American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released 11 studio albums, one live album, three remix albums, two compilation albums, six extended plays, 20 singles, 10 promotional singles, four video albums and 31 music videos. Nine Inch Nails has also contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well as the soundtrack to the video game Quake.[1]
| Nine Inch Nails discography | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Nine Inch Nails performing live in 2018. | |
| Studio albums | 11 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Video albums | 3 |
| Music videos | 29 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Singles | 19 |
| Remix albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Promotional singles | 10 |
| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
Initial ambitions for Nine Inch Nails in 1988 were to release one 12-inch single on a small European label.[2] With the addition of future singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin", many of these demo tracks would later appear in revised form on the band's debut studio album, Pretty Hate Machine. The album was released in October 1989 and peaked at number 75 on the Billboard 200 the following year. In response to pressures from TVT Records for a follow-up to Nine Inch Nails' commercially successful debut, Reznor began recording the Broken extended play in secret. The EP was released in September 1992 and reached number seven on the Billboard 200.[3] Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), reached number two on the Billboard 200 and has sold over 3.7 million copies in the United States,[4] remaining the band's highest-selling release in the US.[5]
Five years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next major album, The Fragile, a double album that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 228,000 copies in its first week, but dropped from the top 10 afterward.[1] Another six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, With Teeth, which also debuted atop the Billboard 200.[6] In 2007, the band released their fifth studio album, Year Zero, alongside an accompanying alternate reality game.[7] Reznor announced in late 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual obligations with Interscope Records, and would distribute its next major album independently.
The band's final Interscope release was a remix album based on material from Year Zero.[8] The first Nine Inch Nails album released independently was the instrumental Ghosts I–IV in March 2008, followed two months later by The Slip. Hesitation Marks, the band's eighth studio album, was released in August 2013 through Columbia Records, reaching number three on the Billboard 200.[6] After teasing a release in early 2016, Nine Inch Nails began releasing a trilogy of new releases: the EPs Not the Actual Events in December 2016 and Add Violence in July 2017, followed by the band's ninth studio album, Bad Witch, in June 2018. On March 26, 2020, the band released the albums Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts as a show of solidarity with their fans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | AUS [9] | AUT [10] | CAN [11] | FIN [12] | FRA [13] | GER [14] | NZ [15] | SWE [16] | UK [17] | ||||
| Pretty Hate Machine | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 67 |
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| The Downward Spiral |
| 2 | 12 | — | 13 | — | — | — | 23 | 33 | 9 |
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| The Fragile |
| 1 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 17 | 28 | 18 | 10 |
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| With Teeth |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 3 |
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| Year Zero |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 6 |
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| Ghosts I–IV |
| 14 | 15 | 58 | 3 | — | — | 60 | 26 | — | 60 |
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| The Slip |
| 13 | 22 | 45 | 12 | 24 | 177 | 33 | 23 | 35 | 25 |
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| Hesitation Marks |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 37 | 2 |
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| Bad Witch |
| 12 | 9 | 16 | 15 | — | 37 | 28 | — | — | 12 | ||
| Ghosts V: Together |
| —[B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Ghosts VI: Locusts |
| —[C] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | AUS [9] | AUT [10] | FRA [13] | GER [14] | UK [17] | ||
| And All That Could Have Been |
| 26 37 [D] | 41 | 21 | 29 | 45 | 54 |
Remix albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | AUS [9] | CAN [11] | FRA [13] | UK [17] | |||
| Further Down the Spiral |
