Johnny Mathis discography
Reissue CD released Label Album one Year Album two Year
1995 Columbia Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head 1970 Love Story 1971
2000 Columbia Warm 1957 Swing Softly 1958
2001 Columbia Johnny Mathis 1956 Wonderful Wonderful 1957
2002 Columbia Faithfully 1959 Johnny 's Mood 1960
2009 Collectors Choice Music I 'll Buy You a Star 1961 Live It Up ! 1962
2009 Collectors Choice Music Rapture 1962 Romantically 1963
2009 Collectors Choice Music Up , Up and Away 1967 Love Is Blue 1968
2009 Collectors Choice Music Those Were the Days 1968 Love Theme from Romeo And Juliet ( A Time for Us ) 1969
2009 Collectors Choice Music The Impossible Dream 1969 People 1969
2012 Real Gone Music Tender Is the Night 1964 The Wonderful World of Make Believe 1964
2012 Real Gone Music This Is Love 1964 Olé 1964
2012 Real Gone Music Broadway 1965 Love Is Everything 1965
2012 Real Gone Music The Sweetheart Tree 1965 The Shadow of Your Smile 1966
2012 Real Gone Music So Nice 1966 Johnny Mathis Sings 1967
2015 Funkytowngrooves You Light Up My Life 1978 Mathis Magic 1979
Albums -- Album reissues
Many of the albums that Mathis recorded were originally available in the vinyl LP , 8-track tape , Reel-to-reel , and audio cassette formats but were later reissued on compact disc . With close to 80 minutes of space available on each disc , it was possible to combine two albums on one CD , and several Mathis albums have been paired up and reissued in this format , as shown in the collapsed table below :
Johnny Mathis has recorded 73 studio albums, 18 of which achieved sales of 500,000 units and were awarded Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. Five of his greatest hits albums also accomplished this, and of these 18 Gold albums, six eventually went Platinum by reaching sales of one million copies. In 1999, sales figures totaled five million for his first holiday LP, Merry Christmas, and three million for Johnny's Greatest Hits, a 1958 collection that has been described as the original greatest-hits package and once held the record for most weeks on Billboard magazine's album chart with a total of 490 (three of which were spent at number one). His second longest album chart run was the 295 weeks belonging to his Platinum 1959 album Heavenly, which gave him five weeks in the top spot. In a ranking of the top album artists of the last half of the 1950s in terms of Billboard chart performance, he comes in at number two, for the 1960s, number 10, and for the period from 1955 to 2009 he is at number six. The recurring appearance of Mathis holiday releases on the various album charts in Billboard began with 1958's Merry Christmas, which peaked at number three during the four weeks it spent that holiday season on the magazine's biggest album chart (now known as the Billboard 200) and returned to place at various positions within the top 40 slots there for the next four years. When the magazine first had a separate chart for Christmas albums from 1963 to 1973, Merry Christmas ranked somewhere in the top 10 on it for another seven years, and on the Top Pop Catalog chart that was created for older titles, it had eight return appearances during the 1990s. His Sounds of Christmas LP spent two weeks at number two on the Christmas Albums chart upon its 1963 release and re-charted for the next five years, and 1969's Give Me Your Love for Christmas reached number one there during its first of several annual chart showings before achieving Platinum certification. Other notable holiday projects include Home for Christmas, a 1990 home video special that went platinum, and Sending You a Little Christmas, a 2013 release that earned him a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Mathis also recorded 43 songs that reached Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in the United States and another nine that bubbled under the Hot 100. Six of these 52 recordings made the top 10, including 1957's Chances Are and the 1978 Deniece Williams duet, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, which each spent a week at number one, and 32 of them are also on the list of 50 entries that Mathis had on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, which was started in 1961. 19 of those 50 songs made the top 10 on that list, and two of them (I'm Coming Home and Too Much, Too Little, Too Late) went on to number one.