Tommy Emmanuel discography explained

Artist:Tommy Emmanuel
Studio:27
Live:6
Compilation:4
Singles:21

The discography of Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter Tommy Emmanuel consists of twenty-seven studio albums, six live albums, four compilation albums and twenty-one singles.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[1] [2] [3]
NZ
[4]
From Out of Nowhere
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Trafalgar
  • Formats: Vinyl
Untitled (with Philippe Gabbay)
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: Vinyl
Up from Down Under
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Artful Balance
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, cassette
48
  • AUS: Platinum
Dare to Be Different
  • Released: July 1990
  • Label: Mega
  • Formats: CD, cassette
13 39
  • AUS: Platinum
Determination
  • Released: October 1991
  • Label: Mega
  • Formats: CD, cassette
17
  • AUS: Platinum
The Journey 5 AUS: 2× Platinum [5]
Terra Firma (with Phil Emmanuel)
  • Released: March 1995
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
12
Classical Gas (with Australian Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Released: November 1995
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
6 AUS: Gold [6]
Can't Get Enough
  • Released: October 1996
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
26
The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World (with Chet Atkins)
  • Released: March 1997
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Collaboration 51
Only 53
Endless Road
  • Released: May 2004
  • Label: Favored Nations
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Mystery
  • Released: 19 June 2006[7]
  • Label: Favored Nations
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Happy Hour (with Jim Nichols)
  • Released: October 2006
  • Label: Original Works
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Just Between Frets (with Frank Vignola)
  • Released: 3 November 2009
  • Label: Solid Air Records
  • Formats: CD
Little by Little
All I Want for Christmas
  • Released: 28 October 2011
  • Label: Favored Nations
  • Formats: CD, DD
92[8]
The Colonel & The Governor (with Martin Taylor)
  • Released: February 2013
  • Label: Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
  • Formats: CD, DD
The Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emmanuel
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Favored Nations
  • Formats: CD, DD
Dov'è andata la musica (with Dodi Battaglia)
  • Released: 7 April 2015[9]
  • Label: Più In Alto
  • Formats: CD, DD
Just Passing Through (with Ian Cooper and Ian Date)
  • Released: 23 June 2015[10]
  • Label: CGP Sounds
  • Formats: CD, DD
It's Never Too Late
  • Released: 7 August 2015
  • Label: Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, DD
31
Christmas Memories
  • Released: 28 October 2016
  • Label: Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, DD
Pickin (with David Grisman)
  • Released: 3 November 2017
  • Label: Acoustic Disc
  • Formats: DD
Accomplice One
  • Released: 19 January 2018
  • Label: CGP Sounds / Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, DD
Heart Songs (with John Knowles)
  • Released: 11 January 2019[11]
  • Label: CGP Sounds / Cooking Vinyl Records
  • Formats: CD, DD, Streaming
Accomplice Two
  • Released: 28 April 2023
  • Label: CGP Sounds / Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, Digital
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
Live One
  • Released: September 2005
  • Label: Original Works
  • Formats: CD
Center Stage
  • Released: April 2008
  • Label: Favored Nation / ABC Music
  • Formats: 2xCD + DVD
34 °
Live And Solo In Pensacola, Florida [12]
  • Released: 20 September 2013
  • Label: CGP Sounds
  • Formats: CD, DD
Live at the Ryman [13]
  • Released: 17 May 2017
  • Label: CGP Sounds / Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, DD
LiveChristmas Time [14]
  • Released: 4 December 2020
  • Label: CGP Sounds
  • Formats: DD
Live from the Balboa Theatre [15]
  • Released: 12 February 2021
  • Label: CGP Sounds
  • Formats: DD
Notes

Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
Initiation
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel
  • Released: August 2001
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, cassette
22
The Essential Tommy Emmanuel [16]
  • Released: 15 October 2010
  • Label: Sony Music Australia
  • Formats: CD, DD
The Best of Tommysongs [17]
  • Released: 8 May 2020
  • Label: GCP
  • Formats: DD, streaming
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Box sets

Title! scope="col" rowspan="1" style="width:16em;"
Album details
The Journey & Terra Firma
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: 2xCD
Two Originals
(The Journey & Classical Gas)
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Great Tommy Emmanuel
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Rajon Music Group
  • Formats: 3xCD