| 23 | 51 | 46 | — | — | |
| Things Falling Apart |
| 67 | 59 | — | — | 98 | |
| Year Zero Remixed |
| 77 | 87 | 28 | 183 | 160 | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||
Soundtrack albums
- Quake, June 22, 1996
Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Dance [29] | ||
| Halo I–IV |
| 13 |
| The Fragile: Deviations 1 |
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Extended plays
Studio EPs
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | AUS [9] | AUT [10] | CAN [30] | NZ [15] | UK [17] | |||
| Broken |
| 7 | — | — | — | 46 | 18 | |
| Not the Actual Events |
| 26 | — | — | 47 | —[E] | — | |
| Add Violence |
| 17 | 44 | 67 | 15 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Additional EPs
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | CAN [30] | NZ [15] | ||||||
| Fixed |
| —[F] | 6 | 25 |
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| Live 2013 EP |
| — | — | — | ||||
| Remix 2014 EP |
| — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [33] | US Alt. [34] | AUS [9] | AUT [10] | CAN [35] | DEN [36] | FIN [12] | GER [14] | SWE [16] | UK [17] | |||||
| "Down in It" | 1989 | — | 16 | — | — | 135 | — | — | — | — | — | Pretty Hate Machine | ||
| "Head Like a Hole"[G] | 1990 | —[H] | 28 | 57 | — | 103 | — | — | — | — | 45 | |||
| "Sin" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 35 | ||||
| "March of the Pigs" | 1994 | 59 | — | 98 | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | 45 | The Downward Spiral | ||
| "Closer" | 41 | 11 | 3 | — | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | 25 | ||||
| "The Perfect Drug" | 1997 | 46 | 11 | 48 | — | 2 | 13 | 7 | — | 48 | 43 | Lost Highway | ||
| "The Day the World Went Away" | 1999 | 17 | — | 31 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | The Fragile | ||
| "We're in This Together" | — | 11 | 72 | — | 50 | — | — | — | — | 39 | ||||
| "Into the Void" | 2000 | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "The Hand That Feeds" | 2005 | 31 | 1 | — | 41 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 62 | 36 | 7 | With Teeth | ||
| "Only" | 90 | 1 | — | 87 | 23 | — | — | 90 | — | 20 | ||||
| "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" | 2006 | 56 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Survivalism" | 2007 | 68 | 1 | — | 63 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 68 | — | 29 | Year Zero | ||
| "Capital G" | — | 6 | — | — | 89 | — | — | — | — | 140 | ||||
| "Discipline"[I] | 2008 | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Slip | ||
| "Echoplex"[40][J] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Came Back Haunted" | 2013 | —[K] | 7 | — | — | 94 | — | — | — | — | — | Hesitation Marks | ||
| "Copy of a" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Everything" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Burning Bright (Field on Fire)" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Not the Actual Events | ||
| "Less Than" | 2017 | — | 22 | — | — | —[L] | — | — | — | — | — | Add Violence | ||
| "God Break Down the Door" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bad Witch | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Promotional singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Alt. [34] | US Main. Rock [43] | CAN Alt. [44] | |||
| "You Get What You Deserve"[45] | 1990 | — | — | — | Pretty Hate Machine |
| "Physical"[46] | 1992 | — | — | — | Broken |
| "Happiness in Slavery" | 13 | — | — | ||
| "Wish" | 25 | — | — | ||
| "Burn" | 1994 | — | — | — | Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film |
| "Closer to God" | — | — | — | Closer to God | |
| "Piggy" | 20 | — | — | The Downward Spiral | |
| "Hurt" | 1995 | 8 | — | 8 | |
| "Starfuckers, Inc." | 2000 | 39 | — | — | The Fragile |
| "Deep" | 2001 | 18 | 37 | — | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||
Collaboration singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [33] | US Alt. [34] | ||||
| "I'm Afraid of Americans (V1)" (with David Bowie) | 1997 | 66 | 27 | Earthling | |
| "Isn't Everyone"[47] (with Health) | 2021 | — | —[M] | Disco 4: Part II | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||
Chronology
Each official Nine Inch Nails release is chronologically ordered with a sequential number prefixed by the word "Halo."[49][citation needed] These numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release, such as the multiple releases of The Downward Spiral. Promotional-only releases do not have their own numbers, although the promotional singles for "Piggy" and "Hurt" were both labeled as "Halo Ten," a title later officially used for Further Down the Spiral. A US promo for "Into the Void" is mislabeled as Halo 16 because this number actually belongs to the Things Falling Apart remix album.
