# John Anderson discography

The discography of American country music singer-songwriter John Anderson consists of 22 studio albums and 68 singles. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records from 1980 to 1986, and again in 2007. Other labels to which he was signed include MCA, Capitol, BNA, Mercury, and Easy Eye Sound. His most commercially successful album, 1992's Seminole Wind, achieved double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Anderson has charted five number 1 singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, and has had 15 other singles reach Top 10.

## Studio albums
### 1980s

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US | CAN Country | Certifications |
| John Anderson | Release date: July 1, 1980 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 61 | — | — | |
| John Anderson 2 | Release date: April 1981 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 25 | — | — | |
| I Just Came Home to Count the Memories | Release date: October 14, 1981 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 40 | — | — | |
| Wild & Blue | Release date: September 15, 1982 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 3 | 58 | — | RIAA: Gold |
| All the People are Talkin' | Release date: September 1983 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 9 | 163 | — | |
| Eye of a Hurricane | Release date: June 18, 1984 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 3 | — | 16 | |
| Tokyo, Oklahoma | Release date: June 3, 1985 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 24 | — | — | |
| Countrified | Release date: October 6, 1986 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: LP, cassette | 17 | — | — | |
| Blue Skies Again | Release date: November 2, 1987 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette | 41 | — | — | |
| 10 | Release date: 1988 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette | 51 | — | — | |
| Too Tough to Tame | Release date: August 8, 1989 Label: Universal/Capitol Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||

### 1990s

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US | CAN Country | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Seminole Wind | Release date: February 10, 1992 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 10 | 35 | 11 | RIAA: 2× Platinum MC: Gold |
| Solid Ground | Release date: June 22, 1993 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 12 | 75 | 13 | RIAA: Gold |
| Christmas Time | Release date: August 30, 1994 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | — | — | — | |
| Country 'Til I Die | Release date: October 11, 1994 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 43 | — | — | |
| Paradise | Release date: January 30, 1996 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 40 | — | — | |
| Takin' the Country Back | Release date: July 29, 1997 Label: PolyGram/Mercury Records Formats: CD, cassette | 19 | 138 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||

### 2000s–2020s

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US |
| Nobody's Got It All | Release date: March 27, 2001 Label: Columbia Records Formats: CD, cassette | 64 | — |
| Easy Money | Release date: May 15, 2007 Label: Warner Bros./Raybaw Formats: CD, music download | 36 | 170 |
| Bigger Hands | Release date: June 9, 2009 Label: Country Crossing Formats: CD, music download | 53 | — |
| Goldmine | Release date: May 26, 2015 Label: Bayou Boys Music Formats: CD, music download | 36 | — |
| Years | Release date: April 10, 2020 Label: Easy Eye Sound Formats: LP, CD, music download | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

## Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Album details | US Country | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Greatest Hits | Release date: 1984 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette | 28 | RIAA: Gold |
| Greatest Hits Volume II | Release date: August 21, 1990 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, LP, cassette | — | |
| You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down | Release date: August 30, 1994 Label: MCA Records Formats: CD, cassette | — | |
| Greatest Hits | Release date: October 15, 1996 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 56 | |
| The Encore Collection | Release date: November 18, 1997 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | — | |
| Super Hits | Release date: March 24, 1998 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | 72 | |
| The Essential John Anderson | Release date: June 2, 1998 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD, cassette | — | |
| RCA Country Legends | Release date: 2002 Label: BNA Records Formats: CD | — | |
| Anthology | Release date: October 22, 2002 Label: Audium/Koch Records Formats: CD | 65 | |
| The Ultimate Hits | Release date: October 19, 2004 Label: Audium/Koch Records Formats: CD, music download | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

## Singles
### 1970s

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | CAN Country | Album |
| 1975 | "Swoop Down Sweet Jesus" | — | — | Non-album single |
| 1976 | "What Did I Promise Her Last Night" | — | — | Non-album single |
| 1977 | "I've Got a Feelin' (Somebody's Been Stealin')" | 62 | — | Non-album single |
| 1978 | "Whine, Whistle, Whine" | 69 | — | Non-album single |
| 1978 | "The Girl at the End of the Bar" | 40 | — | John Anderson |
| 1979 | "My Pledge of Love" | 41 | — | Non-album single |
| 1979 | "Low Dog Blues" | 31 | — | John Anderson |
| 1979 | "Your Lying Blue Eyes" | 15 | 39 | John Anderson |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||

