Sampha discography
| Sampha discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 2 |
| EPs | 2 |
| Singles | 6 |
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 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, Ye, Kendrick Lamar, Robyn, Daniel Caesar, Solange, and among many others. He is also known for frequently collaborating with English musician and producer Sbtrkt.
Albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
UK Indie [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL (FL) [3] |
CAN [4] |
GER [5] |
NLD [6] |
NZ [7] |
SWI [8] |
US [4] | |||
| Process |
|
7 | 2 | 28 | 28 | 35 | 46 | 38 | 40 | 34 | 51 | |
| Lahai |
|
21 | 4 | — | 60 | — | 98 | 98 | 40 [11] |
67 | — | |
Extended plays
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [12] | ||
| Sundanza |
|
— |
| Dual |
|
24 |
| Process Remixes |
|
— |
Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
UK Indie [16] |
FRA [17] | |||||||||||||
| "Valentine" (with Jessie Ware) |
2011 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||||||||
| "Too Much" | 2013 | — | 7 | — | |||||||||||
| "Happens" | — | 49 | — | ||||||||||||
| "Timmy's Prayer" | 2016 | — | — | — | Process | ||||||||||
| "Blood on Me" | — | 36 | — | ||||||||||||
| "(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano" | 2017 | 92 | 7 | 183 | |||||||||||
| "Spirit 2.0" | 2023 | — | — | — | Lahai | ||||||||||
| "Only" | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "Satellite Business 2.0" (with Little Simz) |
2024 | — | — | — | Lahai (Deluxe) | ||||||||||
| "I'm on your team" (with Romy) |
2024 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||||||||
| "Cumulus / Memory"[19] | 2025 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [20] |
US R&B/Hip-Hop |
US Rap [20] |
UK [1] |
UK R&B [21] |
UK Indie [22] |
AUS |
NZ | |||||||||
| "On Your Own" (Lil Silva featuring Sampha) |
2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Patience EP | ||||||
| "Hold On" (Sbtrkt featuring Sampha)[23] |
2012 | — | — | — | — | — | 38 | — | — | Sbtrkt | ||||||
| "Too Much" (Drake featuring Sampha) |
2013 | 64 | 23 | 16 | 86 | 14 | — | — | — | Nothing Was the Same | ||||||
| "Temporary View" (Sbtrkt featuring Sampha) |
2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wonder Where We Land | ||||||
| "Don't Touch My Hair" (Solange featuring Sampha) |
2016 | 91 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Seat at the Table | ||||||
| "Close But Not Quite" (Everything is Recorded featuring Sampha) |
2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Everything is Recorded by Richard Russell | ||||||
| "Mountains of Gold" (Everything is Recorded featuring Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki, and Kamasi Washington) |
— | — | — | — | — | 60 | — | — | ||||||||
| "Show Love" (Everything is Recorded featuring Syd and Sampha) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "Illusions" (Roses Gabor featuring Sampha) |
2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fantasy & Facts | ||||||
| "Soldiers" (Headie One and 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 and Sampha) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "Can We Do This?" (Speakers Corner Quartet featuring Sampha) |
2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Further Out Than the Edge | ||||||
| "L.F.O." (Sbtrkt featuring Sampha and George Riley) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Rat Road | |||||||
| "Open Up" (Kwes featuring Sampha and Tirzah) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rye Lane (Original Score) | |||||||
| "Losing You" (Everything Is Recorded featuring Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble, and Yazz Ahmed)[27] |
2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Temporary | ||||||
| "Never Felt Better" (Everything Is Recorded featuring Sampha and Florence Welch)[28] |
2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
Other charted and certified songs
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [16] | |||
| "Plastic 100°C" | 2017 | 37 | Process |
| "Under" | 44 |
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
US | US R&B/HH |
CAN | AUS [29][30] |
NZ [31] | ||||||||||||
| "Saint Pablo" (Ye featuring Sampha) |
2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Life of Pablo | |||||||||
| "4422" (Drake featuring Sampha) |
2017 | 50 | 50 | 28 | 27 | — | — | More Life | |||||||||
| "Desoleil (Brilliant Corners)" (Loyle Carner featuring Sampha) |
2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Not Waving, but Drowning | |||||||||
| "Father Time" (Kendrick Lamar featuring Sampha) |
2022 | 39[34] | 11 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 8 | Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers | |||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||||
Guest appearances
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Neon Blue" | 2009 | N/a | 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 | N/a | Young Turks 2014 | |
| "A Kiss Goodbye" | 2015 | Emile Haynie, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dev Hynes | We Fall |
| "Dolphy" | CKtrl | Forest EP | |
| "Saint Pablo" | 2016 | Ye | 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" | N/a | 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 | |
| "Fear less"[36] | Fred again | Ten Days | |
| "Ocean Steppin'"[37] | 2025 | John Glacier | Like a Ribbon |
| "Make It Up"[38] | Banks | Off with Her Head | |
| "Blue"[39] | Little Simz | Lotus | |
| "My and Me"[27] | Everything Is Recorded, Laura Groves, Rickey Washington, and Alabaster DePlume | Temporary | |
| "Rain Down"[40] | Daniel Caesar | Son of Spergy |
Remixes
| 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
| 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 | ||||
| "Rain Down" | 2025 | Daniel Caesar | Son of Spergy | Yes | Yes | |||||
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