The Rankin Family discography

The Rankin Family discography
Releases
Studio albums 8
Compilation albums 2
EPs 1
Singles 21

The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group. Their discography comprises eight studio albums (counting a Christmas album), two greatest hits albums, one EP and twenty-one singles.

Studio albums

1980s and 1990s

Title Details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
CAN Country
[1]
CAN
[2]
The Rankin Family
  • Release date: 1989
  • Label: self-released
Fare Thee Well Love
  • Release date: November 7, 1990
  • Label: self-released
1 5
  • CAN: 5× Platinum
North Country
  • Release date: August 24, 1993
  • Label: EMI
1 7
  • CAN: 4× Platinum
Endless Seasons
  • Release date: August 29, 1995
  • Label: EMI
6 13
  • CAN: 2× Platinum
Uprooted
  • Release date: April 28, 1998
  • Label: EMI
30
  • CAN: Gold
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Title Details
Reunion
  • Release date: January 16, 2007
  • Label: EMI
These Are the Moments

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
CAN
[2]
Collection[A]
  • Release date: September 24, 1996
  • Label: EMI
14
  • CAN: 2× Platinum
Souvenir: 1989—1998
  • Release date: April 1, 2003
  • Label: EMI
61
  • CAN: Gold

Holiday albums

Title Details
Do You Hear…Christmas
(as The Rankin Sisters)
  • Release date: November 1997
  • Label: EMI

Extended plays

Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
CAN
[2]
Grey Dusk of Eve
  • Release date: March 1995
  • Label: EMI
29
  • CAN: Gold

Singles

1980s and 1990s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
CAN Country
[3]
CAN
AC

[4]
CAN
[5]
1989 "Mo Run Geal Dileas (My Faithful Fair One)" The Rankin Family
1992 "Orangedale Whistle" 7 25 Fare Thee Well Love
"Fare Thee Well Love" 9 8 14
1993 "Gillis Mountain" 4 6
"Rise Again" 31 4 12 North Country
"North Country" 4 5 30
1994 "Borders and Time" 21 10 23
"Tramp Miner" 31 26
"Turn That Boat Around"
1995 "Grey Dusk of Eve" (with Liam Ó Maonlaí) 31 85 Grey Dusk of Eve
"You Feel the Same Way Too" 14 14 46 Endless Seasons
1996 "The River" 36 12 38
"Forty Days and Nights" 18
"Roving Gypsy Boy" 9 23 Collection
1998 "Movin' On" 7 Uprooted
"Maybe You're Right" 21
"Bells"
1999 "Let It Go" 40 16
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Year Single Album
2006 "Sunday Morning" Reunion
2009 "Never Alone" These Are the Moments
"Straight Into Love"

Solo albums

Year Album Artist
2001 Song Dog Jimmy Rankin
2003 Handmade Jimmy Rankin
2004 Lambs in Spring Raylene Rankin
2007 Edge of Day Jimmy Rankin
2011 Forget About the World Jimmy Rankin
All the Diamonds Raylene Rankin
2012 Tinsel Town Jimmy Rankin

Music videos

Year Video Director
1992 "Fare Thee Well Love" Philip Kates
1993 "Rise Again"
"North Country" Jacoba Dedert
1994 "Borders and Time" Jeth Weinrich
1995 "You Feel the Same Way Too" George Doughterty
1996 "The River" Jeff Siberry/Robin Trickett
"Forty Days and Nights" George Dougherty
"Roving Gypsy Boy"
1998 "Movin' On"
"Maybe You're Right"
"Bells"
2009 "Straight Into Love"
2014 "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
(with Johnny Reid and Natalie MacMaster)
Margaret Malandrucco

Notes

  • A^ Collection also peaked at number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Albums chart.[1]

References