Kenny Rogers / discography

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Kenny Rogers, 2004

This discography is an overview of the released sound carriers of the American singer Kenny Rogers . In his career he has sold over 100 million records to date, making him one of the most successful individual performers of all time . The most successful release by Kenny Rogers is the album Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits with over 13.1 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
1968 The First Edition - - - - US118 (15 weeks)
US
-
First published: 1967
as The First Edition, producer: Mike Post
1969 The First Edition '69 - - - - US164 (4 weeks)
US
-
First published: 1969
as The First Edition
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - - - - US48 (18 weeks)
US
-
First published: 1969
Producers: Glen D. Hardin, Jimmy Bowen , Mike Post
with The First Edition
1970 Something's Burning - - - - US26 (24 weeks)
US
-
First published: 1969
Producers: Jimmy Bowen, Kenny Rogers, Mike Post
with The First Edition
Tell it all, brother - - - - US61 (16 weeks)
US
-
First published: 1970
Producers: Jimmy Bowen, Kenny Rogers
with The First Edition
1971 Transition - - - - US155 (3 weeks)
US
-
First published: September 1971
Producers: Jimmy Bowen, Kenny Rogers
with The First Edition
1972 The Ballad of Calico - - - - US118 (14 weeks)
US
-
First published: March 1972
Producers: Kenny Rogers, Terry Williams
with The First Edition
1976 Love Lifted Me - - - - - Country28 (10 weeks)
Country
First published: 1976
Producer: Larry Butler
1977 Kenny Rogers - - - UK17 (7 weeks)
UK
US30th
platinum
platinum

(25 weeks)US
Country1 (120 weeks)
Country
First published: 1976
Producer: Larry Butler
Daytime Friends - AT63 (1 week)
AT
- - US39
platinum
platinum

(21 weeks)US
Country2 (68 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1977
Producer: Larry Butler
1978 Love or Something Like It - - - - US53
gold
gold

(12 weeks)US
Country1 (36 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1978
Producer: Larry Butler
Every Time Two Fools Collide - - - - US186
gold
gold

(3 weeks)US
Country1 (56 weeks)
Country
First published: 1978
with Dottie West , Producer: Larry Butler
1979 The Gambler
- - - - US12
Quintuple platinum
× 5
Quintuple platinum

(112 weeks)US
Country1 (137 weeks)
Country
First published: November 1978
Producer: Larry Butler
Kenny - AT17 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK7th
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK
US5
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(53 weeks)US
Country1 (74 weeks)
Country
First published: 1979
Producer: Larry Butler
Classics - - - - US82
platinum
platinum

(23 weeks)US
Country3 (47 weeks)
Country
First release: 1979
Producer: Larry Butler
with Dottie West
1980 Gideon - - - - US12
platinum
platinum

(34 weeks)US
Country1 (45 weeks)
Country
First published: 1980
Producers: Kenny Rogers, Larry Butler
1981 Share your love - - - - US6th
platinum
platinum

(50 weeks)US
Country1 (64 weeks)
Country
First published: 1981
Producers: Lionel Richie , Brenda Harvey Richie
1982 Love Will Turn You Around - - - - US34
platinum
platinum

(24 weeks)US
Country5 (38 weeks)
Country
First published: 1982
Producers: Kenny Rogers, David Malloy, Val Garay,
Brent Maher, Randy Goodrum
1983 We've Got Tonight - - - - US18 (... weeks)
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Country3 (35 weeks)
Country
First published: 1983
Producers: David Foster , Kenny Rogers, Brent Maher,
Randy Goodrum, James Carmichael, Lionel Richie
Eyes That See in the Dark - AT9 (12 weeks)
AT
CH14 (10 weeks)
CH
UK53 (19 weeks)
UK
US6th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(38 weeks)US
Country1 (43 weeks)
Country
First published: August 30, 1983
Producers: Barry Gibb ,
Karl Richardson, Albhy Galuten
1984 Duets - - - - US85
platinum
platinum

(11 weeks)US
Country43 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: 1984
Producers: David Foster, Kenny Rogers, Larry Butler
with Sheena Easton , Kim Carnes and Dottie West
What About Me? - - - UK97 (1 week)
UK
US31
platinum
platinum

(31 weeks)US
Country9 (38 weeks)
Country
Released December 1984
Producers: David Foster, Kenny Rogers
1985 The Heart of the Matter - - - - US51
gold
gold

