English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer Sampha has released two studio albums, two extended plays, and six singles. He joined label Young in 2009 as an intern, which led to his signing. He released his EPs Sundanza and Dual in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He released his debut album Process in 2017 and was met with critical acclaim, eventually winning the 2017 Mercury Prize.
| Sampha discography | |
|---|---|
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| Studio albums | 2 |
| EPs | 2 |
| Singles | 6 |
Sampha is also known for his collaborative work with other artists, as a producer, vocalist and musician. He has appeared on recordings by Beyoncé, Drake, Florence + the Machine, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Robyn, Solange, and among many others. He is also known for frequently collaborating with English musician and producer Sbtrkt.
Albums
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL (FL) [3] |
CAN [4] |
GER [5] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
SWI [8] |
US [4] | |||
| Process |
|
7 | 28 | 28 | 35 | 46 | 38 | 40 | 34 | 51 | |
| Lahai |
|
21 | — | 60 | — | 98 | 98 | 40 [11] |
67 | — | |
Extended plays
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [12] | ||
| Sundanza |
|
— |
| Dual |
|
24 |
Singles
editAs lead artist
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
UK Indie [15] |
FRA [16] | |||||||||||||
| "Valentine" (with Jessie Ware) |
2011 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||||||||
| "Too Much" | 2013 | — | 7 | — | |||||||||||
| "Happens" | 2013 | — | 49 | — | |||||||||||
| "Timmy's Prayer" | 2016 | — | — | — | Process | ||||||||||
| "Blood on Me" | — | 36 | — | ||||||||||||
| "(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano" | 2017 | 92 | 7 | 182 | |||||||||||
| "Spirit 2.0" | 2023 | — | — | — | Lahai | ||||||||||
| "Only" | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "Satellite Business 2.0" (with Little Simz) |
2024 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
As featured artist
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [18] |
US Rap [18] |
UK [1] |
UK R&B [19] |
UK Indie [20] | ||||||||||||
| "On Your Own" (Lil Silva featuring Sampha) |
2011 | — | — | — | — | — | The Patience EP | |||||||||
| "Hold On" (Sbtrkt featuring Sampha) |
2012 | — | — | — | — | 27 | Sbtrkt | |||||||||
| "Too Much" (Drake featuring Sampha) |
2013 | 64 | 16 | 86 | 19 | — | Nothing Was the Same | |||||||||
| "Temporary View" (Sbtrkt feat. Sampha) |
2014 | — | — | — | — | — | Wonder Where We Land | |||||||||
| "Mountains of Gold" (Everything is Recorded featuring Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington) |
2017 | — | — | — | — | 60 | Everything is Recorded by Richard Russell | |||||||||
| "Show Love" (Everything is Recorded featuring Syd and Sampha) |
— | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Illusions" (Roses Gabor featuring Sampha) |
2018 | — | — | — | — | — | Fantasy & Facts | |||||||||
| "Soldiers" (Headie One & Fred Again featuring Sampha) |
2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Gang | |||||||||
| "Walking Flames" (Actress featuring Sampha) |
— | — | — | — | — | Karma & Desire | ||||||||||
| "Backwards" (Lil Silva featuring Sampha) |
2022 | — | — | — | — | — | Yesterday Is Heavy | |||||||||
| "What If?" (Lil Silva featuring Skiifall & Sampha) |
— | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Can We Do This?" (Speakers Corner Quartet featuring Sampha) |
2023 | — | — | — | — | — | Further Out Than the Edge | |||||||||
| "L.F.O." (Sbtrkt featuring Sampha & George Riley) |
— | — | — | — | — | The Rat Road | ||||||||||
| "Open Up" (Kwes featuring Sampha & Tirzah) |
— | — | — | — | — | Rye Lane (Original Score) | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
Other charted songs
editAs lead artist
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [15] | |||
| "Plastic 100°C" | 2017 | 37 | Process |
| "Under" | 44 |
As featured artist
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
US | US R&B/HH |
CAN | ||||||||||||||
| "Don't Touch My Hair" (Solange featuring Sampha) |
2016 | — | 91 | — | — | A Seat at the Table | |||||||||||
| "4422" (Drake featuring Sampha) |
2017 | 50 | 50 | 28 | 27 | More Life | |||||||||||
| "Father Time" (Kendrick Lamar featuring Sampha) |
2022 | 39[23] | 11 | 9 | 10 |
|
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||||
Guest appearances
edit| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Neon Blue" | 2009 | — | 251109 EP |
