Rick Springfield discography

Rick Springfield discography
Springfield in 2010
Studio albums22
Soundtrack albums2
Live albums5
Compilation albums12
Singles34
Music videos11
No. 1 singles (US)1

The discography of Australian rock musician Rick Springfield consists of 22 studio albums, 12 compilation albums, five live albums, 34 singles, and 11 music videos. In 1995, Springfield formed a side-project, Sahara Snow, with Tim Pierce on guitar and Bob Marlette on keyboards and percussion, which released a self-titled studio album in 1997.[1] In 2021, he formed a similar side project with the Red Locusts.

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[2][3] 		CAN US
[4]
Beginnings 15 23 35
Comic Book Heroes
  • Released: 17 September 1973
  • Label: Wizard (ZL-201), Capitol (SMAS-11206), Columbia (KC-32704)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
 54 — —
Mission Magic!
  • Released: 15 July 1974
  • Label: Wizard (ZL-205)
  • Format: LP (No US release)
 97 — —
Wait for Night
  • Released: 1976[A]
  • Label: Chelsea (CHL 515, CHL 5005), RCA (AFL1-4235) (1982 reissue)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
 — — 159
Working Class Dog
  • Released: 14 February 1981
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-3697, RCA LP 6014, RCA K 6014)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
 33 33 7
Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
  • Released: 23 March 1982
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-4125, RCA LP 6033, RCA K 6033)
  • Format: LP, 8-track, Cassette
 28 6 2
  • MC: Platinum[5]
  • RIAA: Platinum[6]
Living in Oz
  • Released: 18 July 1983
  • Label: RCA (RCA AFL1-4660, RCA PL 84660, RCA PK 84660)
  • Format: LP, Cassette
 45 20 12
Hard to Hold
  • Released: 23 July 1984
  • Label: RCA (RCA ABL1-4935, RCA BL 84935)
  • Format: LP, Cassette
 87 29 16
Beautiful Feelings
  • Released: October 1984[B]
  • Label: Mercury (824 107-1, 824 107-4)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
 — — 78
Tao
  • Released: May 1985
  • Label: RCA (AJL1-5370, RCA PL 85370)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
 85 50 21
Rock of Life
  • Released: February 1988
  • Label: RCA (RCA 6620-1-R, RCA 6620-4-R, RCA 6620-2-R)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
 — 66 55
Karma
  • Released: 13 April 1999
  • Label: Platinum Entertainment (15095 9561 2), Victor (60519)
  • Format: Cassette, CD
 — — 189
Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
  • Released: 24 February 2004
  • Label: Gomer (99999-2)
  • Format: CD
 — — —
The Day After Yesterday
  • Released: 12 July 2005
  • Label: Gomer (4812002)
  • Format: CD
 — — 197
Christmas with You
  • Released: 6 November 2007
  • Label: Compass (43737)
  • Format: CD
 — — —
Venus in Overdrive
  • Released: 29 July 2008
  • Label: New Door (B0011347-02)
  • Format: CD
 — — 28
My Precious Little One: Lullabies for a New Generation
  • Released: 10 March 2009
  • Label: Gomer
  • Format: CD
 — — —
Songs for the End of the World
  • Released: 9 October 2012
  • Label: Hip-O
  • Format: CD
 — — 44
Rocket Science[7]
  • Released: 19 February 2016
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: CD
 — — 69
The Snake King
  • Released: 26 January 2018
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: LP, CD
 — — —
Orchestrating My Life
  • Released: 26 April 2019
  • Label: August Day
  • Format: CD
 — — —
Springfield
  • Released: 12 May 2023 [D]
  • Label: Iconoclassic, Columbia
  • Format: CD
 — — —
Automatic
  • Released: 4 August 2023
  • Label: SongVest
  • Format: LP, CD
 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

With Sahara Snow

List of albums with Sahara Snow
Title Album details
Sahara Snow

With The Red Locusts

List of albums with The Red Locusts
Title Album details
The Red Locusts[8][9]
  • Released: 26 March 2021
  • Label: Lolipop
  • Format: LP, CD