(28 weeks)US
Country1 (33 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1985
Producer: George Martin
1986 They Don't Make Them
Like They Used To
- - - - US137 (15 weeks)
US
Country16 (26 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1986
Producers: Jay Graydon, Burt Bacharach ,
Carole Bayer Sager , David Malloy
1987 I prefer the moonlight - - - - US163 (4 weeks)
US
Country18 (27 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1987
Producers: Brown Bannister, Richard Landis,
Rob Galbraith, Larry Butler
1989 Something Inside So Strong - - - - US141
gold
gold

(8 weeks)US
Country10 (62 weeks)
Country
First published: May 1989
Producers: Jim Ed Norman, Steve Dorff
1990 Love is strange - - - - - Country21 (30 weeks)
Country
First published: September 1990
Producer: Jim Ed Norman
1991 Back Home Again - - - - - Country42 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1991
Producers: Jim Ed Norman, Eric Prestidge
1997 Across My Heart - - - - US193 (1 week)
US
Country26 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: July 15, 1997
Producers: Jim Mazza, Brent Maher
1999 She Rides Wild Horses - - - - US60
platinum
platinum

(56 weeks)US
Country6 (104 weeks)
Country
First published: May 11, 1999
Producers: Kenny Rogers,
Jim Mazza, Brent Maher, Jim McKell
2000 There You Go Again - - - - US121 (3 weeks)
US
Country17 (36 weeks)
Country
First published: October 3, 2000
Producers: Kenny Rogers, Brent Maher,
Richard Marx , Jim McKell
2003 Back to the well - - - UK100 (1 week)
UK
- Country52 (3 weeks)
Country
First published: May 26, 2003
Producers: Brent Maher, Joe Chemay,
John Guess, Kenny Rogers
2006 Water & Bridges - - - - US14 (15 weeks)
US
Country5 (43 weeks)
Country
First published: March 21, 2006
Producer: Dann Huff
2011 The Love of God - - - - US27 (8 weeks)
US
Country7 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: March 7, 2011
2012 Amazing Grace (US) / Faith (EU) - - - - - Country32 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: October 9, 2012
Producers: Kyle Lehning, Warren Hartman
2013 You Can't Make Old Friends - - - - US43 (4 weeks)
US
Country9 (12 weeks)
Country
Initial release: October 8, 2013
Producers: Dann Huff, Kyle Lehning, Warren Hartman

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More studio albums

  • 1968: The First Edition's 2nd (with The First Edition)
  • 1970: Fools (Soundtrack) (with The First Edition, Shorty Rogers , Mimi Fariña and Katharine Ross )
  • 1972: Backroads (with The First Edition)
  • 1973: Monumental (with The First Edition)
  • 1973: Rollin ' (with The First Edition)
  • 1993: If Only My Heart Had a Voice
  • 1994: Timepiece
  • 1999: After Dark

Christmas albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
1982 Christmas - - - - US34
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(9 weeks)US
Country10 (11 weeks)
Country
First published: 1981
Producer: Kenny Rogers
1984 Once Upon a Christmas - - - - US31
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(38 weeks)US
Country12 (37 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1984
Producers: David Foster, Kenny Rogers
with Dolly Parton
1989 Christmas in America - - - - US119
gold
gold

(6 weeks)US
Country45 (9 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1989
Producer: Jim Ed Norman
1996 The Gift - - - - US63
gold
gold

(5 weeks)US
Country10 (9 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1996
Producers: Brent Maher, Jim McKell
1998 Christmas from the Heart - - - - US164 (3 weeks)
US
-
First published: October 6, 1998
Producers: Brent Maher, Warren Hartman
2004 Christmas with Kenny - - - - - Country74 (1 week)
Country
First published: September 14, 2004
2006 Christmas Collection - - - - - Country57 (4 weeks)
Country
First published: August 15, 2006
2012 Christmas Live! - - - - - Country68 (6 weeks)
Country
First published: September 25, 2012
2015 Once Again It's Christmas - - - - US197 (1 week)
US
Country17 (8 weeks)
Country
First published: September 25, 2015

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More Christmas albums

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
1971 Greatest hits - - - - US57
platinum
platinum

