| Artist: | Dwight Yoakam |
| Studio: | 17 |
| Compilation: | 9 |
| Live: | 2 |
Dwight Yoakam is an American country music singer-songwriter. Since his debut in 1984, Yoakam has released 17 studio albums. His debut album, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, while This Time is certified triple-platinum by the same organization. Yoakam achieved the greatest success of his career in the 1980s and 1990s, however, in the 2000s, he left Reprise Records/Warner Bros. Nashville for an independent record label Audium/Koch Records in 2003 and released Population Me. In 2005, he released Blame the Vain on New West Records. The album was a commercial success on the charts, however, no singles that were released cracked the Top 40 of the Hot Country Songs chart.
In addition to releasing his studio albums, Yoakam has also released numerous compilation albums on various record labels, with a vast majority of them reaching success on the charts. His 1989 album Just Lookin' for a Hit is his best-selling compilation album.
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||||||||||||
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| US Country [1] | US [2] | CAN Country [3] | CAN [4] | AUS[5] | NZ [6] | SWE [7] | UK [8] | ||||||||
| Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.[A] |
| 1 | 61 | — | — | 89 | — | — | — | ||||||
| Hillbilly Deluxe |
| 1 | 55 | — | 27 | 55 | 17 | 33 | 51 | ||||||
| Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room |
| 1 | 68 | 17 | 47 | — | 37 | 37 | 87 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | CAN | AUS [11] | |||||||||||
| If There Was a Way |
| 7 | 96 | — | — | — | |||||||||
| This Time |
| 4 | 25 | 1 | 19 | — |
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| Gone |
| 5 | 30 | 5 | 42 | 17 |
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| Under the Covers |
| 8 | 92 | — | 8 | 74 | |||||||||
| Come On Christmas |
| 32 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| A Long Way Home |
| 11 | 60 | 12 | 67 | — | |||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US Indie [13] | SWE | ||||||||||||
| Tomorrow's Sounds Today[B] |
| 7 | 68 | — | — | ||||||||||
| South of Heaven, West of Hell |
| 59 | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| Population Me |
| 8 | 75 | 3 | — | ||||||||||
| Blame the Vain |
| 8 | 54 | 3 | 47 | ||||||||||
| Dwight Sings Buck |
| 11 | 42 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | AUS | |||
| 3 Pears |
| 3 | 18 | — | |
| Second Hand Heart |
| 2 | 18 | 46 | |
| Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars...[14] |
| 6 | 62 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | CAN | NOR [15] | ||||||
| Just Lookin' for a Hit |
| 3 | 68 | — | 64 | — |
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| This Is Dwight Yoakam |
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| La Croix D'Amour |
| — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's |
| 10 | 80 | 5 | — | — |
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| — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| In Others' Words |
| 59 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Dwight's Used Records |
| 57 | — | 43 | — | — | ||||
| The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam |
| 10 | 87 | — | — | 14 |
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| The Platinum Collection |
| — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 59 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country | ||||||||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | |||
| Dwight Live |
| 8 | 56 | 4 |
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| dwightyoakamacoustic.net |
| 24 | 195 | 6 | |
| Live from Austin, TX |
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| Title | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. |
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| Bring Home the Holidays |
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. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 345.