Lonestar is an American country music band founded in 1992 by Richie McDonald, John Rich, Keech Rainwater, Michael Britt and Dean Sams. The band has released 12 studio albums, five compilation albums, and 35 singles. Lonestar's first five releases for BNA Records are all certified Gold or higher by the RIAA, and their 2003 greatest hits album is certified Platinum. The band's highest-certified album is 1999's Lonely Grill at 3× Platinum. An eighth album, Party Heard Around the World, was released in April 2010. This was also the only album to feature lead singer Cody Collins, who replaced McDonald and served as lead vocalist from 2008 to 2011.

Lonestar discography
Lonestar in 2005
Studio albums12
EPs2
Compilation albums5
Singles35
Music videos20

Lonestar has also charted 35 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Nine reached No. 1 on the Billboard country singles charts: "No News", "Come Cryin' to Me", "Amazed", "Smile", "What About Now", "Tell Her", "I'm Already There", "My Front Porch Looking In" and "Mr. Mom". "Amazed", the longest-lasting at eight weeks, was the No. 1 country song of 1999 according to the Billboard Year-End charts. It also became the first song to top the country singles charts and Billboard Hot 100 charts since Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' "Islands in the Stream" in 1983. All of the band's No. 1 hits except "No News" have also been Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, as have "Not a Day Goes By" and "Let's Be Us Again", which respectively reached No. 3 and No. 4 on the country charts. Both "Amazed" and "I'm Already There" reached No. 2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, and the former was a No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart. "Amazed", "I'm Already There", "My Front Porch Looking In" and "Mr. Mom" are all certified as gold singles by the RIAA.

Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
CAN Country
[3]
UK
[4]
Lonestar
  • Release date: October 10, 1995
  • Label: BNA
11 69 2
Crazy Nights
  • Release date: June 17, 1997
  • Label: BNA
16 166 28
Lonely Grill
  • Release date: June 1, 1999
  • Label: BNA
3 28 2 80
  • RIAA: 3× Platinum[5]
  • MC: 3× Platinum[6]
This Christmas Time
  • Release date: September 12, 2000
  • Label: BNA
11 95
I'm Already There
  • Release date: June 19, 2001
  • Label: BNA
1 9 149
Let's Be Us Again
  • Release date: May 25, 2004
  • Label: BNA
2 14
Coming Home
  • Release date: September 13, 2005
  • Label: BNA
3 26
Mountains
  • Release date: October 17, 2006
  • Label: BNA
10 37
My Christmas List[a]
Party Heard Around the World
  • Release date: April 27, 2010
  • Label: Saguaro Road
20 103
Life as We Know It
  • Release date: June 4, 2013
  • Label: 4 Star
33 148
Never Enders
  • Release date: April 29, 2016
  • Label: Shanachie
48
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
From There to Here: Greatest Hits
  • Release date: June 3, 2003
  • Label: BNA
1 7
16 Biggest Hits
  • Release date: September 12, 2006
  • Label: BNA / Legacy
Super Hits
  • Release date: September 25, 2007
  • Label: Sony BMG Special Markets
Playlist: The Very Best of Lonestar
  • Release date: June 17, 2008
  • Label: BNA / Legacy
73
Country: Lonestar
  • Release date: 2013
  • Label: Legacy
75
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Extended plays

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Title Album details
Lonestar Live
Simply the Hits
  • Release date: April 19, 2011
  • Label: Saguaro Road

Singles

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1990s

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Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US Country
[7]
US
[8]
US AC
[9]
US Adult Pop
[10]
CAN Country
[11]
CAN
[12]
UK
[4]
1995 "Tequila Talkin'" 8 [b] 11 Lonestar
1996 "No News" 1 1
"Runnin' Away with My Heart" 8 9
"When Cowboys Didn't Dance" 45 18
"Heartbroke Every Day" 18 22
1997 "Come Cryin' to Me" 1 3 Crazy Nights
"You Walked In" 12 93 4
1998 "Say When" 13 23
"Everything's Changed" 2 95 3
1999 "Saturday Night" 47 Lonely Grill
"Amazed" 1 1 2 7 1 7 21
"Smile" 1 39 1 55
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

