| Ben Rector discography | |
|---|---|
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| Studio albums | 8 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 17 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Singles | 16 |
| As featured artist | 5 |
| Other appearances | 8 |
The discography of American singer, songwriter and record producer Ben Rector consists of eight studio albums, three live albums, one compilation album, three extended plays (EP), sixteen singles and seventeen music videos. He has been featured on five songs and has credits on eight others.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] | US Rock [2] | US Indie [3] | US Folk [4] | |||||||||
| Twenty Tomorrow |
| — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Songs That Duke Wrote |
| — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Into the Morning |
| — | — | 39 | — | |||||||
| Something Like This |
| 41 | 15 | 11 | — | |||||||
| The Walking in Between |
| 16 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
| Brand New |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Magic |
| 44 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| The Joy of Music |
| 189 | — | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||||
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| A Ben Rector Christmas |
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||
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| US [1] | US Rock [2] | US Indie [3] | US Folk [4] | ||||||||
| Live in Denver |
| 139 | 40 | 25 | 3 | ||||||
| Magic: Live from the USA |
| — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Live from Atlanta |
| — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | EP details |
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| Ben Rector |
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| Jingles and Bells |
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| Summer Candy |
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| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "The Power of Love" | 2014 | "Newy Lewis and the Hues: Greatest Hits" [upper-alpha 1] |
| "I Want a New Drug" | ||
| "Do You Believe in Love" | ||
| "Brand New" | 2016 | Brand New |
| "Kids" (MPLS Version) | 2019 | "MPLS Magic" (MPLS Version) [upper-alpha 2] |
| "Drive" (MPLS Version) | ||
| "Duo" (MPLS Version) | ||
| "It Would Be You" | 2020 | The Joy of Music |
| "It Would Be You" (acoustic) (featuring Ingrid Michaelson) | Non-album single | |
| "The Thanksgiving Song" | A Ben Rector Christmas | |
| "Range Rover" (featuring Steve Winwood) | 2021 | Non-album single |
| "The Best Is Yet to Come" | "The Best Is Yet to Come" [upper-alpha 3] | |
| "The Best Is Yet to Come (A Song for the New Year)" | ||
| "What Makes a Man" (featuring Thomas Rhett) | 2022 | Non-album singles |
| "Wonderful World" | ||
| "Joy" (The Choir Room Version) (featuring The Choir Room) | 2023 | |
| "Color Up My World" (featuring Hailey Whitters) | 2024 | |
| "Wreck" |
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "A Bear in the Woods" (Josh Lovelace featuring Ben Rector) | 2017 | Young Folk |
| "Sailboat" (Cody Fry featuring Ben Rector) | 2022 | Symphony Sessions |
| "Back in Time" (Christina Perri featuring Ben Rector) | A Lighter Shade of Blue | |
| "Juggernaut (Sessions)" (John Mark McMillan featuring Ben Rector) | Non-album single | |
| "Ready" (Cory Wong featuring Ben Rector) [8] | 2023 | The Lucky One |
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Dance With Me Baby" | 2010 | Into the Morning |
| "Beautiful" | 2014 | The Walking in Between |
| "The Power of Love" | "Newy Lewis and the Hues: Greatest Hits" | |
| "I Want a New Drug" | ||
| "Do You Believe in Love" | ||
| "Brand New" [9] | 2015 | Brand New |
| "Paris" | ||
| "Drive" | 2018 | Magic |
| "Old Friends" | ||
| "The Thanksgiving Song" | 2020 | A Ben Rector Christmas |
| "Range Rover" (featuring Steve Winwood) | 2021 | Non-album singles |
| "The Best Is Yet Come" [10] | ||
| "Dream On" [11] | 2022 | The Joy of Music |
| "Supernatural" [11] (featuring Dave Koz) | ||
| "Living My Best Life" [11] | ||
| "Heroes" [11] | ||
| "Sunday" [11] (featuring Snoop Dogg) | ||
| "Wonderful World" | Non-album singles | |
| "Joy (The Choir Room Version)" | 2023 | Non-album singles |
| "Color Up My World" (featuring Hailey Whitters) | 2024 | Non-album singles |
