John Anderson discography explained

Artist:John Anderson
Studio:22
Compilation:10
Singles:68
Music Videos:25
Option:6
Option Name:
  1. 1 Singles

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

1980s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN Country
[3]
John Anderson 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
358
All the People are Talkin'
  • Release date: September 1983
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
9163
Eye of a Hurricane
  • Release date: June 18, 1984
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
316
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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
US
CAN Country
Seminole Wind
  • Release date: February 10, 1992
  • Label: BNA Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
103511
Solid Ground
  • Release date: June 22, 1993
  • Label: BNA Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
127513
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 19138
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s–2020s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
US Country
US
Nobody's Got It All 64
Easy Money
  • Release date: May 15, 2007
  • Label: Warner Bros./Raybaw
  • Formats: CD, music download
36170
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

TitleAlbum detailsPeak positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
28
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 65
The Ultimate Hits
  • Release date: October 19, 2004
  • Label: Audium/Koch Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1970s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[9]
CAN Country
[10]
1975"Swoop Down Sweet Jesus"rowspan="4"
1976"What Did I Promise Her Last Night"
1977"I've Got a Feelin' (Somebody's Been Stealin')"62
1978"Whine, Whistle, Whine"69
"The Girl at the End of the Bar"40John Anderson
1979"My Pledge of Love"41
"Low Dog Blues"31John Anderson
"Your Lying Blue Eyes"1539
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
[11]
CAN Country
1980"She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs"1360John Anderson
"If There Were No Memories"21
"1959"74
1981"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal
(But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)
"
42John Anderson 2
"Chicken Truck"8
"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"75I Just Came Home to Count the Memories
1982"Would You Catch a Falling Star"615
"Wild and Blue"115Wild & Blue
1983"Swingin'"1434
"Goin' Down Hill"57
"Black Sheep"11All the People Are Talkin
1984"Let Somebody Else Drive"1010
"I Wish I Could Write You a Song"1412Eye of a Hurricane
"She Sure Got Away with My Heart"34
"Eye of a Hurricane"2017
1985"It's All Over Now"1518Tokyo, Oklahoma
"Tokyo, Oklahoma"3033
"Down in Tennessee"1235
1986"You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down"3148
"Honky Tonk Crowd"107Countrified
"Countrified"4431
1987"What's So Different About You"55
"When Your Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue"48Blue Skies Again
"Somewhere Between Ragged and Right"
2335
1988"It's Hard to Keep This Ship Together"65
"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"3510
"Down in the Orange Grove"68
1989"Lower on the Hog"73
"Who's Lovin' My Baby"66Too Tough to Tame
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US Bubbling
[12]
CAN Country
1990"Tryin' to Make a Livin' on the Road"88Too Tough to Tame
1991"Who Got Our Love"67Seminole Wind
"Straight Tequila Night"11
1992"When It Comes to You"32
"Seminole Wind"21
"Let Go of the Stone"711
1993"Money in the Bank"11Solid Ground
"I Fell in the Water"1322
"I've Got It Made"319
1994"I Wish I Could Have Been There"421
"Country 'Til I Die"3531Country 'Til I Die
"Bend It Until It Breaks"328
1995"Mississippi Moon"1511
"Paradise"2621Paradise
1996"Long Hard Lesson Learned"5171
"My Kind of Crazy"67
1997"Somebody Slap Me"221535Takin' the Country Back
"Small Town"44
1998"Takin' the Country Back"4169
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s–2020s

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

Other singles

Featured singles

YearSingleArtistAlbum
1994"Amazing Grace"The Maverick ChoirMaverick (soundtrack)
2007"Get Thee Behind Me Satan"Billy Joe ShaverEverybody's Brother
2016"Trashy Women (20th Anniversary)"Confederate Railroad (feat. Willie Nelson & Colt Ford)Lucky to Be Alive

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
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"
"Let Go of the Stone"Michael Salomon
"Seminole Wind"Jim Shea
1993"Money in the Bank"
"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"
"Small Town"
1998"Takin' the Country Back"
2000"Nobody's Got It All"
2007"A Woman Knows"
"Get Thee Behind Me Satan" (with Billy Joe Shaver)The Brads
2013"Swingin'" (with Colt Ford)[15] Potsy Ponciroli
"I'll Fly Away" (with Paul Brandt)Joel Stewart
2020"Years"Josh Bishop
"Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
(ft. Blake Shelton)
Tim Hardiman
2021"No Country Music for Old Men"
(ft. The Bellamy Brothers)
Derrek Kupish

Notes and References

  1. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=john anderson|chart=Country Albums C}} John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. July 11, 2011.
  2. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=john anderson|chart=Billboard 200}} John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. July 11, 2011.
  3. Web site: Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Albums/CDs. RPM. July 11, 2011.
  4. United States. album. Wild & Blue. John Anderson.
  5. United States. album. Seminole Wind. John Anderson.
  6. Canada. album. Seminole Wind. John Anderson.
  7. United States. album. Solid Ground. John Anderson.
  8. United States. album. Greatest Hits. John Anderson.
  9. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=john anderson|chart=Country Songs}} John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. October 20, 2011.
  10. Web site: Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles. RPM. October 20, 2011.
  11. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=john anderson|chart=Hot 100}} John Anderson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. October 20, 2011.
  12. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  13. Web site: Going for Adds. Radio & Records. May 25, 2001.
  14. News: Stephenson. Troy. John Anderson Finds His 'Goldmine'. April 23, 2015. MusicRow. April 23, 2015.
  15. News: Bjorke . Matt . Video: John Anderson & Colt Ford Remake Swingin' for "Super Zeroes" film . May 22, 2013 . Roughstock . January 29, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130307093255/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/video-john-anderson-colt-ford-remake-swingin-for-super-zeroes-film . March 7, 2013 .