| Artist: | K'naan |
| Studio: | 4 |
| Live: | 1 |
| Ep: | 1 |
| Singles: | 22 |
| Option: | 4 |
| Option Name: | Mixtapes |
| 1Option: | 1 |
| 1Option Name: | Other appearances |
The discography of K'naan, a Somali Canadian rapper and singer, consists of four studio albums, one live album, one extended play and 22 singles (including eight as a featured performer and seven promotional releases).
| Album title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [1] | AUT [2] | FRA [3] | MEX [4] | SWI [5] | UK [6] | US [7] | US R&B/HH [8] | US Rap [9] | ||||||||||
| What Next? (as Keinaan) |
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| My Life Is a Movie |
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| The Dusty Foot Philosopher |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Troubadour |
| 7 | 15 | 163 | 67 | 9 | 147 | 32 | 33 | 12 | ||||||||
| Country, God or the Girl |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 129 | — | 13 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Album title | Album details | |
|---|---|---|
| The Dusty Foot on the Road | ||
| iTunes Live from Montreal |
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| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [13] | AUT [14] | GER [15] | IRL | ITA [16] | NLD [17] | NZ [18] | SWI [19] | UK [20] | US [21] | ||||||||
| 2008 | "ABCs" (featuring Chubb Rock) | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Troubadour | |||||
| 2009 | "Wavin' Flag" | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 99 | ||||||
| 2010 | "Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix)" | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 82 | ||||||
| "Take a Minute" | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Bang Bang" (featuring Adam Levine) | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 105 | — | |||||||
| 2012 | "Is Anybody Out There?" (featuring Nelly Furtado) | 14 | 7 | 11 | — | — | 15 | 1 | 20 | — | 92 | More Beautiful Than Silence | |||||
| "Nothing to Lose" (with Nas or with Nas and will.i.am) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Country, God or the Girl | ||||||
| "Hurt Me Tomorrow" | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | — | — |
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| 2023 | "Refugee" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||||||
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | Album | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | AUS | NLD | UK | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | "Til We Get There" (M-1 featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | Confidential | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | "Africa" (Amadou & Mariam featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | Welcome to Mali | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | "L'Arme de Paix" (Oxmo Puccino featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | L'Arme de Paix | ||||||||||||
| "Think of All the Things" (KRS-One & Buckshot featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | Survival Skills | |||||||||||||
| "TV in the Radio" (Wale featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | Attention Deficit | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | "In Jamaica" (Beatnick & K-Salaam featuring K'naan and Buckshot) | — | — | — | — | Beatnick & K-Salaam Present - Where The Streets Have No Name | ||||||||||||
| "Wavin' Flag" (with Young Artists for Haiti) | 1 | — | — | 89 | Non-album single | |||||||||||||
| "Stop for a Minute" (Keane featuring K'naan) | — | — | 35 | 40 | Night Train | |||||||||||||
| "Looking Back" (Keane featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "Tribes at War" / "Africa Must Wake Up" (Nas and Damian Marley featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | Distant Relatives | |||||||||||||
| "Tamatant Tilay / Exodus" (Herbie Hancock, Tinariwen, K'naan and Los Lobos) | — | — | — | — | The Imagine Project | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | "Hip Hop Nation" (KRS-One featuring K'naan, Lina and Frank Fitzpatrick) | — | — | — | — | Beat the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | ||||||||||||
| "Summer Paradise" (Simple Plan featuring K'naan) | 8 | 4 | 7 | 12 | Get Your Heart On! | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | "Mecca" (Howard Shore, Metric and K'naan) | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| "We OK" (The Very Best featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | MTMTMK | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | "Earth From Outer Space" (Michael Franti & Spearhead featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | All People | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | "Give It up Today (If We Ruled the World)" (Tara MaQ featuring K'naan, Tink and Yasiin Bey) | — | — | — | — | Chi-Star | ||||||||||||
| 2021 | "Waayo Waayo" (Sharma Boy featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | rowspan="2" | ||||||||||||
| "Somalia Somali Baa Leh" (Sharma Boy featuring K'naan) | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Song | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | "Soobax" | The Dusty Foot Philosopher | |
| "Strugglin'" | |||
| 2008 | "Dreamer" | Troubadour | |
| "Somalia" | |||
| 2009 | "I Come Prepared" (featuring Damian Marley) | ||
| "If Rap Gets Jealous" (featuring Kirk Hammett) | |||
| 2016 | "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" (with Snow tha Product, Riz MC and Resīdεntә) | The Hamilton Mixtape |
| "World Cry" | 2011 | Lloyd, R.Kelly, Keri Hilson | King of Hearts | [28] | |
| "With God On Our Side" | 2012 | Chimes of Freedom | [29] | ||
| "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" | 2016 | Snow tha Product, Riz MC, Resīdεntә | The Hamilton Mixtape | ||
| "Belly Full" (J.PERIOD Remix) | 2020 | J.PERIOD, Kardinal Offishall, Steele, Bajah | BEST OF J.PERIOD [VOL.2] | [30] |