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| Dean Martin discography | |
|---|---|
 Martin in 1957 | |
| Studio albums | 37 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 20 |
| Singles | 108 |
| Box Sets | 5 |
| Retrospective live albums | 3 |
| Retrospective compilation albums | 14 |
This article contains a listing of Dean Martin's original singles, LPs, and compilations from his career.
Martin recorded his first single, "Which Way Did My Heart Go" / "All of Me", for the small record company Diamond Records in July 1946. [1] The majority of the singer's recordings were released by Capitol Records (1948–1961) and later on by Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records (1962–1974). Martin had many hit singles during his lifetime, two of which went to No. 1 on the pop charts—"Memories Are Made of This" in 1956 and "Everybody Loves Somebody" nearly a decade later. A close runner-up was "That's Amore", which stayed at No. 2. His other Top 10’s included "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" (No. 10), "Return to Me" (No. 4), "The Door Is Still Open to My Heart" (No. 6), and "I Will" (No. 10).
After "Volare" reached No. 12 in August 1958, Martin experienced a six-year period in his recording career without any significant activity. Instead, he focused on film acting. A song strongly associated with Martin, "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?," never charted when released as a single. His highest-charting single during that span was "On an Evening in Roma" which peaked at No. 59. It would take "Everybody Loves Somebody" to turn his chart decline around.
"Everybody Loves Somebody" also introduced Martin to the Easy Listening charts. From 1964 to 1969, he had great success there, as 20 of his singles reached the Top 10. The final year that the singer had any significant chart success was 1969, with "Gentle on My Mind", "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am", and "One Cup of Happiness" doing moderately well. In the United Kingdom "Gentle on My Mind" reached No. 2.
The crooner had two singles chart on Billboard's Country chart—"My First Country Song" (No. 35), featuring Conway Twitty, was the first in 1983. As early as 1959, Martin had expressed his love of country music ("My Rifle, My Pony, and Me"). Within a year of signing with Reprise, Martin had recorded his first country album, Country Style, released in January 1963. He continued to record country music prolifically until he retired, but country radio did not play his singles. [2]
Martin released a total of 32 original studio albums throughout his career. His most critically acclaimed projects were released by Capitol Records in the late 1950s e.g., Sleep Warm (1959) and This Time I'm Swingin'! (1960). Nevertheless, the singer had no significant album chart success until he signed with Reprise Records in the early 1960s.
The Everybody Loves Somebody 1964 compilation album was Martin's best-selling album. It sat at No. 2, narrowly missing the top spot. The Dean Martin Christmas Album , released in 1966, became a permanent best-seller throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, hitting No. 1 on Billboard's Christmas chart.
Other albums that made the Top 20 Pop Albums chart include Dream with Dean (No. 15), The Door Is Still Open to My Heart (No. 9), Dean Martin Hits Again (No. 13), (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You (No. 12), Houston (No. 11), Welcome to My World (No. 20), and Gentle on My Mind (No. 14).
Martin virtually retired from the studio after November 1974, exacerbated by Reprise's decision to withhold the Once in a While project. The label believed Martin paying tribute to his influences would not sell well at the height of disco. The label finally reversed its decision four years later after embellishing the backing tracks with a more modern, disco-flavored rhythm section. Once in a While concluded the artist's association with Reprise.
His longtime producer, Jimmy Bowen, persuaded Martin to record one more album.The Nashville Sessions, released by Warner Brothers, became a moderate success in 1983. The crooner's recording career ended in July 1985, when he recorded the non-charting single, "L.A. Is My Home". Despite the singer's renown for his ease in front of audiences, no live albums were made available until after his passing in 1995.
