Kenny Chesney albums discography

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Kenny Chesney discography
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Chesney performing in 2008
Studio albums20
Live albums2
Compilation albums5

American country music singer Kenny Chesney has released twenty studio albums (including a Christmas album), two live albums, and two greatest hits albums. Ten of his albums consecutively reached number one on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Fourteen of them have been certified gold or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His highest-certified albums are No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002), When the Sun Goes Down (2004), and his first Greatest Hits compilation, each certified 4× Platinum for shipping four million copies in the US. Chesney has recorded for four labels: Capricorn Records, BNA Records, Columbia Records Nashville, and Warner Records Nashville. Since 2008's Lucky Old Sun , his albums have been released in association with his own label, Blue Chair Records.

Contents

Studio albums

1990s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
US
Heat.

[3]
CAN Country
[4]
In My Wildest Dreams 37
All I Need to Know
  • Release date: June 13, 1995
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
399
Me and You
  • Release date: June 4, 1996
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
9781
  • RIAA: Platinum [6]
I Will Stand
  • Release date: July 15, 1997
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1095
  • RIAA: Platinum [7]
Everywhere We Go
  • Release date: March 2, 1999
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
5515
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

2000s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsSales Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN
[10]
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
  • Release date: April 23, 2002
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
11
  • RIAA: 4× Platinum [11]
All I Want for Christmas
Is a Real Good Tan
442
  • RIAA: Platinum [12]
When the Sun Goes Down
  • Release date: February 3, 2004
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11
  • RIAA: 5× Platinum [13]
Be as You Are
(Songs from an Old Blue Chair)
  • Release date: January 25, 2005
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11
  • RIAA: Platinum [15]
The Road and the Radio
  • Release date: November 8, 2005
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11
  • RIAA: 3× Platinum [16]
Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
  • Release date: September 11, 2007
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
137
  • RIAA: 2x Platinum [17]
Lucky Old Sun
  • Release date: October 14, 2008
  • Label: Blue Chair, BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1110
  • RIAA: Platinum [18]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

2010s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Sales
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
AUS
[19]
CAN
[10]
NOR
[20]
Hemingway's Whiskey
  • Release date: September 28, 2010
  • Label: Blue Chair, BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11731037
  • RIAA: 2x Platinum [21]
Welcome to the Fishbowl
  • Release date: June 19, 2012
  • Label: Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download
12345
  • RIAA: Platinum [23]
Life on a Rock
  • Release date: April 30, 2013
  • Label: Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11474
The Big Revival
  • Release date: September 23, 2014
  • Label: Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download
12316
  • RIAA: Platinum [27]
Cosmic Hallelujah
  • Release date: October 28, 2016
  • Label: Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download
121912RIAA:

Gold

Songs for the Saints 12518
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

2020s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
AUS
[19]
CAN
[10]
Here and Now
  • Release date: May 1, 2020 [33]
  • Label: Blue Chair, Warner Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl
11832
Born
  • Release date: March 22, 2024
  • Label: Blue Chair, Warner Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl
520

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications Sales
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN
[10]
Live: Live Those Songs Again
  • Release date: September 19, 2006
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
14
Live in No Shoes Nation
  • Release date: October 27, 2017
  • Label: Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1118
[36]
  • RIAA: Platinum [37]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications Sales
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN
[10]
Greatest Hits [lower-alpha 1]
  • Release date: September 26, 2000
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, cassette
113
Super Hits
  • Release date: March 18, 2008
  • Label: Sony BMG Special Markets
  • Formats: CD, digital download
52
Greatest Hits II
  • Release date: May 19, 2009
  • Label: BNA
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1314
  • RIAA: Platinum [41]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

  1. Greatest Hits also peaked at number 15 on the RPM Country Albums chart. [4]

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