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Jefferson Starship discography

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This is a comprehensive discography of Jefferson Starship, a rock band from San Francisco that developed out of Jefferson Airplane in 1974.

Albums

=Studio albums=

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! scope="col" colspan="6" | Peak chart positions

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style="width:40px;" | US
{{cite web|title=Jefferson Starship - Awards|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-mn0000840050/awards|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=October 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123094354/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-mn0000840050/awards|archive-date=November 23, 2012}}

! style="width:40px;" | AUS
{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=154}}

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! style="width:40px;"| NED

! style="width:40px;"| NZ

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scope="row" | Dragon Fly

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  • Released: October 1974
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |11

| align="center" |60

| align="center"|18

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  • US: Gold{{cite certification|region=United States|artist=Jefferson Starship|access-date=June 30, 2024}}
scope="row" |Red Octopus

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  • Released: June 13, 1975
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |69

| align="center"|13

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| align="center"|15

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  • US: 2× Platinum
scope="row" | Spitfire

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  • Released: June 1976
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |3

| align="center" |62

| align="center"|3

| align="center"|17

| align="center"|13

| align="center"|30

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  • CAN: Gold"[https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?_gp_search=Starship Certified Starship Awards]
  • US: Platinum
scope="row" | Earth

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  • Released: March 1978
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |5

| align="center" |61

| align="center"|4

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| align="center"|29

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  • US: Platinum
scope="row" | Freedom at Point Zero

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  • Released: November 1979
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |10

| align="center" |75

| align="center"|20

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| align="center"|23

| align="center"|22

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  • CAN: Platinum
  • US: Gold
scope="row"| Modern Times

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  • Released: April 2, 1981
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |26

| align="center" |84

| align="center"|15

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  • US: Gold
scope="row"| Winds of Change

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  • Released: October 4, 1982
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |26

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  • US: Gold
scope="row"| Nuclear Furniture

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  • Released: June 1984
  • Label: Grunt/RCA

| align="center" |28

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  • US: Gold
scope="row"|Windows of Heaven

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scope="row"| Jefferson's Tree of Liberty

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scope="row"|Mother of the Sun

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  • Released: August 22, 2020
  • Label: Golden Robot

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align="center" colspan="25" style="font-size: 9pt"| "—" denotes release did not chart and/or not certified.

=Live albums=

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1982

| RCA Special Radio Series Volume 19

1995

| Deep Space/Virgin Sky

1999

| Greatest Hits: Live at the Fillmore (compilation/live)

2001

| Across the Sea of Suns

2013

| Live In Central Park NYC May 12, 1975

2014

| Soiled Dove

Soundboard recordings

These were CDs recorded directly from the soundboard at the live shows and sold to concert attendees. They were also sold online for a short time.

  • Live at B. B. King's Blues Club (2000)
  • Live at Vinoy Park (2000)
  • Post Nine 11 (2001) (6 concerts released separately)
  • UK (2002) (6 concerts released separately)
  • Live (2003) (3 concerts released separately)
  • Galactic Reunion Concert (2005)

=Compilation albums=

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!rowspan="2"|Year

!rowspan="2"|Title

!colspan="2"|Chart positions

!rowspan="2"|Certifications

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1979

| Gold

| align="center"|53

| align="center"|20

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  • US: Gold
1991

| Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)

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  • US: Gold
1993

| Jefferson Starship at Their Best

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1998

| Jefferson Airplane – Jefferson Starship – Starship: Hits

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2008

| Playlist: The Very Best of Jefferson Starship

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2019

|Starship Enterprise: The Best of Jefferson Starship and Starship

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align="center" colspan="25" style="font-size: 9pt"| "—" denotes release did not chart and/or not certified.

Singles

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!rowspan="2"|Year

!rowspan="2"|Song

!colspan="6"|Chart positions

!rowspan="2"|Album

width="40"|CAN
{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.de/suche.asp?search=Starship&x=0&y=0&country=de&kategorie=single|title=Search for Canadian peaks|access-date=2014-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226234810/http://www.officialcharts.de/suche.asp?search=starship&country=de&x=0&y=0&kategorie=single|archive-date=2014-12-26|url-status=dead}}

!width="40"|NZ
{{Cite web|url=https://charts.nz/search.asp?search=Starship&cat=s|title=NZ peaks|access-date=2012-03-30|archive-date=2020-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229052112/https://charts.nz/search.asp?search=Starship&cat=s |url-status=live }}

!width="40"|UK
{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|location=London|isbn=1-904994-10-5|page= 373}}

!width="40"|US
{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990|isbn=0-89820-089-X |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |date=1991 |publisher=Record Research }}

!width="40"|US Rock
{{cite web|title=Starship Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography|url=https://www.musicvf.com/Starship.art|website=Music VF|access-date=2 December 2021}}

!width="40"|US AC

1974

| "Ride the Tiger"

