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Pretenders

rock, new wave, hard rock, jangle pop

Busiest years

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Swipe sideways for the whole career.Hover a year to see what came out, click it to browse that year. Zoom in to pull a busy stretch apart.

Per yearReleases per year

19812 things · the busiest year; click any year above to look elsewhere

Extended Play

Mar 1, 1981

Pretenders II

1981

Click anything in the lanes or on the shelf to see it up close.

On record

1979–2025

47 years, 73 releases, 27 events

Busiest year

1987

12 things happened

Release season

November

9 of 48 releases with a known month

Longest album gap

8.1 years

2008 → 2016