(16 weeks)US
-
First published: 1971
with The First Edition
1978 Ten Years of Gold - - - - US33
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(103 weeks)US
Country1 (169 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1978
1979 The Kenny Rogers Singles Album - - - UK12 (22 weeks)
UK
US-
gold
gold
US
-
First published: September 1978
1980 The American Superstar:
His Greatest Hits
DE3 (12 weeks)
DE
- - - - -
First published: September 1980
1980 Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits /
Lady (UK)
- - - UK40 (5 weeks)
UK
US1
Diamond + double platinum
Diamond + double platinum
× 2
Diamond + double platinum

(181 weeks)US
Country1 (185 weeks)
Country
First published: 1980
1983 Twenty Greatest Hits - - - - US22nd
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(30 weeks)US
Country61 (38 weeks)
Country
First publication: 1983
Chart entry in the country charts until 1987
1985 Love Is What We Make It - - - - US145
gold
gold

(7 weeks)US
Country17 (10 weeks)
Country
First published: April 1985
contains previously unpublished recordings
The Kenny Rogers Story - - - UK4th
platinum
platinum

(29 weeks)UK
- -
First published: July 1985
1989 Greatest hits - - - - US-
gold
gold
US
Country66 (3 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1989
1991 The Very Best of Kenny Rogers DE60 (9 weeks)
DE
- - - - -
First published: January 1991
1993 Daytime Friends: The Very Best Of - - CH74 (1 week)
CH
UK16
gold
gold

(5 weeks)UK
US190 (... weeks)
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Country25 (1 week)
Country
First published: September 1993
Chart entry in US country only in 2020
1997 Love songs - - - UK27
gold
gold

(8 weeks)UK
- -
First published: November 1997
1999 With love - - - - US119 (6 weeks)
US
-
First published: December 1, 1998
A&E Biography - - - - - Country69 (1 week)
Country
First published: January 26, 1999
All the Hits & All the New Songs DE76 (1 week)
DE
AT56 (1 week)
AT
- UK6th
silver
silver

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- -
First published: May 1999
2001 Live by request - - - - - Country68 (4 weeks)
Country
First published: October 23, 2001
2002 Songs of Love / Always in Love - - - - - Country74 (1 week)
Country
First published: February 29, 2000
Kenny Rogers Love Songs / Always & Forever - - - - - Country53 (8 weeks)
Country
First published: February 29, 2000
Kenny Rogers - - - - US-
platinum
platinum
US
Country61 (13 weeks)
Country
First published: April 2002
2004 42 Ultimate Hits - - - - US39
gold
gold

(7 weeks)US
Country6 (49 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1, 2004
2006 21 number ones - - - - US24
gold
gold

(27 weeks)US
Country6 (95 weeks)
Country
First published: January 24, 2006
Golden Legends: Kenny Rogers - - - - US180 (1 week)
US
Country57 (6 weeks)
Country
First published: 2006
2008 A Love Song Collection - - - UK47 (2 weeks)
UK
- Country53 (5 weeks)
Country
First published: January 15, 2008
2010 10 great songs - - - - - Country58 (5 weeks)
Country
First published: January 12, 2010
2011 Best of Kenny Rogers - - - - - Country40 (6 weeks)
Country
First published: September 28, 2010
2014 10 Great Songs: The Millennium Collection - - - - - Country43 (10 weeks)
Country
First published: April 1, 2014
2018 The Best of Kenny Rogers: Through the Years - - CH88 (1 week)
CH
- US9 (... weeks)
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Country1 (4 weeks)
Country
First publication: September 21, 2018
Chart entry only in 2020

