Rick Springfield discography explained

Artist:Rick Springfield
Studio:22
Soundtrack:2
Live:5
Compilation:12
Singles:34
Music Videos:11
Option:1
Option Name:No. 1 singles (US)

The discography of Australian rock musician Rick Springfield consists of 22 studio albums, 12 compilation albums, five live albums, 34 singles and 11 music videos. In 1995, Springfield formed a side-project, Sahara Snow, with Tim Pierce on guitar and Bob Marlette on keyboards and percussion, which released a self-titled studio album in 1997.[1] In 2021, he formed a similar side project with the Red Locusts.

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
[2]
CANUS
[3]
Beginnings 15 23 35
Comic Book Heroes
  • Released: 17 September 1973
  • Label: Wizard (ZL-201), Capitol (SMAS-11206), Columbia (KC-32704)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
54
Mission Magic!
  • Released: 15 July 1974
  • Label: Wizard (ZL-205)
  • Format: LP (No US release)
97
Wait for Night
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Chelsea (CHL 515, CHL 5005), RCA (AFL1-4235) (1982 reissue)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
159
Working Class Dog
  • Released: 14 February 1981
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-3697, RCA LP 6014, RCA K 6014)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
33 33 7

2× Platinum[4]

Platinum[5]

Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
  • Released: 23 March 1982
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-4125, RCA LP 6033, RCA K 6033)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
28 6 2
  • MC: Platinum
  • RIAA: Platinum
Living in Oz
  • Released: 18 July 1983
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-4660, RCA PL 84660, RCA PK 84660)
  • Format: LP, Cassette
45 20 12
  • MC: Gold
  • RIAA: Platinum
Hard to Hold
  • Released: 23 July 1984
  • Label: RCA (RCA ABL1-4935, RCA BL 84935)
  • Format: LP, Cassette
87 29 16
  • MC: Gold
  • RIAA: Platinum
Beautiful Feelings
  • Released: October 1984
  • Label: Mercury (824 107-1, 824 107-4)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
78
Tao
  • Released: May 1985
  • Label: RCA (AJL1-5370, RCA PL 85370)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
85 50 21
  • RIAA: Gold
Rock of Life
  • Released: February 1988
  • Label: RCA (RCA 6620-1-R, RCA 6620-4-R, RCA 6620-2-R)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
66 55
Karma
  • Released: 13 April 1999
  • Label: Platinum Entertainment (15095 9561 2), Victor (60519)
  • Format: Cassette, CD
189
Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
  • Released: 24 February 2004
  • Label: Gomer (99999-2)
  • Format: CD
The Day After Yesterday
  • Released: 12 July 2005
  • Label: Gomer (4812002)
  • Format: CD
197
Christmas with You
  • Released: 6 November 2007
  • Label: Compass (43737)
  • Format: CD
Venus in Overdrive
  • Released: 29 July 2008
  • Label: New Door (B0011347-02)
  • Format: CD
28
  • Released: 10 March 2009
  • Label: Gomer
  • Format: CD
Songs for the End of the World
  • Released: 9 October 2012
  • Label: Hip-O
  • Format: CD
44
Rocket Science[6]
  • Released: 19 February 2016
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: CD
69
The Snake King
  • Released: 26 January 2018
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: LP, CD
Orchestrating My Life
  • Released: 26 April 2019
  • Label: August Day
  • Format: CD
Springfield
  • Released: 12 May 2023
  • Label: Iconoclassic, Columbia
  • Format: CD
Automatic
  • Released: 4 August 2023
  • Label: SongVest
  • Format: LP, CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

With Sahara Snow

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Album details
Sahara Snow

With The Red Locusts

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Album details
The Red Locusts[7] [8]
  • Released: 26 March 2021
  • Label: Lolipop
  • Format: LP, CD

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums! Title! Album details
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: RCA (RCA 9817-1-R, RCA 9817-4-R RCA 9817-2-R)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
Best Of
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Camden (74321 431602)
  • Format: CD
Rick Springfield (The Encore Collection)
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: BMG Special Products
  • Format: CD
The Best of Rick Springfield
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: RCA (07863 67797-2)
  • Format: CD
Anthology (Australia only)
  • Released: 5 April 1999
  • Label: BMG International
  • Format: CD
VH1 Behind the Music: The Rick Springfield Collection
  • Released: 12 September 2000
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
The Best of Rick Springfield
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Camden (828765 33422)
  • Format: CD
Platinum & Gold Collection: Rick Springfield (2003)Collections (2006)
  • Released: 19 August 2003
  • Re-released with 'Collections' title: 8 May 2006
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
Written in Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology (2005)The Essential Rick Springfield (2011)
  • Released: 25 April 2005
  • Re-released with 'Essential' title: 15 March 2011
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
We Are the '80s (2006) (2008)
  • Released: 18 July 2006
  • Re-released with 'Playlist' title: 8 July 2008
  • Label: RCA/Legacy
  • Format: CD
The Early Sound City Sessions
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Voiceprint / Sonic Past Music
  • Format: CD
Super Hits
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Format: CD
From the Vault
  • Credited to Rick Springfield, Jeff Silverman
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: CD

Live albums

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Album details
The Greatest Hits...Alive
  • Released: 30 January 2001
  • Label: Hip-O
  • Format: CD
Live in Rockford
  • Released: 24 October 2006
  • Label: Gomer
  • Format: DVD
Live and Kickin
  • Released: 2 May 2008
  • Label: Golden Core
  • Format: CD
Stripped Down[9]
  • Released: 24 February 2015
  • Label: Loud & Proud
  • Format: CD/DVD
Orchestrating My Life: Live
  • Released: 14 February 2021
  • Label: August Day
  • Format: CD, digital download

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
AUS
[10]
CANCAN ACUK
[11]
US
[12]
US
AC

[13]
US
Main.

