In October 1994, Grohl recorded an album's worth of songs in which he played all instruments in
Seattle's
Robert Lang Studios. He chose the name "Foo Fighters" for the project to hide his identity and passed cassette copies of the sessions to personal friends.[1] After those tapes attracted
record label interest, Grohl signed with
Capitol Records, who released the results as the album Foo Fighters in 1995.[2] The album peaked at number 23 on the
Billboard 200, earning a
platinum certification in the United States and having lead single, "
This Is a Call" on the top 10 of the UK and Australia. After
extensive touring with a full-fledged band—along with Grohl were Mendel, Smear and drummer
William Goldsmith—the band went into recording follow-up album The Colour and the Shape, released in 1997. The record charted higher, reaching number 10 on the Billboard 200, and with certifications of Platinum in Australia and Canada and double platinum in the US. The "
Everlong" single from the album has been certified 2× Platinum in the US.
Following the tour for The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters left Capitol and Grohl decided to build a home studio in
Alexandria, Virginia wanting a production away from studio interference, given the troubled recording of the previous album, which led to the departure of Goldsmith and Smear. Along with Mendel and new drummer Hawkins, Grohl recorded Foo Fighters' third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, in 1999 and signed a distribution deal with
RCA Records,[3] which remains their label as of 2021. The band again got certifications of platinum in the US, Australia and Canada, and had its first single to chart on the US
Billboard Hot 100 with "
Learn to Fly".
Foo Fighters' fourth album, One by One (2002), marked the first studio foray with Shiflett and was their first to top the charts in the United Kingdom and Australia. The album's tour resulted in the band's first video album, 2003's Everywhere but Home, featuring live concert footage from the One by One tour. Grohl led the construction of a professional studio in
Los Angeles in 2004, and the band recorded its next two studio albums there: 2005's In Your Honor, a top five hit in both the UK and Australia and origin of the band's highest-scoring single "
Best of You",[4] and 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, and the UK and had three songs atop the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart.[5] The former's tour of
acoustic concerts resulted in the live album Skin and Bones (2006),[6] while the latter tour had two gigs at
Wembley Stadium recorded on the DVD Live at Wembley Stadium (2008).[7] The band's first compilation, 2009's Greatest Hits, became their sixth album to surpass 1 million copies sold in the United States.[8]
In 2011, the album Wasting Light was released, recorded at Grohl's home in Los Angeles, and debuting at number one in twelve countries.[9] The album's first single "
Rope" holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at number one on the US
Rock Songs chart. Their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, was recorded in eight different American cities and released in 2014. As of 2015 the band's eight studio albums have sold 12 million copies in the US alone.[10] Foo Fighters' ninth album, Concrete and Gold, was released on September 15, 2017 and became the band's second #1 album in the United States.
Medicine at Midnight is the tenth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. Originally scheduled for 2020, the album was delayed to February 5, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Here We Are is the eleventh studio album, released on June 2, 2023. It was the first Foo Fighters album released after the passing of the drummer
Taylor Hawkins in March 2022.
Albums
Studio albums
List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
^"I'll Stick Around" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart.[90]
^"Big Me" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart.[90]
^"Monkey Wrench" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart.[90]
^"Everlong" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart.[90]
^"My Hero" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart.[90]
^"My Hero" did not enter the Canadian Singles Chartbut peaked at number 19 on the Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales chart in 2021.[93]
^The original version of "Walking After You" appeared on the album The Colour and the Shape. However the version that appeared on the X-Files soundtrack and was released as a single was a re-recorded version.
^"Stacked Actors" was released only in Australia as a limited edition single.
^"Generator" was released only in Australia and as a limited edition single in Europe.
^"The One" was only released in Australia but was made available by import in the US and UK.
^"Times Like These" did not enter the Canadian Singles Chart which did not exist in 2003 but peaked at number 48 on the Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales chart in 2021.[93]
^"Low" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.[96]
^"Low" did not enter the Canadian Singles Chart which did not exist in 2003 but peaked at number 30 on Nielsen SoundScan'sCanadian physical singles chart which has been archived by Billboard as the Canadian digital chart which later replaced the physical chart.[97][98]
^"No Way Back" and "Cold Day in the Sun" were released together as a
double A-side single and therefore the singles chart positions apply to both songs but the airplay charts only apply to "No Way Back".
