Lynyrd Skynyrd discography explained

Artist:Lynyrd Skynyrd
Studio:14
Live:6
Compilation:23
Video:5
Singles:29

Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band originally formed in 1966, later named after the guitarist Gary Rossington's high school gym teacher Leonard Skinner. The band has released many studio, live, and other albums, along with several singles and video discs.

The band has sold 28 million albums in the US since 1991 when Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales, not including album sales for the band's first 17 years.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

YearAlbum informationPeak chart positionCertifications
US
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[4]
FIN
[5]
FRA
[6]
GER
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
SWI
[10]
UK
[11]
1973(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) 2747

Silver[12]

2× Platinum[13]

1974Second Helping
  • Released: April 15, 1974
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
129
  • US: 2× Platinum
1975Nuthin' Fancy
  • Released: March 24, 1975
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
9911743
  • US: Platinum
1976Gimme Back My Bullets
  • Released: February 2, 1976
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
2015034
  • US: Gold
1977Street Survivors
  • Released: October 17, 1977
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
568313
1991Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 643944
1993The Last Rebel
  • Released: February 16, 1993
  • Label: Atlantic Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
6423803318
1994Endangered Species
  • Released: August 9, 1994
  • Label: Capricorn Records
  • Formats: CD, LP
115
1997Twenty
  • Released: April 29, 1997
  • Label: CMC International
  • Formats: CD
97127036
1999Edge of Forever
  • Released: August 10, 1999
  • Label: SPV
  • Formats: CD
961947
2000Christmas Time Again
  • Released: September 12, 2000
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • Formats: CD
2003Vicious Cycle 303015044
2009God & Guns 18266437383836
2012Last of a Dyin' Breed 1410551412181383
"—" denotes albums that were released but did not chart.

Live albums

YearAlbum informationPeak chart positionCertifications
US
AUS
CAN
FIN
FRA
GER
NOR
SWE
SWI
UK
1976One More from the Road
  • Released: September 13, 1976
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: 2 LP
9794917
  • CAN: Gold
  • UK: Silver
  • US: 3× Platinum
1988Southern by the Grace of God
  • Released: March 21, 1988
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
68
1996Southern Knights
  • Released: July 1, 1996
  • Label: SPV
  • Formats: 2 CD
1998Lyve from Steel Town
  • Released: June 2, 1998
  • Label: SPV
  • Formats: 2 CD
  • US: Gold
2004
  • Released: June 22, 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • Formats: 2 CD
2009Authorized Bootleg Lynyrd Skynyrd Live / Cardiff Capitol Theatre – Cardiff, Wales Nov. 04 1975
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Geffen Records
  • Formats: CD
2009Authorized Bootleg: Live at Winterland – San Francisco Mar. 07 1976
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Geffen Records
  • Formats: CD
2010Live from Freedom Hall
  • Released: June 22, 2010
  • Label: Roadrunner Records
  • Formats: CD
17574
2015One More for the Fans
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: Loud & Proud Records
  • Formats: 2 CD (also available on DVD)
81
2015Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd & Second Helping – Live from Jacksonville at the Florida Theatre
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: Eagle Records
  • Formats: 2 CD
2018Live In Atlantic City
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: Ear Music
  • Formats: CD
2019The Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Curtis Loew Records
  • Formats: 2-CD
121
[15]
2021Live at Knebworth '76
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: Eagle Records
  • Formats: 2 LP/CD
187
"—" denotes albums that were released but did not chart.

Compilation albums

YearAlbum informationPeak chart positionCertifications
US
AUS
CAN
FIN
FRA
GER
NOR
SWE
SWI
UK
1978Skynyrd's First and... Last
  • Released: September 5, 1978
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP
15893550
  • US: Platinum
1979Gold & Platinum
  • Released: December 1979
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP,CD
125649
  • UK: Silver
  • US: 3× Platinum
1982Best of the Rest
  • Released: 1982 (LP), October 25, 1990 (CD)
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP (1982), CD (1990)
171
1987Legend
  • Released: October 5, 1987
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, Cassette
41
  • US: Gold
1989Skynyrd's Innyrds
  • Released: April 30, 1989
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, Cassette

Gold:[16]

  • US: 5× Platinum
1991Lynyrd Skynyrd (Box Set)
  • Released: November 12, 1991
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
  • US: Gold
1993A Retrospective
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
1997What's Your Name
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
  • US: Platinum
1997Old Time Greats
1998Extended Versions: The Encore Collection
  • Released: 1998[17]
  • Label:
  • Formats: CD
  • US: Gold
The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Released: August 25, 1998
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
  • UK: Silver
  • US: Platinum
Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
  • Released: November 17, 1998
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
199920th Century Masters
  • Released: March 9, 1999
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
60
  • US: 2× Platinum
Solo Flytes
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
2000All Time Greatest Hits
  • Released: March 14, 2000
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
76
  • US: Platinum
Collectybles
  • Released: November 21, 2000
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
Then and Now
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
2001Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Collection
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: CD
  • UK: Gold
2003Thyrty
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
16
  • US: Platinum
2005Greatest Hits (first of that name)
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
47
Then and Now Volume Two
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
2008Greatest Hits (second of that name)
  • Released: August 18, 2008
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
2916
  • UK: Gold
2010Icon
  • Released: August 31, 2010
  • Label: Geffen/UMe
  • Formats: CD
138
  • US: Gold
2017The Broadcast Archive «3 CD set» (Radio Broadcast 1975/1994)[18]
  • Released: June 2, 2017
  • Label: The Broadcast Archive
  • Formats: CD (triple)
"—" denotes albums that were released but did not chart.