Other appearances
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Dead Souls" | 1994 | The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| "Something I Can Never Have" (Edited and Extended) | Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film | |
| "A Warm Place" | ||
| "Deep" | 2001 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
| "Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man" | 2009 | Tetsuo: The Bullet Man |
| "Zoo Station" | 2011 | AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered |
Remixes
| Title | Year | Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Light (Fat Back Dub)"[50] | 1994 | KMFDM | "Light" (single) | |
| "I'm Afraid of Americans" (V1–V4, V6)[51] | 1997 | David Bowie | "I'm Afraid of Americans" (single) |
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| "Victory" (Nine Inch Nails Remix)[52] | 1998 | Puff Daddy & the Family | Victory (Remixes) | |
| "Democracy" (NIN Remix)[53] | Killing Joke | Wardance: The Remixes |
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| "Deaf Ears (Nine Inch Nails Mix)" | 2017 | Todd Rundgren | "I Got Your Back (Dam-Funk Refreak)" (single) |
Videography
Video albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [56] | AUS [57] | AUT [58] | FIN [59] | IRE [60] | SWE [61] | UK [62] | ||
| Closure | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| And All That Could Have Been |
| 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Beside You in Time | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Notes |
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| "Down in It" | 1989 | Eric Zimmerman and Benjamin Stokes |
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| "Head Like a Hole" | 1990 | Eric Zimmerman |
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| "Sin" | Brett Turnbull |
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| "Pinion" | 1992 | Eric Goode and Serge Becker | |
| "Wish" | Peter Christopherson[65] | ||
| "Help Me I Am in Hell" | Eric Goode and Serge Becker |
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| "Happiness in Slavery" | Jon Reiss | ||
| "Gave Up" |
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| "March of the Pigs" | 1994 | Peter Christopherson and Trent Reznor[66] |
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| "Closer" | Mark Romanek[67] |
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| "Burn" | Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor[68] | ||
| "Hurt" | 1995 | Simon Maxwell | |
| "Wish" (live) | 1997 | ||
| "Eraser" (live) |
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| "The Perfect Drug" | Mark Romanek[69] | ||
| "The Day the World Went Away" | 1999 | Tomato |
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| "We're in This Together" | Mark Pellington[70] |
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| "Into the Void" | 2000 | Walter Stern and Jeff Richter | |
| "Starfuckers, Inc." | Robert Hales and Marilyn Manson | ||
| "Deep" | 2001 | Enda McCallion[73] | |
| "Gone, Still" | 2002 | Trent Reznor |
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| "The Becoming" | |||
| "Something I Can Never Have" | |||
| "The Frail"/"The Wretched" | Rob Sheridan[76] |
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| "The Hand That Feeds" | 2005 | ||
| "Only" | David Fincher[77] | ||
| "Right Where It Belongs" | Andrea Giacobbe | ||
| "Eraser" (version 2) | |||
| "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" | 2006 | Francis Lawrence |
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| "Survivalism" | 2007 | Alex Lieu, Rob Sheridan and Trent Reznor |
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| "Came Back Haunted" | 2013 | David Lynch[80] | |
| "Burning Bright (Field on Fire)" | 2016 | ||
| "Less Than" | 2017 | Brook Linder | |
| "This Isn't The Place" | Alex Lieu | ||
| "God Break Down the Door" | 2018 | ||
| "Ahead of Ourselves" (live) | Brook Linder |
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| "Fashion"/"Fantastic Voyage" | 2021 |
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Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish", and "Happiness in Slavery" as well as a video for "Help Me I am in Hell" and a different video for "Gave Up" from the one on Closure. The short film contains graphic depictions of a seemingly helpless victim being tortured and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos.[81]
See also
Notes
References
External links
- Official website
- Nine Inch Nails at AllMusic
- Nine Inch Nails discography at Discogs
- Nine Inch Nails discography at MusicBrainz