| "Break Off" | 2010 | SBTRKT | Break Off EP |
| "Evening Glow" | |||
| "Evening Glow (reprise)" | |||
| "Living Like I Do" | 2011 | Non-album single | |
| "Sanctuary" | SBTRKT, Jessie Ware | SBTRKT | |
| "Trials of the Past" | SBTRKT | ||
| "Something Goes Right" | |||
| "Never Never" | |||
| "Salient Sarah" | 2013 | Lil Silva | The Distance EP |
| "The Motion" | Drake | Nothing Was the Same | |
| "Play" | 2014 | Katy B | Little Red |
| "Wonder Where We Land" | SBTRKT | Wonder Where We Land | |
| "If It Happens" | |||
| "Gon Stay" | |||
| "Maybe" | SBTRKT, Andrew Ashong | ||
| "Answer | — | Young Turks 2014 | |
| "A Kiss Goodbye" | 2015 | Emile Haynie, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dev Hynes | We Fall |
| "Dolphy" | CKtrl | Forest EP | |
| "Saint Pablo" | 2016 | Kanye West | The Life of Pablo |
| "TBD" | SBTRKT | SAVE YOURSELF | |
| "Close But Not Quite" | 2017 | Everything Is Recorded | Close But Not Quite EP and Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell |
| "All These Words (A Close But Not Quite Reprise)" | Close But Not Quite EP | ||
| "Mountains of Dub" | Everything Is Recorded, Kamasi Washington | Non-album single | |
| "Everything Is Recorded" | 2018 | Everything Is Recorded, Owen Pallett | Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell |
| "Treasure" | — | Beautiful Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
| "Desoleil (Brilliant Corners)" | 2019 | Loyle Carner | Not Waving, but Drowning |
| "3 Hour Drive" | 2020 | Alicia Keys | ALICIA |
| "VVY" | Actress | Karma & Desire | |
| "Many Seas, Many Rivers" | |||
| "Capo" | 2021 | Mustafa | When Smoke Rises |
| "Father Time" | 2022 | Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers |
| "Still" | Lil Silva, Ghetts | Yesterday Was Heavy | |
| "Limitless" | 2023 | SBTRKT, LEILAH | The Rat Road |
| "LGOYH (Let Go of Your Hurt)" | Kwes, Tirzah | Rye Lane (Original Score) | |
| "Double Standards" | 2024 | Ghetts | On Purpose, With Purpose |
| "Memories" | Headie One | The Last One |
Remixes
edit| Title | Year | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| "Spoiled by Sampha" | 2008 | Palmstruck |
| "Basic Space" | 2009 | The xx |
| "Sick Tonight" | 2010 | Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip |
| "Doorstep" | Othello Wolf | |
| "Sidewalk Safari" | 2011 | Chairlift |
| "Minata Waraba" | 2018 | Oumou Sangare |
| "Midnight Sun" | 2022 | Nilüfer Yanya |
Other appearances
edit| Title | Year | Lead artist | Album | Credit(s) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing | Production | Instrumentation | Vocals | Arrangement | Engineering | Mixing | ||||
| "Break Off" | 2010 | SBTRKT | Break Off EP | Yes | Co | Yes | Yes | |||
| "Evening Glow" | Yes | Co | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| "Evening Glow (reprise)" | Yes | Co | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| "Wonderland" | H.A.S | The Unconscious State EP | Yes | |||||||
| "Impossible" | Yes | |||||||||
| "Nervous" | Jessie Ware & SBTRKT | Non-album single | Yes | |||||||
| "Look At Stars" | 2011 | SBTRKT | Step In Shadows EP | Yes | Yes | |||||
| "Living Like I Do" | Non-album single | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| "On Your Own" (feat. Sampha) |
Lil Silva | The Patience EP | Yes | Co | Featured | |||||
| "Heatwave" | SBTRKT | SBTRKT | Yes | Co | Yes | |||||
| "Never Never" (feat. Sampha) |
Yes | Co | Featured | |||||||
| "On The Way" | 2013 | Short Stories | Non-album single | Yes | Co | Yes | ||||
| "Let It Go" | Yes | Co | Yes | |||||||
| "Too Much" (feat. Sampha) |
Drake | Nothing Was the Same | Yes | Yes | Featured | |||||
| "The Motion" (feat. Sampha) |
Yes | Featured | ||||||||
| "Mine" (feat. Drake) |
Beyoncé | BEYONCÉ | Additional | |||||||
| "Find U" | 2014 | Jean Deaux | Non-album single | Yes | ||||||
| "Play" (feat. Sampha) |
Katy B | Little Red | Yes | Yes | Featured | |||||
| "Freedom of the Floor" | Nautic | Navy Blue EP | Additional playing | |||||||
| "Numbers" | FKA twigs | LP1 | Yes | Co | Drums, synths, piano | |||||
| "For You" | Fabiana Palladino | Non-album single | Co | |||||||
| "Look Away" | SBTRKT | Wonder Where We Land | Additional programming | Yes | ||||||
| "Problem (Solved)" (feat. Jessie Ware) |
Yes | Piano | ||||||||
| "You & I (Forever)" | Jessie Ware | Tough Love | Backing | |||||||
| "A Kiss Goodbye" (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sampha & Dev Hynes) |
2015 | Emile Haynie | We Fall | Yes | Piano | Featured | ||||
| "Alabama" | 2016 | Frank Ocean | Endless | Additional | ||||||
