The Cat Empire discography

The Cat Empire discography
The Cat Empire at the 2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival
Studio albums	9
EPs	3
Live albums	3
Compilation albums	3
Singles	44
Video albums	2

The discography of the Australian jazz and funk band the Cat Empire consists of nine studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums, two video albums, three extended plays, and forty-four singles. The band has scored two number-one albums and six top ten albums on the ARIA Charts. They have been nominated for twelve ARIA Music Awards, of which they have won one.^[a] They were formed in 1999 by founding members Felix Riebl, Ollie McGill, and Ryan Monro. Long-term members Harry James Angus, Jamshid Khadiwala and Will Hull-Brown joined the band in 2001.^[6]

The group independently released a live extended play, Live @ Adelphia, in December 2001, and their first live album, The Sun, in July 2002.^[6][7] In October 2003, "Hello" was released as the lead single from The Cat Empire. Later that month, the album was released under Virgin Records,^[8] peaking at number 15 on the ARIA Charts and giving the group mainstream recognition. It went on to be certified 3x platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 210,000 copies in 2012.

In April 2005, they released their second studio album, Two Shoes, which provided two top-fifty singles and debuted at the top of the Australian charts. It became their first international release when it was reissued in Canada the following year.^[9] In March 2006, they performed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony^[10] to a crowd of over 75,000.^[11] The music recorded for the event was released the following month as Cities.^[10] Their fourth album, So Many Nights, was released in September 2007, reaching number two on the ARIA charts. The lead single from that album, "No Longer There", is their highest-charting to date, peaking at number 12. In 2009, they released their second live album, Live on Earth, which collects concert recordings taken from shows between August 2006 and December 2008.^[12] They released their fifth album, Cinema, in June 2010. Critics dubbed it a more mature effort than the group's previous albums.^[13][14] It debuted at number three on the album charts.

Their sixth studio album and first via an independent label,^[15] Steal the Light, was released in May 2013, peaking at number three. Critics considered the album to be "a return to their original aesthetic".^[16] It was the first release in a trilogy of three conceptually similar albums by the group produced by Jan Skubiszewski.^[17] The second album in that trilogy, Rising with the Sun, was released in March 2016, debuting at number one. From July 2018 to February 2019, the band released a new single on the first of every month, leading up to the release of their eighth album, Stolen Diamonds.^[17] In 2021, the original lineup disbanded after a final show at the 2022 Byron Bay Bluesfest, except for founding members Riebl and McGill.^[18] By late 2022, new members Grace Barbé, Daniel Farrugia, Neda Rahmani and Lazaro Numa had joined,^[b] and the group released their ninth album, Where the Angels Fall, in August 2023.

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