earth Moving
"Innocent" Anita Hegerland 97 8 45
"(One Glance Is) Holy" [upper-alpha 13] Adrian Belew
"Étude" (reissue) [upper-alpha 14] 1990 Non-album single
"Heaven's Open" 1991 Heaven's Open
"Gimme Back"
"Sentinel" 1992 10 14 Tubular Bells II
"Tattoo" 33
"The Bell" Vivian Stanshall (UK) [upper-alpha 15] 1993 50 13
"Moonlight Shadow" (reissue) Maggie Reilly 1993 52 Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield
"Hibernaculum" 1994 47 The Songs of Distant Earth
"Let There Be Light" 1995 51
"Women of Ireland" 1997 70 Voyager
"Man in the Rain" Cara Dillon, and additionally Heather Burnett 1998 98 94 Tubular Bells III
"Far Above the Clouds" Clodagh Simonds 1999 53
"To Be Free" Jude Sim 2002 25 3 Tres Lunas
"Thou Art in Heaven" Sally Oldfield 17
"Spheres" Hayley Westenra 2008 Music of the Spheres
"Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo" [upper-alpha 16] 2012 Isles of Wonder
"Sailing" Luke Spiller 2014 118 Man on the Rocks
"Moonshine"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

Title Year Album
"Hergest Ridge" [upper-alpha 17] 1974 Hergest Ridge
"Extract from The Orchestral Tubular Bells" [upper-alpha 18] 1975 The Orchestral Tubular Bells
"Foreign Affair" [upper-alpha 19] 1983 Crises
"Discovery" [upper-alpha 20] 1984 Discovery
"The Wind Chimes" [upper-alpha 21] 1987 Islands
"Blue Night" [upper-alpha 22] 1989 Earth Moving
"Nothing But" [upper-alpha 22]
"Hostage" [upper-alpha 21]
"Tubular Bells" (edit) [upper-alpha 21] 1990 Tubular Bells
"Amarok X-Traks" [upper-alpha 23] Amarok
"Tubular Bells"/"Moonlight Shadow" [upper-alpha 24] 1993 Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield
"Tubular Bells" [upper-alpha 22]
"Moonlight Shadow" [upper-alpha 22]
"Ommadawn" [upper-alpha 22]
"Family Man" [upper-alpha 22]
"To France" [upper-alpha 22]
"Islands" [upper-alpha 22]
"Five Miles Out" [upper-alpha 22] 1994
"Foreign Affair" [upper-alpha 22]
"Heaven's Open" [upper-alpha 22]
"A Shot of Moonshine" [upper-alpha 25] Non-album single
"The Voyager" [upper-alpha 23] 1996 Voyager
"Mont St. Michel" [upper-alpha 22]
"The Song of the Sun" [upper-alpha 22]
"The Top of the Morning" [upper-alpha 22] 1998 Tubular Bells III
"Cochise" [upper-alpha 22] 1999 Guitars
"Out of Mind" [upper-alpha 22]
"Pacha Mama" [upper-alpha 22] The Millennium Bell
"Amber Light" [upper-alpha 26]
"Introduction" [upper-alpha 27] 2003 Tubular Bells 2003
"Surfing" [upper-alpha 27] 2005 Light + Shade
"Mike Oldfield's Single" [upper-alpha 28] 2013 Tubular Bells
"Nuclear" [upper-alpha 29] 2016 Man on the Rocks

Notes

  1. Note that US version is a very different edit. The UK version was featured on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells.
  2. "Froggy Went A-Courting" was only released as a single in the Netherlands.
  3. Whilst "In Dulci Jubilo" was released as a non-album single, "On Horseback" had featured as the final section of the side two of Ommadawn.
  4. "Theme from Ommadawn" was only released as a single in the US, Canada and France.
  5. Credited to Mike Oldfield with Les Penning.
  6. The live version of "Guilty" was only released as single in Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.
  7. "North Star/Platinum Finale" was only released as a single in Spain.
  8. Charted in 1983
  9. Credited to the Mike Oldfield Group.
  10. "Mistake" was released as a non-album single in the UK/Europe, but was included on the North American release of Crises.
  11. "In High Places" was originally released in 1983 on Crises, but was released as a single in 1987 to promote Richard Branson's launch of the then-largest ever hot air balloon.
  12. "Magic Touch" was not released as a single in the UK, but was released in the majority of other territories.
  13. "(One Glance Is) Holy" was only released as a single in Germany.
  14. "Étude" was reissued in 1990 after being used in an advert for Nurofen.
  15. Many different mixes exist and on the UK charting version Stanshall features as the Master of Ceremonies.
  16. Released as download and limited edition vinyl as Music from the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
  17. Released as a promotional single in the UK, US, Australia and Japan.
  18. Released as a promotional single in the UK and Australia.
  19. Released as a promotional single in Argentina.
  20. Released as a promotional single in Canada.
  21. 1 2 3 Released as a promotional single in the US.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Released as a promotional single in Spain.
  23. 1 2 Released as a promotional single in the UK and Germany.
  24. Released as a promotional single in the Netherlands.
  25. Released as a promotional single in the UK. Credited to MOT2.
  26. Released as a promotional single in Germany and Spain.
  27. 1 2 Released as a promotional single in the UK and Europe.
  28. Released as a promotional single for Record Store Day and the 40th Anniversary of Virgin and Tubular Bells
  29. Released as a Record Store Day exclusive.

References

  1. For all the chart positions apart from the below-mentioned, see: "MIKE OLDFIELD | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 222, 223. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. "Das österreichische Hitparaden- und Musik-Portal". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. "Danish Chart Archive - Singles 1979 - ____ (B.T./IFPI DK)". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  7. "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  8. Salaverri, Fernando (2015). Sólo éxitos 1959–2012 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 978-84-8048-866-2.
  9. "spanishcharts.com - Spanish charts portal". spanishcharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade - hitparade.ch". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  11. "Mike Oldfield". Billboard. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
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