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Cat Stevens discography
Stevens in 1971
Studio albums17
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums6
Compilation albums34
Singles57
Video albums4
Music videos21

The discography of British singer and songwriter Cat Stevens (also known as Yusuf, Yusuf Islam, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens) consists of seventeen studio albums, one soundtrack album, six live albums, thirty-four compilation albums, fifty-seven singles, four video albums, and twenty-one music videos.

In March of 1967, Cat Stevens's debut album Matthew & Son was released by Deram Records, and soon followed up by New Masters later that year. In 1968, Stevens contracted tuberculosis, and emerged with a new sound, beard, and a contract with Island. In the years following, he recorded several hit albums, including Mona Bone Jakon (1970), Tea for the Tillerman (1970), Teaser and the Firecat (1971), Catch Bull at Four (1972), Foreigner (1973), and Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974). In June 1974, while in Australia, Cat Stevens was presented with a plaque representing the sale of 40 Gold Records, the largest number ever presented to an artist in Australia.[1] He also recorded the soundtrack for Harold and Maude during this time. As the 70s progressed, he continued to release albums (Numbers, Izitso, and Back to Earth) but these were not as well received as the ones that preceded them. In December of 1977, after a long quest for spiritual truth, Stevens converted to the religion of Islam. He would change his name to Yusuf Islam and disappear out of the public eye for years. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he recorded some Islamic music, most of which would later be compiled into a compilation Footsteps in the Light (2006). In 2006, he returned to secular music with the album An Other Cup. Since then, he has continued to release new music.

Albums

As Cat Stevens

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
AUS
[3]
AUT
[4]
CAN
[5]
GER
[6]
NOR
[7]
NZ
[8]
SPA
[9]
SWE
[10]
US
[11]
Matthew & Son * Released: 10 March 1967 7 173
New Masters
  • Released: 15 December 1967[12]
  • Label: Deram
Mona Bone Jakon * Released: 24 April 1970 63 25 164
Tea for the Tillerman
  • Released: 23 November 1970
  • Label: Island/A&M
20 2 13 11 22 25 20 8
Teaser and the Firecat * Released: October 1971[16]
  • Label: Island/A&M
2 1 2 23 2 25 2 2
Catch Bull at Four * Released: 27 September 1972
  • Label: Island/A&M
2 1 1 17 3 2 1
Foreigner * Released: 25 July 1973
  • Label: Island/A&M
3 4 5 18 1 1 3
Buddha and the Chocolate Box * Released: March 1974
  • Label: Island/A&M
3 5 3 3 34 5 2 2
Numbers * Released: November 1975
  • Label: Island/A&M
85 4 20 14 12 9 13
Izitso * Released: 28 May 1977
  • Label: Island/A&M
18 39 12 2 7 13 39 10 15 7
Back to Earth * Released: 3 December 1978
  • Label: Island/A&M
89 31 32 17 14 33
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Year Album details Peak positions Certifications
US
[11]
1974 Saturnight
  • Released: 8 November 1974
  • Worldwide release: 29 November 2024
  • Label: A&M (Japan)
  • Label (re-release): A&M/Cat-O-Log
2004 Majikat
  • Released: 21 September 2004
  • Label: Eagle
2008 Tea for the Tillerman: Live (DVD)
  • Released: 2 September 2008
  • Label: Wienerworld UK
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
AUS
[19][3]
AUT
[20]
CAN
[5][21]
GER
[6]
NOR
[22]
NZ
[8]
SPA
[9]
SWE
[10]
US
[11]
1970 The World of Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Decca
1971 Matthew & Son / New Masters
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Deram
173
1971 Very Young and Early Songs
  • Released: 1 November 1971
  • Label: Deram
94
1972 The View from the Top[23][24]
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Deram
1972 Harold and Maude
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: A&M (Japan)
1972 Cat Stevens's Early Songs
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Deram (Japan)
1973 The Best of Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Deram
1973 Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Decca
1975 Greatest Hits 2 41 1 14 19 5 6
1975 20 Super Hits by Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Decca
1977 Cat's Cradle
1978 The Best of Cat Stevens Volume 2
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Decca
1978 Steve Adams Georgiou - Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Decca (Spain)
1981 Morning Has Broken
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Island
12 5
1981 The First Cut is the Deepest
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Decca
1984 Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • Released: November 1984
  • Label: Island/A&M
3 165
1985 The Collection
1987 Classics, Volume 24
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: A&M
1989 First Cuts
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Deram
1990 The Very Best of Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Island
6 22 8
1990 Harmonic Expressions
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Deram/Polydor
1993 The Early Tapes
1996 Three - Numbers, Izitso, Back to Earth
1999 Remember Cat Stevens – The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Island
31 10 12 20 5 5 13 11
2000 The Very Best of Cat Stevens
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Island/A&M
6 6 44 89 7 19 2 58
2001 Cat Stevens (box set)