Demand for Martin's recordings continues to be significantly high in the new millennium. [3] Capitol and Collectors' Choice Music re-released Martin's original studio albums. Bear Family Records, one of the world's leading reissue labels based in Germany, chronicled the singer's complete recording sessions in four lavish box sets. Capitol's 2004 compilation, Dino: The Essential Dean Martin, was certified platinum by the RIAA. [4]
Two years later, Country singer Martina McBride overdubbed her vocals onto Martin's original version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" for Capitol's Forever Cool duets project. This resulted in a Top 40 Country/Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit which was Martin's first single activity since "My First Country Song" 23 years earlier. The album featured overdubbed duets with McBride, Kevin Spacey, Dave Koz, Chris Botti, Shelby Lynne, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and more. A duet of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with Scarlett Johansson was added to Martin's My Kind of Christmas CD.
Cool Then, Cool Now, a two-CD/book released on Hip-O Records in 2011, examined the artist's signature hits along with a significant dose of lesser-known recordings.
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [5] | US Country [6] | UK [7] | |||||
| Dean Martin Sings (recorded in 1952) | January 12, 1953 | Capitol | Dean Martin's first studio album | — | — | — | |
| Swingin' Down Yonder (recorded in 1954–1955) | August 1, 1955 | — | — | — | |||
| Pretty Baby | June 17, 1957 | — | — | — | |||
| Sleep Warm (recorded in 1958) | March 2, 1959 | With an orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra | — | — | — | ||
| A Winter Romance | November 16, 1959 | 61 | — | — | |||
| This Time I'm Swingin'! | October 3, 1960 | — | — | 18 | |||
| Dino: Italian Love Songs (recorded in 1961) | February 5, 1962 | 73 | — | — | |||
| French Style | April 1962 | Reprise | Martin's debut for Frank Sinatra's Reprise record label | — | — | — | |
| Cha Cha de Amor (recorded in 1961) | November 5, 1962 | Capitol | Martin's final sessions for Capitol, recorded in December 1961. | — | — | — | |
| Dino Latino | November 27, 1962 | Reprise | 99 | — | — | ||
| Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style | January 14, 1963 | 109 | — | — | |||
| Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again | June 10, 1963 | — | — | — | |||
| Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre | 1963 | A set of four albums, including three albums with Dean; w/ Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Debbie Reynolds and other artists | — | — | — | ||
| Robin and the 7 Hoods | June 1964 | w/ Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Falk | — | — | — | ||
| Dream with Dean | August 4, 1964 | 15 | — | — | |||
| The Door Is Still Open to My Heart | October 3, 1964 | "I'm Gonna Change Everything," "The Middle of the Night Is My Cryin' Time," and "My Sugar's Gone" were lifted from the Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again album. | 9 | — | — | ||
| Dean Martin Hits Again | February 2, 1965 | "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" was lifted from Martin's previous LP, The Door Is Still Open to My Heart . | 13 | — | — | ||
| (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You | August 2, 1965 | 12 | — | — | |||
| Houston | November 1965 | 11 | — | — | |||
| Somewhere There's a Someone | February 1966 | 50 | — | — | |||
| Dean Martin Sings Songs from "The Silencers" | April 1966 | 108 | — | — | |||
| The Hit Sound of Dean Martin | July 26, 1966 | "Any Time" and "Ain't Gonna Try Anymore" were lifted from Martin's 1963 LP, Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style . | 50 | — | — | ||
| The Dean Martin Christmas Album | October 11, 1966 | As Billboard changed its policy for Christmas albums in 1963, this album was ineligible for the main pop chart. However, on the seasonal Christmas chart, the album reached No. 1. | 21 | — | — | ||
| The Dean Martin TV Show (UK: At Ease with Dean) | November 7, 1966 | 34 | — | 35 | |||
| Happiness Is Dean Martin | May 2, 1967 | The album contains a stripped down band arrangement with less emphasis placed on vocal choruses and orchestration. | 46 | — | — | ||
