Joe Satriani discography

This is the discography for Joe Satriani, an American multi-instrumentalist, known primarily for his work as an instrumental rock guitarist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations. This discography includes all of his albums, including collaboration albums with Chickenfoot, Blue Öyster Cult, Stuart Hamm, Alice Cooper, Spinal Tap and G3 projects (see the collaborations section for more details).

Joe Satriani discography
Joe Satriani in 2005
Studio albums	17
Live albums	5
Compilation albums	4
EPs	3

Since his self-titled debut EP in 1984, Satriani has released five live albums, four compilation albums, three extended plays (one was mostly a live recording), and fourteen studio albums (one features material both recorded live and in the studio), three of which have received gold certification in the United States, while Surfing with the Alien went platinum.

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions									Sales	Certifications
		US [1]	US Hard Rock [2]	AUS [3]	FRA [4]	GER [5]	NZ [6]	SWE [7]	SWI [8]	UK [9]
1986	Not of This Earth Released: 1986 Label: Epic Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1987	Surfing with the Alien Released: October 15, 1987 Label: Epic Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	29	—	10	—	—	16	—	—	—		ARIA: Gold[10] BPI: Silver[11] RIAA: Platinum[12] RMNZ: Gold[13]
1989	Flying in a Blue Dream Released: October 30, 1989 Label: Epic Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	23	—	21	—	—	7	34	—	—	US: 850,000[14]	BPI: Silver[11] RIAA: Gold[12] RMNZ: Gold[15]
1992	The Extremist Released: July 21, 1992 Label: Epic Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	22	—	29	13	55	16	35	11	13	FR: 134,000 US: 810,000[16]	RIAA: Gold[12] SNEP: Gold[17]
1993	Time Machine Released: October 26, 1993 Label: Sony Music Distribution Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	95	—	85	8	87	—	—	—	32	FR: 122,500	RIAA: Gold[12]
1995	Joe Satriani Released: October 1995 Label: Sony Music Distribution Format: CD, CS, DD	51	—	72	10	—	27	—	36	21	FR: 72,800 US: 256,422[18]
1998	Crystal Planet Released: March 3, 1998 Label: Epic Format: CD, CS, DD	50	—	—	10	73	—	—	40	32	US: 221,000[upper-alpha 1]
2000	Engines of Creation Released: March 14, 2000 Label: Epic Format: CD, SACD, CS, DD	90	—	—	37	—	—	—	86	78	US: 111,851[upper-alpha 2]
2002	Strange Beautiful Music Released: June 25, 2002 Label: Epic Format: CD, SACD, DD	80	—	—	45	—	—	—	83	86
2004	Is There Love in Space? Released: April 13, 2004 Label: Epic Format: CD, DD	80	—	—	45	—	—	—	83	86
2006	Super Colossal Released: March 14, 2006 Label: Epic Format: CD, DD	86	—	—	86	—	—	—	83	107	US: 108,000[upper-alpha 3]
2008	Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock Released: April 1, 2008 Label: Epic/RED Format: CD, DD	89	—	64	57	92	—	—	67	75	FR: 4,200 US: 176,000[upper-alpha 4]
2010	Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards Released: October 5, 2010 Label: Epic/RED Format: CD, DD	45	5	84	39	85	—	—	34	62	US: 60,000[upper-alpha 5]
2013	Unstoppable Momentum Released: May 7, 2013 Label: Epic/RED Format: CD, DD	42	1	81	77	67	—	54	32	44	US: 50,000[upper-alpha 6]
2015	Shockwave Supernova Released: July 24, 2015 Label: Sony Music Format: CD, LP, DD	46	3	23	32	40	—	—	13	22	US: 40,000[upper-alpha 7]
2018	What Happens Next Released: January 12, 2018 Label: Sony Music Format: CD, LP, DD	42	2	20	—	51	—	—	9	40
2020	Shapeshifting Released: April 10, 2020[26] Label: Sony Music Format: CD, LP, DD	—	—	28 [27]	101 [28]	61	—	—	6	70
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Extended plays

Year	Album details	Peak positions			Certifications
		US [1]	SWE [29]	UK [29]
1984	Joe Satriani Released: 1984 Label: Rubina Records Format: CS, LP, DD	—	—	—
1988	Dreaming #11 Released: November 1988 Label: Epic Format: CD, LP, CS, DD	42	55	100	RIAA: Gold[12]
2000	Additional Creations Released: 2000 Label: Epic Format: CD	—	—	—
2016	Supernova Remix - The Free EP Released: December 5, 2016 Label: Strange Beautiful Music Format: MP3, FLAC	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilations

Year	Album details	Peak
		GER [5]
1993	The Beautiful Guitar Released: 1993 Label: Relativity Records Format: CD, DD	53
2003	The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology Released: November 18, 2003 Label: Epic/Legacy Format: CD, DD	—
2005	One Big Rush: The Genius of Joe Satriani Released: November 29, 2005 Label: Sony BMG Format: CD	—
2008	Joe Satriani Original Album Classics Released: June 16, 2008 Label: Sony BMG Format: CD, DD	—
2010	The Essential Joe Satriani Released: October 26, 2010 Label: Epic/Legacy Format: CD	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live/video albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions					Certifications
		US (Video) [30]	AUS (Video) [31]	FRA (Album) [4]	SWE (Video) [7]	SWI (Video) [8]
1993	The Satch Tapes Released: January 27, 1993 Label: Sony Music Format: VHS, DVD	—	—	—	—	—	SNEP: Gold[32]
2001	Live in San Francisco Released: June 19, 2001 Label: Sony Music Distribution Format: CD, DVD, DD	10	9	69	13	—	ARIA: Gold[33] BPI: Gold[11] RIAA: 2× Platinum[12]
2006	Satriani Live! Released: October 31, 2006 Label: RED Format: CD, DVD, DD	—	—	—	—	—	SNEP: Gold
2010	Live In Paris: I Just Wanna Rock Released: February 2, 2010 Label: Sony Music Format: CD, DVD, DD	—	29	197	—	—
2012	Satchurated: Live in Montreal Released: April 24, 2012 Label: Sony Music Format: CD, DVD, Blu-ray, DD	3	15	198	7	6
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notable collaborations