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More compilations

  • 1973: Star-Collection (with The First Edition)
  • 1980: Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
  • 1982: The Most Beautiful Country Songs (with Lynn Anderson )
  • 1983: HBO Presents Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits ( HBO Live Show, Picture Disc )
  • 1984: Country Songs (with The First Edition)
  • 1984: Love Songs (with The First Edition)
  • 1984: Featuring the Songs Of ... (with The First Edition)
  • 1984: Greatest Hits
  • 1985: Hits and Pieces (with The First Edition)
  • 1985: 60's Revisited (with The First Edition)
  • 1985: The Hit Singles Collection
  • 1985: Sweet Music Man
  • 1985: Short Stories
  • 1985: The Kenny Rogers Collection (2 LPs)
  • 1986: Greatest Hits (with The First Edition)
  • 1986: His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances (box with 5 LPs)
  • 1987: Kenny Rogers Star-Portrait CD 28716
  • 1987: The Very Best Of
  • 1987: The Fabulous Kenny Rogers
  • 1987: For the Good Times - 20 Great Country Favorites (UK) / 20 Great Hits (US)
  • 1988: Greatest Hits
  • 1989: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Vol. 1
  • 1989: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Vol. 2
  • 1989: Kenny Rogers
  • 1990: The Very Best of Kenny Rogers (UK:goldgold)
  • 1990: Greatest Country Hits (US:goldgold)
  • 1990: 20 Great Years
  • 1992: The ★ Collection (with The First Edition)
  • 1993: For the Good Times (with The First Edition)
  • 1993: Country Classics (UK:goldgold)
  • 1994: 20 Golden Greats
  • 1995: Me and Bobby McGee (with The First Edition)
  • 1995: His Greatest Hits
  • 1996: The Country Collection
  • 1996: The Love Collection
  • 1997: The Ultimate Collection (with The First Edition)
  • 1997: A Decade of Hits
  • 1997: Forever Classic
  • 1997: Reflections of Kenny Rogers
  • 1998: Through the Years (3 CDs)
  • 1998: 20 Great Love Songs
  • 1998: Original Gold (box with CDs)
  • 1999: Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town (with The First Edition)
  • 1999: The Great Kenny Rogers & the First Edition (with The First Edition)
  • 1999: The Best of Kenny Rogers (US:goldgold)
  • 1999: I Believe in Music
  • 1999: Classic Love Songs (UK:goldgold)
  • 2001: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (with Dolly Parton)
  • 2002: The Greatest Hits (with The First Edition)
  • 2004: Anthology (with The First Edition)
  • 2004: King of Country
  • 2004: Me and Bobby McGhee (2 CDs)
  • 2006: Pure (with The First Edition; 2 CDs)
  • 2008: 50 Years
  • 2008: White Collection - She Believes in Me (2 CDs)
  • 2009: 10 great songs
  • 2009: The First 50 Years - The Greatest Duets
  • 2009: The First 50 Years - Greatest Hits (3 CDs)
  • 2015: Lucille: The Collection (UK:silversilver)

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
1968 Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
The First Edition
- - - - US5 (10 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 1968
Author: Mickey Newberry
with The First Edition
1969 But You Know I Love You
The First Edition '69
- - - - US19 (11 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 1969
Author: Mike Settle
with The First Edition
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
- AT26 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK2 (23 weeks)
UK
US6 (13 weeks)
US
Country39 (11 weeks)
Country
First publication: April 1969
Author: Mel Tillis ; Original: Johnny Darrell, 1967
with The First Edition
Reuben James
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
- - - - US26 (12 weeks)
US
Country46 (8 weeks)
Country
First published: September 1969
Authors: Alex Harvey, Barry Etris
with The First Edition
1970 Something's Burning
Something's Burning
- - - UK8 (14 weeks)
UK
US11 (16 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 1970
Author: Mac Davis
with The First Edition
Tell It All, Brother
Tell It All, Brother
- - - - US17 (11 weeks)
US
-
First published: June 1970
Author: Alex Harvey
with The First Edition
Heed the Call
Tell It All, Brother
- - - - US33 (10 weeks)
US
-
First published: September 1970
Author: Kin Vassy
with The First Edition
1971 Someone Who Cares
Fools (Soundtrack)
- - - - US51 (7 weeks)
US
-
First published: March
Author: Alex Harvey
with The First Edition
Take My Hand
Transition
- - - - US91 (2 weeks)
US
-
First published: May 1971
Author: Kenny Rogers
with The First Edition
1972 School Teacher
The Ballad of Calico
- - - - US91 (4 weeks)
US
-
First published: February 1972
with The First Edition
1973 Today I Started Loving You Again
Backroads
- - - - - Country69 (6 weeks)
Country
First publication: 1972
Authors: Merle Haggard , Bonnie Owens
Original: Merle Haggard and the Strangers, 1968
with The First Edition
1976 Love Lifted Me
Love Lifted Me
- - - - US97 (3 weeks)
US
Country19 (13 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1976
Authors: Authors: Alex Harvey, Barry Etris
While the Feeling's Good
Love Lifted Me
- - - - - Country46 (12 weeks)
Country
First published: May 1976
Authors: Roger Bowling, Freddie Hart
Original: Mike Lunsford, 1974
Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)
Kenny Rogers
- - - - - Country19 (13 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1976
Authors: Leon Ashley, Margie Singleton
Original: Leon Ashley, 1967
1977 Lucille
Kenny Rogers
DE10 (27 weeks)
DE
AT8 (24 weeks)
AT
CH3 (13 weeks)
CH
UK1
silver
silver