| Welcome to My World (recorded in 1964–1967) | August 15, 1967 | "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" was lifted from Dean Martin Hits Again , while Welcome to My World originally appeared on another 1965 LP, (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You . | 20 | — | 39 | ||
| Gentle on My Mind | December 17, 1968 | 14 | — | 9 | |||
| I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am | August 7, 1969 | 90 | — | — | |||
| My Woman My Woman My Wife | August 25, 1970 | 97 | — | — | |||
| For the Good Times (recorded in 1970) | February 2, 1971 | 113 | 41 | — | |||
| Dino (recorded in 1971) | January 18, 1972 | 117 | — | — | |||
| Sittin' on Top of the World | May 29, 1973 | Martin's first studio album to miss the charts entirely since Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again 10 years earlier. | — | — | — | ||
| You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me | December 14, 1973 | — | — | — | |||
| Once in a While (recorded in 1974) | October 20, 1978 | Recorded in November 1974, the album was withheld for four years. Although partial rhythm tracks, strings, and chorus vocals were overdubbed in Nashville by producer Jimmy Bowen as a last ditch effort to contemporize the songs, Once in a While made no sales impact, becoming Martin's final product for Reprise. | — | — | — | ||
| The Nashville Sessions | June 15, 1983 | Warner Bros. Records | Martin's final recording sessions, except for the rare 1985 single, "L.A. Is My Home". | — | 49 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
| Title | Release Date | Label | Notes | Peak chart positions | Certifications [9] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | UK [7] | |||||
| At Villa Venice, Chicago (Live 1962) (recorded in 1962) | 1993 | Jazz Hour Compact Classics | Recorded live between November 26 - December 2, 1962, in The Villa Venice Night Club, Chicago, Illinois. Released in 2 volumes. | — | — | |
| Live at the Sands Hotel (recorded in 1964) | March 27, 2001 | Bianco Records | Recorded live on February 8, 1964, in Las Vegas. Perhaps the most famous Martin live recording, this has been available for many years on numerous bootlegs, so the original release date/label is questionable. | — | — | |
| Live from Las Vegas (recorded in 1967) | April 26, 2005 | Capitol Records | Recorded live on April 4, 1967, at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas | — | — | |
| Live from Lake Tahoe 1962 (recorded in 1962) | June 7, 2005 | Recorded live on July 27, 1962, at the Cal-Neva Lodge in Lake Tahoe. Only seven songs from the show were originally issued as part of a special "platinum edition" of Dino: The Essential Dean Martin . The complete concert was released in its entirety on the 2012 box set, Collected Cool. | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | AUS [10] | UK [7] | |||
| This Is Dean Martin! | — | — | — | ||
| Martin Magic | — | — | — | ||
| Everybody Loves Somebody |
| 2 | — | — | |
| Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine |
| — | — | — | |
| The Lush Years |
| — | — | — | |
| The Summit (w/ Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.) | — | — | — | ||
| Relaxin' |
| — | — | — | |
| Somewhere There's a Someone |
| 40 | — | — |
|
| Happy in Love |
| — | — | — | |
| The Best of Dean Martin |
| 95 | — | — |
|
| You Can't Love 'Em All |
| — | — | — | |
| Dino – Like Never Before |
| — | — | — | |
| Deluxe |
| — | — | — | |
| Dean Martin's Greatest Hits! Vol. 1 |
| 26 | — | 40 |
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| Dean Martin's Greatest Hits! Volume 2 |
| 83 | — | — |
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| I Can't Give You Anything but Love |
| — | — | — | |
| On the Sunny Side |
| — | — | — | |
| The Best of Dean Martin, Vol. 2 |
| 145 | — | — | |
| Young & Foolish |
| — | — | — | |
| The Capitol Collector's Series |
| — | — | — |
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| All-Time Greatest Hits |
| — | — | — |
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| Retrospective compilation albums: | |||||
| Greatest Hits: King of Cool |
| — | 9 | — |
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| Hurtin' Country Songs |
| — | — | — | |
| Swingin' with Dino |
| — | — | — | |
