# Gene Watson discography

Gene Watson is an American country music artist. His discography consists of 33 studio albums, eight compilation albums, 61 singles, and five music videos. Of his singles, 48 charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts between 1975 and 1997, including the 1982 number one single "Fourteen Carat Mind".

## Albums
### Studio albums
#### 1960s–1980s

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country | CAN Country |
| Gene Watson | Release year: 1969 Label: Wide World | — | — |
| Love in the Hot Afternoon | Release year: 1975 Label: Capitol | 5 | — |
| Because You Believed in Me | Release year: 1976 Label: Capitol | 24 | — |
| Paper Rosie | Release year: 1977 Label: Capitol | 22 | — |
| Gene Watson's Beautiful Country | Release year: 1977 Label: Capitol | 32 | — |
| Reflections | Release year: 1978 Label: Capitol | 23 | 14 |
| Should I Come Home | Release year: 1979 Label: Capitol | 16 | — |
| No One Will Ever Know | Release year: 1980 Label: Capitol | 45 | — |
| Between This Time & the Next Time | Release year: 1981 Label: MCA | 38 | — |
| Old Loves Never Die | Release year: 1981 Label: MCA | 57 | — |
| This Dream's on Me | Release year: 1982 Label: MCA | 27 | — |
| Sometimes I Get Lucky (with the Farewell Party Band) | Release year: 1983 Label: MCA | 16 | — |
| Little By Little (with the Farewell Party Band) | Release year: 1984 Label: MCA | 34 | — |
| Heartaches, Love & Stuff | Release year: 1984 Label: MCA / Curb | 21 | — |
| Memories to Burn | Release year: 1985 Label: Epic | 35 | — |
| Starting New Memories | Release year: 1986 Label: Epic | 49 | — |
| Honky Tonk Crazy | Release year: March 25, 1987 Label: Epic | 54 | — |
| Back in the Fire | Release year: 1989 Label: Warner Bros. | 42 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

#### 1990s–2020s

| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country |
| At Last | Release year: 1990 Label: Warner Bros. | 74 |
| In Other Words | Release year: 1992 Label: Broadland | — |
| Uncharted Mind | Release year: 1993 Label: Step One | — |
| The Good Ole Days | Release year: 1996 Label: Step One | — |
| Jesus Is All I Need | Release year: 1997 Label: Step One | — |
| A Way to Survive | Release year: 1997 Label: Step One | — |
| From the Heart | Release year: 2001 Label: Row Music Group | — |
| Gene Watson Sings | Release year: 2003 Label: Compendia | — |
| Then & Now | Release year: 2005 Label: Koch Nashville | — |
| In a Perfect World | Release year: 2007 Label: Shanachie | — |
| A Taste of the Truth | Release year: 2009 Label: Shanachie | — |
| Your Money and My Good Looks (with Rhonda Vincent) | Release year: 2011 Label: Upper Management | 56 |
| Best of the Best: 25 Greatest Hits (new re-recordings for Watson's own label) | Release year: 2012 Label: Fourteen Carat | 64 |
| My Heroes Have Always Been Country | Release year: 2014 Label: Fourteen Carat | 48 |
| Real. Country. Music. | Release year: 2016 Label: Fourteen Carat | — |
| My Gospel Roots | Release year: 2017 Label: Fourteen Carat | — |
| Outside the Box | Release year: 2022 Label: Fourteen Carat | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country | CAN Country |
| The Best of Gene Watson | Release year: 1978 Label: Capitol | 29 | 12 |
| The Best of Gene Watson, Volume 2 | Release year: 1981 Label: Capitol | — | — |
| Greatest Hits | Release year: 1983 Label: MCA / Curb | — | — |
| Texas Saturday Night | Release year: 1985 Label: MCA / Curb | — | — |
| Greatest Hits | Release year: 1990 Label: Curb | — | — |
| Eighteen Greatest Hits | Release year: 1999 Label: TeeVee / Capitol | — | — |
| Ultimate Collection | Release year: 2001 Label: Hip-O | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

