Billy Dean discography

Billy Dean discography
Releases
Studio albums 8
Compilation albums 5
Singles 28
Music videos 16
No.1 Single 3

Billy Dean is an American country music artist. His discography comprises eight studio albums, five compilation albums, twenty-eight singles, and three guest singles. His first three studio albums — Young Man, Billy Dean and Fire in the Dark — are all certified gold by the RIAA, as is his 1994 Greatest Hits album.

Dean's highest-charting solo singles in the U.S. all peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Only Here for a Little While", "Somewhere in My Broken Heart", and "If There Hadn't Been You". The latter and its followup, "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark", both reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks charts in Canada. Dean and Alison Krauss both received chart credit for their guest vocals on Kenny Rogers' 2000 Number One hit "Buy Me a Rose".

Studio albums

1990s albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
CAN Country
[2]
Young Man 12 99
Billy Dean
  • Release date: September 24, 1991
  • Label: Capitol Records
22 88 8
Fire in the Dark
  • Release date: January 26, 1993
  • Label: Liberty Records
14 83 4
Men'll Be Boys
  • Release date: June 14, 1994
  • Label: Liberty Records
51
It's What I Do
  • Release date: April 2, 1996
  • Label: Capitol Records
18 143
Real Man
  • Release date: August 25, 1998
  • Label: Capitol Records
41
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
Let Them Be Little 8 50
The Christ (A Song for Joseph)
  • Release date: October 11, 2005
  • Label: Curb Records
Sings Richard Leigh
  • Release date: May 26, 2009
  • Label: BDMG Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2010s albums

Title Album details
The One Behind the Wheel
  • Release date: February 2, 2010
  • Label: BDMG Records
A Man of Good Fortune
  • Release date: September 25, 2012
  • Label: Rainman Records

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
Greatest Hits
  • Release date: March 8, 1994
  • Label: SBK/Liberty Records
29 148
Love Songs
  • Release date: April 11, 2000
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
Certified Hits
  • Release date: September 24, 2002
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
The Best of Billy Dean
  • Release date: December 30, 2003
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
The Very Best of Billy Dean
  • Release date: March 29, 2005
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1990s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[5]
US AC
[5]
CAN Country
[6]
CAN AC
[7]
1990 "Only Here for a Little While" 3 2 Young Man
1991 "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" 3 18 2 18
"You Don't Count the Cost" 4 3 Billy Dean
"Only the Wind" 4 3
1992 "Billy the Kid" 4 3
"If There Hadn't Been You" 3 1
"Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" 6 1 Fire in the Dark
1993 "I Wanna Take Care of You" 22 9
"I'm Not Built That Way" 34 18
"We Just Disagree" 9 6
1994 "Cowboy Band" 24 22 Men'll Be Boys
"Men Will Be Boys" 60 75
1996 "It's What I Do" 5 11 It's What I Do
"That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me" 4 3
"I Wouldn't Be a Man" 45 32
1997 "In the Name of Love"
1998 "Real Man" 33 49 Real Man
"Innocent Bystander" 68
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s and 2010s

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[5]
US
[5]
2001 "Keep Mom and Dad in Love"
(with Suzy Bogguss and Jillian)
51 N/A
2003 "I'm in Love with You" 52 Let Them Be Little
2004 "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" 27
"Let Them Be Little" 8 68
2005 "This Is the Life" 52
"Race You to the Bottom"
2006 "Swinging for the Fence"
2013 "I Can't Leave a Good Thing"[8] A Man of Good Fortune
2014 "An American with a Remington"
(with Larry Gatlin)
TBD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Other charted songs

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[5]
CAN Country
[6]
1994 "Once in a While" 53 60 8 Seconds (soundtrack)

Christmas releases

Year Single Album
1996 "I Still Believe in Christmas" N/A
2005 "Shine On" The Christ: A Song for Joseph

Guest singles

Year Single Artist(s) Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[5]
US
[5]
CAN Country
[6]
1998 "One Heart at a Time"[A] Various 69 56 N/A
"Have We Forgotten What Love Is" Gina Jeffreys Somebody's Daughter
1999 "Buy Me a Rose" Kenny Rogers and
Alison Krauss
1 40 9 She Rides Wild Horses
2001 "America the Beautiful" Various 58 N/A
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Videography

Music videos

Year Title Director
1990 "Only Here for a Little While" Bill Young
1991 "Somewhere in My Broken Heart"
"Only the Wind"
1992 "Billy the Kid"
"If There Hadn't Been You" Roger Pistole
1993 "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" Bill Young
"I'm Not Built That Way"
1994 "We Just Disagree" Marius Penczner
"Once in a While" Charley Randazzo
"Men Will Be Boys"
1996 "It's What I Do" Martin Kahan
"I Wouldn't Be a Man" Richard Murray
1998 "Real Man" Crystal Bernard/Steven R. Monroe
"One Heart at a Time"[A]
2001 "America the Beautiful"(Various) Marc Ball
2003 "I'm in Love with You"
2004 "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"
"Let Them Be Little" Eric Welch

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