Steve Miller Band discography explained

Artist:Steve Miller Band
Studio:18
Live:6
Compilation:11
Video:3
Singles:30

The discography of American rock group Steve Miller Band is composed of 18 studio albums (including one solo album by Steve Miller), six live albums, 11 compilation albums, three video albums and 30 singles.

Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues rock band in San Francisco. They went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker and the song of the same name in late 1973, followed by the band's two most successful studio albums in 1976 and 1977, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. In 1978, they released their biggest selling album in North America, Greatest Hits 1974–78, which has been certified 13× Platinum in the United States and diamond in Canada. Although the 1981 release Circle of Love was less successful than the two preceding studio albums, the popularity of 1982's Abracadabra, which included the worldwide hit single of the same name, more than made up for it. The band's studio releases became more infrequent at this point, with the biggest gap in albums being between 1993's Wide River and 2010's Bingo!. Their most recent studio album is 2011's Let Your Hair Down.

The band's releases have been most successful in North America: two number-one albums in Canada, three number one singles in the United States, two number one singles in Canada, three multi-platinum awards in the United States, and selling over 24 million albums in the United States alone. The band's most successful singles have been "The Joker", which peaked in the top 10 of the trade charts of six countries—reaching number one in four, and "Abracadabra", which made the top 10 in five countries—and number one in two countries. Of the band's albums, 12 have reached the top 40 in the United States and seven have done the same in Canada.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
US
R&B
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
GER
[4]
NLD
[5]
NZ
[6]
SWE
[7]
UK
[8]
Children of the Future
  • Released: June 1968
  • Label: Capitol (SKAO-2920)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
134
Sailor
  • Released: October 1968
  • Label: Capitol (ST-2984)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
  • Re-issued in 1973 as Living in the U.S.A.
2427
Brave New World
  • Released: June 16, 1969
  • Label: Capitol (SKAO-184)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
2238
Your Saving Grace
  • Released: November 1969
  • Label: Capitol (SKAO/4XT/8XT-331)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette/
3879
Number 5
  • Released: July 1970
  • Label: Capitol (SKAO-436)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
2355
Rock Love
  • Released: September 1971
  • Label: Capitol (SW-748)
  • Format: LP (Live & Studio)/8-track/Cassette
82
Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden
  • Released: March 1972
  • Label: Capitol (SMAS-11022)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
109
The Joker
  • Released: October 19, 1973
  • Label: Capitol (SMAS/4XW/8XW-11235)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
2381

Platinum[9]

Fly Like an Eagle
  • Released: May 14, 1976
  • Label: Capitol (ST/8XT-11497)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
3192542071611

2× Platinum[10]

Gold[11]

  • US: 4× Platinum
Book of Dreams
  • Released: May 1977
  • Label: Capitol (SW/4XW/8XW-11630)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
26113451112
  • CAN: Platinum
  • UK: Silver
  • US: 3× Platinum
Circle of Love
  • Released: October 23, 1981
  • Label: Capitol (ST/4XT-12121)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
264827143835
  • CAN: Gold
  • US: Gold
Abracadabra
  • Released: June 15, 1982
  • Label: Capitol (ST/4XT-12216)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette
3405411147310
  • US: Platinum
  • AUS: Platinum[12]
  • CAN: Platinum
  • UK: Silver
Italian X Rays
  • Released: November 1984
  • Label: Capitol (SJ/4XJ-12339)
  • Format: LP/Cassette
1068849
Living in the 20th Century
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Capitol (PJ-12445/CDP 7 46326 2)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD
6534
Born 2 B Blue
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Capitol (C1-18303)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD
10895
Wide River
  • Released: June 8, 1993
  • Label: Polydor (519 441–2)
  • Format: Cassette/CD
8581
Bingo!
  • Released: June 15, 2010
  • Label: Roadrunner (1686-177592)
  • Format: CD
376870
Let Your Hair Down
  • Released: April 19, 2011
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Format: CD
18977
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Title! rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positions
US
AUS
CAN
GER
NLD
UK
Steve Miller Band Live!
  • Released: April 1983
  • Label: Capitol (ST/4XT-12263)
  • Format: LP/Cassette
1257489654079
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents the Steve Miller Band
Extended Versions
  • Released: April 1, 2003
  • Label: BMG (45962)
  • Format: CD
Steve Miller Band: Live from Chicago
  • Released: May 27, 2008
  • Label: Coming Home Media
  • Format: Double DVD plus CD
The Joker (Live)
  • Released: May 15, 2014
  • Label: Sailor
  • Format: CD/Digital download
Live at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, April 1968
  • Released: September 8, 2014
  • Label: Sailor
  • Format: Digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Title! rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
AUS
NLD
NZ
UK
Anthology
  • Released: November 1972
  • Label: Capitol (SVBB-11114)
  • Format: double LP/double boxed 8-track tape/double boxed cassette tape/CD
56
  • US: Gold
Greatest Hits 1974–78
  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: Capitol (S00/8X00/4X00-11872)
  • Format: LP/8-track/Cassette/CD
1842
  • US: 15× Platinum
  • CAN: Diamond
Greatest Hits 1976–86: A Decade of American Music
  • Released: June 1987
  • Label: Mercury (MERH 105)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD
The Best of 1968–1973
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Capitol (EST/TCEST/CDEST 2133)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD
3234
  • US: Gold
Living in the U.S.A
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Capitol
  • Format: Cassette/CD
  • US: Gold
The Very Best of the Steve Miller Band
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Arcade (04 6250 61)
  • Format: CD
24[13] 1032
Steve Miller Band
  • Released: July 26, 1994
  • Label: Capitol (89826)
  • Format: CD box set
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: PolyGram TV (559 240–2)
  • Format: CD
58
Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits
  • Released: September 16, 2003
  • Label: Capitol (CDP 7243 5 90509 2 8)
  • Format: CD
37933
  • US: Gold
Ultimate Hits
  • Released: September 15, 2017
  • Label: Capitol (B0026748-02)
  • Format: CD
Welcome to the Vault
  • Released: October 11, 2019[15]
  • Label: Capitol, Sailor
  • Format: CD, download, streaming
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

YearTitles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Peak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US
[16] [17] [18]
US
Main.

