Rainbow ’s discography includes 8 studio albums, 15 live albums, 2 studio studios, 11 compilations , 1 EP and 18 singles .
| Rainbow | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | eight |
| Concert albums | 6 |
| Compilations | 6 |
| Singles | 18 |
Albums
Studio
| Year | Album name | US [1] | UK Top 100 [2] | SWE [3] | NOR [3] | RIAA | BPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Ritchie blackmore's rainbow | thirty | eleven | 24 | - | - | - |
| 1976 | Rising | 48 | 6 | 23 | - | - | - |
| 1978 | Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | 89 | 7 | 18 | 12 | - | Silver |
| 1979 | Down to Earth | 66 | 6 | 17 | - | - | Gold |
| 1981 | Difficult to Cure | 50 | 3 | 9 | 17 | - | Gold |
| 1982 | Straight Between the Eyes | thirty | five | 7 | 12 | - | Silver |
| 1983 | Bent out of Shape | 34 | eleven | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| 1995 | Stranger in us all | - | 102 | eight | 38 | - | - |
Concert
| Year | Album name | Top Charts | Certification (sales) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] | Ger [four] | NLD [7] | US [one] | |||
| 1977 | On stage | 7 | 28 | 17 | 65 | UK: Silver |
| 1990 | Live in Germany 1976 | - | - | - | - | |
| 2006 | Deutschland Tournee 1976 (Box set) | - | - | - | - | |
| Live In Düsseldorf 1976 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Live In Köln 1976 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Live In Nürnburg 1976 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Live in Munich 1977 | - | 73 | - | - | ||
| 2013 | Black Masquerade - Rockpalast '95 | - | 131 | 14 | - | |
| 2015 | Denver 1979 | - | - | - | - | |
| Long island 1979 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Down To Earth Tour 1979 (Box set) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Live in Japan 1984 | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2016 | Monsters of Rock - Live at Donington 1980 | - | 54 | - | - | |
| 2016 | Boston 1981 | - | - | - | - | |
| 2016 | Memories in Rock - Live in Germany (2016) | - | eleven | - | - | Germany: Gold |
| 2017 | Live In Birmingham 2016 | - | - | - | - | |
| "-" denotes releases (issues) that did not make the charts. | ||||||
Concert
| Year | Album name | Top Charts | Certification (sales) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] | Ger [four] | NLD [7] | US [one] | |||
| 1986 | Finyl vinyl | 31 | - | - | 87 | |
| 2018 | Memories in Rock II | - | 26 | - | ||
| "-" denotes releases (issues) that did not make the charts. | ||||||
Compilation albums (compilations)
| Year | Title | Top Charts | Certification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] [3] | |||||||||
| 1981 | The best of rainbow | 14 | UK: Gold | ||||||
| 1988 | Ensemble Rainbow (only USSR, licensed from Polydor) | ||||||||
| 1997 | The Very Best of Rainbow | 197 | UK: Silver | ||||||
| 2000 | The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rainbow | - | |||||||
| 2001 | Classic Rainbow - The Universal Masters Collection | ||||||||
| 2002 | Pot of gold | - | |||||||
| All Night Long: An Introduction | - | ||||||||
| 2003 | Catch the Rainbow: The Anthology | - | |||||||
| Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow | - | ||||||||
| 2009 | Anthology 1975-1984 | - | |||||||
| 2014 | The Singles Box Set 1975-1986 | - | |||||||
| Since You Been Gone: The Best Of | - | ||||||||
| 2014 | A Light In The Black 1975-1984 | - | |||||||
| "-" denotes releases (issues) that did not make the charts. | |||||||||
Minion
| Year | Title | Billboard 200 [1] | UK Top 100 [2] | RIAA | BPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Jealous lover | 174 | - | - | - |
Video Albums
| Year | Title | Top Charts | Certification (sales) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | |||
| 1982 | Live Between the Eyes | ||
| 1984 2015 | Japan Tour 1984 (VHS, Japan only) [12] Live in Japan 1984 (DVD) | ||
| 1986 | The final cut | ||
| 2006 | Live in Munich 1977 | ||
| 2006 | Live Between The Eyes / The Final Cut | ||
| 2013 | Black masquerade | ||
| 2016 | Memories in Rock - Live in Germany (2016) |
Singles
| Year | Title | Top Charts | Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [13] | US Main. [13] | UK [2] | NLD [14] | |||||||
| 1975 | "Man on the Silver Mountain" / "Snake Charmer" | - | - | - | - | Ritchie blackmore's rainbow | ||||
| "The Temple of the King" | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 1976 | "Starstruck" / "Run with the Wolf" | - | - | - | - | Rising | ||||
| 1977 | "Kill the King" (live) / "Man on silver mountain" (live) / "Mistreated" (live) | - | - | 44 | - | On stage | ||||
| 1978 | "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll" / "Sensitive to Light" | - | - | 33 | - | Long Live Rock 'N' Roll | ||||
| "LA Connection" / "Lady of the Lake" | - | - | 40 | - | ||||||
| 1979 | ||||||||||
| "Since You Been Gone" / "Bad Girl" - (UK: Silver) | 57 | - | 6 | 47 | Down to Earth | |||||
| 1980 | "All Night Long" / "Weiss Heim" - (UK: Silver) | 110 | - | five | - | |||||
| 1981 | "I Surrender" / "Maybe Next Time" (UK: Silver) | 105 | nineteen | 3 | - | Difficult to Cure | ||||
| "Can't Happen Here" / "Jealous Lover" | - | 13 | 20 | - | ||||||
| 1982 | "Stone Cold" / "Rock Fever" | 40 | one | 34 | - | Straight Between the Eyes | ||||
| "Power" / "Death Alley Driver" | - | 35 | - | - | ||||||
| 1983 | "Can't Let You Go" / "All Night Long" (live) // "Stranded" (live) | - | - | 43 | - | Bent Out of Shape | ||||
| "Street of Dreams" / "Anybody There" // "Power" (live) | 60 | 2 | 52 | - | ||||||
| 1995 | "Hunting Humans (Insatiable)" | - | - | - | - | Stranger in us all | ||||
| "Ariel" / "The Temple of the King" (live) | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 2017 | "Land Of Hope And Glory" | - | - | - | - | Memories in Rock II (Japan Edition) | ||||
| "I Surrender (feat. Ronnie Romero)" | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 2018 | "Waiting For a Sign" | - | - | - | - | Memories in Rock II (Live & Studio) | ||||
| 2019 | "Black Sheep of the Family" | - | - | - | - | no album | ||||
| "The Storm" | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| "-" denotes releases (issues) that did not make the charts. | ||||||||||