Mad World – Tears for Fears

Appears On

• Smooching Classics From Hot School Nights(2004)
• The Hits Album: 80’s Chartbusters(2022)
• The Silver Collection(2007)
• Ultimate Eighties(2002)
• The No. 1 Classic 80’s Album(2001)
• Now That’s What I Call Electronic(2022)
• Another Lost Decade: The ’80s Second British Invasion(2005)
• It’s Electric: Classic Hits From an Electric Era(1994)
• Chartboxx Back to the 80s(2017)
• Shout(2001)
• Now That's What I Call New Wave 80s(2015)
• Pop Revolution: 1982–1983(2001)
• NOW Presents Electronic(2022)
• Countdown: Jukebox Classics(2009)
• The Fishbox Collection(1992)
• Biggest & Best Ballads(2004)
• 101 Hits: No.1 Dad(2018)
• Mad World: The Collection(2010)
• Atomic 80s(2001)
• Gold(2006)
• Pop & Wave, Volume 5: The Neverending 80s(1994)
• Charts Pur: Synth & Wave(2009)
• The Best Blockbuster Album in the World…Ever!(2017)
• VVAA - FM Radio Evolution0
• Top of the Pops: New Romantics(2017)
• Mad World(1982)
• The Greatest Songs of the 80s(2009)
• Smash Hits Strange 80s(2017)
• Your Songs(2011)
• Our Definition of Eighties(2007)
• Greenpeace – The Album(1985)
• 101 80s Hits(2017)
• Electric 80’s(2005)
• 101 Hits: Festival Headliners(2018)
• Die besten Hits der 80er, Vol. 2(2005)
• The Model: 20 New Romantic Hits From the 80’s(1997)
• The #1 80s Synth Pop Album(2022)
• Electronic(1997)
• Alle 40 Goed: Originals(2013)
• 101 Electronic 80s(2017)
• Now That’s What I Call Music! 1982: The Millennium Series(1999)
• Ronny’s Pop Show: Mit dem Schärfsten aus meiner Sendung(1983)
• Love & Peace(2003)
• NOW 100 Hits: 80s(2019)
• Music of the Year: 1982(2001)
• Driving 80's(2010)
• Audiowave 2010(2009)
• Electro Pop: 60 of the Greatest Electronic Hits(2001)
• Immortal Rock 1983(2000)
• Virgin Radio: The Album(2004)
• Ultimate Eighties(2002)
• The 80’s Collection: 1982(1994)
• Flood Relief(2011)
• The Hits Album: 80s Young Guns(2019)
• The 80s Collection(2008)
• Kino & Hits – Die 40 besten Filmsongs(2022)
• Real Eighties: Hits + Extended Mixes(2005)
• 80s & 90s Gothic Vibes(2025)
• Bairro Alto – Noites loucas anos 80(2008)
• Ashes to Ashes: Series 3(2010)
• The Hurting(1983)
• The Other Side of the 80s Edition(2005)
• Electric Dreams: 80's Synth Pop Classics(2002)
• Club Sounds: The Ultimate Club Dance Collection: 80s(2020)
• One Shot ’80, Volume 18(2006)
• Top of the Pops ’82(2017)
• Sowing the Seeds of Love: The Best of Tears for Fears(2006)
• Deutschland 83: Die Musik aus der TV-Serie(2015)
• Neon Wave(1995)
• Synth & Wave Essentials(2002)
• Total 80s Pop(2010)
• Absolute Synth Anthems(2010)
• The Best 80’s Album in the World… Ever! Volume 2(2017)
• Les Années New Wave(1999)
• The New Romantics0
• Welcome to the Pleasuredome: The Real 80’s(2002)
• The Collection(2003)
• Rule the World: The Greatest Hits(2017)
• Greatest Ever! Sad Songs(2012)
• Mental Health 2020(2020)
• Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears(2001)
• #1s: 38 of the Greatest #1 Singles of All Time(2004)
• Electric Dreams(2006)
• The Best Golden Oldies Album in the World…Ever!(2023)
• The Ultimate Collection(2003)
• First Love: Greatest Ballads of All Time(2013)
• 80s Niteclub(2009)
• The Hits Album: Early 80s(2024)
• Stay Home Stay Safe(2020)
• Here and Now: The Very Best of the 80s(2008)
• Electric Dreams(2017)
• 20 Alternative 80s Classics(2012)
• Greatest Ever! Chartbusters: The Definitive Collection(2012)
• NOW That’s What I Call Unforgettable(2024)
• The Best Electronic Album In The World...Ever!(2019)
• Electric Dreams(1995)
• Platinum Collection 80’s(2008)
• Video Hits: Past Hits, Volume 1(1997)
• 7 Inch Heroes(2007)
• BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years With Ken Bruce(2015)
• The Collection(2006)
• Electric 80’s(1997)
• The Ultimate Collection: Rock Ballads(2009)
• Chrysalis Music Group USA Artist Catalog Sampler(2007)
• The 80's Electro Album(2005)
• Icon(2014)
• Simply the Best Songs(2007)
• NOW That’s What I Call Movies(2013)
• Liebe ist…(2005)
• Edge of the 80s: 1982-1983(2003)
• Was het nu 70, 80 of 90? File 3(2001)
• Movie Ballads(2006)
• Blitz One(1989)
• Famous Last Words: The Collection(2007)
• Top of the Pops: 1980–1984(2016)
• Tears Roll Down(1992)
• Seriously 80s(2012)
• Barney Simon Mix: 1980–2000(1999)
• The Ballad Of Easy Rider… WMD Vol.2 [An Ultrasound Production 2017]0
• Gold(2001)
• Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits 82–92(1992)
• Anthems: Electronic 80s(2009)
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World: The Collection(2013)
• Blank & Jones Present So80s (SoEighties) 5(2011)
• Ultimate Eighties(1998)
• Electric: The Very Best of Electronic, New Wave & Synth(2002)
• Elec-trax(2002)
• Back to the 80s(2004)
• Best of Formel Eins: Die Kulthits(2002)
• Greatest Ever! Electric Eighties(2013)
• Der letzte Bulle, Volume 3(2012)
• Acoustic 80s(2004)
• Jim Beam: Pub Jukebox Classics(2006)
• Fade to Grey 1980–1984(2013)
• Die ultimative Chart Show: Die erfolgreichsten Singles der 80er(2012)
• ’80s British Gold(2007)
• Muzyka Ciszy 4(2016)
• Chronicles: 3 Classic Albums(2005)
• Top of the Pops: New Wave(2017)
• NOW Yearbook ’82(2022)

Composition

Recording of Mad World

Other Recordings (20)

• Mad Worldby Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby L’Orchestra Cinematique
• Mad Worldby Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby twenty one pilots
• Mad Worldby Brooklyn Duo
• Mad World (live at Glam Nation)by Adam Lambert
• Mad Worldby Adam Lambert
• Mad World (World remix)by Tears for Fears
• Mad World (One World: Together at Home)by Adam Lambert
• Mad Worldby Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby Die Toten Hosen
• Mad Worldby Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby Demi Lovato
• Mad Worldby stories
• Mad Worldby Jan Wayne
• Mad Worldby Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby Michele Bravi
• Mad World (radio edit)by Jan Wayne
• Mad World (2023 stereo instrumental mix)by Tears for Fears
• Mad Worldby Brandi Carlile