Lonestar discography explained

Artist:Lonestar
Studio:12
Compilation:5
Ep:2
Singles:35
Music Videos:20

Lonestar is an American country music band founded in 1992 by Richie McDonald, John Rich, Keech Rainwater, Michael Britt and Dean Sams. The band has released 12 studio albums, five compilation albums, and 35 singles. Lonestar's first five releases for BNA Records are all certified Gold or higher by the RIAA, and their 2003 greatest hits album is certified Platinum. The band's highest-certified album is 1999's Lonely Grill at 3× Platinum. An eighth album, Party Heard Around the World, was released in April 2010. This was also the only album to feature lead singer Cody Collins, who replaced McDonald and served as lead vocalist from 2008 to 2011.

Lonestar has also charted 35 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Nine reached No. 1 on the Billboard country singles charts: "No News", "Come Cryin' to Me", "Amazed", "Smile", "What About Now", "Tell Her", "I'm Already There", "My Front Porch Looking In" and "Mr. Mom". "Amazed", the longest-lasting at eight weeks, was the No. 1 country song of 1999 according to the Billboard Year-End charts. It also became the first song to top the country singles charts and Billboard Hot 100 charts since Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' "Islands in the Stream" in 1983. All of the band's No. 1 hits except "No News" have also been Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, as have "Not a Day Goes By" and "Let's Be Us Again", which respectively reached No. 3 and No. 4 on the country charts. Both "Amazed" and "I'm Already There" reached No. 2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, and the former was a No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart. "Amazed", "I'm Already There", "My Front Porch Looking In" and "Mr. Mom" are all certified as gold singles by the RIAA.

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN Country
[3]
UK
[4]
Lonestar
  • Release date: October 10, 1995
  • Label: BNA
11692
Crazy Nights
  • Release date: June 17, 1997
  • Label: BNA
1616628
  • RIAA: Gold
  • MC: Gold
Lonely Grill
  • Release date: June 1, 1999
  • Label: BNA
328280
  • RIAA: 3× Platinum
  • MC: 3× Platinum
This Christmas Time
  • Release date: September 12, 2000
  • Label: BNA
1195
I'm Already There
  • Release date: June 19, 2001
  • Label: BNA
19149
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • MC: Gold
Let's Be Us Again
  • Release date: May 25, 2004
  • Label: BNA
214
  • RIAA: Gold
Coming Home
  • Release date: September 13, 2005
  • Label: BNA
326
Mountains
  • Release date: October 17, 2006
  • Label: BNA
1037
My Christmas List
Party Heard Around the World
  • Release date: April 27, 2010
  • Label: Saguaro Road
20103
Life as We Know It
  • Release date: June 4, 2013
  • Label: 4 Star
33148
Never Enders
  • Release date: April 29, 2016
  • Label: Shanachie
48
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
US
  • Release date: June 3, 2003
  • Label: BNA
17
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • MC: Gold
16 Biggest Hits
  • Release date: September 12, 2006
  • Label: BNA / Legacy
Super Hits
  • Release date: September 25, 2007
  • Label: Sony BMG Special Markets
Playlist: The Very Best of Lonestar
  • Release date: June 17, 2008
  • Label: BNA / Legacy
73
Country: Lonestar
  • Release date: 2013
  • Label: Legacy
75
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Extended plays

TitleAlbum details
Lonestar Live
Simply the Hits
  • Release date: April 19, 2011
  • Label: Saguaro Road