### 1980s

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | US | CAN Country | Album |
| 1980 | "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" | 13 | — | 60 | John Anderson |
| 1980 | "If There Were No Memories" | 21 | — | — | John Anderson |
| 1980 | "1959" | 7 | — | 4 | John Anderson |
| 1981 | "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" | 4 | — | 2 | John Anderson 2 |
| 1981 | "Chicken Truck" | 8 | — | — | John Anderson 2 |
| 1981 | "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" | 7 | — | 5 | I Just Came Home to Count the Memories |
| 1982 | "Would You Catch a Falling Star" | 6 | — | 15 | I Just Came Home to Count the Memories |
| 1982 | "Wild and Blue" | 1 | — | 15 | Wild & Blue |
| 1983 | "Swingin'" | 1 | 43 | 4 | Wild & Blue |
| 1983 | "Goin' Down Hill" | 5 | — | 7 | Wild & Blue |
| 1983 | "Black Sheep" | 1 | — | 1 | All the People Are Talkin' |
| 1984 | "Let Somebody Else Drive" | 10 | — | 10 | All the People Are Talkin' |
| 1984 | "I Wish I Could Write You a Song" | 14 | — | 12 | Eye of a Hurricane |
| 1984 | "She Sure Got Away with My Heart" | 3 | — | 4 | Eye of a Hurricane |
| 1984 | "Eye of a Hurricane" | 20 | — | 17 | Eye of a Hurricane |
| 1985 | "It's All Over Now" | 15 | — | 18 | Tokyo, Oklahoma |
| 1985 | "Tokyo, Oklahoma" | 30 | — | 33 | Tokyo, Oklahoma |
| 1985 | "Down in Tennessee" | 12 | — | 35 | Tokyo, Oklahoma |
| 1986 | "You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down" | 31 | — | 48 | Non-album single |
| 1986 | "Honky Tonk Crowd" | 10 | — | 7 | Countrified |
| 1986 | "Countrified" | 44 | — | 31 | Countrified |
| 1987 | "What's So Different About You" | 55 | — | — | Countrified |
| 1987 | "When Your Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue" | 48 | — | — | Blue Skies Again |
| 1987 | "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings) | 23 | — | 35 | Blue Skies Again |
| 1988 | "It's Hard to Keep This Ship Together" | 65 | — | — | Blue Skies Again |
| 1988 | "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" | 35 | — | — | 10 |
| 1988 | "Down in the Orange Grove" | 68 | — | — | 10 |
| 1989 | "Lower on the Hog" | 73 | — | — | 10 |
| 1989 | "Who's Lovin' My Baby" | 66 | — | — | Too Tough to Tame |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||

### 1990s

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | US Bubbling | CAN Country | Album |
| 1990 | "Tryin' to Make a Livin' on the Road" | — | — | 88 | Too Tough to Tame |
| 1991 | "Who Got Our Love" | 67 | — | — | Seminole Wind |
| 1991 | "Straight Tequila Night" | 1 | — | 1 | Seminole Wind |
| 1992 | "When It Comes to You" | 3 | — | 2 | Seminole Wind |
| 1992 | "Seminole Wind" | 2 | — | 1 | Seminole Wind |
| 1992 | "Let Go of the Stone" | 7 | — | 11 | Seminole Wind |
| 1993 | "Money in the Bank" | 1 | — | 1 | Solid Ground |
| 1993 | "I Fell in the Water" | 13 | — | 22 | Solid Ground |
| 1993 | "I've Got It Made" | 3 | — | 19 | Solid Ground |
| 1994 | "I Wish I Could Have Been There" | 4 | — | 21 | Solid Ground |
| 1994 | "Country 'Til I Die" | 35 | — | 31 | Country 'Til I Die |
| 1994 | "Bend It Until It Breaks" | 3 | — | 28 | Country 'Til I Die |
| 1995 | "Mississippi Moon" | 15 | — | 11 | Country 'Til I Die |
| 1995 | "Paradise" | 26 | — | 21 | Paradise |
| 1996 | "Long Hard Lesson Learned" | 51 | — | 71 | Paradise |
| 1996 | "My Kind of Crazy" | 67 | — | — | Paradise |
| 1997 | "Somebody Slap Me" | 22 | 15 | 35 | Takin' the Country Back |
| 1997 | "Small Town" | 44 | — | — | Takin' the Country Back |
| 1998 | "Takin' the Country Back" | 41 | — | 69 | Takin' the Country Back |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||

