Jimmy Buffett discography

Jimmy Buffett discography

Jimmy Buffett performing, January 2008
Releases
Studio albums 26
Live albums 11
Compilation albums 9
Singles 67
Music videos 19
No.1 Single 4

The discography of American singer Jimmy Buffett consists of twenty-six studio albums, eleven live albums and sixty-seven singles.

Contents

Studio albums

1970s albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US CAN
Down to Earth
High Cumberland Jubilee
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Barnaby Records
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean 43 205
Living & Dying in 3/4 Time
  • Release date: February 1974
  • Label: ABC Records
176
A1A
  • Release date: December 1974
  • Label: ABC Records
25 25
Havaña 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 7
  • US: Platinum
Volcano[A] 13 14 26
  • US: Gold
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Country US CAN
Coconut Telegraph
  • Release date: February 1981
  • Label: MCA Records
30
Somewhere over China
  • Release date: January 1982
  • Label: MCA Records
31 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 91
Hot Water
  • Release date: June 1988
  • Label: MCA Records
46
Off to See the Lizard
  • Release date: June 1989
  • Label: MCA Records
57
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US CAN
Fruitcakes
  • Release date: May 24, 1994
  • Label: Maragaritavilla/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 albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US CAN
Far Side of the World 5
License to Chill 1 1 24
  • 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

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
  • US: Gold
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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation and specialty albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US
Songs You Know by Heart
  • Release date: 1985
  • Label: MCA Records
27 100
  • US: 7× Platinum
Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads
  • 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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1960s and 1970s singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[1]
US US AC CAN Country CAN CAN AC
1969 "Poopi-Do" single only
1970 "Abandoned on Tuesday"
"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"
"Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit" 23 47
"He Went to Paris"
1974 "Saxophones" 105 Living & Dying in ¾ Time
"Come Monday" 58 30 3 23
"Pencil Thin Moustache" 101 44 75 22
"A Pirate Looks at Forty" 101 A1A
"Door Number Three" 88 102
1976 "Havaña Daydreamin'" Havaña Daydreamin'
"The Captain and the Kid"
"Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street"
1977 "Margaritaville" 13 8 1 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 62 64 35 Volcano
"Dreamsicle"
"Volcano" 66 43 1
"Survive" 77 10
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[1]
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" single only
"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 Time 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" single only
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 singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[1]
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 Beachouse on the Moon
"I Will Play for Gumbo"
"Southern Cross" Buffet Live: Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s singles

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[1]
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"
"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"
2009 "Summerzcool" 109 single only
"—" 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 non-album single
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
"—" 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"
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"
1999 "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" Stan Kellam/Mike Ramos/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

Notes

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

References