aka In Search of the Centre of the Universe and On the Road to Find Out

  • Released: 2001, repackaging 2008
  • Label: A&M
2005 Gold
  • Released: 15 November 2005
  • Label: Island/A&M
2005 Chronicles
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: A&M
2007 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – The Best of Cat Stevens
  • Released: 1 May 2007
  • Label: A&M
40
2007 Harold and Maude Soundtrack by Cat Stevens
  • Released: 28 December 2007
  • Label: Vinyl Films
173
[28]
2010 4 Original Albums
  • Released: 20 December 2010
  • Label: Island/A&M
60
2011 Icon
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

As Yusuf Islam

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Singles

  • 2003: Peace Train '03 / Angel of War
  • 2005: Indian Ocean

As Yusuf

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
AUS
[19]
AUT
[20]
GER
[6]
FRA
[29]
NLD
[30]
NOR
[22]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[31]
US
[11]
2006 An Other Cup 20 2 2 81 69 17 16 14 52
2009 Roadsinger 10 35 10 9 88 71 41 43 41
2014 Tell 'Em I'm Gone 22 24 15 26 90 39 24
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Year Album details Certification
2007 Yusuf's Cafe Session (DVD)
  • Released: March 2007
  • Label: Hip-O
2010 Roadsinger: Live in Australia (Blu-ray)
  • Released: 7 December 2010
  • Label: Ais

As Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[2]
AUS
[35]
AUT
[20]
GER
[6]
FRA
[29]
SPA
[36]
SWI
[31]
US
[11]
2017 The Laughing Apple
  • Released: 15 September 2017
  • Label: Cat-O-Log/Decca
23 59 26 4 139 79 33 114
2020 Tea for the Tillerman 2
  • Released: 18 September 2020[37]
  • Label: Cat-O-Log/Decca
4 50 161 45 85
2023 King of a Land 49 32
[38]
10 32
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[2]
AUS
[35]
AUT
[20]
GER
[6]
FRA
[29]
SPA
[36]
SWI
[31]
US
[11]
2012 The Collection
2025 On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits
  • Release: 17 September 2025
  • Label: Cat-O-Log/A&M/Ume
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