In 1986, Satriani teamed up with Crowded House to record their eponymous studio album Crowded House and recorded Love And Rock And Roll together with Greg Kihn. A year later, the guitarist played on Danny Gottlieb's Aquamarine. In 1987, Satriani produced The Eyes of Horror EP by the band Possessed. In 1988, Satriani contributed to two albums including Radio Free Albemuth by Stuart Hamm and Imaginos by Blue Öyster Cult. For the last release, Satriani worked as the producer of the album. In 1991, Satriani played guitar parts on the Alice Cooper album Hey Stoopid. The next year, he worked with Brian May on Back to the Light as well as Break Like the Wind by Spinal Tap. After a break of four years, Satriani worked with Pat Martino on the album All Sides Now and King Biscuit Flower Hour by Greg Kihn.

In 1997, Satriani recorded the album Merry Axemas Volume 1 with Steve Vai, Alex Lifeson and Joe Perry. In 2003, Satriani worked on The Yardbirds project, recording Birdland. A year later, he was a guest on Jordan Rudess' release entitled Rhythm of Time. In 2006, the American guitarist played on Gillan's Inn by Ian Gillan as well as Transformations Live for the People by Particle. The following year saw Satriani playing on The Devil Knows My Name by John 5 and Guitar Masters, Vol. 1 by Stanley Clarke. In 2008, Satriani added guitar parts on YouTube Live by Funtwo, Jason Becker's Collection album as well as Clean by Dave Martone. In 2010, the guitarist worked on Bingo! by the Steve Miller Band and What Lies Beneath by Tarja, followed 2013 by Steve Hunter's The Manhattan Blues Project. In 2017 Joe Satriani contributed on tracks The Healer, North Bound, Horsepower and Hometown by Marco Minnemann album Borrego.

Satriani takes part in every release by the supergroup Chickenfoot. With the band, he sold 560,000 copies of their debut studio album Chickenfoot in the United States as well as more than 40,000 copies in Canada, where the album was also certified with a Gold disc. The band's second studio album, Chickenfoot III sold 35,000 copies in the United States, according to Sammy Hagar.

In 2020, Satriani performed a solo on "Get Out! Now!", a track of Dutch metal opera project Ayreon's tenth album Transitus.[34]

G3 projects

Year	Release details	Peak positions								Sales	Certifications
		US (Album) [35]	FIN (Album) [36]	FRA (Album) [37]	GER (Album) [5]	ITA (Album) [38]	NED (Album) [39]	SWE (Video) [40]	UK (Album) [9]
1997	G3: Live in Concert feat. Steve Vai, Eric Johnson Released: June 3, 1997 Label: Sony Music Distribution Format: CD, VHS, DVD	108	35	20	92	—	52	—	82	US: 100,000[upper-alpha 8]	RIAA: Platinum (Video)[12]
2003	G3: Rockin' in the Free World feat. Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen Released: February 17, 2004 Label: Epic Records Format: CD, DVD	—	—	156	—	58	—	2	—	US: 100,000[upper-alpha 8]	RIAA: Platinum (Video)[12]
2005	G3: Live in Tokyo feat. Steve Vai, John Petrucci Released: October 25, 2005 Label: Epic Records Format: CD, DVD	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	—	AU: 15,000[upper-alpha 8]	ARIA: Platinum (Video)[41]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications
		US [42]	AUS [43]	AUT [44]	CAN [45]	FIN [46]	FRA [47]	NL [48]	SWE [49]	SWI [50]	UK [51]
Chickenfoot	Released: June 5, 2009 Label: Redline Entertainment Formats: CD, LP, music download	4	50	36	5	36	67	25	36	11	23	US: Gold[52] CAN: Gold[53]
Chickenfoot III	Released: September 27, 2011 Label: eOne Music Formats: CD, LP, music download	9	46	11	19	41	81	36	45	12	102
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Title	Album details
LV	Released: December 7, 2012 Label: Edel Records Formats: CD, music download

Singles

Year	Single	US Main.	Album
2009	"Oh Yeah"	21	Chickenfoot
	"Soap on a Rope"	—
	"Sexy Little Thing"	40
2010	"Get It Up"	—
	"My Kinda Girl"	—
2011	"Big Foot"	32	Chickenfoot III
	"Three and a Half Letters"	—
2012	"Different Devil"	—
2013	"Something Going Wrong"	—	LV
2017	"Divine Termination"	—	BEST + LIVE
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes

1. Sales figures for Crystal Planet.[19]
2. Sales figures for Engines of Creation.[20]
3. Sales figures for Super Colossal.[21]
4. Sales figures for Professor Satchafunkilus.[22]
5. Sales figures for Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards.[23]
6. Sales figures for Unstoppable Momentum.[24]
7. Sales figures for Shockwave Supernova.[25]

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