Mark Chesnutt is an American country music singer. His discography comprises eighteen studio albums, five compilation albums, and 48 singles. Although Chesnutt's first release was Doing My Country Thing in 1988 on Axbar Records, he did not break through until his second album, 1990's Too Cold at Home, on MCA Nashville. This album and the two that followed — Longnecks & Short Stories and Almost Goodbye, from 1992 and 1993, respectively — are all certified platinum by the RIAA, as is his 1996 Greatest Hits. 1994's What a Way to Live, the first of four albums that he released on Decca Records, is certified gold.
| Mark Chesnutt discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 18 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 5 |
| Singles | 48 |
| Music videos | 17 |
| Other charted songs | 1 |
| #1 Singles | 9 |
Chesnutt's first chart entry is "Too Cold at Home" from 1990, a #3 hit on the U.S. country singles charts. After this song came his first Number One, "Brother Jukebox", followed by a string of chart singles that lasted throughout the 1990s; they include the Number Ones "I'll Think of Something", "It Sure Is Monday", "Almost Goodbye", "I Just Wanted You to Know", "Gonna Get a Life", "It's a Little Too Late", and a cover of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". This cover is also his only Top 40 pop hit, reaching #17 on the Billboard Hot 100. He has sold more than ten million records worldwide.
Studio albums
edit1980s
edit| Title | Album details |
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| Doing My Country Thing [1][2][3][4] |
1990s
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [5] |
US [6] |
CAN Country [7] | |||||||
| Too Cold at Home |
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12 | 132 | 23 | |||||
| Longnecks & Short Stories |
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9 | 68 | 5 |
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| Almost Goodbye |
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6 | 43 | 7 |
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| What a Way to Live |
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15 | 98 | — |
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| Wings |
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24 | 116 | 11 | |||||
| Thank God for Believers |
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25 | 165 | — | |||||
| I Don't Want to Miss a Thing |
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6 | 65 | 6 | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
2000s
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [5] |
US [6] |
US Indie [12] | |||||||
| Lost in the Feeling |
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53 | — | — | |||||
| Mark Chesnutt |
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23 | 184 | — | |||||
| Savin' the Honky Tonk |
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23 | 70 | 15 | |||||
| Heard It in a Love Song |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Rollin' with the Flow |
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35 | — | 43 | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
2010s
edit| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country [5] | ||
| Outlaw |
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42 |
| Tradition Lives |
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22 |
| Duets |
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| The Early Days |
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| Gone But Not Forgotten... A Tribute Album by Mark Chesnutt |
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— |
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [5] |
US [6] |
CAN Country [7] | |||||||
| Greatest Hits |
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18 | 130 | 14 |
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| 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Greatest Hits II |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Greatest Hits II (Deluxe Edition) |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Mark's Favorite Album Cuts (Fan Club Exclusive) |
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— | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Live albums
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Live from the Big D |
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| Your Room |
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| Live from the Big D (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Live From the Honky Tonk |
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| Live From Cutters (Volume 1) |
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| Live From Cutters (Volume 2) |
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EP's
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Christmas |
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| Numbers On the Jukebox |
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| 6 Pack Summer Mix Tape |
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Singles
edit1990-2000
edit- A"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2001-present
edit| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [14] |
US [15] | ||||||||
| 2002 | "She Was" | 11 | 62 | Mark Chesnutt | |||||
