The discography of

Melanie C Melanie Jayne Chisholm (12 January 1974 - 25 December 2022), better known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer-songwriter and media personality. She is best known as one of the five members of the Spice Girls, during which time she was ni ...

, an English pop singer, consists of eight

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video album A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...

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s. Chisholm began her solo career in late 1998 by singing with Canadian rock singer

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on the song " When You're Gone". Chisholms's solo debut album '' Northern Star'' was released in 1999 and reached number four on the

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and was certified triple

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by the

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(BPI). The record experienced international success; it sold over 2.5 million albums worldwide. It produced four top fives and a top twenty single, two of which reached the number-one spot in the UK. Chisholm's second album, ''

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'', was released in March 2003 and sold more than 500,000 copies. The album reached number five in the UK and produced one top-ten and one top-twenty single. In 2004, Chisholm departed from Virgin and founded her own record company, Red Girl Records. ''

Beautiful Intentions ''Beautiful Intentions'' is the third solo album by English singer Melanie C. This is the first album release on Chisholm's self-founded label, Red Girl Records after being dropped by Virgin Records. The album was a big commercial success in Eur ...

'', her third album, was released in April 2005. It reached number twenty-four in the UK and number fifteen in Germany, selling more than 1.5 million copies. The album produced three singles, one of which charted at number ten in the UK, and one peak at number one in different European charts. '' This Time'', Chisholm's fourth album, was released in April 2007 and charted at fifty-seven on the UK Albums Chart. Of the five singles released from the album one charted at number-one in some parts of Europe, and one become a top-thirty in UK and a top ten in some European chart. In November, Melanie C reunited with the

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for a world tour and to release a

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album. Melanie C released her fifth solo album, '' The Sea'', on 2 September 2011, and her first EP ''The Night'' on 13 May 2012. ''

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'', a musical theatre-inspired album consisting of covers, was released on 10 September 2012. Melanie C's seventh album ''

Version of Me ''Version of Me'' is the seventh studio album by English singer Melanie C. It was released on 21 October 2016 by Red Girl Records to highly positive reviews. It became her highest-charting album since 2005's '' Beautiful Intentions'', debuting at ...

'' was released on 21 October 2016 and reached number twenty-five on the UK Albums Chart. Chisholm's eighth studio album, ''

'' was released on 2 October 2020 and peaked at number eight, giving Melanie her third top 10 album in the UK. Chisholm followed this release in 2021 with acoustic promo singles for "Into You", " Too Much" and "

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". On 3 September 2021, Chisholm released a deluxe version of her ''Melanie C'' album across all digital and streaming services. Chisholm premiered a video for her cover of " Touch Me" to accompany the new release. Having co-written 11 UK number ones, more than any other female artist in chart history, she remains the only female performer to top the charts as a solo artist, as part of a duo, quartet and quintet. With twelve UK number one singles, including the charity single as part of

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, she is the second female artist – and the first British female artist – with most singles at number one in the

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, and with a total of fourteen songs that have received the number one in Britain (including the double A-sides), Chisholm is the female artist with most songs at number one in the UK ranking history. Her work has earned her several awards and nominations, including a

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mention, three

World Music Awards The World Music Awards is an international award show founded in 1989 under the patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and co-founder/executive producer John Martinotti. The event is based in Monte Carlo. Awards are presented to the world's ...

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Brit Awards The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain", or "Britannia" (in the early days the awards were sponsored ...

from 10 nominations, three

American Music Awards The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, generally held in the fall, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired, and currently produced by Dick Clark Produc ...

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Billboard Music Awards The ''Billboard'' Music Awards are honors given out annually by '' Billboard'', a publication covering the music business and a music popularity chart. The ''Billboard'' Music Awards show has been held annually since 1990, with the exception of ...

from six nomination, eight Billboard special awards, three

MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards (originally named MTV European Music Awards, commonly abbreviated as MTV EMA) are awards presented by Paramount International Networks to honour artists and music in pop culture. It was originally conceived as an al ...

from seven nominations, one

MTV Video Music Awards The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category) ...

from two nomination, ten

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awards, one

Juno Award The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

from two nominations, and four nominations at the

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. Since 1996, Chisholm has sold more than 108 million records, of which 23 million as a solo artist (7 million albums and 16 million singles), and a further 85 million with Spice Girls.

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Singles

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As featured artist

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External links

Official Melanie C website
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