| Title | Year | Artist | Album | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Everything Will Be Alright" | 2011 | Matt Wertz | Weights & Wings | Co-writer, backing vocals | [12] |
| "Running Back to You" | Co-writer | [12] | |||
| "For the First Time" | |||||
| "She Is" | 2014 | Lady A | 747 | Writer | [13] |
| "Time Machine" | 2019 | David Hodges | Discrepancies in the Recollection of Various Principles / Side B | Co-writer | |
| "Takeoff" | 2020 | Cory Wong | Elevated Music for an Elevated Mood | Electric piano | |
| "Range Rover" | Devin Dawson | The Pink Slip | Co-writer | ||
| "The Thanksgiving Song" | 2021 | The Petersens | Live Sessions, Vol. 04 | Writer | |
| "Today" | 2023 | Marc Scibilia | Mindy | Co-writer |
Brandy is the debut studio album by American singer Brandy. It was released on September 27, 1994, by Atlantic Records. Chiefly produced by Keith Crouch, the album contains a range of contemporary genres, including hip-hop, pop-soul, and R&B. Aside from Crouch, Norwood worked with a range of other writers and producers, including R&B group Somethin' for the People, Arvel McClinton, and Damon Thomas.
Human is the fifth studio album by American singer Brandy. It was released on December 5, 2008 by Epic Records, Knockout Entertainment and Koch Records. The album was Norwood's debut Epic Records release, following her split with Atlantic Records in 2005, and her reunion with longtime collaborator and mentor Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, who executively produced and wrote most of the album with his songwriting collective.
"Long Distance" is a song by American recording artist Brandy Norwood. It was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Jeff Bhasker, and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and was co-produced by Jerkins and Mars for her fifth studio album Human (2008) based on a demo by Mars. It appears as the seventh track on the album on which it is interluded by a telephone conversation between two lovers. The lyrics of the piano–led power ballad describe the protagonist's emotional state towards an ongoing long-distance relationship, which leaves her in depression.
"Not Meant to Be" is a song recorded by Canadian rock group Theory of a Deadman for their third studio album, Scars & Souvenirs (2008). Band members Tyler Connolly, Dave Brenner, and Dean Back composed the song, while Connolly co-wrote the lyrics with songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi. The song was released November 18, 2008 as the album's fifth overall radio single. It was the first song from the album to impact mainstream radio in the United States, concurrent with the release of "Hate My Life" to rock formats. In 2009, "Not Meant to Me" was included on the soundtrack to the science fiction action film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Benjamin Evans Rector is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Rector is an independent artist, and releases music under his own label OK Kid Recordings. A self-taught instrumentalist, Rector began songwriting and learning guitar at age 16, and began performing locally in high school. While attending college at the University of Arkansas he would tour within an 8 hour driving radius on the weekends. An early success saw him being the youngest grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting contest in 2006 with the song "Conversation" from his self-titled extended play (EP). He released his first studio album Twenty Tomorrow in 2007, followed by Songs that Duke Wrote in 2008. 2010's Into the Morning would peak at No. 11 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. The year following saw Rector debut on the Billboard 200 with Something Like This.
Something Like This is the fourth studio album released by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector. It was his first album after graduating from the University of Arkansas and relocating from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums charts and No. 41 on the Billboard 200, and charted 1st on the Singer-Songwriter chart on iTunes and 4th overall.
Stop the World is the second studio album by American rock band Aranda. The album was released digitally on January 31, 2012, and as a CD on February 14, 2012. It was re-released on October 16, 2012. It includes the single "Undone", and other songs such as "One More Lie" and "Satisfied".