(14 weeks)UK
US5
gold
gold

(19 weeks)US
Country1 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1977
Grammy (Best Male Country Vocal Performance)
Authors: Hal Bynum, Roger Bowling
Daytime Friends
Daytime Friends
- - - UK39 (4 weeks)
UK
US28 (12 weeks)
US
Country1 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1977
Author: Ben Peters
Sweet Music Man
Daytime Friends
- - - - US44 (8 weeks)
US
-
First published: November 1977
Author: Kenny Rogers; Original: Anne Murray , 1976
1978 Every Time Two Fools Collide
Every Time Two Fools Collide
- - - - - Country1 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1978
Authors: Janine Dyer, Jeff Tweel
with Dottie West
Love or Something Like It
Love or Something Like It
- - - - US32 (12 weeks)
US
Country1 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: February 1978
Authors: Steve Glassmeyer, Kenny Rogers
Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight
Every Time Two Fools Collide
- - - - - Country2 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1978
Authors: Casey Kelly, Julie Didier
with Dottie West
The Gambler
The Gambler
- - - UK22nd
platinum
platinum

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US16 (22 weeks)
US
Country1 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1978
Chart entry in UK only in April 1985
Grammy (Best Male Country Vocal Performance)
Author and original: Don Schlitz, 1978
1979 All I Ever Need Is You
Classics
- - - - - Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1979
Authors: Eddie Reeves, Jimmy Holiday
with Dottie West; Original: Ray Charles , 1971
She Believes in Me
The Gambler
- - - UK42 (7 weeks)
UK
US5
gold
gold

(16 weeks)US
Country1 (16 weeks)
Country
First published: March 1979
Author and original: Author: Steve Gibb, 1978
Till I Can Make It on My Own
Classics
- - - - - Country3 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1979
Authors: George Richey, Billy Sherrill , Tammy Wynette
with Dottie West ; Original: Kitty Wells , 1974
You Decorated My Life
Kenny
- - - - US7 (18 weeks)
US
Country1 (12 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1979
Grammy (Best Country Song)
Authors: Bob Morrison, Deborah Kay Hupp
Coward of the County
Kenny
DE18 (12 weeks)
DE
AT9 (10 weeks)
AT
CH8 (5 weeks)
CH
UK1
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK
US3
gold
gold

(19 weeks)US
Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1979
Authors: Roger Bowling, Billy Edd Wheeler
1980 Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
Gideon
- - - - US4 (19 weeks)
US
Country3 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: March 1980 Authors: Dave Ellingson, Kim Carnes
with Kim Carnes
Love the World Away
Greatest Hits
- - - - US14 (12 weeks)
US
Country4 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1980
from the soundtrack of Urban Cowboy.
Authors: Bob Morrison, Johnny Wilson
Lady
Greatest Hits
- - - UK12 (12 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(25 weeks)US
Country1 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: September 1980
Author: Lionel Richie
1981 What Are We Doin 'in Love
The Best of Dottie West
- - - - US14 (20 weeks)
US
Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: March 1981
Author: Randy Goodrum
with Dottie West
I don't need you
share your love
- - - - US3 (18 weeks)
US
Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
First publication: May 1981
Author: Rick Christian; Original: Harry Nilsson , 1980
Share Your Love with Me
Share Your Love
- - - - US14 (15 weeks)
US
Country5 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1981
Authors: Alfred Braggs, Deadric Malone
Original: Bobby Bland , 1963
Blaze of Glory
Share Your Love
- - - - US66 (9 weeks)
US
Country9 (16 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1981
Authors: Danny Morrison, Johnny Slate, Larry Keith
Through the Years
Share Your Love
- - - - US13 (15 weeks)
US
Country5 (16 weeks)
Country
First published: November 1981
Authors: Steve Dorff, Marty Panzer
1982 Love Will Turn You Around
Love Will Turn You Around
- - - - US13 (17 weeks)
US
Country1 (16 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1982
Title song of the film Six Pack
Authors: Even Stevens, Kenny Rogers,
David Malloy, Tom Schuyler
A Love Song
Love Will Turn You Around
- - - - US47 (10 weeks)
US
Country3 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1982
Author and original: Lee Greenwood , 1982
1983 We've Got Tonight
We've Got Tonight
DE56 (6 weeks)
DE
AT11 (2 weeks)
AT
- UK28 (7 weeks)
UK
US6 (18 weeks)
US
Country1 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1983
Author: Bob Seger , Original: Ann Peebles , 1978
with Sheena Easton
All My Life
We've Got Tonight
- - - - US37 (11 weeks)
US
Country13 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: April 1983
Authors: Dave Robins, Jeff Silbar, Van Stephenson
Scarlet Fever
We've Got Tonight
- - - - US94 (2 weeks)
US
Country5 (18 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1983
Author: Mike Dekle
Islands in the Stream
Eyes That See in the Dark
DE25 (14 weeks)
DE
AT1 (18 weeks)
AT
CH2 (13 weeks)
CH
UK7th
gold
gold

