Jimmy Buffett discography

The discography of American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett consists of 29 studio albums, 9 compilation albums, 14 live albums, 8 specialty albums, and 67 singles. Buffett is known for his unique style of music called "Gulf and Western", which combines elements of country, folk rock, pop, and Caribbean, with tropical lyrical themes. Buffett has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and he has a net worth of $550 million.[1]

Jimmy Buffett discography
Jimmy Buffett performing, January 2008
Studio albums29
Live albums12
Compilation albums9
Music videos19
Singles67
No.1 Single4

Studio albums

1970s

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US AUS[2] CAN
Down to Earth
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean 43 205
Living and Dying in 3/4 Time
  • Release date: February 1974
  • Label: ABC Records
176 46
A1A
  • Release date: December 1974
  • Label: ABC Records
25 43 25
High Cumberland Jubilee
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Barnaby Records
Havana Daydreamin'
  • Release date: January 1976
  • Label: ABC Records
21 65
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
  • Release date: January 1977
  • Label: ABC Records
2 12 43
  • US: Platinum
Son of a Son of a Sailor
  • Release date: March 1978
  • Label: ABC Records
6 10 52 7
  • US: Platinum
Volcano[A] 13 14 50 26
  • US: Gold
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Country US AUS[2] CAN
Coconut Telegraph
  • Release date: February 1981
  • Label: MCA Records
30 51
Somewhere over China
  • Release date: January 1982
  • Label: MCA Records
31 72 43
One Particular Harbour
  • Release date: September 1983
  • Label: MCA Records
35 59
Riddles in the Sand
  • Release date: September 1984
  • Label: MCA Records
18 95
Last Mango in Paris
  • Release date: June 1985
  • Label: MCA Records
7 53
Floridays
  • Release date: June 1986
  • Label: MCA Records
32 67 88 91
Hot Water
  • Release date: June 20, 1988
  • Label: MCA Records
46 85
Off to See the Lizard
  • Release date: June 19, 1989
  • Label: MCA Records
57
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US CAN
Fruitcakes
  • Release date: May 24, 1994
  • Label: Maragaritaville/MCA Records
5 48
  • US: Platinum
Barometer Soup
  • Release date: August 1, 1995
  • Label: Margaritaville/MCA Records
6
  • US: Gold
Banana Wind
  • Release date: June 4, 1996
  • Label: Margaritaville/MCA Records
4
  • US: Platinum
Don't Stop the Carnival 15
  • US: Gold
Beach House on the Moon
  • Release date: May 24, 1999
  • Label: Margaritaville/Island Records
8
  • US: Gold
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US
Far Side of the World 5
License to Chill 1 1
  • US: Platinum
Take the Weather with You
  • Release date: October 10, 2006
  • Label: Mailboat/RCA Nashville
1 4
  • US: Gold
Buffet Hotel
  • Release date: December 8, 2009
  • Label: Mailboat Records
17
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2010s

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US CAN
Songs from St. Somewhere
  • Release date: August 20, 2013
  • Label: Mailboat Records
4 22

2020s

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country US CAN
Life on the Flip Side
  • Release date: May 29, 2020
  • Label: Mailboat Records
1 2
[3]
Songs You Don’t Know by Heart
  • Release date: November 27, 2020
  • Label: Mailboat Records