[14]
GER
"Speak to the Sky"19716 10 8 14 16 Beginnings
"Hooky Jo"197216
"What Would the Children Think?"38 4 70
"I'm Your Superman"1973Comic Book Heroes
"Believe in Me"62
"Streaking the Australian Way"1974Non-album single
"Mission Magic"Mission Magic!
"American Girls"74 98 Non-album single
"Take a Hand"197656 41 Wait for Night
"Million Dollar Face"
"Jessica"
"Treat Me Gently in the Morning"1977
"Archangel"1979
"Bruce"1980Non-album single
"Jessie's Girl"19811 6 43 1 10
  • BPI: Platinum[15]
  • MC: Gold
  • RIAA: Gold
Working Class Dog
"I've Done Everything for You"31 40 19 8
"Love Is Alright Tonite"26 20 40
"Don't Talk to Strangers"198210 3 3 2 11 Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
"Calling All Girls"4
"What Kind of Fool Am I"41 21
"I Get Excited"42 32
"Affair of the Heart"198326 11 9 23 Living in Oz
"Human Touch"92 23 18 34
"Me & Johnny"
"Souls"23
"Love Somebody"198483 13 95 5 13 23Hard to Hold
"Don't Walk Away"26 41
"Bop 'Til You Drop"70 20
"Taxi Dancing (Duet with Randy Crawford)/[B-side of "Bop 'Til You Drop"]"15 59 16
"Bruce" [Re-release]27 Beautiful Feelings
"Celebrate Youth"198539 80 26 5Tao
"State of the Heart"75 145 22 44
"Dance This World Away" [France, Germany, Japan only]
"Rock of Life"198892 28 83 22 45 Rock of Life
"Honeymoon in Beirut"
"It's Always Something"199934 Karma
"Beautiful You"200428 Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
"Broken Wings"200529 The Day After Yesterday
"What's Victoria's Secret"2008Venus in Overdrive
"I Hate Myself"[16] 2012Songs for the End of the World
"Light This Party Up"[17] 2016Rocket Science
"Down"[18]
"Little Demon"[19] 2017The Snake King
"In the Land of the Blind"[20]
"Jessie's Girl"2019Orchestrating My Life
"Automatic"2023Automatic
"She Walks With the Angels"
"Exit Wound"
"Love Ain't Cool (Sha Doo Wup)"
"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

Other appearances

YearSongAlbum
1994"Jessie's Girl" [Live Version]Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume IV[21]
2013"The Man That Never Was" with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear

Notes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130829174416/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/s/saharasnow.html . Sahara Snow . Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) . Holmgren . Magnus . Sanders . Tiffany . 29 August 2013 . 2 March 2014.
  2. Web site: ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Albums Pre-1989, Part 2 . Ryan (bulion) . Gavin . Australian Charts Portal . Hung Medien . 28 July 2011.
  3. Web site: Rick Springfield Chart History: Billboard 200 . Billboard. 13 October 2021.
  4. Canada. Rick Springfield. 13 September 2022.
  5. United States. Rick Springfield. 13 September 2022.
  6. Web site: Rocket Science. Amazon. 2017.
  7. Web site: Limited Edition Vinyl - The Red Locusts . Rick Springfield Merchandise . 22 June 2021.
  8. Web site: THE RED LOCUSTS - "S/T" (CD). 2021-08-10. Lolipop Records. en.
  9. Web site: Stripped Down (Live) by Rick Springfield. iTunes.
  10. Book: Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . Kent . David . David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book Ltd . . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6 . Kent Music Report . Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  11. Book: Roberts, David . 2006 . British Hit Singles & Albums . 19th . Guinness World Records Limited . London . 1-904994-10-5 . 521–522 .
  12. Web site: Rick Springfield Chart History: Hot 100 . . 13 October 2021.
  13. Web site: Rick Springfield Chart History: Adult Contemporary . . 13 October 2021.
  14. Web site: Rick Springfield Chart History: Mainstream Rock . . 13 October 2021.
  15. United Kingdom. Rick Springfield. 9 June 2024.
  16. Web site: Rick Springfield brings 'Human Touch' to Joe's Bar. ...the new single “I Hate Myself”.
  17. Web site: Rocket Science - New Album! - Rick Springfield. .. the rollicking first single “Light This Party Up,”.
  18. Web site: Rick Springfield Debuts Music Video for 'Down'. ABC News. ..they might also want to familiarize themselves with his new single "Down".
  19. Web site: Rick Springfield's Got The Blues on New Album 'The Snake King'. ...an immediate download of leadoff single "Little Demon".
  20. Web site: Rick Springfield New Video 'In The Land Of The Blind'. Songs such as ‘In The Land Of The Blind’ (released as a single).... February 2018.
  21. Web site: Grammy's Greatest Moments, Volume IV . Amazon . 2011-11-23.
  22. Book: McFarlane . Ian . Ian McFarlane . Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop . Encyclopedia entry for 'Rick Springfield' . https://web.archive.org/web/20040803183000/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=403 . http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=403 . 3 August 2004 . 21 July 2011 . 1999 . . . 1-86508-072-1 . dead . Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop .
  23. Web site: Springfield 1974 Unreleased Album. Rick Springfield.