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Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US Country
[7]
US
[8]
US AC
[9]
US Adult Pop
[10]
UK
[4]
2000 "What About Now"[c] 1 30 Lonely Grill
"Tell Her" 1 39
2001 "I'm Already There" 1 24 2 29 81 I'm Already There
"With Me" 10 63
2002 "Not a Day Goes By" 3 36
"Unusually Unusual" 12 66
2003 "My Front Porch Looking In" 1 23 From There to Here: Greatest Hits
"Walking in Memphis" 8 61
2004 "Let's Be Us Again" 4 38 Let's Be Us Again
"Mr. Mom" 1 33
2005 "Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us)" 16 97
"You're Like Comin' Home" 8 63 Coming Home
2006 "I'll Die Tryin'" 43
"Mountains" 10 77 Mountains
2007 "Nothing to Prove" 51
2008 "Let Me Love You" 50 Party Heard Around the World
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2010s

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Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[7]
US Country Airplay
[15]
2010 "You're the Reason Why" Party Heard Around the World
2012 "The Countdown" 52 Life as We Know It
2013 "Maybe Someday" 56
"Party All Day"
2014 "Just the Rain"
"Pretty Good Day"
2016 "Never Enders" Never Enders
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
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Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
[13]
2001 "America the Beautiful"[d] 58 Non-album single

Other charted songs

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The following songs charted on the Hot Country Songs charts from unsolicited airplay.

Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
[13]
1997 "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 75 Country Cares for Kids
1999 "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (re-entry) 59
"All My Love for Christmas" 61 Country Christmas Classics
2000 "Winter Wonderland" 72 This Christmas Time
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 71
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" 67
"The Little Drummer Boy" 46
2004 "Somebody's Someone" 53 Let's Be Us Again

Music videos

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Year Video Director
1996 "No News" Deaton-Flanigen
"When Cowboys Didn't Dance"
1997 "You Walked In" Steven Goldmann
"Come Cryin' to Me" Roger Pistole
1998 "Everything's Changed" Steven T. Miller/R. Brad Murano
1999 "Amazed" Trey Fanjoy
"Smile"
2001 "I'm Already There" Michael Salomon
"America the Beautiful" Marc Ball
"With Me" Keech Rainwater
2002 "Not a Day Goes By" Lawrence Carroll
2003 "My Front Porch Looking In" Trey Fanjoy
"Walking in Memphis" Milton Lage
2004 "Mr. Mom" Roman White
2005 "You're Like Comin' Home" Trey Fanjoy
2006 "Mountains" Kristin Barlowe
2008 "Let Me Love You" Glenn Sweitzer
2013 "Maybe Someday"[16] Lonestar
2014 "Just the Rain"[17] Jacob Moyer
2016 "Never Enders"

Notes

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  1. ^ My Christmas List was exclusively sold at Cracker Barrel restaurants.
  2. ^ The physical single of "No News" was released as a double A-side with "Tequila Talkin'". The double-sided single did not enter the Hot 100, but peaked at number 22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[13]
  3. ^ "What About Now" also peaked at number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[11]
  4. ^ Multi-artist collaboration featuring Trace Adkins, Billy Dean, Vince Gill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Toby Keith, Brenda Lee, Lonestar, Martina McBride, Jamie O'Neal, Kenny Rogers, and Keith Urban.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Lonestar Chart History: Top Country Albums". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Lonestar Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  3. ^ "Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Country Albums/CDs". RPM. 17 July 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  4. ^ a b c Peaks in the UK:
  5. ^ a b c d e f RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Lonestar
  6. ^ a b c d e CRIA search results for Lonestar
  7. ^ a b c "Lonestar Chart History: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Lonestar Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Lonestar Chart History: Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Lonestar Chart History: Adult Pop Songs". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Country Singles". RPM. 17 July 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  12. ^ "Results: RPM Weekly – Lonestar on Top Singles". RPM. 17 July 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  13. ^ a b c d Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  14. ^ a b c d "RIAA - Gold & Platinum - April 25, 2010: Lonestar certified singles". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  15. ^ "Lonestar Album & Song Chart History - Country Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  16. ^ "CMT : Videos : Lonestar : Maybe Someday". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on April 17, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  17. ^ Geller, Wendy (May 21, 2014). "See It First! Lonestar's Back Stronger Than Ever With 'Just The Rain'". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved June 9, 2014.