Extended plays

Title! scope="col" rowspan="1" style="width:16em;"
Album details
Accomplice Series, Vol. 1
(with Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley)
  • Released: 7 May 2021
  • Label: CGP
  • Formats: DD
Accomplice Series, Vol. 2
(with Richard Smith)
  • Released: September 2021
  • Label: CGP
  • Formats: DD
Accomplice Series, Vol. 3
(with Mike Dawes)
  • Released: 23 September 2022
  • Label: CGP
  • Formats: DD

Singles

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
AUS
"Up from Down Under"1988Up from Down Under
"Guitar Concierto De Aranjuez"1989138Dare to Be Different
"Guitar Boogie"1990111
"Heart Grows Fonder"
"Stevie's Blues"199193Determination
"The Journey"199329The Journey
"Villa Anita"
"Initiation"
"Big Brother"1994
"Since We Met"The Journey (re-release)
"(Back on the) Terra Firma" (with Phil Emmanuel) 199545Terra Firma
"Love Gone West" (with Phil Emmanuel)
"Classical Gas" (with Australian Philharmonic Orchestra) 44Classical Gas
"No More Goodbyes" 1997Can't Get Enough
"After the Love Has Gone" (with CDB) 199874Collaboration
"When a Child is Born"[18] (with Damien Leith) 2011n/a
"One Christmas Night"2012All I Want for Christmas
"Bam"[19] (Glenn Proudfoot with Tommy Emmanuel) 2014n/a
"Here with Me" [20] (Pam Rose with Tommy Emmanuel) 2017n/a
"Djangology" [21] 2018Accomplice One
"Imagine"[22] 2020
"Somebody That I Used to Know" (with Mike Dawes) [23] 2021Accomplice Series, Vol 3
"Serenade to Sunshine" (with Richard Smith)Accomplice Series, Vol 2
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (with Mike Dawes)[24] 2022Accomplice Series, Vol 3
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Other singles

Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"
Year Peak chart positions
AUS
[25]
"The Garden"
(as Australia Too)
198522
"Legends of the Southern Land"
[26]
2013

Music videos

YearVideo
1992"Determination"
1993"The Journey"
1995"(Rock On the) Terra Firma"
2015"Blood Brother"

Video

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Discography Tommy Emmanuel. australian-charts.com. 19 January 2018.
  2. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia.
  3. Web site: Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 8 October 1990. bubblingdownunder. 8 October 2021. 9 October 2021.
  4. Web site: Discography Tommy Emmanuel. charts.nz. 19 January 2018.
  5. Web site: Tommy Emmanuel Does Double Duty on "Hellos and Goodbyes" — Video. Guitar World. 25 August 2015. 20 January 2018.
  6. Web site: Tommy EMMANUEL. Country Music Hall of Fame. 20 January 2018.
  7. Web site: ARIA Report Issue 850. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060719140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20060720-0000/issue850.pdf. dead. 2006-07-19. ARIA. 20 July 2006. 22 January 2018.
  8. Web site: ARIA REPORT issue 1132. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20111029130100/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20111030-0001/Issue1132.pdf. dead. 2011-10-29. 7 November 2011. 22 January 2018.
  9. Web site: Dov'è andata la musica. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  10. Web site: Just Passing Through. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  11. Web site: Heart Songs. iTunes Australia. 11 January 2019.
  12. Web site: Live And Solo In Pensacola, Florida. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  13. Web site: Live at the Ryman. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  14. Web site: Live Christmas Time. iTunes Australia. 13 August 2021.
  15. Web site: Live from the Balboa Theatre. iTunes Australia. 13 August 2021.
  16. Web site: Essential 3.0, The. JB HiFi. 19 January 2018.
  17. Web site: The Best of Tommysongs. Apple Music. 4 November 2020.
  18. Web site: When a Child is Born. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  19. Web site: Bam. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  20. Web site: Here with Me. iTunes Australia. 19 January 2018.
  21. Web site: New Music Releases for 5 January 2018. Noise11. 5 January 2018. 20 January 2018.
  22. Web site: Imagine - single. Apple Music. 20 November 2020. 13 August 2021.
  23. Web site: Somebody That I Used to Know - single. Apple Music. 25 June 2021. 13 August 2021.
  24. Web site: Watch Tommy Emmanuel and Mike Dawes' thrilling acoustic cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Guitar World. 23 June 2022. 6 July 2022.
  25. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 22. 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.

  26. Web site: Legends of the Southern Land (Radio Edit) - Single. Apple Music. 7 September 2013. 10 July 2024.