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US CAN
You Had to Be There
  • Release date: October 1978
  • Label: ABC Records
29 72 80
Feeding Frenzy
  • Release date: October 1990
  • Label: MCA Records
68
  • US: Gold
Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
  • Release date: November 9, 1999
  • Label: Mailboat Records
37
  • US: Gold
Live in Auburn, WA
  • Release date: November 4, 2003
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Live in Las Vegas, NV
  • Release date: November 2003
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Live in Mansfield, MA
  • Release date: January 2004
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Live in Cincinnati, OH
  • Release date: January 2004
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Live in Hawaii
  • Release date: March 2005
  • Label: Mailboat Records
66
Live at Fenway Park
  • Release date: November 15, 2005
  • Label: Mailboat Records
41
Live at Texas Stadium
(with George Strait and Alan Jackson)
  • Release date: April 3, 2007
  • Label: Mailboat Records
4 11
Live in Anguilla
  • Release date: November 2007
  • Label: Mailboat Records
54
Encores
  • Release date: April 20, 2010
  • Label: Mailboat Records
7
Volcano - Live 2011
  • Release date: September 9, 2011
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Welcome to Fin City - "Live in Las Vegas" CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray
  • Release date: June 19, 2012
  • Label: Mailboat Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation and specialty albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US
[4]
Rancho Deluxe
Before the Salt
Songs You Know by Heart
  • Release date: January 1, 1985
  • Label: MCA Records
27 100
  • US: 7× Platinum
Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads [4-disc boxed set]
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: Margaritaville/MCA Records
68
  • US: 4× Platinum
Before the Beach
  • Release date: May 1993
  • Label: Margaritaville/MCA Records
169
Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Menu
  • Release date: 1993
  • Label: MCA Records
Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Gumbo
  • Release date: 1995
  • Label: Mailboat Records
Christmas Island
  • Release date: October 8, 1996
  • Label: Margaritaville/MCA Records
27
  • US: Platinum
Great American Summer Fun
with Jimmy Buffett
  • Release date: 1996
  • Label: MCA Records
Biloxi
  • Release date: June 30, 1998
  • Label: Premium Music
Meet Me in Margaritaville:
The Ultimate Collection
  • Release date: April 15, 2003
  • Label: UTV/MCA/Mailboat Records
9
  • US: 2× Platinum
Now Yer Squawkin'
  • Release date: March 28, 2005
  • Label: Recall Records
'Tis the SeaSon
  • Release date: October 28, 2016
  • Label: Mailboat Records
6 50
Buried Treasure: Volume One
  • Release date: November 17, 2017
  • Label: Mailboat Records
85
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1960s and 1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[5]
US US AC AUS[2] CAN Country CAN CAN AC
1969 "Don't Bring Me Candy" N/A
1970 "The Christian?" Down to Earth
"Ellis Dee (He Ain't Free)"
"Captain America"
1973 "The Great Filling Station Holdup" 58 A White Sport Coat
and a Pink Crustacean
"They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"
"Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit" 23 47
"He Went to Paris"
1974 "Saxophones" 105 Living & Dying in ¾ Time
"Come Monday" 58 30 3 19 23
"Pencil Thin Mustache" 58[6] 101 44 99 75 22
1975 "A Pirate Looks at Forty" 101 A1A
"Door Number Three" 88 102
1976 "Havana Daydreamin'" Havana Daydreamin'
"The Captain and the Kid"
"Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street"
1977 "Margaritaville" 13 8 1 98 8 4 1 Changes in Latitudes,
Changes in Attitudes
"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" 24 37 11 21 34 6
1978 "Cheeseburger in Paradise" 32 24 Son of a Son of a Sailor
"Livingston Saturday Night" 91 52 66 25
"Mañana" 84 97
1979 "Fins" 35 42 100 62 64 35 Volcano
"Dreamsicle"
"Volcano" 66 43 1
"Survive" 77 10
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[5]
US US Main US AC CAN Country CAN AC
1980 "Hello Texas" Urban Cowboy (soundtrack)
"It's My Job" 57 51 32 Coconut Telegraph
"Stars Fell on Alabama"
1981 "Elvis Imitator" N/A
"It's Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet" 32 Somewhere Over China
"Where's the Party"
1982 "I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme)" Fast Times at Ridgemont High (soundtrack)
1983 "One Particular Harbour" 22 4 One Particular Harbour
"Brown Eyed Girl" 13
1984 "When the Wild Life Betrays Me" 42 34 Riddles in the Sand
"Bigger Than the Both of Us" 58
"Who's the Blonde Stranger?" 37 39
1985 "Christmas in the Caribbean" Tennessee Christmas
"Gypsies in the Palace" 56 Last Mango in Paris
"If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me" 16 37 45
"Please Bypass This Heart" 50
"Ragtop Day" The Slugger's Wife (soundtrack)
1986 "I Love the Now" Floridays
"Creola"
"Take It Back" N/A
1988 "Homemade Music" Hot Water
"Bring Back the Magic" 24
1989 "Take Another Road" 18 Off to See the Lizard
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[5]
US AC CAN CAN AC
1993 "Another Saturday Night" 74 29 Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Menu
1994 "Fruitcakes" 29 Fruitcakes
"Frenchman for the Night"
1995 "Bank of Bad Habits" Barometer Soup
"Mexico" 25 50 38
1998 "Island Fever" Don't Stop the Carnival
1999 "Pacing the Cage" 79 Beach House on the Moon
"I Will Play for Gumbo"
"Southern Cross" Buffet Live: Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[5]
US
2002 "Far Side of the World" Far Side of the World
2004 "Hey, Good Lookin'" (with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney,
Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait)
8 63 License to Chill
"Trip Around the Sun" (with Martina McBride) 20 112
2005 "Piece of Work" (with Toby Keith)
"Back to the Island"
"Barefootin'" (with Alan Jackson) Hoot (soundtrack)
2006 "Bama Breeze" 58 Take the Weather with You
"Here We Are"
2007 "Everybody's on the Phone"
"Getting the Picture" N/A
2009 "Summerzcool" 109 Buffet Hotel
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Guest singles