"Put It Down" is a song by American singer Brandy featuring Chris Brown. Taken from her sixth studio album Two Eleven (2012), it was written and produced by Sean Garrett, Shondrae "Bangladesh" Crawford and Dwayne "Dem Jointz" Abernathy along with Brown, telling the story of Norwood complimenting a prospective beau on his swag. The bass-heavy, R&B up-tempo track served as Norwood's first release under RCA Records, since signing to Chameleon Records under the label, and was released to US digital outlets on May 4, 2012.
"I Like Girls That Drink Beer" is a song recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith and co-written with Bobby Pinson. It was released in July 2012 and is the first single from his album Hope on the Rocks, released on October 30, 2012.
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The Walking in Between is the fifth studio album released by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector, released in 2013. It was partly produced by Jamie Kenney and Charlie Peacock, and partially self-produced. It is the first release by Rector on his self-founded label, Aptly Named Recordings. In recent years, Rector found his high levels of success to be overwhelming. He expected the success to satisfying, though found it instead in "walking in between" moments of daily life. This would inspire the direction of The Walking in Between. The album was built around accessibility and honesty in Rector's feelings.
Brand New is the sixth studio album by Ben Rector. It was released on August 28, 2015. It is the second album he has released under his own record label, Aptly Named Recordings. The first single "Brand New" which was produced by Ed Cash & David Hodges, debuted at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 and then peaked at number 9.
"I Like the Sound of That" is a song by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on August 31, 2015, as the fourth and final single from their album Rewind. The song was written by Jesse Frasure along with American singer Meghan Trainor and Shay Mooney of the American country music duo Dan + Shay.
PTX, Vol. IV: Classics is the fifth extended play album by the a cappella group Pentatonix. It was released by RCA Records on April 7, 2017, and is their first EP since 2014's PTX, Vol. III. It is their final release with original member Avi Kaplan, who left the group later that year.
Magic is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector, released on June 22, 2018 through OK Kid Recordings. Rector co-produced the album alongside Tony Hoffer, John Fields, Chad Copelin, Jeff Pardo, and Konrad Snyder. It was the longest gap between one of Rector's releases due to the success of the previous album, Brand New. After completing tours for Brand New Rector found time to reminisce on the progress of his music career, being overwhelmed by feelings of nostalgia. Themes of nostalgia and reminiscing would, as a result, be the theme of Magic.
"Old Friends" is a 2018 song by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector. It released as a single alongside "I Will Always Be Yours" on May 18, 2018, and is the fourth song on Rector's seventh studio album Magic, released on June 22, 2018 via OK Kid Recordings. The song is a reflective piece reminiscing on old friends and memories.
Kitt Wakeley is an American Grammy Award-winning composer, songwriter, musician, and music producer. His album Symphony of Sinners & Saints peaked at #1 on Billboard's Classical Crossover and Classical charts, and at #18 on Hot Hard Rock Songs. Singles "Conflicted", "Forgive Me", and "Sinners and Saints" all peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hard Rock Digital Song Sales as well as charting on the Top-10 Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. He has released four studio albums that feature Nuno Bettencourt, Nita Strauss, Kenny Aronoff, Andy Timmons, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Voices.
The Joy of Music is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector, released on March 11, 2022, through OK Kid Recordings. Rector co-produced the album with John Fields. The first draft of music was recorded in January 2020, but most of the album was scrapped and recorded throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and completed in December 2020. The pandemic cancelled his ongoing tour at the time and withheld other deadlines, leaving Rector to focus exclusively on the album's creation.
A Ben Rector Christmas is a compilation studio album by American singer-songwriter Ben Rector, released on November 13, 2020, through OK Kid Recordings. It is a collection of popular Christmas songs, including "The Thanksgiving Song", an original piece based on the holiday of the same name; "The Thanksgiving Song" released October 27, 2020, and the album followed on November 13, 2020. Due to lockdowns amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Rector had time to make and release a Christmas album with the lack of scheduled conflicts, ahead of his reworked studio album The Joy of Music.
The Biggest Tour I Have Done So Far Tour is a 2016 concert tour from American singer-songwriter Ben Rector. Aptly named, it was his largest tour at the time.