Jack Johnson discography explained

Artist:Jack Johnson
Studio:8
Live:2
Ep:3
Singles:33
Video:4
Music Videos:21
Soundtrack:1
Option:1
Option Name:Remix albums
1Option:27
1Option Name:Other appearances

Hawaii-born musician Jack Johnson has released eight studio albums, one soundtrack album, one remix album, two live albums, two extended plays (EPs), twenty-one singles and four video albums.

Johnson's first album was the result of his primary hobbies, film-making and surfing. He used his songs in his personal surf videos, and released a soundtrack accompanying his film Thicker Than Water. His first commercial record was Brushfire Fairytales, and the highest selling of his albums is Sleep Through the Static. All of Johnson's albums have been released through his personal record label, Brushfire Records.

As of 2010, Johnson has sold 10.8 million copies of albums in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. As of 2015, Johnson has sold 20 million albums worldwide.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

scope=col rowspan="2"Titlescope=col rowspan="2"Album detailsscope=col colspan="10"Peak chart positionsscope=col rowspan="2"Salesscope=col rowspan="2"Certifications
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Brushfire Fairytales 34 13 178 1 36
On and On
  • Released: May 6, 2003
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
3 2 50 94 88 1 62 30
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: 6× Platinum
  • BPI: Platinum
  • BVMI: Platinum[18]
  • MC: Gold[19]
  • RMNZ: 2× Platinum[20]
In Between Dreams
  • Released: March 1, 2005
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
2 1 13 3 46 7 7 1 8 1
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum
  • ARIA: 5× Platinum
  • BPI: 5× Platinum
  • BVMI: 3× Gold
  • IRMA: 2× Platinum[21]
  • MC: 3× Platinum
  • RMNZ: 4× Platinum[22]
Sleep Through the Static
  • Released: February 1, 2008
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 1 3 1 6 2 4 1 2 1
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • IRMA: Gold[24]
  • RMNZ: Platinum[25]
To the Sea
  • Released: June 1, 2010
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 1 4 1 18 4 8 1 1 1
  • RIAA: Gold
  • ARIA: Platinum[26]
  • BPI: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • MC: Platinum
  • RMNZ: Gold[27]
From Here to Now to You
  • Released: September 17, 2013
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 3 5 1 27 9 8 3 5 7
  • ARIA: Gold
  • BPI: Silver
  • MC: Gold
All the Light Above It Too
  • Released: September 8, 2017
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
5 3 27 8 64 24 29 8 7 46
Meet the Moonlight
  • Released: June 24, 2022
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
47 70 58 84 45 11
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released.

Soundtrack albums

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scope=col style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%"AUS
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[31]
NL
NZ
SWI
UK
Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies
for the Film Curious George
  • Released: February 7, 2006
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1 1 3 1 42 6 9 1 2 15
  • US: 1,600,000
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: Platinum[32]
  • BPI: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • RMNZ: Platinum

Live albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
US
AUS
AUT
CAN
FRA
GER
NL
NZ
SWI
UK
En Concert
  • Released: October 27, 2009
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
11 21 26 9 106 57 34 32 72
Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival
  • Released: April 17, 2012
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
12 15
Live at Third Man Records 6-15-2013
  • Released: November 29, 2013
  • Label: Third Man
  • Formats: LP
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released.

Remix albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
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  • Released: September 23, 2008
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, digital download
118
In Between Dub[34]
  • Released: June 2, 2023
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl, digital download

Extended plays

TitleEP detailsPeak chart positions
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Some Live Songs
  • Released: December 14, 2004[35]
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Sessions@AOL
  • Released: August 2, 2005[36]
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: digital download
From Here to Now to You Live
  • Released: April 22, 2014[37]
  • Label: Brushfire Records
  • Format: digital download
35