As Cat Stevens

Year Single / B-side Peak chart positions Album
UK
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[5]
CAN AC
[5]
GER
[6]
NLD
[30]
NZ
[39]
SPA
[9]
US
[40]
US AC
[41]
1966 "I Love My Dog" / "Portobello Road" 28 47 21 118 Matthew and Son
"Matthew and Son" / "Granny" 2 11 84 25 1 20 115
1967 "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun" / "School is Out" 6 54 4 Non-album singles
"A Bad Night" / "The Laughing Apple" 20 87 30 15
"Kitty"[A] / "Blackness of the Night" 47 6 New Masters
1968 "Lovely City (When Do You Laugh?)" / "Image of Hell" 100 Non-album singles
"Here Comes My Wife" / "It's a Super (Dupa) Life" 12
1969 "Where Are You" / "The View from the Top"
1970 "Lady D'Arbanville" / "I Wish, I Wish" 8 20 69 23 2 16 11 Mona Bone Jakon
"Father and Son" / "Moonshadow" 52[B] 18 28 Tea for the Tillerman
1971 "Wild World" / "Miles from Nowhere" 52[C] 14 32 11 21
"Moonshadow" / "Father and Son" 22 26 20 30 10 Teaser and the Firecat
"Rubylove" / "Longer Boats"
"Tuesday's Dead" / "Miles from Nowhere"
"Sad Lisa" / "Wild World"
"Peace Train" / "Tuesday's Dead" 3 3 22 7 2 7 1
1972 "Morning Has Broken" / "I Want to Live in a Wigwam" 9 4 4 11 37 5 3 13 6 1
"Sitting" / "Crab Dance" 34 14 38 4 16 17 Catch Bull at Four
1973 "Can't Keep It In" / "Crab Dance" 13 82 36
"The Hurt" / "Silent Sunlight" 30 25 27 17 31 38 Foreigner
1974 "Oh Very Young" / "100 I Dream" 19 9 6 47 10 10 2 Buddha and the Chocolate Box
"Another Saturday Night" / "Home in the Sky" 19 15 1 16 37 27 10 6 12 Non-album single
1975 "Ready" / "I Think I See the Light" 20 26 Buddha and the Chocolate Box
"Two Fine People" / "A Bad Penny" 76 34 23 33 39 Greatest Hits
1976 "Banapple Gas" / "Ghost Town" 59 65 37 7 41 Numbers
1977 "(Remember the Days of the) Old School Yard" / "The Doves" 44 18 27 14 33 28 Izitso
"(I Never Wanted) To Be a Star" / "The Doves"
"Sweet Jamaica" 98 35
1978 "Was Dog a Doughnut?" / "Sweet Jamaica" 79 70
"Child for a Day" / "Kypros"
1979 "New York Times" / "Nascimento" 22 Back to Earth
"Bad Brakes" / "Nascimento" 83
"Randy" / "Nascimento"
1980 "Last Love Song" / "Nascimento"
2019 "Toy Heart" Back to Earth (Super Deluxe Box Set)
2020 "Butterfly"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

As Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
UK
[2]
AUT
[20]
GER
[6]
IRE
[43]
NLD
[30]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[31]
2003 "Peace Train" / "Angel of War" Single
2004 "Father and Son"
(with Ronan Keating)
2 41 27 16 84 37 41 Ronan Keating's album
10 Years of Hits
2005 "Indian Ocean" Gold
2006 "Heaven" / "Where True Love Goes" An Other Cup
"Midday (Avoid City After Dark)"
2007 "Maybe There's a World"
2009 "Boots and Sand"
(featuring Paul McCartney and Dolly Parton)
Roadsinger
"Thinking 'Bout You"
"Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night)"
"The Day the World Gets 'Round"
(with Klaus Voormann)
A Sideman's Journey
2011 "My People" Non-album single
2014 "Dying to Live" Tell 'Em I'm Gone
2016 "I Love My Dog" / "Matthew and Son" Non-album singles
2016 "He Was Alone"
2017 "See What Love Did to Me" The Laughing Apple
"Blackness of the Night"
"Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)"
"You Can Do (Whatever)!"
"Mary and the Little Lamb"
2020 "Where Do the Children Play?" Tea for the Tillerman²
"On the Road to Find Out"
"Father and Son"
2023 "Here Comes the Sun" Non-album single
"Take The World Apart" King of a Land
"King of a Land"
"All Nights, All Days"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

As Cat Stevens

Year Title Album
1970 "Lady D'Arbanville" Mona Bone Jakon
"Father and Son" Tea for the Tillerman
1972 "Moonshadow" (animated short film) Teaser and the Firecat
1976 "Banapple Gas" Numbers
1977 "(Remember the Days of the) Old School Yard" Izitso

As Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Year Title Album
2006 "Midday (Avoid City After Dark)" An Other Cup
2009 "Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night)" Roadsinger
"Thinking 'Bout You"
"Boots and Sand" (with only the voices of Paul McCartney and Dolly Parton)
2011 "My People" non-album
2014 "You Are My Sunshine" Tell 'Em I'm Gone
"Gold Digger"
2017 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (animated) The Laughing Apple
2020 "Where Do the Children Play?" (re-recorded) (animated) Tea for the Tillerman²
"Wild World" (re-recorded)
"On the Road to Find Out" (re-recorded)
"Tea for the Tillerman" (re-recorded) (animated)
2023 "Take the World Apart" (lyric video) King of a Land
"King of a Land" (animated)
"All Nights, All Days" (animated)
"Another Night in the Rain" (animated)

Notes

  1. Kitty did not enter the RPM Top 100, but peaked at number 26 on the CHUM Chart, 4 March 1968[42]
  2. Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".
  3. Chart entry in 2007.

References

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