| "I Want My Baby Back" | 47 | — | |||||||
| 2003 | "I'm in Love With a Married Woman" | 48 | — | ||||||
| 2004 | "The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man" | 36 | — | Savin' the Honky Tonk | |||||
| 2005 | "I'm a Saint" | 33 | — | ||||||
| "A Hard Secret to Keep" | 59 | — | |||||||
| 2006 | "Heard It in a Love Song" | — | — | Heard It in a Love Song | |||||
| 2007 | "That Good That Bad" | — | — | ||||||
| "Rollin' with the Flow" | 25 | — | Rollin' with the Flow | ||||||
| 2008 | "When You Love Her Like Crazy" | — | — | ||||||
| "(Come on In) The Whiskey's Fine" | — | — | |||||||
| "Things to Do in Wichita" | — | — | |||||||
| 2009 | "She Never Got Me Over You" | 49 | — | ||||||
| "Goin' On Later On" | — | — | |||||||
| 2010 | "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" | — | — | Outlaw | |||||
| 2013 | "When the Lights Go Out (Tracie's Song)"[18] | — | — | Greatest Hits II | |||||
| 2016 | "Oughta Miss Me By Now"[19] | — | — | Tradition Lives | |||||
| 2017 | "Hot"[20] | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Featured singles
edit| Year | Single | Artist | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [14] |
US Bubbling [15] | ||||
| 2001 | "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side" | Tracy Byrd | 21 | 21 | Ten Rounds |
Other charted songs
edit| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [14] | |||
| 1997 | "What Child Is This" | 75 | A Country Christmas from WKIS 99.9[21] |
Videography
editMusic videos
edit| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "Too Cold at Home" | Bill Young |
| "Brother Jukebox" | ||
| 1991 | "Your Love Is a Miracle" | |
| 1992 | "I'll Think of Something" | John Lloyd Miller |
| 1993 | "Ol' Country" | |
| "It Sure Is Monday" | ||
| "Almost Goodbye" | ||
| 1994 | "She Dreams" | Steven Goldmann |
| 1995 | "Gonna Get a Life" | Sherman Halsey |
| "Trouble" | ||
| 1996 | "It's a Little Too Late" | Richard Murray |
| 1997 | "Let It Rain" | Michael McNamara |
| "Thank God for Believers" | Richard Murray | |
| 1998 | "Wherever You Are" | |
| 2000 | "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" | Eric Welch |
| "Lost in the Feeling" | Gerry Wenner | |
| 2002 | "She Was" | Eric Welch |
Guest appearances
edit| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" (George Jones and Friends) | Marc Ball |
References
edit- ^ Harrison, Thomas (2011). Music of the 1990s. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313379420.
Neotraditionalist Mark Chesnutt recorded an independently released album, Doing My Country Thing (1989), before receiving national attention on Too Cold at Home (1990).
- ^ Sault, Spring (2016-06-01). "Texas Troubadour Mark Chesnutt Continues With Traditional Country". Texas Hill Country. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
Chesnutt's country music career formally began with the release of his first album in 1988, Doing My Country Thing (the vinyl version of which is now a collector's item.)
- ^ "Country star Mark Chesnutt headlining Saline County Fair". KOLN/KIGN. 2016-07-04. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
Chesnutt's national country debut came with the single, Too Cold at Home, the debut single from his second album, came several years after his first album titled Doing My Country Thing entered the Billboard Country charts.
- ^ Brown, John (November 1996). "Night Moves". American Cowboy. p. 50.
Arguably it's the worst country album title of all time. It belongs to Mark Chesnutt's first recorded performance, Doin' My Country Thing, an obvious low-budget accumulation of his talent that did manage to earn some local airplay around Texas and west Louisiana.
- ^ a b c d "Mark Chesnutt Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Mark Chesnutt Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ a b "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Albums/CDs". RPM. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ "American album certifications – Mark Chesnutt – Too Cold At Home". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ "American album certifications – Mark Chesnutt – Longnecks & Short Stories". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ "American album certifications – Mark Chesnutt – Almost Goodbye". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ "American album certifications – Mark Chesnutt – What a Way to Live". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt Album & Song Chart History - Independent Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ "American album certifications – Mark Chesnutt – Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ a b c d "Mark Chesnutt Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Mark Chesnutt Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ "American single certifications – Mark Chesnutt – BUBBA SHOT THE JUKEBOX". Recording Industry Association of America.
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt - When The Lights Go Out (Tracie's Song) (Single)". Daily Play MPE. April 22, 2013.
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt - Oughta Miss Me By Now". Daily Play MPE. June 8, 2016.
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt - Hot". Daily Play MPE. May 25, 2017.
- ^ "A Country Christmas from WKIS 99.9". Allmusic. Retrieved March 28, 2019.