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums
Title Album details
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1989[C]
  • Label: RCA (RCA 9817-1-R, RCA 9817-4-R RCA 9817-2-R)
  • Format: LP, Cassette, CD
Best Of
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Camden (74321 431602)
  • Format: CD
Rick Springfield (The Encore Collection)
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: BMG Special Products
  • Format: CD
The Best of Rick Springfield
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: RCA (07863 67797-2)
  • Format: CD
Anthology (Australia only)
  • Released: 5 April 1999
  • Label: BMG International
  • Format: CD
VH1 Behind the Music: The Rick Springfield Collection
  • Released: 12 September 2000
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
The Best of Rick Springfield
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Camden (828765 33422)
  • Format: CD
Platinum & Gold Collection: Rick Springfield (2003)

Collections (2006)

  • Released: 19 August 2003
  • Re-released with 'Collections' title: 8 May 2006
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
Written in Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology (2005)

The Essential Rick Springfield (2011)

  • Released: 25 April 2005
  • Re-released with 'Essential' title: 15 March 2011
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: CD
We Are the '80s (2006)

Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Springfield (2008)

  • Released: 18 July 2006
  • Re-released with 'Playlist' title: 8 July 2008
  • Label: RCA/Legacy
  • Format: CD
The Early Sound City Sessions
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Voiceprint / Sonic Past Music
  • Format: CD
Super Hits
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Format: CD
From the Vault
  • Credited to Rick Springfield, Jeff Silverman
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Frontiers
  • Format: CD

Live albums

List of live albums
Title Album details
The Greatest Hits...Alive
  • Released: 30 January 2001
  • Label: Hip-O
  • Format: CD
Live in Rockford
  • Released: 24 October 2006
  • Label: Gomer
  • Format: DVD
Live and Kickin'
  • Released: 2 May 2008
  • Label: Golden Core
  • Format: CD
Stripped Down[10]
  • Released: 24 February 2015
  • Label: Loud & Proud
  • Format: CD/DVD
Orchestrating My Life: Live
  • Released: 14 February 2021
  • Label: August Day
  • Format: CD, digital download

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
[2] 		CAN CAN AC UK
[11] 		US
[12] 		US
AC
[13] 		US
Main.
[14] 		GER
"Speak to the Sky" 1971 6 10 8 — 14 16 — — Beginnings
"Hooky Jo" 1972 16 — — — — — — —
"What Would the Children Think?" 38 — 4 — 70 — — —
"I'm Your Superman" 1973 — — — — — — — — Comic Book Heroes
"Believe in Me" 62 — — — — — — —
"Streaking the Australian Way" 1974 — — — — — — — — Non-album single
"Mission Magic!" — — — — — — — — Mission Magic!
"American Girls" — 74 — — 98 — — — Non-album single
"Take a Hand" 1976 — 56 — — 41 — — — Wait for Night
"Million Dollar Face" — — — — — — — —
"Jessica" — — — — — — — —
"Treat Me Gently in the Morning" 1977 — — — — — — — —
"Archangel" 1979 — — — — — — — —
"Bruce" 1980 — — — — — — — — Non-album single
"Jessie's Girl" 1981 1 6 — 43 1 — 10 — Working Class Dog
"I've Done Everything for You" 31 40 19 — 8 — — —
"Love Is Alright Tonite" — 26 — — 20 — 40 —
"Don't Talk to Strangers" 1982 10 3 3 — 2 — 11 — Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
"Calling All Girls" — — — — — — 4 —
"What Kind of Fool Am I" — 41 — — 21 — — —
"I Get Excited" — 42 — — 32 — — —
"Affair of the Heart" 1983 26 11 — — 9 — 23 — Living in Oz
"Human Touch" 92 — — 23 18 — 34 —
"Me & Johnny" — — — — — — — —
"Souls" — — — — 23 — — —
"Love Somebody" 1984 83 13 — 95 5 — 13 23 Hard to Hold
"Don't Walk Away" — — — — 26 — 41 —
"Bop 'Til You Drop" — 70 — — 20 — — —
"Taxi Dancing (Duet with Randy Crawford)/[B-side of "Bop 'Til You Drop"]" — — 15 — 59 16 — —
"Bruce" [Re-release] — — — — 27 — — — Beautiful Feelings
"Celebrate Youth" 1985 — 39 — 80 26 — — 5 Tao
"State of the Heart" — 75 — 145 22 — — 44
"Dance This World Away" [France, Germany, Japan only] — — — — — — — —
"Rock of Life" 1988 92 28 — 83 22 — 45 — Rock of Life
"Honeymoon in Beirut" — — — — — — — —
"It's Always Something" 1999 — — 34 — — — — — Karma
"Beautiful You" 2004 — — — — — 28 — — Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
"Broken Wings" 2005 — — — — — 29 — — The Day After Yesterday
"What's Victoria's Secret" 2008 — — — — — — — — Venus in Overdrive
"I Hate Myself"[16] 2012 — — — — — — — — Songs for the End of the World
"Light This Party Up"[17] 2016 — — — — — — — — Rocket Science
"Down"[18] — — — — — — — —
"Little Demon"[19] 2017 — — — — — — — — The Snake King
"In the Land of the Blind"[20] — — — — — — — —
"Jessie's Girl" 2019 — — — — — — — — Orchestrating My Life
"Automatic" 2023 — — — — — — — — Automatic
"She Walks With the Angels" — — — — — — — —
"Exit Wound" — — — — — — — —
"Love Ain't Cool (Sha Doo Wup)" — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