| Dino: The Essential Dean Martin |
| 28 | 29 | 25 |
|
| Christmas with Dino |
| 69 | — | — | |
| Forever Cool |
| 39 | 27 | — | |
| Amore |
| — | — | — | |
| My Kind of Christmas |
| 152 | — | — | |
| Essential Love Songs |
| — | — | — | |
| Cool Then, Cool Now |
| — | — | — | |
| Icon |
| — | — | — | |
| Icon, Vol. 2 |
| — | — | — | |
| Greatest Hits |
| — | — | — | |
| Dino's Christmas |
| 60 | — | — | |
| Playlist: The Very Best of Dean Martin |
| — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Bells Are Ringing (with Judy Holliday) |
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| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Memories Are Made of This |
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| Return to Me |
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| Everybody Loves Somebody: The Reprise Years 1962–1966 |
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| Lay Some Happiness on Me: The Reprise Years and More 1966–1985 |
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| Collected Cool |
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| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US [6] | ||
| Dean Martin |
| 10 |
| Year | Single | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | "Which Way Did My Heart Go?" / "All of Me" | Diamond |
| "I Got the Sun in the Morning" / "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" | ||
| 1947 | "Oh Marie" / "Walking My Baby Back Home" | Apollo |
| 1948 | "Santa Lucia" / "Hold Me" | |
| 1949 | "One Foot in Heaven" / "The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful" | Embassy |
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | US CB | UK [11] | AUS | ||||
| 1948 | "That Certain Party" (with Jerry Lewis) | 22 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1949 | "Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile, Smile, Smile)" | 10 | — | — | — | ||
| 1950 | "I'll Always Love You" | 11 | — | — | — | Happy in Love (Compilation rel. 8/2/66 via Tower Records) | |
| 1951 | "Ma Come Bali (Bella Bimba)" | — | — | — | 8 | — | |
| "If" | 14 | — | — | — | You Can't Love 'Em All (Pickwick Budget LP) | ||
| 1952 | "You Belong to Me" | 12 | — | — | 1 | — | |
| 1953 | "Love Me, Love Me" | 25 | — | — | — | Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine | |
| "Kiss" | — | — | 5 | — | — | ||
| "That's Amore" | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Sunny Italy (EP rel. 12/7/53) & Dean Martin Sings (12" LP Version) | |
| 1954 | "I'd Cry Like a Baby" | 21 | — | — | — | Single only | |
| "Hey Brother Pour the Wine" (B-side of "I'd Cry Like a Baby") | — | 30 | — | — | Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine | ||
| "Sway" | 15 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
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| "Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket" (B-side of "Sway") | 23 | — | — | — | Living It Up (EP rel. 6/7/54) | ||
| "How Do You Speak to an Angel" | — | — | 15 | — | |||
| "That's What I Like" | — | 29 | — | — | — | ||
| "The Peddler Man" (B-side of "That's What I Like") | — | 33 | — | — | |||
| "Try Again" | — | 36 | — | — | |||
| "One More Time" (B-side of "Try Again") | — | 44 | — | — | |||
| 1955 | "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" (UK & AU Single only) | — | — | 5 | 1 | Dean Martin (EP rel. December 13, 1954) | |
| "Mambo Italiano" (UK & AU Single only) | — | — | 14 | 2 | |||
| "Let Me Go Lover" (UK & AU Single only) | — | — | 3 | 1 | |||
| "That's All I Want from You" (UK & AU Single only) | — | — | — | 4 | |||
| "Young and Foolish" | — | 34 | 20 | — | — | ||
| "Under the Bridges of Paris" (B-side of "Young and Foolish") | — | — | 6 | — | |||
| "Open Up the Doghouse" (with Nat King Cole) | — | 22 | — | 19 | |||
| "Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)" | — | — | — | 8 | |||
| "Memories Are Made of This" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Memories Are Made of This (EP rel. December 12, 1955) & Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine | ||
| "Relax-ay-Voo" | — | — | — | 16 | Single only | ||
| 1956 | "Innamorata" | 27 | 17 | 21 | 20 | Artists and Models (EP rel. December 26, 1955) | |
| "Standing on the Corner" | 22 | — | — | — | Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine | ||