### 2000s–2020s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
| 2000 | "You Ain't Hurt Nothin' Yet" | 56 | Nobody's Got It All |
| 2000 | "Nobody's Got It All" | 55 | Nobody's Got It All |
| 2001 | "The Big Revival" | — | Nobody's Got It All |
| 2001 | "It Ain't Easy Being Me" | — | Nobody's Got It All |
| 2006 | "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" | 59 | Easy Money |
| 2007 | "A Woman Knows" | — | Easy Money |
| 2009 | "Cold Coffee & Hot Beer" | — | Bigger Hands |
| 2009 | "Bigger Hands" | — | Bigger Hands |
| 2015 | "I Work a Lot Better" | — | Goldmine |
| 2015 | "Don't Forget to Thank the Lord" | — | Goldmine |
| 2015 | "Magic Mama" | — | Goldmine |
| 2020 | "Years" | — | Years |
| 2020 | "Tuesday I'll Be Gone" (featuring Blake Shelton) | — | Years |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

## Other singles
### Charted B-sides

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Original A-side |
| Year | Single | US Country | CAN Country | Original A-side |
| 1981 | "I Love You a Thousand Ways" | 54 | 11 | "Chicken Truck" |

### Other charted songs

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
| 1994 | "Christmas Time" | 57 | Christmas Time |

### Featured singles

| Year | Single | Artist | Album |
| 1994 | "Amazing Grace" | The Maverick Choir | Maverick (soundtrack) |
| 2007 | "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" | Billy Joe Shaver | Everybody's Brother |
| 2016 | "Trashy Women (20th Anniversary)" | Confederate Railroad (feat. Willie Nelson & Colt Ford) | Lucky to Be Alive |

## Music videos

| Year | Video | Director |
| 1986 | "Countrified" | Martin Kahan |
| 1988 | "Down in the Orange Grove" | Jim May |
| 1989 | "Who's Lovin' My Baby" | Joe Young |
| 1991 | "Straight Tequila Night" | Steve Boyle |
| 1992 | "When It Comes to You" | Steve Boyle |
| 1992 | "Let Go of the Stone" | Michael Salomon |
| 1992 | "Seminole Wind" | Jim Shea |
| 1993 | "Money in the Bank" | Jim Shea |
| 1993 | "I Fell in the Water" | Sherman Halsey |
| 1994 | "Amazing Grace" (The Maverick Choir) | Gil Bettman |
| 1994 | "I Wish I Could Have Been There" | Jim Shea |
| 1994 | "Country 'Til I Die" | Jim Shea |
| 1994 | "Christmas Time" | Jim Shea |
| 1995 | "Mississippi Moon" | Jim Shea |
| 1996 | "Long Hard Lesson Learned" | Jim Shea |
| 1997 | "Somebody Slap Me" | Jim Shea |
| 1997 | "Small Town" | Jim Shea |
| 1998 | "Takin' the Country Back" | Jim Shea |
| 2000 | "Nobody's Got It All" | Jim Shea |
| 2007 | "A Woman Knows" | Jim Shea |
| 2007 | "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" (with Billy Joe Shaver) | The Brads |
| 2013 | "Swingin'" (with Colt Ford) | Potsy Ponciroli |
| 2013 | "I'll Fly Away" (with Paul Brandt) | Joel Stewart |
| 2020 | "Years" | Josh Bishop |
| 2020 | "Tuesday I'll Be Gone" (ft. Blake Shelton) | Tim Hardiman |
| 2021 | "No Country Music for Old Men" (ft. The Bellamy Brothers) | Derrek Kupish |