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| align="center"|84

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| Dragon Fly

1975

| "Miracles"

| align="center"|22

| align="center"|40

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| align="center"|3

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| align="center"|17

| rowspan="2"|Red Octopus

rowspan="3"|1976

| "Play on Love"

| align="center"|46

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| align="center"|49

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"With Your Love"

| align="center"|10

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| align="center"|12

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| align="center"|6

| rowspan="2"|Spitfire

"St. Charles"

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| align="center"|64

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rowspan="4"|1978

| "Count On Me"

| align="center"|9

| align="center"|24

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| align="center"|8

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| align="center"|15

| rowspan="3"|Earth

"Runaway"

| align="center"|9

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| align="center"|12

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| align="center"|37

"Crazy Feelin'"

| align="center"|71

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| align="center"|54

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"Light the Sky on Fire"

| align="center"|73

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| align="center"|66

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| Gold

1979

| "Jane"

| align="center"|13

| align="center"|18

| align="center"|21

| align="center"|14

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| rowspan="2"|Freedom at Point Zero

1980

| "Girl with the Hungry Eyes"

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| align="center"|55

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rowspan="4"|1981

| "Find Your Way Back"

| align="center"|29

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| align="center"|29

| align="center"|3

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| rowspan="4"|Modern Times

"Stranger"

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| align="center"|48

| align="center"|17

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"Save Your Love"

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| align="center"|104

| align="center"|49

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"Stairway to Cleveland"

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rowspan="2"|1982

| "Be My Lady"

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| align="center"|28

| align="center"|33

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| rowspan="3"|Winds of Change

"Can't Find Love"

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| align="center"|16

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1983

| "Winds of Change"

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| align="center"|38

| align="center"|18

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rowspan="3"|1984

| "No Way Out"

| align="center"|59

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| align="center"|23

| align="center"|1

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| rowspan="3"|Nuclear Furniture

"Layin' It on the Line"

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| align="center"|66

| align="center"|6

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"Sorry Me, Sorry You"

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| align="center"|50

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2020

| "It's About Time"

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| Mother of the Sun

colspan="10" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Other appearances

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align="center"|1977

|Flight Log

|"Please Come Back"

|live recording

align="center"|1978

|Star Wars Holiday Special

|"Light the Sky on Fire"

|also released as a single

align="center"|1987

| "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" single

| "Layin' It on the Line" (live)

|B-side of the Starship song

Collaborations

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!style="width:3em"|Year

!style="width:12em"|Work

!style="width:12em"|Artist

!class="unsortable"|Collaborators

align="center"|1970

|Blows Against the Empire

|Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship

|David Freiberg, Grace Slick

align="center" rowspan="3"|1971

|If I Could Only Remember My Name

|David Crosby

|Freiberg, Kantner, Slick

Sunfighter

|Paul Kantner & Grace Slick

|Craig Chaquico, Papa John Creach

Papa John Creach

|Papa John Creach

|Kantner, Pete Sears, Slick

align="center"|1972

|Rolling Thunder

|Mickey Hart

|Freiberg, Kantner, Slick

align="center" rowspan="2"|1973

|Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun

|Paul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg

|John Barbata, Chaquico, Creach, Freiberg

Child of Nature

|Jack Traylor & Steelwind

|Chaquico, Freiberg

align="center" rowspan="2"|1974

|Manhole

|Grace Slick

|Barbata, Chaquico, Freiberg, Sears

Let It Flow

|rowspan="2"|Elvin Bishop

|rowspan="2"|Donny Baldwin, Mickey Thomas

align="center" rowspan="3"|1975

|Juke Joint Jump

Solid Silver

|Quicksilver Messenger Service

|Freiberg, Sears

Struttin' My Stuff

|rowspan="3"|Elvin Bishop

|rowspan="3"|Baldwin, Thomas

align="center"|1976

|Hometown Boy Makes Good!

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|Raisin' Hell

align="center"|1981

|Alive Alone

|Mickey Thomas

|Chaquico, Baldwin

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|Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra

|Paul Kantner

|Chaquico, Sears, Slick, Thomas

align="center"|1984

|Software

|Grace Slick

|Kantner, Thomas

Videos

=Music videos=

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|+ List of music videos, with directors, showing year released

! Year

! Video

! Director{{cite web |url=http://www.mvdbase.com/person.php?&id=A4860 |title=Jefferson Starship artist videography |publisher=mvdbase.com |access-date=2018-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143234/http://www.mvdbase.com/person.php?&id=A4860 |archive-date=2018-06-12 |url-status=live }}

1981

| "Find Your Way Back"

| C.D. Taylor

1981

| "Stranger"

| C.D. Taylor

1982

| "Be My Lady"

| Jerry Kramer

1983

| "Can't Find Love"

| Stanley Dorfman

1983

| "Out of Control"

| Jerry Kramer

1983

| "Winds of Change"

| Jerry Kramer

1984

| "No Way Out"

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1984

| "Layin' It on the Line"

| Irv Goodnoff

References

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External links

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