| "Watching the World Go By" (B-side of "Standing on the Corner") | 83 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Lady with the Big Umbrella" | — | — | — | 21 | |||
| "I'm Gonna Steal You Away" | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Mississippi Dreamboat" | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Look" | — | — | — | — | This Is Dean Martin! | ||
| "I Know I Can't Forget" | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1957 | "The Man Who Plays the Mandolino" | — | — | 21 | — | Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine | |
| "Only Trust Your Heart" | — | — | — | — | Ten Thousand Bedrooms (EP) | ||
| "I Never Had a Chance" | — | — | — | — | The Lush Years | ||
| "Write to Me from Naples" | — | — | — | — | This Is Dean Martin! | ||
| "Promise Her Anything" | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Good Mornin' Life" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1958 | "Return to Me" | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | Return to Me (EP rel. April 21, 1958) & This Is Dean Martin! LP | |
| "Angel Baby" | 30 | 38 | — | 57 | Volare (EP rel. 8/11/58) & This Is Dean Martin! LP | ||
| "Volare" | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| "The Magician" | — | — | — | 92 | — | ||
| "Once Upon a Time" (B-side of "The Magician") | — | 94 | — | — | |||
| 1959 | "You Were Made for Love" | — | — | — | — | Happy in Love | |
| "It Takes So long" (B-side of "You Were Made For Love") | — | 80 | — | — | The Lush Years | ||
| "Rio Bravo" | — | — | — | — | |||
| "On an Evening in Roma" (Single Version) | 59 | 36 | — | 26 | Single only: (a 1961 version is on Dino: Italian Love Songs ) | ||
| "I Ain't Gonna Lead This Life No More" | — | — | — | — | You Can't Love 'Em All (Pickwick Budget LP) | ||
| 1960 | "Love Me, My Love" | 107 | 110 | — | — | The Lush Years | |
| "Who Was That Lady?" (B-side of "Love Me, My Love") | — | tag | — | — | Relaxin' | ||
| "Professor! Professor!" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Just in Time" | — | — | — | — | This Time I'm Swingin'! | ||
| "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" | — | — | — | — |
| You Can't Love 'Em All (Pickwick Budget LP) | |
| "Sogni d'oro" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1961 | "Sparklin' Eyes" | — | 98 | — | — | Relaxin' | |
| "All in a Night's Work (Movie Theme Song) | — | — | — | — | I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Pickwick Budget LP) | ||
| "Giuggiola" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | US CB | US A/C [6] | UK [11] | AUS | |||||
| 1962 | "Tik-A-Tee, Tik-A-Tay" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "C'est si bon" | — | — | — | — | — | French Style | |||
| "Baby-O" | — | — | — | — | — | Everybody Loves Somebody | |||
| "Who's Got the Action?" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "From the Bottom of My Heart" | 91 | 93 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Sam's Song" (with Sammy Davis, Jr.; B-side of "Me and My Shadow," a duet between Davis and Frank Sinatra) | 94 | — | — | — | — | The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show (February 1966 LP) | |||
| "Senza Fine" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1963 | "Face in a Crowd" | 128 | 136 | — | — | — | Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style | ||
| "My Sugar's Gone" | — | — | — | — | — | Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again | |||
| "Via Veneto" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fugue for Tinhorns" (with Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra) | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1964 | "La Giostra" (The Merry-Go-Round) | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Single Version) [i] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| Everybody Loves Somebody | ||
| "The Door Is Still Open to My Heart" | 6 | 8 | 1 | 42 | 34 | The Door Is Still Open to My Heart | |||
| "Every Minute Every Hour" (B-side of "The Door Is Still Open to My Heart") | 123 | 140 | — | — | — | ||||
| "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" | 25 | 26 | 1 | — | 78 |
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| "You'll Always Be the One I Love" (B-side of "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You") | 64 | 79 | 13 | — | — | Dean Martin Hits Again | |||