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US
[38]
US
AAA

[39]
AUS
AUT
BEL
[40]
CAN
[41]
GER
NL
NZ
UK
"Flake"200273 1 6 Brushfire Fairytales
scope=row"Bubble Toes"20036
  • MC: Gold
scope=row"The Horizon Has Been Defeated"1 51 43 On and On
scope=row"Wasting Time"3
scope=row"Taylor"20045 27 33
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
scope=row"Sitting, Waiting, Wishing"200566 1 24 51 82 67 25 65
  • RIAA: Gold
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
  • BPI: Silver
  • MC: 2× Platinum
In Between Dreams
scope=row"Good People"1 92 25 50
  • RIAA: Gold
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • BPI: Silver
  • MC: Platinum
scope=row"Breakdown"2 73
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • MC: Gold
scope=row"Better Together"200612 24
  • RIAA: Gold
  • ARIA: 6× Platinum
  • BPI: 2× Platinum
  • BVMI: Gold
  • MC: 4× Platinum
scope=row"Upside Down"
38 1 36 9 54 56 22 30
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
  • BVMI: Gold
  • MC: 2× Platinum
Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies
for the Film Curious George
scope=row"Talk of the Town"96
scope=row"Imagine"200790 90 Instant Karma
scope=row"If I Had Eyes"47 1 53 37 21 67 60 33 60
  • ARIA: Gold
  • MC: Gold
Sleep Through the Static
scope=row"Sleep Through the Static"69 150
scope=row"Same Girl" 2008
scope=row"Hope"2
scope=row"Go On"14
scope=row"You and Your Heart"201020 1 66 21 37 39 64 30 128
  • MC: Gold
To the Sea
scope=row"At or With Me"1
scope=row"From the Clouds"20112
scope=row"In the Morning"29 This Warm December:
A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2
scope=row"I Got You"201388 1 64 84
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • MC: Platinum
From Here to Now to You
scope=row"Radiate"15
scope=row"Shot Reverse Shot"
scope=row"Fragments"[43] 2017All the Light Above It Too
scope=row"My Mind Is for Sale"[44] 2
scope=row"Sunsets for Somebody Else"
  • ARIA: Gold
  • MC: Gold
scope=row"You Can't Control It"
scope=row"Big Sur"22
scope=row"Willie Got Me Stoned"2018
scope=row"Big Sur (Mike D Remix)"
scope=row"New Axe"2019This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 3
scope=row"Don't Let Me Down"
20201 rowspan="2"
scope=row"The Captain Is Drunk"
scope=row"If Ever"
202124 Rain on Sunday
scope=row"One Step Ahead"20221 Meet the Moonlight
scope=row"Don't Look Now"36
scope=row"Traffic in the Sky" 2023rowspan="2"
scope=row"Home" 2024
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released

Notes

Other charted and certified songs

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US
AAA

[45]
US
Jazz

[46]
US
Rock
[47]
US
Rock
Dig.
[48]
BEL
Tip

[49]
"The News" 2001
  • RIAA: Gold
Brushfire Fairytales
"A Pirate Looks at Forty" 200237 37 The September Sessions
"Let It Be Sung"
200619 A Brokedown Melody Soundtrack
"Never Know"
  • ARIA: Gold
  • MCL Gold
In Between Dreams
"Banana Pancakes"
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
  • MC: 2x Platinum
"Do You Remember"
  • ARIA: Gold
  • MC: Gold
"Constellations" (Demo from the Mango Tree)
  • ARIA: Gold
"Angel"2008
  • ARIA: Gold
  • MC: Gold
Sleep Through the Static
"My Little Girl"201024 To the Sea
"To the Sea"27
"Times Like These (Live From Red Rocks)"
  • ARIA: Gold
Download to Donate for Haiti
"Home"201349 28 From Here to Now to You
"Washing Dishes"55
"Subplots"201738 All the Light Above It Too
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

TitleDetailsCertifications
Kokua Festival 2004/2005
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: DVD
A Weekend at the Greek
  • Released: November 21, 2005
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: DVD, UMD
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: Gold[50]
Live in Japan
  • Released: December 13, 2005
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: DVD, UMD
En Concert
  • Released: October 27, 2009
  • Label: Brushfire, Universal
  • Formats: DVD

