John Anderson discography

John Anderson discography
John Anderson discography
Studio albums	22
Compilation albums	10
Music videos	25
Singles	68
#1 Singles	6

The discography of American country music singer-songwriter John Anderson consists of 22 studio albums and 68 singles. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records from 1980 to 1986, and again in 2007. Other labels to which he was signed include MCA, Capitol, BNA, Mercury, and Easy Eye Sound. His most commercially successful album, 1992's Seminole Wind, achieved double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Anderson has charted five number 1 singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, and has had 15 other singles reach Top 10.

Studio albums[edit]

1980s[edit]

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certifications
Title	Album details	US Country ^[1]	US ^[2]	CAN Country ^[3]	Certifications
John Anderson	Release date: July 1, 1980 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	61	—	—
John Anderson 2	Release date: April 1981 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	25	—	—
I Just Came Home to Count the Memories	Release date: October 14, 1981 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	40	—	—
Wild & Blue	Release date: September 15, 1982 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	3	58	—	RIAA: Gold^[4]
All the People are Talkin'	Release date: September 1983 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	9	163	—
Eye of a Hurricane	Release date: June 18, 1984 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	3	—	16
Tokyo, Oklahoma	Release date: June 3, 1985 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	24	—	—
Countrified	Release date: October 6, 1986 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette	17	—	—
Blue Skies Again	Release date: November 2, 1987 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette	41	—	—
10	Release date: 1988 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette	51	—	—
Too Tough to Tame	Release date: August 8, 1989 Label: Universal/Capitol Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s[edit]

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certifications (sales thresholds)
Title	Album details	US Country ^[1]	US ^[2]	CAN Country ^[3]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Seminole Wind	Release date: February 10, 1992 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	10	35	11	RIAA: 2× Platinum^[5] MC: Gold^[6]
Solid Ground	Release date: June 22, 1993 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	12	75	13	RIAA: Gold^[7]
Christmas Time	Release date: August 30, 1994 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	—	—	—
Country 'Til I Die	Release date: October 11, 1994 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	43	—	—
Paradise	Release date: January 30, 1996 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	40	—	—
Takin' the Country Back	Release date: July 29, 1997 Label: PolyGram/Mercury Records Formats: CD, cassette	19	138	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s–2020s[edit]

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	US Country ^[1]	US ^[2]
Nobody's Got It All	Release date: March 27, 2001 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD, cassette	64	—
Easy Money	Release date: May 15, 2007 Label: Warner Bros./Raybaw Formats: CD, music download	36	170
Bigger Hands	Release date: June 9, 2009 Label: Country Crossing Formats: CD, music download	53	—
Goldmine	Release date: May 26, 2015 Label: Bayou Boys Music Formats: CD, music download	36	—
Years	Release date: April 10, 2020 Label: Easy Eye Sound Formats: LP, CD, music download	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums[edit]

Title	Album details	Peak positions	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Title	Album details	US Country ^[1]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Greatest Hits	Release date: 1984 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette	28	RIAA: Gold^[8]
Greatest Hits Volume II	Release date: August 21, 1990 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette	—
You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down	Release date: August 30, 1994 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, cassette	—
Greatest Hits	Release date: October 15, 1996 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	56
The Encore Collection	Release date: November 18, 1997 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	—
Super Hits	Release date: March 24, 1998 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	72
The Essential John Anderson	Release date: June 2, 1998 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette	—
RCA Country Legends	Release date: 2002 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD	—
Anthology	Release date: October 22, 2002 Label: Audium/Koch Records Formats: CD	65
The Ultimate Hits	Release date: October 19, 2004 Label: Audium/Koch Records Formats: CD, music download	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles[edit]

