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Joe Satriani discography
Satriani in 2005
Studio albums18
Live albums5
Compilation albums4
EPs3

This is the discography of 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 collaborations with Chickenfoot, Blue Öyster Cult, Stuart Hamm, Alice Cooper, and Spinal Tap, as well as early Squares material and G3 projects (see the collaborations section for more details).

Since his self-titled debut EP in 1984, Satriani has released five live albums, five compilations, four extended plays, and eighteen studio albums, 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: December 18, 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 — — —
1989 Flying in a Blue Dream
  • Released: October 30, 1989
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: CD, LP, CS, DD
 23 — 21 — — 7 34 — —
1992 The Extremist
  • Released: July 21, 1992
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: CD, LP, CS, DD
 22 — 29 13 55 16 35 11 13
1993 Time Machine 95 — 85 8 87 — — — 32
  • FR: 122,500
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 [19]
1998 Crystal Planet
  • Released: March 3, 1998
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: CD, CS, DD
 50 — — 10 73 — — 40 32
  • US: 221,000 [A]
2000 Engines of Creation
  • Released: March 14, 2000
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: CD, SACD, CS, DD
 90 — — 37 — — — 86 78
  • US: 111,851 [B]
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 [C]
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 [D]
2010 Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards
  • Released: October 5, 2010
  • Label: Epic/RED
  • Format: CD, DD
 45 5 84 39 85 — — 34 62
2013 Unstoppable Momentum
  • Released: May 7, 2013
  • Label: Epic/RED
  • Format: CD, DD
 42 1 81 77 67 — 54 32 44
2015 Shockwave Supernova
  • Released: July 24, 2015
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD, LP, DD
 46 3 23 32 40 — — 13 22
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 [27]
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD, LP, DD
 — — 28
[28] 		101
[29] 		61 — — 6 70
2022 The Elephants of Mars — — — — 22 — — 5 57
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Extended plays

Year EP details Peak positions Certifications
US
[1] 		SWE
[31] 		UK
[31]
1984 Joe Satriani
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Rubina Records
  • Format: CS, LP, DD
 — — —
1988 Dreaming #11
  • Released: November 1, 1988
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: CD, LP, CS, DD
 42 55 100
2000 Additional Creations
  • Released: March 14, 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 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)
[32] 		AUS
(Video)
[33] 		FRA
(Album)
[4] 		SWE
(Video)
[7] 		SWI
(Video)
[8]
1993 The Satch Tapes
  • Released: January 27, 1993
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: VHS, DVD
 — — — — —
2001 Live in San Francisco
  • Released: June 19, 2001
  • Label: Sony Music Distribution
  • Format: CD, DVD, DD
 10 9 69 13 —
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.

Projects and collaborations

See also: Chickenfoot discography

In 1986, Satriani teamed up with Crowded House to record their eponymous studio album, Crowded House. The same year, he also recorded Love and Rock and Roll with The Greg Kihn Band. A year later, the guitarist played on Danny Gottlieb's Aquamarine. He also produced The Eyes of Horror by Possessed. In 1988, Satriani contributed to Radio Free Albemuth by Stuart Hamm and Imaginos by Blue Öyster Cult. For the last release, Satriani worked as the record's producer. In 1991, he 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. In 1997, he worked with Pat Martino on the album All Sides Now and King Biscuit Flower Hour by the Greg Kihn Band.

Also in 1997, Satriani recorded the album Merry Axemas Volume 1 with Steve Vai, Alex Lifeson, and Joe Perry. In 2003, he worked on The Yardbirds album Birdland. A year later, he was a guest on Jordan Rudess' release, entitled Rhythm of Time. In 2006, the 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 to YouTube Live by Funtwo, Jason Becker's Collection, as well as Clean by Dave Martone. In 2010, he worked on Bingo! by the Steve Miller Band and What Lies Beneath by Tarja, followed in 2013 by Steve Hunter's The Manhattan Blues Project. In 2017, Satriani contributed to the tracks "The Healer", "North Bound", "Horsepower", and "Hometown" on the Marco Minnemann album Borrego.

In 2019, he released the album Squares, a collection of tracks recorded by the band Squares, which he formed with his brother-in-law Neil Sheehan in the late 1970s. [36]

Satriani has taken part in all releases by the supergroup Chickenfoot. Their debut studio album, Chickenfoot, sold 560,000 copies in the United States and more than 40,000 in Canada, where the record was also certified Gold. The band's second studio album, Chickenfoot III, sold 35,000 copies in the United States.[ citation needed]

In 2020, Satriani played a guitar solo on the track "Get Out! Now!" from Dutch metal opera project Ayreon's tenth album, Transitus. [37] Also in 2020, Satriani was featured on the Cory Wong song "Massive" from Wong's release The Striped Album. [38]

In 2021, Satriani was featured on two Kitt Wakeley singles, "Conflicted" and "Forgive Me". Both are from Wakeley's album Symphony of Sinners & Saints. [39]

G3 projects

Year Release details Peak positions Sales Certifications
US
(Album)
[40] 		FIN
(Album)
[41] 		FRA
(Album)
[42] 		GER
(Album)
[5] 		ITA
(Album)
[43] 		NED
(Album)
[44] 		SWE
(Video)
[45] 		UK
(Album)
[9]
1997 G3: Live in Concert 108 35 20 92 — 52 — 82
  • US: 100,000
  • RIAA: Platinum (Video) [12]
2003 G3: Rockin' in the Free World — — 156 — 58 — 2 —
  • US: 100,000
  • RIAA: Platinum (Video) [12]
2005 G3: Live in Tokyo — — — — — — 6 —
  • AU: 15,000
  • ARIA: Platinum (Video) [46]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Chickenfoot

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[47] 		AUS
[48] 		AUT
[49] 		CAN
[50] 		FIN
[51] 		FRA
[52] 		NL
[53] 		SWE
[54] 		SWI
[55] 		UK
[56]
Chickenfoot
  • Released: June 5, 2009
  • Label: Redline Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, LP, music download
 4 50 36 5 36 67 25 36 11 23
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

Compilations

Title Album details
Best + Live
  • Released: March 10, 2017
  • Label: eOne Music
  • 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. [20]
  2. ^ Sales figures for Engines of Creation. [21]
  3. ^ Sales figures for Super Colossal. [22]
  4. ^ Sales figures for Professor Satchafunkilus. [23]
  5. ^ Sales figures for Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards. [24]
  6. ^ Sales figures for Unstoppable Momentum. [25]
  7. ^ Sales figures for Shockwave Supernova. [26]

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