The discography of Australian rock musician Rick Springfield consists of 22 studio albums, 12 compilation albums, five live albums, 34 singles, and 11 music videos. In 1995, Springfield formed a side-project, Sahara Snow, with Tim Pierce on guitar and Bob Marlette on keyboards and percussion, which released a self-titled studio album in 1997. In 2021, he formed a similar side project with the Red Locusts.
Studio albums
List of albums, with selected chart positions| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS23 | CAN | US4 | |||
| Beginnings | 15 | 23 | 35 | ||
| Comic Book Heroes |
| 54 | — | — | |
| Mission Magic! |
| 97 | — | — | |
| Wait for Night |
| — | — | 159 | |
| Working Class Dog |
| 33 | 33 | 7 | |
| Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet |
| 28 | 6 | 2 | |
| Living in Oz |
| 45 | 20 | 12 | |
| Hard to Hold |
| 87 | 29 | 16 | |
| Beautiful Feelings | — | — | 78 | ||
| Tao |
| 85 | 50 | 21 |
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| Rock of Life |
| — | 66 | 55 | |
| Karma |
| — | — | 189 | |
| Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance |
| — | — | — | |
| The Day After Yesterday |
| — | — | 197 | |
| Christmas with You |
| — | — | — | |
| Venus in Overdrive |
| — | — | 28 | |
| My Precious Little One: Lullabies for a New Generation |
| — | — | — | |
| Songs for the End of the World |
| — | — | 44 | |
| Rocket Science14 |
| — | — | 69 | |
| The Snake King |
| — | — | — | |
| Orchestrating My Life |
| — | — | — | |
| Springfield |
| — | — | — | |
| Automatic |
| — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
With Sahara Snow
List of albums with Sahara Snow| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Sahara Snow |
With The Red Locusts
List of albums with The Red Locusts| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Red Locusts1516 |
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Compilation albums
List of compilation albums| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Greatest Hits | |
| Best Of |
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| Rick Springfield (The Encore Collection) |
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| The Best of Rick Springfield |
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| Anthology (Australia only) |
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| VH1 Behind the Music: The Rick Springfield Collection |
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| The Best of Rick Springfield |
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| Platinum & Gold Collection: Rick Springfield (2003) Collections (2006) |
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| Written in Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology (2005) The Essential Rick Springfield (2011) |
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| We Are the '80s (2006) |
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| The Early Sound City Sessions |
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| Super Hits |
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| From the Vault |
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Live albums
List of live albums| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Greatest Hits...Alive |
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| Live in Rockford |
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| Live and Kickin' |
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| Stripped Down17 |
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| Orchestrating My Life: Live |
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Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS18 | CAN | CAN AC | UK19 | US20 | USAC21 | USMain.22 | GER | |||||||
| "Speak to the Sky" | 1971 | 6 | 10 | 8 | — | 14 | 16 | — | — | Beginnings | ||||
| "Hooky Jo" | 1972 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "What Would the Children Think?" | 38 | — | 4 | — | 70 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "I'm Your Superman" | 1973 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Comic Book Heroes | ||||
| "Believe in Me" | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Streaking the Australian Way" | 1974 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
| "Mission Magic!" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Mission Magic! | |||||
| "American Girls" | — | 74 | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||||
| "Take a Hand" | 1976 | — | 56 | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | Wait for Night | ||||
| "Million Dollar Face" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Jessica" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Treat Me Gently in the Morning" | 1977 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Archangel" | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Bruce" | 1980 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
| "Jessie's Girl" | 1981 | 1 | 6 | — | 43 | 1 | — | 10 | — | Working Class Dog | ||||
| "I've Done Everything for You" | 31 | 40 | 19 | — | 8 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Love Is Alright Tonite" | — | 26 | — | — | 20 | — | 40 | — | ||||||
| "Don't Talk to Strangers" | 1982 | 10 | 3 | 3 | — | 2 | 30 | 11 | — | Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet | ||||
| "Calling All Girls" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | ||||||
| "What Kind of Fool Am I" | — | 41 | — | — | 21 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "I Get Excited" | — | 42 | — | — | 32 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Affair of the Heart" | 1983 | 26 | 11 | — | — | 9 | — | 23 | — | Living in Oz | ||||
| "Human Touch" | 92 | — | — | 23 | 18 | — | 34 | — | ||||||
| "Me & Johnny" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Souls" | — | — | — | — | 23 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Love Somebody" | 1984 | 83 | 13 | — | 95 | 5 | — | 13 | 23 | Hard to Hold | ||||
| "Don't Walk Away" | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | 41 | — | ||||||
| "Bop 'Til You Drop" | — | 70 | — | — | 20 | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Taxi Dancing (Duet with Randy Crawford)/[B-side of "Bop 'Til You Drop"]" | — | — | 15 | — | 59 | 16 | — | — | ||||||
| "Bruce" [Re-release] | — | — | — | — | 27 | — | — | — | Beautiful Feelings | |||||
| "Celebrate Youth" | 1985 | — | 39 | — | 80 | 26 | — | — | 5 | Tao | ||||
| "State of the Heart" | — | 75 | — | 145 | 22 | — | — | 44 | ||||||
| "Dance This World Away" [France, Germany, Japan only] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Rock of Life" | 1988 | 92 | 28 | — | 83 | 22 | — | 45 | — | Rock of Life | ||||
| "Honeymoon in Beirut" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "It's Always Something" | 1999 | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | Karma | ||||
| "Beautiful You" | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | 28 | — | — | Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance | ||||
| "Broken Wings" | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | The Day After Yesterday | ||||
| "What's Victoria's Secret" | 2008 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Venus in Overdrive | ||||
| "I Hate Myself"26 | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs for the End of the World | ||||
| "Light This Party Up"27 | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rocket Science | ||||
| "Down"28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Little Demon"29 | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Snake King | ||||
| "In the Land of the Blind"30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Jessie's Girl" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Orchestrating My Life | ||||
| "Automatic" | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Automatic | ||||
| "She Walks With the Angels" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Exit Wound" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Love Ain't Cool (Sha Doo Wup)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Other appearances
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | "Jessie's Girl" [Live Version] | Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume IV31 |
| 2013 | "The Man That Never Was" with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear | Sound City: Real to Reel |
Notes
- A ^ Wait for Night was originally released on Chelsea Records in 1976. It was re-released by RCA Records in 1982 and peaked on the Billboard 200 in 1983.32
- B ^ Beautiful Feelings was originally recorded in 1978 but was not issued at that time. Mercury Records re-recorded the instrumentation and released it in late 1984 without Springfield's approval.33 It peaked on the Billboard 200 in 1985.34 In 1980, "Bruce" had been released by Springfield as a non-album single; it became the lead track of the album and was re-issued by Mercury Records by December 1984.35 The original 1978 recordings were released by Springfield in 2007 as The Early Sound City Sessions.
- C ^ Greatest Hits was released by Evergreen Records in 1988 as a CD with ten tracks. RCA Records issued a twelve-track compilation of the same name in 1989 as a CD and LP.
- D ^ Springfield was originally supposed to be released in 1974, however Columbia decided to cancel it after it was complete. It would be released to the public on May 12, 2023.36
External links
- Rick Springfield discography at Discogs
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