Singles

1990s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US Country
[7]
US
[8]
US AC
[9]
US Adult Pop
[10]
CAN Country
[11]
CAN
[12]
UK
1995"Tequila Talkin'"811Lonestar
1996"No News"11
"Runnin' Away with My Heart"89
"When Cowboys Didn't Dance"4518
"Heartbroke Every Day"1822
1997"Come Cryin' to Me"13Crazy Nights
"You Walked In"12934
1998"Say When"1323
"Everything's Changed"2953
1999"Saturday Night"47Lonely Grill
"Amazed"11271721
"Smile"139155
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US Country
US
US AC
US Adult Pop
UK
2000"What About Now"130Lonely Grill
"Tell Her"139
2001"I'm Already There"12422981
  • RIAA: Gold
I'm Already There
"With Me"1063
2002"Not a Day Goes By"336
"Unusually Unusual"1266
2003"My Front Porch Looking In"123
  • RIAA: Gold
From There to Here: Greatest Hits
"Walking in Memphis"861
2004"Let's Be Us Again"438Let's Be Us Again
"Mr. Mom"133
  • RIAA: Gold
2005"Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us)"1697
"You're Like Comin' Home"863Coming Home
2006"I'll Die Tryin'"43
"Mountains"1077Mountains
2007"Nothing to Prove"51
2008"Let Me Love You"50Party Heard Around the World
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2010s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
US Country Airplay
[14]
2010"You're the Reason Why"Party Heard Around the World
2012"The Countdown"52Life as We Know It
2013"Maybe Someday"56
"Party All Day"
2014"Just the Rain"
"Pretty Good Day"
2016"Never Enders"Never Enders
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

As a featured artist

Other charted songs

The following songs charted on the Hot Country Songs charts from unsolicited airplay.

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
US Country
1997"I'll Be Home for Christmas"75Country Cares for Kids
1999"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (re-entry)59
"All My Love for Christmas"61Country Christmas Classics
2000"Winter Wonderland"72This Christmas Time
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"71
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"67
"The Little Drummer Boy"46
2004"Somebody's Someone"53Let's Be Us Again

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
1996"No News"Deaton-Flanigen
"When Cowboys Didn't Dance"
1997"You Walked In"
"Come Cryin' to Me"Roger Pistole
1998"Everything's Changed"Steven T. Miller/R. Brad Murano
1999"Amazed"Trey Fanjoy
"Smile"
2001"I'm Already There"Michael Salomon
"America the Beautiful"Marc Ball
"With Me"Keech Rainwater
2002"Not a Day Goes By"Lawrence Carroll
2003"My Front Porch Looking In"Trey Fanjoy
"Walking in Memphis"Milton Lage
2004"Mr. Mom"Roman White
2005"You're Like Comin' Home"Trey Fanjoy
2006"Mountains"Kristin Barlowe
2008"Let Me Love You"Glenn Sweitzer
2013"Maybe Someday"[15] Lonestar
2014"Just the Rain"[16] Jacob Moyer
2016"Never Enders"

Notes and References

  1. Lonestar Chart History: Top Country Albums . . October 16, 2020.
  2. Lonestar Chart History: Billboard 200 . . October 16, 2020.
  3. Web site: Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Country Albums/CDs . . 17 July 2013 . . October 16, 2020.
  4. Peaks in the UK:
  5. https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Lonestar%20&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50 RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Lonestar
  6. http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php CRIA search results for Lonestar
  7. Lonestar Chart History: Hot Country Songs . . October 16, 2020.
  8. Lonestar Chart History: Hot 100 . . October 16, 2020.
  9. Lonestar Chart History: Adult Contemporary . . October 16, 2020.
  10. Lonestar Chart History: Adult Pop Songs . . October 16, 2020.
  11. Web site: Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Country Singles . . 17 July 2013 . . October 16, 2020.
  12. Web site: Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Top Singles . . 17 July 2013 . . October 16, 2020.
  13. Web site: RIAA - Gold & Platinum - April 25, 2010: Lonestar certified singles. Recording Industry Association of America. 2010-04-25.
  14. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lonestar|chart=Country Airplay}} Lonestar Album & Song Chart History - Country Airplay]. Billboard. November 8, 2012.
  15. Web site: CMT : Videos : Lonestar : Maybe Someday. https://web.archive.org/web/20130417062748/http://www.cmt.com/videos/lonestar/899152/maybe-someday.jhtml. dead. April 17, 2013. Country Music Television. April 13, 2013.
  16. News: Geller. Wendy. See It First! Lonestar's Back Stronger Than Ever With 'Just The Rain'. June 9, 2014. Yahoo! Music. May 21, 2014.