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US1
Platinum + gold
Platinum + gold
Platinum + gold

(25 weeks)US
Country1 (24 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1983
Authors: Bee Gees
with Dolly Parton
Eyes That See in the Dark
Eyes That See in the Dark
- - - UK61 (6 weeks)
UK
US79 (5 weeks)
US
Country30 (13 weeks)
Country
First publication: September 1983
Authors: Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb
You were a good friend
Gideon
- - - - - Country20 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1983
Authors: Dave Ellingson, Kim Carnes
1984 This Woman
Eyes That See in the Dark
- - - - US23 (13 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 1984
Authors: Albhy Galuten, Barry Gibb
Buried Treasure
Eyes That See in the Dark
- - - - - Country3 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1984
B-side of This Woman
Authors: Bee Gees
Evening Star / Midsummer Nights
Eyes That See in the Dark
- - - - - Country11 (14 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1984
Authors: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb /
Albhy Galuten, Barry Gibb
What About Me?
What About Me?
- - - UK92 (3 weeks)
UK
US15 (19 weeks)
US
Country70 (10 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1984
Authors: Kenny Rogers, Richard Marx , David Foster
with Kim Carnes and James Ingram
Christmas Without You
Once Upon a Christmas
- - - UK88 (3 weeks)
UK
- -
First published: November 1984
Authors: Dolly Parton, Steve Goldstein
with Dolly Parton
The Greatest Gift of All
Once Upon a Christmas
- - - - US81 (4 weeks)
US
Country53 (7 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1984
Author: John Jarvis
with Dolly Parton
1985 Crazy
What About Me?
- - - - US79 (8 weeks)
US
Country1 (21 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1985
Authors: Kenny Rogers, Richard Marx
Love Is What We Make It
Love Is What We Make It
- - - - - Country37 (12 weeks)
Country
First published: March 1985
Authors: Keith Stegall, Roger Murrah
Real Love
Real Love
- - - - - Country1 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: May 1985
Authors: David Malloy, Randy McCormick, Spady Brannan
Dolly Parton with Kenny Rogers
Twentieth Century Fool
Love Is What We Make It
- - - - - Country57 (8 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1985
Authors: Brian Neary, Jim Photoglo
Morning Desire
The Heart of the Matter
- - - - US72 (9 weeks)
US
Country1 (22 weeks)
Country
First published: September 1985
Author: Dave Loggins
1986 Goodbye Marie
Kenny
- - - - - Country47 (9 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1985
Authors: Dennis Linde, Mel McDaniel
Tomb of the Unknown Love
The Heart of the Matter
- - - - - Country1 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1986
Author: Michael Smotherman
The Pride Is Back
- - - - - Country46 (12 weeks)
Country
First published: June 1986
Authors: Alan Monde, Larry Gottlieb, Marc Blatte
with Nickie Ryder
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- - - - - Country53 (12 weeks)
Country
First publication: September 1986
Authors: Burt Bacharach , Carole Bayer Sager
Twenty Years Ago
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- - - - - Country2 (21 weeks)
Country
First published: November 1986
Authors: Dan Tyler, Michael Noble,
Michael Spriggs, Wood Newton
Original: Juice Newton , 1983
1987 Make No Mistake, She's Mine
I Prefer the Moonlight
- - - - - Country1 (71 weeks)
Country
First published: May 1987
Grammy (Best Country Collaboration with Vocals)
with Ronnie Milsap ; Author: Kim Carnes
Original: Barbra Streisand and Kim Carnes , 1984
I Prefer the Moonlight
I Prefer the Moonlight
- - - - - Country2 (19 weeks)
Country
First published: September 1987
Authors: Gary Chapman, Mark Wright
1988 The Factory
I Prefer the Moonlight
