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Mac Davis discography

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Mac Davis discography
Studio albums19
Compilation albums8
Singles38

Mac Davis was an American country pop artist. His discography consists of 19 studio albums and 38 singles. Thirty of those singles charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 1970 and 1986.[1] He is best known for the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me." While it wasn't a big hit on country radio stations, it reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each. The magazine ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972.

Studio albums

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1970s

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US AUS
[2]
CAN
Song Painter 35 182
I Believe in Music
  • Release date: November 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
160
Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
  • Release date: August 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
27 11 63 9
Mac Davis
  • Release date: February 1973
  • Label: Columbia Records
19 120
Stop and Smell the Roses
  • Release date: March 1974
  • Label: Columbia Records
2 13 60 10
  • US: Platinum[3]
All the Love in the World
  • Release date: December 1974
  • Label: Columbia Records
6 21 33
Burnin' Thing
  • Release date: June 1975
  • Label: Columbia Records
9 64
Forever Lovers
  • Release date: February 1976
  • Label: Columbia Records
11 156
Thunder in the Afternoon
  • Release date: February 25, 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
38
Fantasy
  • Release date: May 5, 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
43 207
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s and 1990s

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US AUS
[2]
CAN
It's Hard to Be Humble 3 69 48 29
Texas in My Rearview Mirror
  • Release date: September 8, 1980
  • Label: Casablanca Records
12 67
Midnight Crazy
  • Release date: September 14, 1981
  • Label: Casablanca Records
19 174
Forty 82
  • Release date: November 8, 1982
  • Label: Casablanca Records
Who's Lovin' You
  • Release date: November 4, 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
Soft Talk 65
Till I Made It with You 48
Somewhere in America
  • Release date: June 16, 1986
  • Label: MCA Records
Will Write Songs for Food
  • Release date: 1994
  • Label: Columbia Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilations

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Title Album details Peak
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
The Mac Davis Collection
Greatest Hits
  • Release date: November 30, 1979
  • Label: Columbia Records
44
Very Best and More
  • Release date: September 10, 1984
  • Label: Casablanca Records
The Best of Mac Davis
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection
  • Release date: September 12, 2006
  • Label: Mercury Records
The Best of Mac Davis
(Reissue of the 2000 Razor & Tie album)
  • Release date: March 13, 2007
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy
A Little More Action Please:
The Anthology 1970-1985
  • Release date: May 21, 2013
  • Label: Raven Australia
Hard to Be Humble: The Best of Mac Davis
  • Release date: October 22, 2013
  • Label: Hux Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

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1960s and 1970s

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Year Title Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[1]
US
[4]
US AC
[5]
AUS
[2]
CAN Country CAN CAN AC
1962 "I'm a Poor Loser"
1963 "A Little Dutch Town"
"Honey Love"
1965 "Bad Scene"
1968 "Memories"
1970 "Whoever Finds This, I Love You" 43 53 25 54 Song Painter
"I'll Paint You a Song" 68 110 14 68
"I Believe in Music" 117 25 I Believe in Music
1971 "Beginning to Feel the Pain" 92 Song Painter
1972 "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" 26 1 1 2 1 2 1 Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
"Everybody Loves a Love Song" 63 13 51 43
1973 "Dream Me Home" 47 73 32 91 46 48 75
"Your Side of the Bed" 36 88 28 19 19 Mac Davis
"Kiss It and Make It Better" 29 105 64 Stop and Smell the Roses
1974 "One Hell of a Woman" 11 20 43 42 11 39
"Stop and Smell the Roses" 40 9 1 78 11 3 5
1975 "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" 29 15 4 40 14 All the Love in the World
"(If You Add) All the Love in the World" 69 54 31 55 31
"Burnin' Thing" 31 53 20 47 14 Burnin' Thing
"I Still Love You (You Still Love Me)" 81 38 38
1976 "Forever Lovers" 17 76 32 8 17 Forever Lovers
"Every Now and Then" 34 32
1977 "Picking Up the Pieces of My Life" 42 25 37 17 Thunder in the Afternoon
1978 "Music in My Life" 92 22 6 Fantasy
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

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Year Title Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[1]
US
[4]
AUS
[2]
CAN Country CAN
1980 "It's Hard to Be Humble" 10 43 9 4 14 Hard to Be Humble
"Let's Keep It That Way" 10 15
"Texas in My Rearview Mirror" 9 51 40 Texas in My Rearview Mirror
1981 "Hooked on Music" 2 102 30
"Secrets" 47 76
"You're My Bestest Friend" 5 106 26 Midnight Crazy
1982 "Rodeo Clown" 37 Texas in My Rearview Mirror
"The Beer Drinkin' Song" 52 Forty '82
"Lying Here Lying" 62
1984 "Most of All" 41 Soft Talk
"Caroline's Still in Georgia" 76
1985 "I Never Made Love (Till I Made It with You)" 10 6 Till I Made It with You
"I Feel the Country Callin' Me" 34
1986 "Sexy Young Girl" 46
"Somewhere in America" 65 Somewhere in America
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

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  1. ^ a b c Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ a b c d Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 83. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ a b c d e "RIAA - Gold & Platinum Database - Mac Davis". RIAA. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-188-8.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Adult Songs 1961-2006. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-169-7.
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