Other appearances

Year Song Album
1994 "Jessie's Girl" [Live Version] Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume IV[21]
2013 "The Man That Never Was" with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear Sound City: Real to Reel

Notes

  • A ^ Wait for Night was originally released on Chelsea Records in 1976. It was re-released by RCA Records in 1982 and peaked on the Billboard 200 in 1983.[4]
  • B ^ Beautiful Feelings was originally recorded in 1978 but was not issued at that time. Mercury Records re-recorded the instrumentation and released it in late 1984 without Springfield's approval.[22] It peaked on the Billboard 200 in 1985.[4] In 1980, "Bruce" had been released by Springfield as a non-album single; it became the lead track of the album and was re-issued by Mercury Records by December 1984.[22] The original 1978 recordings were released by Springfield in 2007 as The Early Sound City Sessions.
  • C ^ Greatest Hits was released by Evergreen Records in 1988 as a CD with ten tracks. RCA Records issued a twelve-track compilation of the same name in 1989 as a CD and LP.
  • D ^ Springfield was originally supposed to be released in 1974, however Columbia decided to cancel it after it was complete. It would be released to the public on May 12, 2023.[23]

References

  1. ^ Holmgren, Magnus; Sanders, Tiffany. "Sahara Snow". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  3. ^ Ryan (bulion), Gavin. "ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Albums Pre-1989, Part 2". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Rick Springfield Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Canadian certifications – Rick Springfield". Music Canada. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "American certifications – Rick Springfield". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Rocket Science". Amazon. 2017.
  8. ^ "Limited Edition Vinyl - The Red Locusts". Rick Springfield Merchandise. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  9. ^ "THE RED LOCUSTS - "S/T" (CD)". Lolipop Records. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  10. ^ "Stripped Down (Live) by Rick Springfield". iTunes.
  11. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 521–522. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  12. ^ "Rick Springfield Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Rick Springfield Chart History: Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Rick Springfield Chart History: Mainstream Rock". Billboard. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  15. ^ "British certifications – Rick Springfield". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 June 2024. Type Rick Springfield in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  16. ^ "Rick Springfield brings 'Human Touch' to Joe's Bar". ...the new single "I Hate Myself"
  17. ^ "Rocket Science - New Album! - Rick Springfield". .. the rollicking first single "Light This Party Up,"
  18. ^ "Rick Springfield Debuts Music Video for 'Down'". ABC News. ..they might also want to familiarize themselves with his new single "Down"
  19. ^ "Rick Springfield's Got The Blues on New Album 'The Snake King'". ...an immediate download of leadoff single "Little Demon"
  20. ^ "Rick Springfield New Video 'In The Land Of The Blind'". February 2018. Songs such as 'In The Land Of The Blind' (released as a single)...
  21. ^ "Grammy's Greatest Moments, Volume IV". Amazon. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  22. ^ a b McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Rick Springfield'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  23. ^ "Springfield 1974 Unreleased Album". Rick Springfield.