- - - - - Country6 (16 weeks)
Country
First published: February 1988
Author: Bud McGuire
When You Put Your Heart in It
Something Inside so Strong
- - - - - Country26 (15 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1988
Authors: Austin Roberts, James Patrick Dunne
1989 Planet Texas
Something Inside So Strong
- - - - - Country30 (12 weeks)
Country
First published: November 1988
Author: John Andrew Parks III
The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True to You)
Something Inside so Strong
- - - - - Country8 (26 weeks)
Country
First published: July 1989
Authors: Eric Kaz, Gary Burr
If I Ever Fall in Love Again
Something Inside so Strong
- - - - - Country28 (15 weeks)
Country
First publication: September 1989
Authors: Steve Dorff, Gloria Sklerov
with Anne Murray ; Original: Julie Budd, 1971
1990 Maybe
Something Inside so Strong
- - - - - Country25 (13 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1990
Authors: Bill Rice, Sharon Rice
with Holly Dunn
Love Is Strange
Love Is Strange
- - - - - Country21 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1990
Authors: Ellas McDaniel , Mickey Baker , Sylvia Robinson
with Dolly Parton; Original: Mickey & Sylvia, 1956
1991 What I Did for Love
Love Is Strange
DE58 (12 weeks)
DE
- - - - -
First published: January 1991
Authors: Brent Maher, Tom Schuyler
Lay My Body Down
Love Is Strange
- - - - - Country69 (4 weeks)
Country
First published: January 1991
If You Want to Find Love
Back Home Again
- - - - - Country11 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: November 1991
Authors: Kenny Rogers, Max D. Barnes, Skip Ewing
1997 Mary, Did You Know?
The Gift
- - - - - Country55 (2 weeks)
Country
First published: December 1996
Authors: Buddy Greene, Mark Lowry
with Wynonna Judd ; Original: Michael English, 1992
1999 The Greatest
She Rides Wild Horses
- - - - - Country26 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: April 1999
Author: Don Schlitz
Slow Dance More
She Rides Wild Horses
- - - - - Country67 (5 weeks)
Country
First published: August 1999
Authors: Pat Bunch, Doug Johnson
Buy Me a Rose
She Rides Wild Horses
- - - - US40 (20 weeks)
US
Country1 (37 weeks)
Country
First published: October 1999
Authors: Erik Hickenlooper, Jim Funk
with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean
2000 He Will, She Knows
There You Go Again
- - - - - Country32 (20 weeks)
Country
First published: June 2000
2001 There You Go Again
There You Go Again
- - - - - Country26 (23 weeks)
Country
First published: January 2001
Beautiful (All That You Could Be)
There You Go Again
- - - - - Country47 (9 weeks)
Country
First published: August 2001
Homeland
There You Go Again
- - - - - Country39 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: October 2001
2002 Harder Cards
Back to the Well
- - - - - Country47 (13 weeks)
Country
First published: March 2002
Authors: Craig Wiseman, Martin Henderson
2003 I'm Missing You
Back to the Well
- - - - - Country49 (6 weeks)
Country
First published: May 2003
Authors: Billy Kirsch, Steve Wariner
Handprints on the Wall
Back to the Well
- - - - - Country40 (17 weeks)
Country
First published: October 2003
Authors: Claude Parish, Nelson Blanchard, Scott Innes
2004 My World Is Over
42 Ultimate Hits
- - - - - Country60 (1 week)
Country
First release: July 2004
feat. Whitney Duncan
2005 I Can't Unlove You
Water & Bridges
- - - - US93 (5 weeks)
US
Country17 (31 weeks)
Country
First published: November 2005
Authors: Wade Kirby, Will Robinson
2006 The Last Ten Years (Superman)
Water & Bridges
- - - - - Country56 (5 weeks)
Country
First published: October 2006
Authors: D. Vincent Williams, Tommy Conners
2007 Calling Me
Water & Bridges
- - - - - Country53 (8 weeks)
Country
First published: February 2007
Authors: Annie Roboff, Wiseman
feat. Don Henley