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionCertificationsAlbum
US
US
Main

CAN
[19]
AUT
[20]
SWI
UK
1973"Gimme Three Steps" / "Mr. Banker" (demo)(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
1974"Don't Ask Me No Questions" (remix) / "Take Your Time" (demo)Second Helping
"Sweet Home Alabama" / "Take Your Time" (demo)86565131
  • RIAA: Gold
  • BPI: 2× Platinum
"Free Bird" / "Down South Jukin'" (demo)194721
  • BPI: Platinum
(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
1975"Saturday Night Special" / "Made in the Shade"2763Nuthin' Fancy
1976"Double Trouble" / "Roll Gypsy Roll"80Gimme Back My Bullets
"Gimme Back My Bullets" / "All I Can Do Is Write About It"
"Gimme Three Steps" (live) / "Travelin' Man" (live)One More from the Road
"Free Bird" (live) / "Searchin'" (live)38
1977"What's Your Name?" / "I Know a Little"136Street Survivors
"That Smell"
1978"You Got That Right" / "Ain't No Good Life"6963
"Down South Jukin'" / "Wino"Skynyrd's First and... Last
1987"Truck Drivin' Man"12Non-album singles
1988"Swamp Music"16
1991"Smokestack Lightning"277Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991
"Keeping the Faith"10
1993"Good Lovin's Hard to Find"6The Last Rebel
"Born to Run"37
1997"Travelin' Man"22Twenty
"Bring It On"33
1999"Preacher Man"26Edge of Forever
2003"Red White & Blue (Love It or Leave)"27Vicious Cycle
2009"Still Unbroken"40God & Guns
"Simple Life"
2010"Skynyrd Nation"
"That Ain't My America"
2012"Last of a Dyin' Breed"Last of a Dyin' Breed
2020"Last of the Street Survivors"TBD
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.

Videography

YearTitleCertification
1988Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour
  • Released: April 1988
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: VHS
  • RIAA: Gold
1996Freebird... The Movie
  • Released: August 13, 1996
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: VHS
1998Lyve from Steel Town
  • Released: June 2, 1998
  • Label: CMC International
  • Formats: VHS
  • RIAA: Gold
2004
  • Released: June 22, 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • Formats: DVD
  • RIAA: Gold
2007Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live from Austin, TX
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • Formats: DVD
  • RIAA: Gold
2015Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd & Second Helping Live from Jacksonville at the Florida Theatre
  • Released: October 23, 2015
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: DVD/Blu-ray
2019The Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour
  • Released: December 5, 2019
  • Label: Curtis Loew Records
  • Formats: DVD/Blu-ray

Notes and References

  1. News: Chart Watch: Eminem Returns to #1, Gaga Sinks to #8 . Grein . Paul . Yahoo Music . November 27, 2013 . November 27, 2013.
  2. Artist Chart History – Lynyrd Skynyrd. Billboard. February 19, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20160415210718/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynyrd-skynyrd-mn0000170369/awards. April 15, 2016.
  3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 183.
  4. Canadian Charts. RPM. March 7, 2008.
  5. Web site: Finnish Album Chart. finnishcharts.com. June 24, 2008 .
  6. Web site: French Album Chart. lescharts.com. June 24, 2008 .
  7. Web site: Chartverfolgung / LYNYRD SKYNYRD / Longplay. musicline.de. June 24, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193722/http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Lynyrd+Skynyrd/?type=longplay. March 3, 2016. dead.
  8. Web site: Norwegian Album Chart. norwegiancharts. June 24, 2008 .
  9. Web site: Swedish Album Chart. swedishcharts.com. June 24, 2008 .
  10. Web site: Swiss Album Chart. Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade. June 24, 2008 .
  11. Web site: British Album/Single Chart . . June 24, 2008.
  12. United Kingdom. Lynyrd Skynyrd. June 30, 2024.
  13. United States. Lynyrd Skynyrd. June 30, 2024.
  14. "Certified Lnyrd Sknyrd Awards
  15. Billboard 200: April 18, 2020. Billboard. April 14, 2020.
  16. Australia. Lynyrd Skynyrd. album. 2007. December 28, 2021.
  17. Web site: Extended Versions: The Encore Collection. rateyourmusic.com. December 13, 2011.
  18. Web site: The Broadcast Archive Radio Broadcast 1975/1994 . June 2017 . amazon.co.uk . June 18, 2017.
  19. Web site: Canada Singles Chart. RPM Canada. March 18, 2010.
  20. Web site: Sweet Home Alabama Chart positions. austriancharts.at. February 19, 2008.