1970s[edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	CAN Country ^[10]	Album
1975	"Swoop Down Sweet Jesus"	—	—	Non-album single
1976	"What Did I Promise Her Last Night"	—	—
1977	"I've Got a Feelin' (Somebody's Been Stealin')"	62	—
1978	"Whine, Whistle, Whine"	69	—
1978	"The Girl at the End of the Bar"	40	—	John Anderson
1979	"My Pledge of Love"	41	—	Non-album single
	"Low Dog Blues"	31	—	John Anderson
	"Your Lying Blue Eyes"	15	39	John Anderson
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s[edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	US ^[11]	CAN Country ^[10]	Album
1980	"She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs"	13	—	60	John Anderson
	"If There Were No Memories"	21	—	—
	"1959"	7	—	4
1981	"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)"	4	—	2	John Anderson 2
	"Chicken Truck"	8	—	—	John Anderson 2
	"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"	7	—	5	I Just Came Home to Count the Memories
1982	"Would You Catch a Falling Star"	6	—	15	I Just Came Home to Count the Memories
1982	"Wild and Blue"	1	—	15	Wild & Blue
1983	"Swingin'"	1	43	4
	"Goin' Down Hill"	5	—	7
	"Black Sheep"	1	—	1	All the People Are Talkin'
1984	"Let Somebody Else Drive"	10	—	10	All the People Are Talkin'
	"I Wish I Could Write You a Song"	14	—	12	Eye of a Hurricane
	"She Sure Got Away with My Heart"	3	—	4
	"Eye of a Hurricane"	20	—	17
1985	"It's All Over Now"	15	—	18	Tokyo, Oklahoma
	"Tokyo, Oklahoma"	30	—	33
	"Down in Tennessee"	12	—	35
1986	"You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down"	31	—	48	Non-album single
	"Honky Tonk Crowd"	10	—	7	Countrified
	"Countrified"	44	—	31
1987	"What's So Different About You"	55	—	—
	"When Your Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue"	48	—	—	Blue Skies Again
	"Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings)	23	—	35
1988	"It's Hard to Keep This Ship Together"	65	—	—
	"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"	35	—	—	10
	"Down in the Orange Grove"	68	—	—
1989	"Lower on the Hog"	73	—	—
1989	"Who's Lovin' My Baby"	66	—	—	Too Tough to Tame
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s[edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	US Bubbling ^[12]	CAN Country ^[10]	Album
1990	"Tryin' to Make a Livin' on the Road"	—	—	88	Too Tough to Tame
1991	"Who Got Our Love"	67	—	—	Seminole Wind
1991	"Straight Tequila Night"	1	—	1
1992	"When It Comes to You"	3	—	2
	"Seminole Wind"	2	—	1
	"Let Go of the Stone"	7	—	11
1993	"Money in the Bank"	1	—	1	Solid Ground
	"I Fell in the Water"	13	—	22
	"I've Got It Made"	3	—	19
1994	"I Wish I Could Have Been There"	4	—	21
	"Country 'Til I Die"	35	—	31	Country 'Til I Die
	"Bend It Until It Breaks"	3	—	28
1995	"Mississippi Moon"	15	—	11
1995	"Paradise"	26	—	21	Paradise
1996	"Long Hard Lesson Learned"	51	—	71
1996	"My Kind of Crazy"	67	—	—
1997	"Somebody Slap Me"	22	15	35	Takin' the Country Back
1997	"Small Town"	44	—	—
1998	"Takin' the Country Back"	41	—	69
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s–2020s[edit]

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	Album
2000	"You Ain't Hurt Nothin' Yet"	56	Nobody's Got It All
2000	"Nobody's Got It All"	55
2001	"The Big Revival"	—
2001	"It Ain't Easy Being Me"^[13]	—
2006	"If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me"	59	Easy Money
2007	"A Woman Knows"	—	Easy Money
2009	"Cold Coffee & Hot Beer"	—	Bigger Hands
2009	"Bigger Hands"	—	Bigger Hands
2015	"I Work a Lot Better"^[14]	—	Goldmine
	"Don't Forget to Thank the Lord"	—
	"Magic Mama"	—
2020	"Years"	—	Years
2020	"Tuesday I'll Be Gone" (featuring Blake Shelton)	—	Years
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles[edit]

Charted B-sides[edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Original A-side
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	CAN Country ^[10]	Original A-side
1981	"I Love You a Thousand Ways"	54	11	"Chicken Truck"

Other charted songs[edit]

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
Year	Single	US Country ^[9]	Album
1994	"Christmas Time"	57	Christmas Time

Featured singles[edit]

Year	Single	Artist	Album
1994	"Amazing Grace"	The Maverick Choir	Maverick (soundtrack)
2007	"Get Thee Behind Me Satan"	Billy Joe Shaver	Everybody's Brother
2016	"Trashy Women (20th Anniversary)"	Confederate Railroad (feat. Willie Nelson & Colt Ford)	Lucky to Be Alive

Music videos[edit]

