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Sub Focus discography

artist discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ17025888 ↗
Source-derived summary

English DJ and record producer Sub Focus has released five studio albums and 47 singles.

In March 2005, he had a number-one single on the UK Dance Chart with "X-Ray / Scarecrow". The single reached number 60 on the UK Singles Chart. In June 2008, he hit number one on the UK Dance Chart again with "Timewarp / Join the Dots". In August 2009, he entered the UK top 40 for the first time with "Rock It / Follow the Light", which peaked at number 38. "Rock It / Follow the Light" also got him a third UK Dance Chart number one, as well as reaching the B-list of BBC Radio 1's playlist. On 12 October 2009, he released his debut studio album Sub Focus, the album peaked at number 51 on the UK Albums Chart.

In 2012, he released "Out the Blue" featuring Alice Gold and it peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. It was followed by "Tidal Wave" featuring Alpines which peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. On 12 May 2013, "Endorphins" featuring Alex Clare was released, continuing his chart success, peaking at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sub Focus discography” is artist discography. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Focus, discography and artist, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2008, 2009, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Focus, discography and artist is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “artist discography” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17025888. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2012.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Sub Focus discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.