Seth MacFarlane discography | |
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Studio albums | 8 |
EPs | 1 |
Soundtrack albums | 1 |
Singles | 11 |
Other charted songs | 1 |
The American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer Seth MacFarlane has released eight studio albums, one extended play, one soundtrack album, and eleven singles (including two as a featured artist). He has also contributed numerous songs to his projects, such as Family Guy , American Dad! , and Ted . In 2005, he served as a producer for the Family Guy soundtrack Live in Vegas , [1] which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. [2]
MacFarlane signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records in 2010 [3] and released his debut studio album Music Is Better Than Words in September of the following year. [4] The album received positive reviews and reached 111 on the US Billboard 200 chart; [5] in addition, it received two Grammy nominations for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. [6] In September 2014, MacFarlane released his second studio album, and first Christmas-themed album, Holiday for Swing , [7] [8] which reached 51 on the Billboard 200. [5] MacFarlane released his third studio album, No One Ever Tells You , the following September; [9] [10] [11] the album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. [12]
In 2016, he made a guest appearance on Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway , a studio album by the actress and singer Barbra Streisand; they performed "Pure Imagination" as a duet. [13] A year later, MacFarlane released his fourth studio album, In Full Swing . [14] The album received two nominations at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. [15] His fifth studio album, Once in a While , was released in 2019. [16]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, MacFarlane and the actress and singer Elizabeth Gillies collaborated on eight songs on an extended playlist entitled Songs from Home. [17] [18] He released his sixth studio album, Great Songs from Stage & Screen in August 2020. [19] Like his previous four albums, he recorded a majority of the songs at Abbey Road Studios, but much of the album's post-production work was done at home due to the pandemic. [20] MacFarlane released his seventh studio album, Blue Skies , in May 2022, [21] and MacFarlane and Gillies released their Christmas album We Wish You the Merriest in November 2023. [22]
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||
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US [5] | US Jazz [23] | US Heatseekers [24] | US Holiday [25] | |||||
Music Is Better Than Words |
| 111 | 2 | 2 | — | |||
Holiday for Swing |
| 51 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||
No One Ever Tells You |
| — | 1 | — | — | |||
In Full Swing |
| — | 2 | — | — | |||
Once in a While |
| — | 5 | — | — | |||
Great Songs from Stage & Screen |
| — | – | — | — | |||
Blue Skies |
| — | – | — | — | |||
We Wish You the Merriest [26] (with Elizabeth Gillies) |
| — | 20 | — | 47 | |||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
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US [27] | US Com. [27] | ||||
Family Guy: Live in Vegas [28] |
| 105 | 2 |
Title | Extended play details |
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Songs from Home [29] (with Elizabeth Gillies) |
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Title | Year | Peaks | Album | ||
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US AC [30] | CAN AC [31] | ||||
"The Night They Invented Champagne" [32] [33] | 2011 | — | — | Music Is Better Than Words | |
"Nine O'Clock" [34] | — | — | |||
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" [35] [36] | 2014 | 28 | – | Holiday for Swing | |
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" [35] [37] (featuring Sara Bareilles) | 10 | 10 | |||
"That Face" [38] | 2017 | — | — | In Full Swing | |
"Almost Like Being in Love" [39] | — | — | |||
"Have You Met Miss Jones?" [40] | — | — | |||
"Half as Lovely (Twice as True)" [41] | 2019 | — | — | Once in a While | |
"No Moon at All" [42] | 2022 | — | — | Blue Skies | |
"We Wish You the Merriest" [43] (with Elizabeth Gillies) | 2023 | — | — | We Wish You the Merriest | |
"Sleigh Ride" [44] (with Elizabeth Gillies) | — | — | |||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Peak | Album | |
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US AC [30] | ||||
"Let's Fall in Love" [45] (Calabria Foti featuring Seth MacFarlane) | 2013 | — | Non-album single | |
"White Christmas" [46] (Meghan Trainor featuring Seth MacFarlane) | 2020 | 1 | A Very Trainor Christmas |
Title | Year | Album |
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"White Christmas" [47] (with Elizabeth Gillies) | 2024 | Non-album single |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
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US [48] | US R&B /HH [49] | NZ Hot [50] | ||||||||||||
"Self Medication" (Logic featuring Seth MacFarlane, Redman and Statik Selektah) | 2023 | — [A] | 49 | 21 | College Park | |||||||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
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"Pure Imagination" [52] [53] | 2016 | Barbra Streisand | Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway |
"Let's Face the Music and Dance" [54] | — | Sing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
"My Way" [55] | |||
"Pennies from Heaven" [56] |
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville (2017–2022), and co-creator of the television series American Dad! and The Cleveland Show (2009–2013). He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films Ted (2012) and its sequel Ted 2 (2015), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
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American singer Usher has released nine studio albums, ten compilation albums, eight extended plays, and 81 singles. His music has been released on the LaFace, Arista, Jive, RCA, and gamma record labels. Usher has sold more than 33 million albums in the United States alone and over 65 million albums worldwide. With over 150 million total records sold worldwide, he is one of the best selling music artists of all time. He has nine number-one singles and 18 Hot 100 top-ten singles on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1994, Usher released his self-titled debut album in North America, which went onto sell 500,000 copies, and produced the singles "Can U Get wit It", "Think of You", and "The Many Ways". The former two peaked in the lower half of the UK and US charts. His follow-up 1997 album My Way sold over 8 million copies worldwide, becoming his breakthrough album. It is certified seven-times platinum in the US, and spawned three successful singles, including his first UK number-one song, "You Make Me Wanna...", and first US Hot 100 number-one song, "Nice & Slow". Usher's success continued in 2001, with his third studio album, 8701. It debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. The album produced two number-one singles, such as "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad". In 2002, the album was certified five-times platinum in the US for sales of 5 million copies. As of 2010, its worldwide sales stand at over 8 million.
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Music Is Better Than Words is the debut studio album by American actor and singer Seth MacFarlane. The album contains songs from the Great American Songbook, and features standards by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe, among other 1940s and ’50s-era show tunes. The album features duets with Norah Jones and Sara Bareilles. The album was produced and conducted by film and television composer Joel McNeely, who is also one of the composers of American Dad!, an animated TV series co-created by MacFarlane.
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In Full Swing is the fourth studio album by American actor and singer Seth MacFarlane. It was released on September 15, 2017, through Republic Records and Verve Records. The record was primarily produced by Joel McNeely and MacFarlane himself, who also serves as the executive producer. Featured artists included on the album are American singer-songwriter Norah Jones and American actress and singer Elizabeth Gillies.
We Wish You the Merriest is the second collaborative album by American actors and singers Seth MacFarlane and Elizabeth Gillies. The album was released on November 3, 2023, through Republic Records and Verve Records. It is MacFarlane's eighth studio album and second Christmas album, in addition to Gillies's debut album.