Other appearances

TitleYearOther artist(s)Album
"Rodeo Clowns"1999G. Love & Special SaucePhiladelphonic
"Posters"2001Out Cold
"Pirate Looks at 40"2002The September Sessions
"F-Stop Blues"
"Moonshine"2003Thicker Than Water
"Rainbow"
"The Cove"
"Holes to Heaven"
"Breakdown"2004A Brokedown Melody
"Let it Be Sung"Matt Costa, Zach Gill
"Home"
"Give it to You"G. Love & Special SauceThe Hustle
"Free"Donavon FrankenreiterDonavon Frankenreiter
"Breakdown" White People
"Face Up"Ted LennonTed Lennon
"Butternut"2005Tommy Guerrero, Money Mark, Adam TopolSprout
"Demon Lover"
"Spanish Flowers"
"Badfish" / "Boss D.J."Look at All the Love We Found
"Gone Going"The Black Eyed PeasMonkey Business
"Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down"Animal Liberation OrchestraFly Between Falls
"Rainbow"2006G. Love & Special SauceLemonade
"Better Together"Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba
"I Shall Be Released"2007ALOEndless Highway:
The Music of The Band
"Mama, You've Been on My Mind" /
"A Fraction of Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"
I'm Not There
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"Stockings By the Fire
"Someday at Christmas"2008This Warm December:
A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 1
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
"Imagine"2009Rhythms del Mundo Classics
"In the Morning"2011This Warm December:
A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2
"Angel (Holiday)"
"So in Love" 2012Ted Lennon, Colbie Caillat
"Farewell"2013Manuel Garcia, Silvia Tómas & Paula FugaEl Mar, Mi Alma
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"Zach GillRoastin' Chestnuts With Zach Gill
"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
"I Wrote Mr. Tamborine Man"2018John CraigieScarecrow (Deluxe Version)
"A Place in the Sun"2021Jake Shimabukuro & Paula FugaJake & Friends

