Live albums List of live albums, with chart positionsĬompilations List of compilations Year Ĭome Dancing with The Kinks: The Best of 1977-1986 B ^ UK sales certification based on 2008 reissue.The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society didn't chart on its original release. A ^ UK chart position reflects 2018 deluxe reissue.Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Īrthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) Īlbums Studio albums List of studio albums, with chart positions ASCAP, the performing-rights group, presented the Kinks with an award for "One of the Most Played Songs of 1983" for the hit single "Come Dancing". Give The People What They Want, released in 1981, received its certification on 25 January 1982, for sales of 500,000 copies. The 1980 live album One For The Road was certified gold on 8 December 1980. The group would not receive another gold record award until 1979's Low Budget. Greatest Hits!, released in 1965, was certified gold for sales of 1,000,000 on 28 November 1968-six days after the release of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, which failed to chart worldwide. The RIAA has certified four of the Kinks' albums as gold records. In the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles along with five Top 10 albums. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. The Kinks had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart.
Their hit singles included three UK number-one singles, starting in 1964 with " You Really Got Me" plus 18 Top 40 singles in the 1960s alone and further Top 40 hits in the 1970s and 1980s. There have been somewhere between 100 and 200 compilation albums released worldwide. The first 2 albums are differently released in UK and US partly due to the difference in popularity of the extended play format (the UK market liked it, the US market did not, so US albums had the EP releases bundled onto them), and partly due to the US albums including the hit singles, and the UK albums not after The Kink Kontroversy in 1965 the albums were the same. The Kinks were active for over three decades between 19, releasing 24 studio and 4 live albums.