AUS
CAN
GER
[19]
NLD
NZ
SWE
UK
1968"Sittin' in Circles"
b/w "Roll With It" (from Children of the Future)
Non-album track
"Living in the U.S.A."
b/w "Quicksilver Girl"
94
Sailor
1969"Sitting in Circles"
b/w "Dear Mary" (from Sailor)
Non-album track
"My Dark Hour"
b/w "Song for Our Ancestors" (from Sailor)
126Brave New World
"Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around"
b/w "Little Girl"
87Your Saving Grace
1970"Going to the Country"
b/w "Never Kill Another Man"
699154Number 5
"Steve Miller's Midnight Tango"
b/w "Going to Mexico"
117
1971"Rock Love"
b/w "Let Me Serve You"
Rock Love
1972"Fandango"
b/w "Love's Riddle"
Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden
1973"The Joker"
b/w "Something to Believe In"
18271141
  • US: 5× Platinum
  • UK: Gold
The Joker
1974"Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash"
b/w "Evil"
5140
"Living in the U.S.A."
b/w "Kow Kow Calqulator" (from Anthology)
49
52Sailor
1976"Take The Money and Run"
b/w "Sweet Maree"
1148857Fly Like An Eagle
"Rock'n Me"
b/w "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" (from The Joker)
130128222311
"Fly Like an Eagle"
b/w "Lovin' Cup" (from The Joker)
2221
  • US: Gold
1977"Serenade"
b/w "Dance, Dance, Dance"
"Jet Airliner"
b/w "Babes in the Wood"
82331112Book of Dreams
"Jungle Love"
b/w "Wish Upon a Star"
238718
"Swingtown"
b/w "Winter Time"
171353
1981"Heart Like a Wheel"
b/w "True Fine Love" (from Book of Dreams)
24178717Circle of Love
1982"Circle of Love"
b/w "Circle of Love" (Instrumental)
55
"Macho City"
b/w "Fly Like An Eagle" (from Fly Like an Eagle)
27
"Abracadabra"
b/w "Give It Up"
1411226812
  • US: Gold
  • CAN: Platinum
  • UK: Silver
Abracadabra
"Cool Magic"
b/w "Young Girl's Heart"
57
"Keeps Me Wondering Why"
b/w "Get on Home" (from Circle of Love)
8452
"Give It Up"
b/w "Heart Like a Wheel" (from Circle of Love)
60
1984"Shangri-La"
b/w "Circle of Love" (from Circle of Love)
5784Italian X Rays
"Italian X-Rays"
b/w "Who Do You Love"
1985"Bongo Bongo"
b/w "Get on Home" (from Circle of Love)
84
1986"I Want to Make the World Turn Around"
b/w "Slinky"
9717286Living in the 20th Century
1987"Nobody But You Baby"
b/w "Maelstrom"
9
1988"Ya Ya"
b/w "Filthy McNasty"
1057Born 2 B Blue
1993"Wide River"
CD singled paired with "Stranger Blues"
64736Wide River
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Video albums

YearTitleCertifications
2006Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary
  • US: Gold
2008Steve Miller Band: Live from Chicago
  • US: Gold
2012Steve Miller Band: Live at Austin City Limits

Notes

A.Album credited to "The Steve Miller Band".

B.Born 2 B Blue is a Steve Miller solo album.

D.All peak positions for "The Joker", except in the United States, are from the single's 1990 reissue.

E.Credited to Steve Miller on the American single release.

F.A UK only release.

Notes and References

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  2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 201.

  3. Web site: RPM Search Engine . March 31, 2004 . . PHP.
  4. Web site: Steve Miller Band Search Results . . German . ASP . June 29, 2011.
  5. Web site: Steve Miller . Dutch Charts . Hung Medien . ASP . June 23, 2011.
  6. Web site: Steve Miller . New Zealand Charts . Hung Medien . ASP . June 22, 2011.
  7. Web site: Steve Miller . Swedish Charts . Hung Medien . ASP . June 23, 2011.
  8. Web site: Artist Chart History: Steve Miller Band . . June 22, 2011.
  9. United States . Steve Miller Band . May 18, 2022.
  10. Web site: Gold Platinum Database . . ASPX . July 16, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405135039/http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist . April 5, 2012 .
  11. United Kingdom. Steve Miller Band. August 30, 2022.
  12. Web site: Kent Music Report No 453 – 28 February 1983 > Platinum Albums 1982 (Continued). Imgur.com. December 26, 2022.
  13. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf.
  14. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf.
  15. Web site: Welcome to the Vault by Steve Miller Band. Apple Music. October 3, 2019.
  16. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p106068|tab=charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} Steve Miller: Charts & Awards – ''Billboard'' Singles ]. . United States . June 22, 2011.
  17. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p198268|tab=charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} Steve Miller Band: Charts & Awards – ''Billboard'' Singles ]. . . United States . June 22, 2011.
  18. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=steve miller band|chart=all}} Steve Miller Band Chart History ]. . June 22, 2011.
  19. Web site: Chartverfolgung / MILLER,STEVE BAND / Single . Music Line . . German . June 26, 2011.