^"Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" was released as a downloadable single in the UK only.
^"Let It Die" was released as a downloadable single only.
^"Let It Die" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart,[96] on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 6,[95] and on the Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) at number 85.[90]
^"These Days" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 11 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[101]
^"Something from Nothing" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.[102]
^"Congregation" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 24 on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart.[103]
^"Run" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 43 on the BillboardDigital Songs chart,[104] and on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 6.[102]
^"Run" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart.[105]
^"The Sky Is a Neighborhood" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 37 on the
Canadian All-format Airplay chart.[107]
^"The Sky Is a Neighborhood" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 24 on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart.[108]
^"The Sky Is a Neighborhood" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number seven on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart.[109]
^"The Line" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 50 on the Canadian All-format Airplay chart.[107]
^"Shame Shame" did not enter the US Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard Digital Songs chart.[110]
^"Shame Shame" did not enter the Australian ARIA Singles Chart but peaked at number 40 on the
ARIA Digital Track Chart.[111]
^"Shame Shame" did not enter the Canadian Hot 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Canadian
Hot Digital Songs chart.[93]
^"Shame Shame" did not enter the Netherlands Single Top 100 but peaked on the Dutch Tipparade Chart at number 23.[112]
^"Shame Shame" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number nine on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[113]
^"No Son of Mine" did not enter the Alternative Airplay chart, but peaked at number 15 on the
Alternative Digital Songs chart.[114]
^"No Son of Mine" did not enter the Canadian Hot 100 but peaked at number 49 on the Canadian
Hot Digital Songs chart.[93]
^"No Son of Mine" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number six on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[115]
^"No Son of Mine" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 51 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.[116]
^"Waiting on a War" did not enter the Australian ARIA Singles Chart but peaked at number 33 on the ARIA Digital Track Chart.[117]
^"Waiting on a War" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number 10 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[113]
^"Making a Fire" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 50 on the Canadian All-format Airplay chart.[107]
^"Making a Fire" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Netherlands' Airplay Top 50 Chart.[118]
^"Making a Fire" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number six on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[113]
^"Love Dies Young" did not enter the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, but peaked at number 3 on the US Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.[120]
^"Rescued" did not enter the Australian ARIA Singles Chart but peaked at number 36 on the ARIA Digital Track Chart.[121]
^"Rescued" did not enter the Netherlands Single Top 100 but peaked on the Dutch Tipparade Chart at number 24.[122]
^"Rescued" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 16 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[123]
^"Rescued" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.[124]
^"Under You" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 18 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[125]
^"The Glass" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 16 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[125]
^"The Glass" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 39 on the UK Singles Sales Chart.[126]
^"Baker Street" did not enter the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs but peaked at number 20 on the US Active Rock chart.[132]
^"The Feast and the Famine" did not enter the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, but peaked at number four on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart.[137]
^"What Did I Do? / God as My Witness" did not enter the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, but peaked at number 11 on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart.[137]
^"Everlong" (Acoustic Version) did not enter the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, but peaked at number 20 on the
Alternative Digital Songs chart.[114]
^"Make It Right" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number six on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart.[143]
^"Arrows" did not enter the
Sverigetopplistan Top 100 Singles chart, but peaked at number 16 on the Sverigetopplistan Heatseeker chart.[144]
^"Cloudspotter" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number 13 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[113]
^"Hearing Voices" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 21 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[125]
Top 100 positions to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. pp. 105–106.
"Have It All":
"ARIA Top 100 Singles"(PDF). ARIA (715): 2. November 3, 2003. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
"Rope":
"ARIA Top 100 Singles"(PDF). ARIA (1103): 4. April 18, 2011. Archived from
the original(PDF) on May 30, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
"Walk":
"ARIA Top 100 Singles"(PDF). ARIA (1117): 4. July 25, 2011. Archived from
the original(PDF) on July 29, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
"These Days":
"ARIA Top 100 Singles"(PDF). ARIA (1138): 4. December 19, 2011. Archived from
the original(PDF) on January 16, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
"Something from Nothing":
"ARIA Top 100 Singles"(PDF). ARIA (1287): 4. October 27, 2014. Archived from
the original(PDF) on October 30, 2014. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
For "Generator", "Word Forward", and "Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)":
"Chart Log UK, 1994 –2010, Adam F – FYA". zobbel.de. Retrieved November 9, 2014.