| 1965 | "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" | 22 | 20 | 5 | — | 40 | |||
| "I'll Be Seeing You" (B-side of "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On") | — | 148 | — | — | — | ||||
| "(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You" | 32 | 35 | 7 | — | 37 | (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You | |||
| "Houston" | 21 | 24 | 2 | — | 91 | Houston | |||
| "Bumming Around"(B-side of "Houston") | — | 141 | — | — | — | (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You | |||
| "I Will" | 10 | 11 | 3 | — | 29 | Houston | |||
| "You're the Reason I'm in Love"(B-side of "I Will") | — | 136 | — | — | — | ||||
| 1966 | "Somewhere There's a Someone" | 32 | 34 | 2 | — | 61 | Somewhere There's a Someone | ||
| "Come Running Back" | 35 | 40 | 4 | — | 35 | The Hit Sound of Dean Martin | |||
| "Bouquet of Roses"(B-side of "Come Running Back") | — | 116 | — | — | — | Somewhere There's a Someone | |||
| "A Million and One" | 41 | 45 | 4 | — | 82 | The Hit Sound of Dean Martin | |||
| "Nobody's Baby Again" | 60 | 52 | 6 | — | — | Happiness Is Dean Martin | |||
| "It Just Happened That Way" [B-side of "Nobody's Baby Again"] | — | 89 | — | — | — | ||||
| "(Open Up the Door) Let the Good Times In" | 55 | 55 | 7 | — | 72 | ||||
| "Blue Christmas" | — | — | — | — | — | The Dean Martin Christmas Album | |||
| 1967 | "Lay Some Happiness on Me" | 55 | 55 | 6 | — | 50 | Happiness Is Dean Martin | ||
| "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" (Recorded December 22, 1964) | 25 | 30 | 1 | — | 4 | Dean Martin Hits Again | |||
| "Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me" | 38 | 48 | 5 | — | 5 | Welcome to My World | |||
| "Things" (with Nancy Sinatra) [ii] | — | — | — | — | 61 | Movin' with Nancy | |||
| "In the Misty Moonlight" (Recorded August 24, 1964) | 46 | 62 | 1 | — | 25 | The Door Is Still Open to My Heart | |||
| 1968 | "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" (Overdubbed Single Version) | 60 | 44 | 7 | — | 74 | The original version is on Happiness Is Dean Martin. | ||
| "April Again" | 105 | 67 | 9 | — | 96 | Gentle on My Mind | |||
| "That Old Time Feelin'" [B-side of "April Again"] | 104 | — | 19 | — | — | ||||
| "5 Card Stud" | 107 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Not Enough Indians" | 43 | 44 | 4 | — | 17 | Gentle on My Mind | |||
| 1969 | "Gentle on My Mind" | 103 | 93 | 9 | 2 | 47 | |||
| "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" | 75 | 71 | 15 | — | 88 | I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am | |||
| "One Cup of Happiness (and One Piece of Mind)" | 107 | 82 | 15 | — | — | ||||
| 1970 | "Come on Down" | — | 121 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "For the Love of a Woman" | 123 | 122 | — | — | — | ||||
| "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" | 110 | 97 | — | — | 92 | My Woman, My Woman, My Wife | |||
| "Detroit City" | 101 | 99 | 36 | — | — | ||||
| "Georgia Sunshine" | 118 | 117 | — | — | — | For the Good Times | |||
| 1971 | "She's a Little Bit Country" | — | 121 | 36 | — | — | |||
| "What's Yesterday" | — | 115 | — | — | — | Dino | |||
| 1972 | "Guess Who" | — | — | 92 | — | — | |||
| 1973 | "Amor Mio" | — | — | 73 | — | — | You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me | ||
| "Get on with Your Livin'" | 108 | — | 50 | — | — | ||||
| "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" | — | — | 86 | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] | |||
| 1983 | "My First Country Song" (with Conway Twitty) | 35 | The Nashville Sessions |
| "Since I Met You Baby" | 58 |
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] | |||
| 1985 | "L.A. Is My Home" [Recorded in July 1985, Martin's final single released during his lifetime]. | 30 | — |
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [12] | US AC [6] | US Country [6] | AUS [13] | UK [14] | ||||
| 2006 | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Martina McBride) | — | 7 | 36 | — | — | Forever Cool | |
| 2011 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" | — | — | — | — | 69 | A Winter Romance | |
| 2018 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 20 | — | — | — | 54 | ||
