Editing David Byrne (section)

===Soundtracks and music for theater===
{| class="wikitable"
!rowspan="2"| Year
!rowspan="2"| Album details
!colspan="2"| Peak chart positions
!rowspan="2"| Notes
|-
!| [[Billboard 200|US]]
!| [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]
|-
|1981
| '''''[[The Catherine Wheel (album)|The Catherine Wheel]]'''''
*Released: November 1981
*Labels: Sire
|align="center"| 104
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|Music for the 1981 [[Twyla Tharp]] dance production ''The Catherine Wheel''.
|-
|1985
| '''''[[Music for "The Knee Plays"]]'''''
*Released: May 1985
*Labels: [[ECM (record label)|ECM]]
|align="center"| 141
|align="center"| —
|Music for [[Philip Glass]] and [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]'s play [[The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down]]. Re-released as ''[[The Knee Plays]]'' in 2007.
|-
|1986
| '''''[[Sounds from True Stories]]'''''
*Released: 1986
*Labels: Sire
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|Soundtrack to the film ''[[True Stories (film)|True Stories]]''.
|-
|1987
| '''''[[The Last Emperor (album)|The Last Emperor]]'''''
*Released: 1987
*Labels: Virgin
|align="center"| 152
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|Score to the film ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', composed with [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] and [[Cong Su]].
|-
|1991
| '''''[[The Forest (album)|The Forest]]'''''
*Released: June 1991
*Labels: Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.
|align="center"| —
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|Music for the 1988 Robert Wilson theatre piece ''The Forest''.
|-
|1999
| '''''Your Action World'''''
*Released: January 1, 1999
*Labels: Self-released
|align="center"| —
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|Music for Byrne's art presentation of ''Your Action World''.
|-
|1999
| '''''[[In Spite of Wishing and Wanting]]'''''
*Released: 1999
*Labels: Self-released
|align="center"| —
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|Music for the [[Ultima Vez]] dance production ''In Spite of Wishing and Wanting''.
|-
|2003
| '''''E.E.E.I. (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information)'''''
*Released: July 2, 2003
*Labels: Self-released
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|Music for Byrne's speaking tour and [[PowerPoint]] presentation.
|-
|2003
| '''''[[Lead Us Not into Temptation]]'''''
*Released: September 30, 2003
*Labels: [[Thrill Jockey]]
|align="center"| —
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|Soundtrack to the film ''[[Young Adam (film)|Young Adam]]''.
|-
|2008
| '''''[[Big Love: Hymnal]]'''''
*Released: August 19, 2008
*Labels: Todo Mundo/[[HBO]]/[[Playtone]]
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|Soundtrack to the second season of ''[[Big Love]]''.
|-
|2010
| '''''[[Here Lies Love]]'''''
*Released: April 6, 2010
*Labels: Todomundo/[[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]
|align="center"| 96
|align="center"| 76
|With [[Fatboy Slim]]. A disco song cycle occasionally given staged performances.
|-
|2019
| '''''[[American Utopia (film)|American Utopia on Broadway Original Cast Recording]]'''''
*Released: October 25, 2019
*Labels: [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]
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|Original cast recording of the Broadway production of ''American Utopia''.
|}
* "—" denotes albums that were released but did not chart, albums not released in a particular territory, or chart information is not available.