Complete List Of James Bay Songs From A to Z

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James Bay grew up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where music in his family home planted the seeds of his eventual career. At age eleven, an old guitar and hearing Eric Clapton’s “Layla” ignited his musical obsession. He taught himself to play and, by eighteen, had moved to Brighton to study at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute while developing his stagecraft at open-mic nights and small venues.

In 2013, Bay released his first EP, The Dark of the Morning, followed in 2014 by Let It Go. The title track from the latter release reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. A video of one of his open-mic performances helped bring him to the attention of Republic Records and moved his career from small rooms toward an international audience.

Bay’s debut studio album, Chaos and the Calm, arrived in March 2015. Recorded in Nashville with producer Jacquire King, it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. “Hold Back the River” and “Let It Go” became international hits, establishing Bay as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist capable of bringing intimate material into large venues without losing its emotional directness.

His breakthrough brought major awards and nominations. Bay received the BRIT Critics’ Choice Award and later won British Male Solo Artist. He also earned three Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist, Best Rock Album for Chaos and the Calm, and Best Rock Song for “Hold Back the River.” His growing live reputation led to festival appearances, television performances, and tours with artists including Hozier, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and the Rolling Stones.

Bay also broadened his recorded catalog through covers and collaborations. He performed the Beatles’ “Hey Bulldog” for Beat Bugs, recorded Tom Petty’s “Kings Highway” for the Cars 3 soundtrack, and joined KT Tunstall for “Two Way.” These projects revealed how naturally his voice and guitar style could move beyond his own albums.

In 2018, Bay released his second studio album, Electric Light. The record expanded his sound through pop, R&B, electronic production, and spoken-word interludes. Songs including “Wild Love,” “Pink Lemonade,” and “Us” showed an artist deliberately moving beyond the acoustic folk-rock image associated with his debut. A later version of “Us” paired him with Alicia Keys.

The 2019 EP Oh My Messy Mind added “Peer Pressure,” recorded with Julia Michaels, along with “Bad,” “Rescue,” and “Break My Heart Right.” Bay followed it with his third studio album, Leap, in 2022. The album returned the guitar and the singer-songwriter tradition to the center of his work while addressing anxiety, love, and emotional recovery.

Bay’s fourth studio album, Changes All the Time, arrived in 2024. “Up All Night,” recorded with the Lumineers and Noah Kahan, opened the album, while “Easy Distraction,” “Hope,” “Dogfight,” and “Crystal Clear” continued his blend of folk, rock, and soul. A deluxe edition followed in 2025 with four additional songs: “The Elephant,” “Latchkey Kid,” “Sunshine in the Room,” and “You and Me Time.”

His work outside the studio albums continued through recordings with Buddy Guy, Maisie Peters, Alesso and Marshmello, Myles Smith, the Lumineers, Jon Batiste, Sheryl Crow, and Margaret Glaspy. Bay also marked the tenth anniversary of Chaos and the Calm with an expanded edition that revisited the album through demos and additional recordings.

Outside his recordings, Bay has supported charitable and music-community causes, including WaterAid, Sport Relief, and the Save Our Venues campaign. His career has developed steadily through songwriting, touring, collaboration, and a willingness to reshape his sound without abandoning the guitar-centered emotional approach that first defined him.

The list below includes songs from Bay’s studio albums, EPs, deluxe editions, soundtrack appearances, officially released covers, non-album singles, and recordings on which he received a featured or joint performing credit. Alternate acoustic versions, remixes, demos, and most live repetitions of songs already represented elsewhere are excluded.

Complete List Of James Bay Songs From A to Z

A–E

“All My Broken Pieces” – Songs for My Love (2023)
“Bad” – Oh My Messy Mind (2019)
“Best Fake Smile” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Better” – Leap (2022)
“Blue No More” – The Blues Is Alive and Well (2018); Buddy Guy featuring James Bay
“Break My Heart Right” – Oh My Messy Mind (2019)
“Brilliant Still” – Leap (2022)
“Chasing Stars” – non-album single (2021); Alesso and Marshmello featuring James Bay
“Chew on My Heart” – Leap (2022)
“Clocks Go Forward” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Collide” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Confirmation” – Electric Light (2018)
“Craving” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Crystal Clear” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Dogfight” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Don’t Look Back in Anger” – Apple Music Home Session: James Bay (2020); Oasis cover
“Easy Distraction” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Endless Summer Nights” – Leap (2022)
“Everburn” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Everybody Needs Someone” – Leap (2022)

F–J

“Fade Out” – Electric Light (2018)
“Funeral” – Trying: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) (2021); Maisie Peters featuring James Bay
“Gale Song” – Gale Song (Live from Wrigley Field) (2024); with The Lumineers
“Get Out While You Can” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Give Me the Reason” – Leap (2022)
“Go On” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Goodbye Never Felt So Bad” – non-album single (2023)
“Hear Your Heart” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Heavy Handed” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Hey Bulldog” – The Beat Bugs: Complete Season 2 (2016); The Beatles cover
“Hold Back the River” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Hope” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Hopeless Heart” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“I Found You” – Electric Light (2018)
“If I Ain’t Got You” – James Bay Spotify Session 2015 (2015); Alicia Keys cover
“If You Ever Want to Be in Love” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“In My Head” – Electric Light (2018)
“Incomplete” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Interlude” – Electric Light (2018)
“Intro” – Electric Light (2018)
“Just for Tonight” – Electric Light (2018)

K–O

“Kings Highway” – Cars 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017); Tom Petty cover
“Latchkey Kid” – Changes All the Time (Deluxe) (2025)
“Let It Go” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Love Don’t Hate Me” – Leap (2022)
“Move Together” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Need the Sun to Break” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Nowhere Left to Go” – Leap (2022)
“One Life” – Leap (2022)

P–T

“Peer Pressure” – Oh My Messy Mind (2019); featuring Julia Michaels
“Pink Lemonade” – Electric Light (2018)
“Rescue” – Oh My Messy Mind (2019)
“Right Now” – Leap (2022)
“Running” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Save Your Love” – Leap (2022)
“Scars” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Silent Love” – Leap (2022)
“Slide” – Electric Light (2018)
“Some People” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Sparks” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Speed Limit” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Stand Up” – Electric Light (2018)
“Stealing Cars” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Sugar Drunk High” – Electric Light (2018)
“Sunshine in the Room” – Changes All the Time (Deluxe) (2025); with Jon Batiste
“Talk” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“The Elephant” – Changes All the Time (Deluxe) (2025); featuring Maggie Antone
“These Days” – The Golden Heart Protector (2025); with Margaret Glaspy; Jackson Browne cover
“Trouble” – Apple Music Home Session: James Bay (2020); Coldplay cover
“Two Way” – KIN (2016); with KT Tunstall

U–Z

“Up All Night” – Changes All the Time (2024)
“Us” – Electric Light (2018)
“Wait in Line” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Wanderlust” – Electric Light (2018)
“Waste” – A Minute… (2024); Myles Smith featuring James Bay
“Wasted on Each Other” – Electric Light (2018)
“We Used to Shine” – Leap (2022)
“When We Were on Fire” – Chaos and the Calm (2015)
“Wild Love” – Electric Light (2018)
“You and Me Time” – Changes All the Time (Deluxe) (2025); featuring Sheryl Crow
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – Apple Music Home Session: James Bay (2022); The Rolling Stones cover
“Young Hearts in the Dark” – Electric Light (2018)