| 2019 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 15 | — | — | — | 39 | ||
| 2020 | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | 45 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 8 | — | — | — | 37 | |||
| 2021 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 12 | — | — | — | 27 | ||
| 2022 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 17 | — | — | 20 | 20 | ||
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (re-entry) | — | — | — | — | 98 | |||
| 2023 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 7 [15] | — | — | — | 13 | ||
| "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | — | — | — | — | 74 | |||
| 2024 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (re-entry) | 8 | — | — | — | 20 | ||
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (re-entry) | 36 | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Since many radio stations in the US adopt a format change to Christmas music each December, many holiday hits have an annual spike in popularity during the last few weeks of the year and are retired once the season is over. [18] In December 2011, Billboard began a Holiday Songs chart with 50 positions that monitors the last five weeks of each year to "rank the top holiday hits of all eras using the same methodology as the Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay, and sales data". [19] In 2013, the number of positions on the chart was doubled resulting in the Holiday 100. [20] A half-dozen Martin recordings have made appearances on the Holiday 100 and are noted below according to the holiday season in which they charted there.
| Title | Holiday season peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1959 version) | — | — | 87 [21] | — | — | — | 65 [22] | 17 [23] | 23 [24] | 36 [25] | 37 [26] | 38 [27] | 35 [28] | 29 [29] | A Winter Romance |
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Duet with Martina McBride) | — | — | 94 [30] | — | 69 [31] | 63 [32] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Forever Cool |
| "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" | 31 [33] | 31 [34] | 31 [35] | 17 [36] | 7 [31] | 11 [32] | 8 [37] | 8 [38] | 6 [39] | 7 [40] | 9 [41] | 9 [42] | 7 [28] | 7 [43] | A Winter Romance |
| "A Marshmallow World" | — | — | — | — | 52 [44] | 70 [45] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Dean Martin Christmas Album |
| "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | — | — | 63 [30] | 85 [46] | 85 [31] | 78 [32] | 91 [37] | — | 71 [47] | 92 [48] | — | — | 86 [28] | 88 [43] | A Winter Romance |
| "Silver Bells" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 98 [49] | 76 [38] | 77 [50] | 92 [51] | 95 [52] | — | 88 [53] | 85 [43] | The Dean Martin Christmas Album |
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. In 2004 it finished at No. 76 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in North American cinema.
American singer Mariah Carey has released 88 official singles, 22 promotional singles, and has made 30 guest appearances. Her self-titled debut album in 1990 yielded four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, the first being "Vision of Love", a song credited with revolutionizing the usage of distinguished vocal stylings, predominantly the practice of melisma, and effectively influencing virtually every female R&B performer since the 1990s. Subsequent singles "Emotions" (1991) and Carey's cover of the Jackson 5 track "I'll Be There" (1992) continued the singer's streak of US number-one singles, with the latter becoming her fourth chart-topper in Canada and first in the Netherlands. With the release of Carey's third studio album, Music Box (1993), the singer's international popularity surged upon release of "Hero" and the album's third single, her cover of Harry Nilsson's "Without You", which became the singer's first number-one single in several countries across Europe.
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as simply "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945 in Hollywood, California, during a heatwave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions. The song was first recorded that fall by Vaughn Monroe, was released just after Thanksgiving, and became a hit by Christmas.