Year	Video	Director
1986	"Countrified"	Martin Kahan
1988	"Down in the Orange Grove"	Jim May
1989	"Who's Lovin' My Baby"	Joe Young
1991	"Straight Tequila Night"	Steve Boyle
1992	"When It Comes to You"	Steve Boyle
	"Let Go of the Stone"	Michael Salomon
	"Seminole Wind"	Jim Shea
1993	"Money in the Bank"	Jim Shea
1993	"I Fell in the Water"	Sherman Halsey
1994	"Amazing Grace" (The Maverick Choir)	Gil Bettman
	"I Wish I Could Have Been There"	Jim Shea
	"Country 'Til I Die"
	"Christmas Time"
1995	"Mississippi Moon"
1996	"Long Hard Lesson Learned"
1997	"Somebody Slap Me"
1997	"Small Town"
1998	"Takin' the Country Back"
2000	"Nobody's Got It All"
2007	"A Woman Knows"
2007	"Get Thee Behind Me Satan" (with Billy Joe Shaver)	The Brads
2013	"Swingin'" (with Colt Ford)^[15]	Potsy Ponciroli
2013	"I'll Fly Away" (with Paul Brandt)	Joel Stewart
2020	"Years"	Josh Bishop
2020	"Tuesday I'll Be Gone" (ft. Blake Shelton)	Tim Hardiman
2021	"No Country Music for Old Men" (ft. The Bellamy Brothers)	Derrek Kupish

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Albums/CDs". RPM. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
^ "American album certifications – John Anderson – Wild & Blue". Recording Industry Association of America.
^ "American album certifications – John Anderson – Seminole Wind". Recording Industry Association of America.
^ "Canadian album certifications – John Anderson – Seminole Wind". Music Canada.
^ "American album certifications – John Anderson – Solid Ground". Recording Industry Association of America.
^ "American album certifications – John Anderson – Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
^ "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. May 25, 2001.
^ Stephenson, Troy (April 23, 2015). "John Anderson Finds His 'Goldmine'". MusicRow. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
^ Bjorke, Matt (January 29, 2013). "Video: John Anderson & Colt Ford Remake Swingin' for "Super Zeroes" film". Roughstock. Archived from the original on March 7, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.

[Country_Albums-1] "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 11, 2011.

[Billboard_200-2] "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 11, 2011.

[RPM_Country_Albums-3] "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Albums/CDs". RPM. Retrieved July 11, 2011.

[4] "American album certifications – John Anderson – Wild & Blue". Recording Industry Association of America.

[5] "American album certifications – John Anderson – Seminole Wind". Recording Industry Association of America.

[6] "Canadian album certifications – John Anderson – Seminole Wind". Music Canada.

[7] "American album certifications – John Anderson – Solid Ground". Recording Industry Association of America.

[8] "American album certifications – John Anderson – Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.

[Country_Songs-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

[RPM_Country_Songs-10] "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

[Hot_100-11] "John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

[whitburn-12] Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.

[13] "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. May 25, 2001.

[goldmine-14] Stephenson, Troy (April 23, 2015). "John Anderson Finds His 'Goldmine'". MusicRow. Retrieved April 23, 2015.

[15] Bjorke, Matt (January 29, 2013). "Video: John Anderson & Colt Ford Remake Swingin' for "Super Zeroes" film". Roughstock. Archived from the original on March 7, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.

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Studio albums	John Anderson John Anderson 2 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Wild & Blue All the People Are Talkin' Eye of a Hurricane Tokyo, Oklahoma Countrified Blue Skies Again 10 Too Tough to Tame Seminole Wind Solid Ground Country 'til I Die Paradise Takin' the Country Back Nobody's Got It All Easy Money Bigger Hands Goldmine Years
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1984) Greatest Hits Volume II Greatest Hits (1996)
Notable singles	"Your Lying Blue Eyes" "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" "1959" "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" "Chicken Truck" "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" "Would You Catch a Falling Star" "Wild and Blue" "Swingin'" "Goin' Down Hill" "Black Sheep" "Let Somebody Else Drive" "She Sure Got Away with My Heart" "Eye of a Hurricane" "It's All Over Now" "Down in Tennessee" "Honky Tonk Crowd" "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings) "Straight Tequila Night" "When It Comes to You" "Seminole Wind" "Let Go of the Stone" "Money in the Bank" "I Fell in the Water" "I've Got It Made" "I Wish I Could Have Been There" "Bend It Until It Breaks" "Mississippi Moon" "Paradise" "Somebody Slap Me" "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" "Years" "Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
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