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Musician Jack Johnson is as green as it gets. USA Today. Sarah. Sekula. April 12, 2020.
  2. Jack Johnson Chart History: Billboard 200. Billboard. 2020-05-23.
  3. Peak positions on the Australian charts:
    • For all except noted: Web site: Australian Charts > Jack Johnson . australian-charts.com Hung Medien . 2010-06-14.
    • For "The Horizon Has Been Defeated": The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 14 April 2003 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080222222425/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20030507-0000/Issue+686.pdf . dead . 2008-02-22 . . . 686 . May 23, 2020.
    • For "If I Had Eyes": The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 18 February 2008 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080226224111/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20080220-0000/Issue938.pdf . dead . 2008-02-26 . Australian Recording Industry Association . Pandora Archive . 938 . May 23, 2020.
    • For "Sleep Through the Static": The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 31 December 2007 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080222222442/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20080120-0000/issue930.pdf . dead . 2008-02-22 . Australian Recording Industry Association . Pandora Archive . 930 . May 23, 2020.
    • For "You and Your Heart": The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 17 May 2010 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20100517060223/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20100511-1124/Issue1052.pdf . dead . 2010-05-17 . Australian Recording Industry Association . Pandora Archive . 1052 . May 23, 2020.
    • For "I Got You": Web site: Chartifacts . Australian Recording Industry Association . June 29, 2013 . June 29, 2013 . https://archive.today/20130629071103/http://www.ariacharts.com.au/news/33225/chartifacts . dead.
    • For Meet the Moonlight: The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 4 July 2022. The ARIA Report. Australian Recording Industry Association. 1687. 6. July 4, 2022.
  4. Web site: Austrian Charts > Jack Johnson. austriancharts.at Hung Medien. 2010-06-14.
  5. Jack Johnson Chart History: Canadian Albums. Billboard. 2020-05-23.
  6. Web site: French Charts > Jack Johnson. lescharts.com Hung Medien. 2010-06-14.
  7. Web site: Discographie von Jack Johnson. offiziellecharts.de. German. 2020-07-03.
  8. Web site: Dutch Charts > Jack Johnson. Dutch. dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien. 2010-06-14.
  9. Web site: New Zealand Charts > Jack Johnson. charts.nz Hung Medien. 2010-06-16.
  10. Web site: Swiss Charts > Jack Johnson. hitparade.ch Hung Medien. 2010-06-14.
  11. Peaks on the UK charts:
  12. Web site: Over the Counter -'On'; Indeed. Billboard. 51. May 24, 2003. American Radio History. April 12, 2020.
  13. United States. Jack Johnson. February 15, 2010.
  14. Australia. album. 2023. June 6, 2023.
  15. United Kingdom. Jack Johnson. June 15, 2024.
  16. New Zealand. album. 1246.
  17. Johnson Plans Biggest Road Trip Yet. Billboard. 15. April 23, 2005. Jil. Kipnis. April 12, 2020.
  18. Germany. Jack Johnson. June 1, 2023.
  19. Canada. Jack Johnson.
  20. New Zealand. album. 1290.
  21. Ireland. album. Platinum. 2. 2006.
  22. New Zealand. album. 1369.
  23. Web site: Jack Johnson Stays Genuine. USA Today. June 2, 2010. Edna. Gunderson. April 12, 2020.
  24. Ireland. album. Gold. 2008. October 27, 2013.
  25. New Zealand. album. 1484.
  26. Australia. Jack Johnson. album. 2013. December 28, 2021.
  27. New Zealand. album. 1602.
  28. Jack Johnson Scores Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200. Billboard. 2017-10-19.
  29. Web site: Drake's new album tops 'Billboard'. USA Today. October 2, 2013. April 12, 2020.
  30. Thomas Rhett Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Country's First of 2017. Billboard. 2017-10-19.
  31. Web site: Chartverfolgung / Johnson, Jack & Friends / Longplay. Musicline.de PhonoNet. German. 2010-06-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170923193838/http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Johnson%2CJack+%26+Friends/longplay. 2017-09-23. dead.
  32. Australia. 2006. album.
  33. News: ザ・エッセンシャルズ ジャック・ジョンソン. Oricon. 2018-09-03. ja-JP.
  34. Web site: FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, May 25, 2023 | Billboard Canada . FYI Music News . 2023-05-24 . 2023-05-25 .
  35. Web site: Some Live Songs EP. iTunes. 2010-06-15.
  36. Web site: Sessions@AOL EP. January 2005 . iTunes. 2010-06-15.
  37. Web site: From Here To Now To You Live EP. 22 April 2014 . iTunes. 2014-04-22.
  38. Jack Johnson Chart History: Hot 100. Billboard. May 23, 2020.
  39. Jack Johnson Chart History: Triple A. Billboard. May 23, 2020.
  40. Web site: Jack Johnson albums (Wallonie). . August 10, 2022 .
  41. Peaks on the Canada singles chart:
  42. Australia. 2023. single. June 8, 2023.
  43. News: Jack Johnson Unveils New Song, Talks Short Film and Tour. Rolling Stone. 2017-02-10. 2017-02-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20170210060352/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-johnson-unveils-new-song-short-film-tour-dates-w465932. dead.
  44. Web site: Jack Johnson - My Mind Is For Sale. ultratop.be. 2017-11-07.
  45. Jack Johnson Chart History. Billboard. 2018-05-26.
  46. Jack Johnson Chart History: Jazz Songs. Billboard. 2020-05-29.
  47. Jack Johnson Chart History. Billboard. 2018-05-26.
  48. Jack Johnson Chart History. Billboard. 2018-05-26.
  49. Web site: Jack Johnson – Washing Dishes. ultratop.be. 2018-09-02.
  50. Australia. Jack Johnson. video. 2005. December 18, 2021.