"The Christmas Song" is a Christmas song written in 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.
"White Christmas" is a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. Written by Irving Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Originally sung by Bing Crosby, it topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944. His version would return to the top 40 a dozen times in subsequent years.
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"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in eight recordings in 1949—including well-known versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, Hot Lips Page and Pearl Bailey, and by Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell—and has been covered numerous times since.
"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists. Its lyrics are about a couple's romance during winter.
"Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written and first recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano. With its simple, heartfelt lyrics—the traditional Spanish Christmas/New Year greeting "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad", followed by text in English words "I wanna wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart"—, it has become a Christmas classic and has gained popularity around the world.
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This article contains a list of albums by Nat King Cole and compilations of his recordings, together with a list of his chart singles.
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a popular Christmas song written in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle. It was recorded and released that year by pop singer Andy Williams for his first Christmas album, The Andy Williams Christmas Album. However, the song was not released as a promotional single by Williams' record label that year, as they instead opted to promote his cover of "White Christmas" as the official promo single from the album. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" has consistently made it onto pop singles charts around the world in the 2010s and 2020s. It peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 2020 and at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart in 2021.
Canadian singer Michael Bublé has released eleven studio albums, three live albums, one compilation album, nine EPs, eighteen singles, and fourteen music videos. He has recorded for Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records, and 143 Records. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Canadian artists in history. Billboard listed him as the 3rd Top Canadian Artist of all time. He has scored 4 No. 1 albums on Billboard 200. He was listed by Billboard as the 47th Top Artist of 2010s decade. He also placed three albums on Billboard 200 Albums of the Decade which includes: Christmas, To Be Loved and Crazy Love.
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"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a song by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer published by the Montgomery Ward Company. Gene Autry's recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas standard.
The American singer, songwriter, and actress Ariana Grande has released seven studio albums, one soundtrack album, one live album, one remix album, one compilation album, two extended plays (EPs), sixty singles, and fourteen promotional singles. Throughout her career thus far, Grande has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she has sold over 131 million units, across albums, singles, and features, and 13 million albums and 95.5 million digital singles units as a lead artist. In the U.S., Grande has moved 22.4 million album units, and garnered over 23.6 billion streams across lead artist credits, according to Luminate. Having amassed over 105 billion consumed streams thus far, Grande is the most streamed female artist ever. She is also the most streamed female artist of the 2010s on Spotify and Apple Music. She has amassed 91 chart entries on the Billboard Hot 100—the third most entries for a female artist—including nine number ones and 23 top-10 hits altogether so far. Grande was named the sixth top female artist of the 2010s decade, and was ranked among Billboard's Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists, at number 78. Grande is also one of the best selling female artists in the UK, with over 31 million units.
American a cappella group Pentatonix (PTX) has released 11 studio albums, six compilation albums, six extended plays (EPs), 34 singles and 58 music videos. The group won the third season of The Sing-Off in 2011, and subsequently received a recording contract with Sony. In June 2012, Pentatonix released their first extended play, PTX, Volume 1 through Sony-owned independent record label Madison Gate Records. The EP debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard 200, selling 18,401 copies in its first week of sales. A Christmas EP, PTXmas, was released in November 2012. It was re-released in November 2013 with one of its new tracks, "Little Drummer Boy", debuting at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and charting in other countries such as Austria, Canada and New Zealand. The EP became the sixth highest-selling Christmas album of 2013, selling over 168,000 copies. In November 2013, Pentatonix released their third EP, PTX, Vol. II which debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, selling 31,000 copies in its first week of sales.
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José Feliciano has recorded 56 studio albums, most of which are primarily sung in either English or Spanish. Three of his releases received the standard Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 units. Two of his other albums were awarded Los Premios de Oro y De Platino from the RIAA: Señor Bolero went double Platinum in 2004 for surpassing sales of 120,000 units, and José Feliciano y Amigos went Gold in 2008 after selling 30,000 copies.