Year Single Artist Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US Country US US AC CAN
1991 "Voices That Care" Various 11 6 61 N/A
2003 "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" Alan Jackson 1 17 Greatest Hits Volume II
2011 "Knee Deep" Zac Brown Band 1 18 42 You Get What You Give
2015 "The Ever-Elusive Future" Michael Giacchino Jurassic World
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other charted songs

Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
1999 "Margaritaville" (re-recording with Alan Jackson) 63 Under the Influence (Alan Jackson album)

Music videos

Year Video Director(s)
1973 "Pencil Thin Moustache" Rick Trow
"Come Monday"
"He Went to Paris"
"Nautical Wheelers"
1983 "Livin' It Up" Michael Nesmith
"One Particular Harbour" Frank Martin
1985 "La Vie Dansante" Michael Nesmith
"Who's the Blonde Stranger" Rick Bennett
1988 "Homemade Music" Jeff Stein
1989 "Take Another Road" Jim Shea
1990 "Jamaica Farewell"
1991 "Voices That Care" (Various) David S. Jackson
1993 "Another Saturday Night" Bret Redman
1994 "Fruitcakes" Jim Shea
1999 "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" Stan Kellam/Mike Ramos/Kevin McGrath
"The City" Mike Ramos
2003 "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere" (with Alan Jackson) Trey Fanjoy
2004 "Hey Good Lookin'" (with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney,
Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait)
Trey Fanjoy/Stan Kellam
"Trip Around the Sun" (with Martina McBride) Trey Fanjoy
2006 "Bama Breeze"
2011 "Knee Deep" (with Zac Brown Band) Darren Doane
2013 "Too Drunk to Karaoke" (with Toby Keith)[10] Michael Salomon

Notes

  • A^ Volcano also peaked at number 9 on the RPM Country Albums chart in Canada.

References

  1. Price, Emily (February 8, 2018). "Jimmy Buffett Is More Business Than Booze These Days". Fortune. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 49. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. Caulfield, Keith (June 7, 2020). "Lady Gaga Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Chromatica'". Billboard. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  4. "Jimmy Buffett Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  5. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  6. https://www.billboard.com/music/jimmy-buffett/chart-history/CSI/2
  7. "American single certifications – Alan Jackson – It%27s Five O%27Clock Somewhere". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH. 
  8. "Canadian digital certifications – Zac Brown Band – Knee Deep". Music Canada.
  9. "American single certifications – Zac Brown Band – Knee Deep". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH. 
  10. "CMT : Videos : Jimmy Buffett : Too Drunk to Karaoke". Country Music Television. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
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