| 1976 | Carmen | Bizet; Troyanos, Domingo, van Dam, Te Kanawa, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Sir Georg Solti | 5 | 5 |
| 1979 | Symphony no. 9 "Choral" / Symphony no. 8 | Beethoven; Kiri Te Kanawa, Julia Hamari, Stuart Burrows, Robert Holl, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Eugen Jochum | | 1 |
| 1982 | Don Giovanni | Mozart; Maazel, Raimondi, Te Kanawa, Chorus of the Paris Opera, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, Berganza, Macurdy, Moser, King, Riegel, Van Dam | | 2 |
| 1982 | Le nozze di Figaro | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucia Popp, Frederica von Stade, Samuel Ramey, Thomas Allen, Kurt Moll, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti | | 4 |
| 1983 | A Portrait of Kiri Te Kanawa | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 4 |
| 1983 | Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 1 | Canteloube; Kiri Te Kanawa, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate | | 3 |
| 1983 | Kiri Te Kanawa: Verdi & Puccini | Verdi, Puccini; Kiri Te Kanawa, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard | | 1 |
| 1983 | La rondine | Giacomo Puccini; Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Mariana Nicolesco, Leo Nucci, David Rendall, Lilian Watson, Gillian Knight, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel | | 1 |
| 1984 | Opera Arias | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis | | 2 |
| 1984 | Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 2 / Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 | Joseph Canteloube, Heitor Villa‐Lobos; Kiri Te Kanawa, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate | | 2 |
| 1984 | Come to the Fair: Folk Songs & Ballads | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 3 |
| 1985 | Exsultate jubilate / Vesperae solennes de confessore / Kyrie in D minor / Ave verum corpus | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis | | 2 |
| 1985 | Blue Skies | Kiri Te Kanawa & Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra | | 2 |
| 1985 | Ein deutsches Requiem | Johannes Brahms; Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Georg Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Bernd Weikl | | 1 |
| 1985 | Mass in C minor | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Ileana Cotrubaş, John Alldis Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Raymond Leppard | | 4 |
| 1986 | Messiah: Arias & Choruses | Handel; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Sir Georg Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1986 | Tosca | Puccini; Kiri Te Kanawa, Leo Nucci, Giacomo Aragall, Welsh National Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti | | 2 |
| 1987 | Symphony no. 2 | Mahler; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Seiji Ozawa, Kiri Te Kanawa, Marilyn Horne | | 1 |
| 1987 | Faust | Gounod; Kiri Te Kanawa, Francisco Araiza, Evgeny Nesterenko, Symphonieorchester & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Colin Davis | | 4 |
| 1987 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini; Te Kanawa, Carreras, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Chailly | | 3 |
| 1987 | Messiah: Great Choruses | Handel; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Sir Georg Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1987 | My Favourite Things | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1987 | Symphony No. 4 | Mahler, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kiri Te Kanawa, Seiji Ozawa | | 1 |
| 1988 | Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande / Pavane | Fauré; Te Kanawa, Milnes, Dutoit, Montréal | | 2 |
| 1988 | Arias | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate | | 1 |
| 1989 | Così fan tutte | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Ann Murray, Marie McLaughlin, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Thomas Hampson, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Wiener Philharmoniker James Levine | 4 | 3 |
| 1990 | Matthäus-Passion: Arias and Chorusses | Johann Sebastian Bach; Te Kanawa, Von Otter, Rolfe Johnson, Krause, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Georg Solti | | 1 |
| 1990 | Les nuits d'été / Cléopâtre | Hector Berlioz; Daniel Barenboim, Orchestre de Paris, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman | | 2 |
| 1990 | Die Zauberflöte | Mozart; Te Kanawa, Studer, Araiza, Ramey, Bär, Lind, Van Dam, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | | 1 |
| 1990 | Italian Opera Arias | Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung | | 1 |
| 1991 | Vier letzte Lieder / 13 Lieder | Richard Strauss; Sir Georg Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Wiener Philharmoniker | | 1 |
| 1991 | Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss; Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Hendricks, Kurt Rydl, Richard Leech, Franz Grundheber,Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink | | 1 |
| 1991 | Heart to Heart | Kiri Te Kanawa & Malcolm McNeill | | 3 |
| 1991 | Siegfried | Wagner - Jerusalem, Marton, Morris, Te Kanawa, Adam, Haage, Rydl, Rappé, Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bernard Haitink | | 1 |
| 1992 | The Essential Kiri | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1992 | Magic: Kiri Sings Michel Legrand | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1992 | Ein Deutsches Requiem | Johannes Brahms; Kiri Te Kanawa, Bernd Weikl, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus | | 1 |
| 1992 | Kiri Sidetracks | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1992 | Le nozze di Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Dawn Upshaw, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Hampson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Tatiana Troyanos, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, James Levine | | 1 |
| 1993 | Arias | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1993 | Die Zauberflöte (Highlights) | Mozart; Te Kanawa, Studer, Araiza, Ramey, Bär, Lind, Van Dam, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | | 1 |
| 1993 | La traviata | Verdi; Kiri Te Kanawa, Alfredo Kraus, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Orchestra & Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Florence, Zubin Mehta | | 1 |
| 1994 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky; Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Hampson, Neil Rosenshein, John Connell, Nicolai Gedda, Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera | | 1 |
| 1994 | Great Mass in C minor | Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Lloyd, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | | 1 |
| 1994 | Kiri Sings Porter | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1995 | Christmas With Kiri Te Kanawa: Carols From Coventry Cathedral | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1995 | Christmas With Kiri Te Kanawa | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1996 | Our Christmas Songs for You | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1997 | Sole e amore: Puccini Arias | Giacomo Puccini; Kiri Te Kanawa, Orchestre de l’opéra national de Lyon, Kent Nagano | | 2 |
| 1997 | German Opera Arias | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 1997 | Kiri Sings Berlin | Berlin; Kiri, Jonathan Tunick, The Abbey Road Ensemble | | 1 |
| 1998 | Die Hochzeit des Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Te Kanawa, Popp, Ramey, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Solti | | 1 |
| 1999 | Le nozze di Figaro: Highlights | Mozart; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Dawn Upshaw, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Hampson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Tatiana Troyanos, Paul Plishka, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine | | 3 |
| 1999 | Maori Songs | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 2 |
| 2001 | Kiri | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 2 |
| 2006 | Kiri Sings Karl | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| 2006 | Kiri Sings Karl | Kiri Te Kanawa & Karl Jenkins | | 2 |
| 2012 | Arabella | R. Strauss / Te Kanawa • Grundheber • Fontana • Seiffert • Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden • Tate | | 1 |
| 2013 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi; Leo Nucci, Kiri Te Kanawa, Paata Burchuladze, Giacomo Aragall, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Sir Georg Solti | | 1 |
| — | A Royal Occasion | Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| — | Concert Arias | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Kiri Te Kanawa, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, György Fischer | | 3 |
| — | Four Last Songs | Richard Strauss; Kiri Te Kanawa, Andrew Davis, London Symphony Orchestra | | 2 |
| — | Mass in C Minor | Mozart; New Philharmonia Orchestra, The John Alldis Choir, Raymond Leppard, Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
| — | Puccini Heroines | Giacomo Puccini; Ileana Cotrubaş, Éva Marton, Katia Ricciarelli, Renata Scotto, Kiri Te Kanawa | | 1 |