## Singles
### 1970s–1980s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | CAN Country | Album |
| 1975 | "Bad Water" | 87 | — | Love in the Hot Afternoon |
| 1975 | "Love in the Hot Afternoon" | 3 | 3 | Love in the Hot Afternoon |
| 1975 | "Where Love Begins" | 5 | 4 | Love in the Hot Afternoon |
| 1976 | "You Could Know as Much About a Stranger" | 10 | 42 | Love in the Hot Afternoon |
| 1976 | "Because You Believed in Me" | 20 | — | Because You Believed in Me |
| 1976 | "Her Body Couldn't Keep You (Off My Mind)" | 52 | — | Because You Believed in Me |
| 1977 | "Paper Rosie" | 3 | 1 | Paper Rosie |
| 1977 | "The Old Man and His Horn" | 11 | 9 | Gene Watson's Beautiful Country |
| 1977 | "I Don't Need a Thing at All" | 8 | 4 | Gene Watson's Beautiful Country |
| 1978 | "Cowboys Don't Get Lucky All the Time" | 11 | 14 | Gene Watson's Beautiful Country |
| 1978 | "One Sided Conversation" | 8 | 6 | Reflections |
| 1979 | "Farewell Party" | 5 | 9 | Reflections |
| 1979 | "Pick the Wildwood Flower" | 5 | 2 | Reflections |
| 1979 | "Should I Come Home (Or Should I Go Crazy)" | 3 | 6 | Should I Come Home |
| 1979 | "Nothing Sure Looked Good on You" | 4 | 3 | Should I Come Home |
| 1980 | "Bedroom Ballad" | 18 | 43 | Should I Come Home |
| 1980 | "Raisin' Cane in Texas" | 15 | 53 | No One Will Ever Know |
| 1980 | "No One Will Ever Know" | 13 | 22 | No One Will Ever Know |
| 1981 | "Any Way You Want Me" | 33 | — | Any Which Way You Can |
| 1981 | "Between This Time and the Next Time" | 17 | 8 | Between This Time & the Next Time |
| 1981 | "Maybe I Should Have Been Listening" | 23 | 12 | Between This Time & the Next Time |
| 1981 | "Fourteen Carat Mind" | 1 | 5 | Old Loves Never Die |
| 1982 | "Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)" | 9 | 4 | Old Loves Never Die |
| 1982 | "This Dream's on Me" | 8 | 11 | This Dream's on Me |
| 1982 | "What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her" | 5 | 3 | This Dream's on Me |
| 1983 | "You're Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without" | 2 | 5 | Sometimes I Get Lucky (with the Farewell Party Band) |
| 1983 | "Sometimes I Get Lucky and Forget" | 9 | 6 | Sometimes I Get Lucky (with the Farewell Party Band) |
| 1983 | "Drinkin' My Way Back Home" | 10 | 8 | Little By Little (with the Farewell Party Band) |
| 1984 | "Forever Again" | 10 | 18 | Little By Little (with the Farewell Party Band) |
| 1984 | "Little by Little" | 33 | 21 | Little By Little (with the Farewell Party Band) |
| 1984 | "Got No Reason Now for Goin' Home" | 7 | 15 | Heartaches, Love & Stuff |
| 1985 | "One Hell of a Heartache" | 43 | 38 | Heartaches, Love & Stuff |
| 1985 | "Cold Summer Day in Georgia" | 24 | 22 | Memories to Burn |
| 1985 | "Memories to Burn" | 5 | 2 | Memories to Burn |
| 1986 | "Carmen" | 32 | 27 | Memories to Burn |
| 1986 | "Bottle of Tears" | 50 | 40 | Starting New Memories |
| 1986 | "Everything I Used to Do" | 29 | 27 | Starting New Memories |
| 1987 | "Honky Tonk Crazy" | 43 | 30 | Honky Tonk Crazy |
| 1987 | "Everybody Needs a Hero" | 28 | 46 | Honky Tonk Crazy |
| 1988 | "Don't Waste It on the Blues" | 5 | 6 | Back in the Fire |
| 1989 | "Back in the Fire" | 20 | 24 | Back in the Fire |
| 1989 | "The Jukebox Played Along" | 24 | 40 | Back in the Fire |
| 1989 | "The Great Divide" | 41 | — | Back in the Fire |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||

### 1990s–2000s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | CAN Country | Album |
| 1991 | "At Last" | 61 | 59 | At Last |
| 1991 | "You Can't Take It with You When You Go" | 67 | 56 | At Last |
| 1992 | "One and One and One" | 66 | 92 | In Other Words |
| 1993 | "In Other Words" | — | — | In Other Words |
| 1993 | "Old Porch Swing" | — | — | In Other Words |
| 1993 | "Snake in the House" | — | — | Uncharted Mind |
| 1994 | "Glass Hearts" | — | — | Uncharted Mind |
| 1994 | "Your Uncharted Mind" | — | — | Uncharted Mind |
| 1995 | "He's Back in Texas Again" | — | — | Uncharted Mind |
| 1996 | "Change Her Mind" | 44 | 90 | The Good Ole Days |
| 1997 | "No Goodbyes" | 73 | — | The Good Ole Days |
| 2001 | "Next to Nothin'" | — | — | From the Heart |
| 2002 | "The Man an' Me and You" | — | — | From the Heart |
| 2002 | "No Trash in My Trailer" | — | — | From the Heart |
| 2003 | "New Woman" | — | — | Gene Watson Sings |
| 2007 | "I Buried Our Love" | — | — | In a Perfect World |
| 2009 | "We've Got a Pulse" (with Trace Adkins) | — | — | A Taste of the Truth |
| 2009 | "Staying Together" (with Rhonda Vincent) | — | — | A Taste of the Truth |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||

## Music videos

| Year | Video |
| 1983 | "You're Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without" |
| 1983 | "Sometimes I Get Lucky and Forget" |
| 1993 | "Old Porch Swing" |
| 1993 | "Snake in the House" |
| 1994 | "Your Uncharted Mind" |
| 2001 | "Next to Nothin'" |
| 2009 | "Staying Together" |