| "Don't You Wait" | Solange | A Seat at the Table | Co | |||||||
| "Interlude: Tina Taught Me" | Co | |||||||||
| "Don't Touch My Hair" (feat. Sampha) |
Yes | Co | Featured | |||||||
| "Interlude: This Moment" | Yes | |||||||||
| "Don't Wish Me Well" | Co | |||||||||
| "Everybody's Coming to My House" | 2018 | David Byrne | American Utopia | Piano | ||||||
| "Darth Vader" | Chip | TEN10 | Co | Yes | ||||||
| "Grace" | Florence + the Machine | High as Hope | Yes | Piano | ||||||
| "Send to Robin Immediately" | Robyn | Honey | Bass synthesizer | |||||||
| "Softness As A Weapon" | Kindness | Something Like a War | Synth | |||||||
| "Hard To Believe" (feat. Jazmine Sullivan) |
Yes | Synth | Backing | |||||||
| "Something Like a War" (feat. Bahamadia) |
Backing | |||||||||
| "Time (is)" | 2019 | Solange | When I Get Home | Yes | Additional | |||||
| "05:10 AM / Dream I Never Had" (feat. A. K. Paul) |
2020 | Everything Is Recorded | FRIDAY FOREVER | Synths, piano | ||||||
| "Soldiers" (feat. Sampha) |
Headie One & Fred again.. | GANG | Yes | Piano, programming | Featured | Vocal | ||||
| "3 Hour Drive" (feat. Sampha) |
Alicia Keys | ALICIA | Yes | Co | Keyboards, piano | Featured | ||||
| "Amir" | 2021 | serpentwithfeet | DEACON | Yes | Co | |||||
| "Wood Boy" | Yes | Co | ||||||||
| "Fellowship" | Yes | Co | Additional | |||||||
| "Stay Alive" | Mustafa | When Smoke Rises | Backing | |||||||
| "Capo" (feat. Sampha) |
Yes | Piano | Featured | |||||||
| "What About Heaven" | Bongos | Backing | ||||||||
| "Amir (Reprise)" | serpentwithfeet | DEACON's Grove | Yes | Co | ||||||
| "Fellowship (Remix)" (feat. Ambré and Alex Isley) |
Yes | Co | Additional | |||||||
| "Rich (Interlude)" | 2022 | Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers | Additional | ||||||
| "dvd" (feat. Choker) |
Mount Kimbie | MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning | Yes | Piano | ||||||
| "Fire + Water" | Stormzy | This Is What I Mean | Additional | |||||||
| "Firebabe" | Additional | |||||||||
| "Sampha's Plea" | Yes | |||||||||
| "My Eyes" | 2023 | Travis Scott | Utopia | Yes | Yes | |||||
| "Memories" | 2024 | Headie One | The Last One | Yes | Yes | Piano, programming, synthesizer | ||||
References
edit- ^ a b c d Sampha peaks in the UK:
- All except noted: "Sampha | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- "The Motion": "Drake | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "Sampha Discography". ultratop.be. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Sampha Chart History". Billboard. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "Discographie von Sampha" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ^ "Sampha Discography". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ "NZ Top 40 Albums Charts". RMNZ. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "Sampha Discography". hitparade.ch. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ Renshaw, David (3 November 2016). "Sampha Details Debut Album Process". The Fader. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d "British certifications – Sampha". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 7 November 2021. Type Sampha in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 30 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ Sampha peaks in the UK:
- All except noted: "Sampha | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "Sampha – Sundanza". Young Turks. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Sampha – Dual". Young Turks. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ a b Peak chart positions on the UK Independent Singles Chart:
- "Blood on Me": "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. 16 February 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Singles Téléchargés – SNEP (Week 6, 2017)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ "Gold/Platinum - Music Canada". Retrieved 16 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Drake Album & Song Chart History". Billboard charts.
- ^ Peak positions for the featured singles in the UK:
- For "Too Much": "Archive Chart> January 20, 2014". Official Charts.
- ^ "Official Charts". Official Charts. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ a b "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2024 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- ^ "American certifications – Drake – Too Much". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ "Official Audio Streaming Chart Top 100 (27 May 2022 – 02 June 2022)". Official Charts Company. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2023.