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More singles

  • 1958: That Crazy Feeling (as Kenneth Rogers; released February)
  • 1958: For You Alone (as Kenny Rogers the First; released June)
  • 1958: So Unimportant (as Lee Harrison; release: July)
  • 1966: Take Life in Stride / Here's That Rainy Day (release: February)
  • 1971: What Am I Gonna Do (with The First Edition; release: November)
  • 1972: Lady, Play Your Symphony (with The First Edition)
  • 1973: (Do You Remember) The First Time (with The First Edition; release: March)
  • 1973: Lena Lookie (with The First Edition)
  • 1978: Today I Started Loving You Again (released February)
  • 1978: Sail Away
  • 1979: Together Again (with Dottie West)
  • 1981: So in Love with You
  • 1981: Kentucky Homemade Christmas (release: October)
  • 1982: The Long Arm of the Law (release: February)
  • 1983: If I Ever Fall in Love Again (with Anne Murray )
  • 1984: The Christmas Song (release: November)
  • 1987: I Believe in Santa Claus (with Dolly Parton)
  • 1988: I Don't Call Him Daddy (released May)
  • 1989: (Something Inside) So Strong
  • 1989: Christmas in America (release: November)
  • 1990: Walk Away
  • 1991: Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town '91
  • 1992: Someone Must Feel Like a Fool Tonight (released April)
  • 1992: Bed of Roses (release: August)
  • 1993: You Decorated My Life
  • 1997: Write Your Name (Across My Heart)
  • 1999: Ain't No Sunshine
  • 1999: Let It Be Me
  • 2000: Unchained Melody / Lady / Crazy / Endless Love
  • 2003: The Hustler ( Coolio feat. Kenny Rogers)
  • 2012: I'll Fly Away
  • 2013: She Believes in Me (with Engelbert Humperdinck )

Video albums

  • 1985: Kenny & Dolly: Real Love
  • 1991: Kenny Rogers & 1st Edition, Vol. 1
  • 1995: Christmas Show
  • 1996: Rollin ', Vol. 1
  • 1996: Rollin ', Vol. 2
  • 1999: Great Video Hits (US:goldgold)
  • 2001: A&E Live by Request
  • 2004: Kenny Rogers Christmas Special: Keep Christmas with You
  • 2005: Live by Request
  • 2006: Legend of the Gambler
  • 2006: The Journey: Kenny Rogers in Concert
  • 2007: Coward of the County
  • 2007: The Gambler: The Legends Continues
  • 2007: The Gambler 30th Anniversary Edition
  • 2008: Kenny Rogers Christmas Special
  • 2015: We've Got Tonight

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US1US Country12Country
Top 10 albums DE1DE AT1AT CH-CH UK3UK US5US Country26thCountry
Albums in the charts DE3DE AT4thAT CH3CH UK12UK US47US Country55Country
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Country Country
Number one singles DE-DE AT1AT CH-CH UK2UK US2US Country20thCountry
Top 10 singles DE1DE AT3AT CH3CH UK5UK US11US Country34Country
Singles in the charts DE5DE AT5AT CH3CH UK13UK US41US Country71Country

Awards for music sales

Country / Region Silver record icon.svg silver Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Diamond record icon.svg diamond Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA) Australia (ARIA) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2 0! D.- 175,000 aria.com.au
Finland (IFPI) Finland (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 20,000 ifpi.fi
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA) Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 10,000 Individual evidence
Japan (RIAJ) Japan (RIAJ) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 100,000 riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 8 × gold8th Platinum record icon.svg 32 × platinum32 Diamond record icon.svg diamond1 4,600,000 musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ) New Zealand (RMNZ) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 8 × platinum8th 0! D.- 150,000 nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 0! D.- 50,000 ifpi.no
Poland (ZPAV) Poland (ZPAV) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 30,000 Individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI) Sweden (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 40,000 sverigetopplistan.se
Spain (Promusicae) Spain (Promusicae) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 3 × gold3 0! P- 0! D.- 150,000 mediafire.com ES2
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 18 × gold18th Platinum record icon.svg 37 × platinum37 Diamond record icon.svg diamond1 54,050,000 riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg 4 × silver4th Gold record icon.svg 8 × gold8th Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3 0! D.- 3,120,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg 4 × silver4th Gold record icon.svg 43 × gold43 Platinum record icon.svg 83 × platinum83 Diamond record icon.svg 2 × diamond2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dave Gordon: Kenny Rogers prepares to hang up his microphone. BBC News, May 7, 2017, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  2. a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  3. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .