The List of Weezer Albums in Order of Release Date

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How many albums does Weezer have?

Counting the four SZNZ mini-albums as individual studio releases (as Weezer’s own official catalog does), the band has released 20 studio albums, four compilation/live projects, and roughly 44 singles since 1994. The most recent, the Gold Album, arrived on August 21, 2026.

The List of  Weezer Albums in Order of Release Date

Here is the list of Weezer Album in Order of Release Date

1. Weezer (Blue Album) — May 10, 1994
2. Pinkerton — September 24, 1996
3. Weezer (Green Album) — May 15, 2001
4. Maladroit — May 14, 2002
5. Make Believe — May 10, 2005
6. Weezer (Red Album) — June 3, 2008
7. Raditude — October 30, 2009
8. Hurley — September 14, 2010
9. Everything Will Be Alright in the End — October 7, 2014
10. Weezer (White Album) — April 1, 2016
11. Pacific Daydream — October 27, 2017
12. Weezer (Teal Album) — January 24, 2019
13. Weezer (Black Album) — March 1, 2019
14. OK Human — January 29, 2021
15. Van Weezer — May 7, 2021
16. SZNZ: Spring — March 20, 2022
17. SZNZ: Summer — June 21, 2022
18. SZNZ: Autumn — September 22, 2022
19. SZNZ: Winter — December 21, 2022
20. Weezer (The Gold Album) — August 21, 2026

All Weezer Albums List in Order

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1. Weezer (Blue Album) (1994)

Tracks

1. My Name Is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone – The Sweater Song
6. Surf Wax America
7. Say It Ain’t So
8. In the Garage
9. Holiday
10. Only in Dreams

Weezer’s self-titled debut arrived on DGC Records on May 10, 1994, tracked at Electric Lady Studios in New York with the Cars’ Ric Ocasek behind the board — a producer choice Rivers Cuomo made specifically to capture that new-wave-meets-crunch guitar tone. Guitarist Jason Cropper was let go mid-sessions and replaced by Brian Bell, locking in the classic lineup with Matt Sharp on bass and Patrick Wilson on drums. Landing in the thick of the grunge era, the record’s nerdy, unguarded lyrics and unison guitar-bass riffing felt like a rebuttal to flannel-and-angst rock, and singles “Undone – The Sweater Song,” “Buddy Holly,” and “Say It Ain’t So” turned MTV heavy rotation into multi-platinum sales (verify exact certification tier). Decades on, it’s still the reference point every “geek rock” band gets compared against.

2. Pinkerton (1996)

Tracks

1. Tired of Sex
2. Getchoo
3. No Other One
4. Why Bother?
5. Across the Sea
6. The Good Life
7. El Scorcho
8. Pink Triangle
9. Falling for You
10. Butterfly

Where the Blue Album was polished, Pinkerton was raw on purpose. Written largely while Cuomo was back at Harvard and self-produced by the band to preserve their live sound, it swapped shiny pop hooks for confessional, sometimes uncomfortable lyrics loosely inspired by Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. It’s the last Weezer album to feature original bassist Matt Sharp. On release in September 1996 it stalled at only number 19 on the Billboard 200 and took a beating from critics — Rolling Stone readers famously voted it one of the worst albums of the year — but “El Scorcho” and “The Good Life” became cult favorites, and the record’s reputation flipped entirely over the following decade, eventually earning platinum certification and near-universal “most influential Weezer album” status among fans.

3. Weezer (Green Album) (2001)

Tracks

1. Don’t Let Go
2. Photograph
3. Hash Pipe
4. Island in the Sun
5. Crab
6. Knock-down Drag-out
7. Smile
8. Simple Pages
9. Glorious Day
10. O Girlfriend

After Pinkerton’s rough reception, Weezer went on hiatus for nearly five years before reconvening with Ric Ocasek again, this time at Cello Studios in Los Angeles. The result was tighter, brighter, and deliberately less personal than its predecessor — ten songs, under 30 minutes, built for radio. It’s the only Weezer album to feature bassist Mikey Welsh, who left the band due to health issues shortly after touring wrapped. “Hash Pipe” and “Island in the Sun” became inescapable singles, and the album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, selling more than 1.6 million copies and re-establishing Weezer as one of alt-rock’s biggest acts after years away.

4. Maladroit (2002)

Tracks

1. American Gigolo
2. Dope Nose
3. Keep Fishin
4. Take Control
5. Death and Destruction
6. Slob
7. Burndt Jamb
8. Space Rock
9. Slave
10. Fall Together
11. Possibilities
12. Love Explosion
13. December

Barely a year after the Green Album, Weezer returned with Maladroit, a heavier, riffier record self-produced by the band at Cello Studios. It marked the studio debut of bassist Scott Shriner, who replaced Mikey Welsh and has anchored the lineup ever since. Cuomo experimented with releasing rough demos directly to fans on weezer.com to gather feedback before finalizing the tracklist, an unusually early example of crowdsourced album-making. Singles “Dope Nose” and “Keep Fishin'” leaned into a heavier, almost metal-adjacent sound, and the album went gold within a month of release, cementing Weezer’s early-2000s momentum even as reviews were more mixed than the Green Album’s.

5. Make Believe (2005)

Tracks

1. Beverly Hills
2. Perfect Situation
3. This Is Such a Pity
4. Hold Me
5. Peace
6. We Are All on Drugs
7. The Damage in Your Heart
8. Pardon Me
9. My Best Friend
10. The Other Way
11. Freak Me Out
12. Haunt You Every Day

Make Believe brought Rick Rubin into the producer’s chair for the first time, and with him came a slower, more meditative recording process shaped by Cuomo’s growing interest in mindfulness practice. Lead single “Beverly Hills” became Weezer’s biggest crossover hit yet, topping the Billboard Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts and eventually going platinum in multiple countries on its own. The album overall went platinum in the U.S. as well, moving over a million copies, even though critical reaction split sharply between those who heard genuine emotional growth and those who missed Pinkerton’s rawer edge. It remains one of Weezer’s best-selling records of the 2000s.

6. Weezer (Red Album)(2008)

Tracks

1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. The Angel and the One

The third self-titled, color-coded record split production duties between Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee, and for the first time let other band members take lead vocals and songwriting credit on several tracks — a real departure from the Cuomo-centric formula of earlier albums. “Pork and Beans” became an unlikely viral hit thanks to a music video stuffed with early-2000s internet memes, and won the band a Grammy nomination. Commercially it debuted respectably but sold noticeably less than Make Believe, a trend that would continue through the band’s later major-label years; still, “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” is frequently cited by longtime fans as one of Cuomo’s most ambitious compositions.

7. Raditude (2009)

Tracks

1. (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
2. I’m Your Daddy
3. The Girl Got Hot
4. Can’t Stop Partying
5. Put Me Back Together
6. Trippin’ Down the Freeway
7. Love Is the Answer
8. Let It All Hang Out
9. In the Mall
10. I Don’t Want to Let You Go

Named after a suggestion from actor Rainn Wilson, Raditude leaned hard into glossy, hired-gun pop production, bringing in Dr. Luke, Jacknife Lee, Polow da Don, and Butch Walker across different tracks. It was Weezer’s final album on DGC/Geffen/Interscope before the band moved to an independent label. The record debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, a respectable showing, but its polished, guest-heavy approach — including a feature from Lil Wayne on “Can’t Stop Partying” — divided longtime fans who wanted something closer to the band’s guitar-forward roots, making it one of the most debated entries in the catalog.

8. Hurley (2010)

Tracks

1. Memories
2. Ruling Me
3. Trainwrecks
4. Unspoken
5. Where’s My Sex?
6. Run Away
7. Hang On
8. Smart Girls
9. Brave New World
10. Time Flies

Hurley marked Weezer’s jump to indie label Epitaph Records after years on major-label Interscope, and it’s instantly recognizable for its cover: actor Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley on Lost, grinning at the camera. The band worked with engineer/producer Shawn Everett during sessions (verify full production credits), aiming for a rawer, more collaborative writing process that included outside songwriters for the first time on some tracks. Reviews were mixed-to-positive, with “Memories” — a rapid-fire tour through the band’s own history — standing out as a fan highlight, though the album’s commercial performance continued the gradual decline from the band’s Geffen-era sales peaks.

9. Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2014)

Tracks

1. Ain’t Got Nobody
2. Back to the Shack
3. Eulogy for a Rock Band
4. Lonely Girl
5. I’ve Had It Up to Here
6. The British Are Coming
7. Da Vinci
8. Go Away
9. Cleopatra
10. Foolish Father
11. The Futurescope Trilogy: I. The Waste Land
12. The Futurescope Trilogy: II. Anonymous
13. The Futurescope Trilogy: III. Return to Ithaka

After a hiatus that let the band regroup, Weezer reunited with Ric Ocasek — his third and final Weezer production credit, following the Blue and Green Albums — for a record that deliberately returned to their guitar-driven ’90s sound. Lead single “Back to the Shack” was practically a mission statement, with Cuomo apologizing for chasing radio trends on earlier records. The album became Weezer’s most acclaimed release since Pinkerton, debuting at number five on the Billboard 200 and selling roughly 34,000 copies in its first week, and is widely regarded by critics as the start of the band’s mid-2010s creative rebound.

10. Weezer (White Album) (2016)

Tracks

1. California Kids
2. Wind in Our Sail
3. Thank God for Girls
4. (Girl We Got A) Good Thing
5. Do You Wanna Get High?
6. King of the World
7. Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
8. L.A. Girlz
9. Jacked Up
10. Endless Bummer

The fourth self-titled, color-coded record was the band’s first collaboration with producer Jake Sinclair, who’d go on to shape several subsequent Weezer albums. Loosely conceptual, the White Album trades in beach-and-boardwalk imagery and a sunnier, surf-pop-tinged take on the band’s classic sound. It peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 — Weezer’s best chart placement in years — and was widely praised as a genuine artistic high point, with critics singling it out alongside Everything Will Be Alright in the End as proof the band’s mid-2010s comeback was no fluke.

11. Pacific Daydream (2017)

Tracks

1. Mexican Fender
2. Beach Boys
3. Feels Like Summer
4. Happy Hour
5. Weekend Woman
6. QB Blitz
7. Sweet Mary
8. Get Right
9. La Mancha Screwjob
10. Any Friend of Diane’s

Pacific Daydream pushed further into pop territory than any prior Weezer record, bringing in a rotating cast of pop-world producers including Butch Walker, Jonny Coffer, J.R. Rotem, and Toby Gad. “Feels Like Summer” became a genuine crossover hit, climbing into the top of Billboard’s Alternative and Rock charts and giving the band one of its biggest streaming-era singles. The shift toward glossy, hook-driven production proved divisive with the band’s rock-leaning fanbase, but commercially it kept Weezer relevant on modern pop and alt-radio playlists at a moment when many of their ’90s peers had faded from the charts entirely.

12. Weezer (Teal Album)(2019)

Tracks

1. Africa
2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World
3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
4. Take On Me
5. Happy Together
6. Paranoid
7. Mr. Blue Sky
8. No Scrubs
9. Billie Jean
10. Stand by Me

The Teal Album was Weezer’s first covers record, and it exists largely because of the internet: a fan campaign spent years demanding Weezer cover Toto’s “Africa,” and after initially trolling fans with a cover of the wrong Toto song (“Rosanna”), the band eventually gave in. That single’s massive streaming success — reportedly outperforming several of the band’s own original songs — convinced them to build a full covers album around it, reportedly using Spotify streaming data to help choose songs. Released as a surprise digital drop, mostly self-produced alongside engineer Mark Rankin, it got mixed reviews but proved Weezer could turn a joke into a legitimate commercial moment.

13. Weezer (Black Album) (2019)

Tracks

1. Can’t Knock the Hustle
2. Zombie Bastards
3. High as a Kite
4. Living in L.A.
5. Piece of Cake
6. I’m Just Being Honest
7. Too Many Thoughts in My Head
8. The Prince Who Wanted Everything
9. Byzantine
10. California Snow

Released just weeks after the surprise Teal Album, the Black Album was billed as Weezer’s true 13th studio record and a deliberately darker, more experimental turn, drawing on synth textures and unusually blunt, sometimes confrontational lyrics from Cuomo (verify full production credits, reported to include Dave Sitek among others). It arrived to a mixed critical reception — some praised the willingness to take risks after the pop sheen of Pacific Daydream, while others found the tonal shift jarring so soon after a lighthearted covers record. Commercially it continued the band’s steady late-2010s chart presence without matching the White Album’s momentum.

14. OK Human (2021)

Tracks

1. All My Favorite Songs
2. Aloo Gobi
3. Grapes of Wrath
4. Numbers
5. Playing My Piano
6. Mirror Image
7. Screens
8. Bird with a Broken Wing
9. Dead Roses
10. Everything Happens for a Reason
11. Here Comes the Rain
12. La Brea Tar Pits

Written largely during COVID-era lockdown and inspired by Cuomo’s binge of Radiohead’s OK Computer and other orchestral pop, OK Human ditched electric guitars almost entirely in favor of a 38-piece orchestra arranged by Jake Sinclair. Thematically it leans into isolation, screen addiction, and anxiety about modern technology — fitting subject matter for a record largely written and recorded during pandemic conditions. It arrived to some of the band’s most positive reviews in years, with critics calling it a genuine artistic swerve rather than a gimmick, and set up a striking one-two punch when its hard-rock companion album, Van Weezer, followed just months later.

15. Van Weezer (2021)

Tracks

1. Hero
2. All the Good Ones
3. The End of the Game
4. I Need Some of That
5. Beginning of the End
6. Blue Dream
7. 1 More Hit
8. Sheila Can Do It
9. She Needs Me
10. Precious Metal Girl

Conceived as OK Human’s polar opposite, Van Weezer was built as a love letter to ’80s arena rock and hair metal, with producer Suzy Shinn leaning into big guitar solos and glam-metal flourishes. Originally slated for a 2020 release timed to the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy, it was delayed nearly a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming out barely four months after OK Human, the pairing became a genuine talking point — two tonally opposite albums from the same band in the same year — and while reviews were mixed on the “riff worship” concept itself, it stands as one of Weezer’s most stylistically distinct records.

16. SZNZ: Spring (2022)

Tracks:

1. Opening Night
2. Angels on Vacation
3. A Little Bit of Love
4. The Garden of Eden
5. The Sound of Drums
6. All This Love
7. Wild at Heart

The first of four seasonally themed mini-albums, SZNZ: Spring was born out of Rivers Cuomo having several distinct musical ideas for the next Weezer record and refusing to pick just one — so the band tied each concept to a season instead. Spring leans folky and pastoral, produced by a trio including Ethan Gruska, Suzy Shinn, and Jake Sinclair, and dropped digitally right on the spring equinox. Lead single “A Little Bit of Love” gave the project an immediate radio foothold, topping the Alternative Airplay chart. It’s the gentlest entry in the four-part cycle, setting up a much heavier turn just three months later.

17. SZNZ: Summer (2022)

Tracks:

1. Lawn Chair
2. Records
3. Blue Like Jazz
4. The Opposite of Me
5. What’s the Good of Being Good
6. Cuomoville
7. Thank You and Good Night

Timed to the summer solstice, SZNZ: Summer swung hard toward heavier, riff-driven territory, with Cuomo describing its sound as “21st century ’90s.” Producer Daniel Omelio helped push the guitars louder and angrier than anything else in the SZNZ series, a deliberate tonal 180 from Spring’s softer palette. Lead single “Records” also hit number one on Alternative Airplay, giving the project back-to-back chart-topping singles. Reviewers responded well to the EP’s unapologetic heaviness, calling it one of the most purely aggressive things Weezer had made in years.

18. SZNZ: Autumn (2022)

Tracks:

1. Can’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me
2. Get Off on the Pain
3. What Happens After You?
4. Francesca
5. Should She Stay or Should She Go
6. Tastes Like Pain
7. Run, Raven, Run

Released on the autumn equinox, this third installment shifted again — this time toward a dance-rock direction inspired by artists Cuomo cited in interviews around the record. It was produced by a mix of Daniel Omelio, Suzy Shinn, and Tyler Cole, and previewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the night before release with the single “What Happens After You?” By this point in the SZNZ rollout, critics and fans were tracking the series as a genre tour as much as a set of songs, and Autumn’s genre pivot kept that narrative going into the project’s final, coldest chapter.

19. SZNZ: Winter (2022)

Tracks:

1. I Want a Dog
2. Iambic Pentameter
3. Basketball
4. Sheraton Commander
5. Dark Enough to See the Stars
6. The One That Got Away
7. The Deep and Dreamless Sleep

Closing out the SZNZ project on the December solstice, Winter was produced by Suzy Shinn, James Flannigan, and Cuomo himself, and leaned into a deliberately melancholy, wintry mood that Cuomo described as the project’s emotional low point. “I Want a Dog” served as the lead single and title-establishing opener. Reviews were split — some critics praised its power-pop hooks as some of the strongest of the whole SZNZ cycle, while others found the holiday-adjacent tone an odd fit — but the EP closed out an unusually ambitious full-year rollout that had Weezer releasing new music every three months.

20. Weezer (The Gold Album) (2026)

Tracks:

1. Say Yes
2. Shine Again
3. We Might as Well Be Strangers (feat. Wednesday)
4. Hoops
5. Up in the Clouds
6. C.E.O.
7. Nowhere
8. Don’t Make It Weird
9. The Show Must Go On
10. The LA Sound

Weezer’s first full-length album since Van Weezer, and first release in four years since the SZNZ cycle wrapped, the Gold Album marked a fresh start on multiple fronts: a new label home at Reprise/Warner after a decade on Atlantic, and production from Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume (Kenny Beats), who pushed the band toward a thicker, more garage- and desert-rock-leaning guitar tone than their recent records. It’s also billed as a genuine four-way creative collaboration, with drummer Patrick Wilson and guitarist Brian Bell contributing significant songwriting for the first time in years. Lead single “Shine Again” and the Karly Hartzman (Wednesday) duet “We Might as Well Be Strangers” previewed the record’s mix of hooky choruses and heart-on-sleeve lyrics, and on release it drew some of Weezer’s most positive reviews since the White Album, with critics calling it a loose, confident, vintage-sounding return to form.

All Weezer Tours in Order by Year

Weezer has toured almost continuously since 1994, from small club runs behind the Blue Album to headlining slots and co-headline stadium runs decades later. Recent years have seen them pair album-cycle tours with nostalgia-driven package tours alongside acts like Fall Out Boy, Green Day, and the Pixies, plus deluxe-reissue anniversary shows built around the Blue Album and Pinkerton. Below are some of the band’s best-known tours in order.

1. Weezer Tour, 1994–1995
2. Pinkerton Tour, 1996–1997
3. Green Tour, 2001
4. Maladroit Tour, 2002
5. Make Believe Tour, 2005
6. Troublemaker Tour, 2008–2009
7. Hurley Tour, 2010–2011
8. Memories Tour, 2010–2011
9. Everything Will Be Alright in the End Tour, 2015
10. Summer Jam Tour with Panic! at the Disco, 2016
11. Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy, 2021
12. SZNZ Tour, 2022–2023
13. Voyage to the Blue Planet (Blue Album 30th Anniversary) Tour with Dinosaur Jr. and the Flaming Lips, 2024
14. Smashing Pumpkins & Weezer UK & Ireland Tour, 2024
15. The Gathering, with the Shins and Silversun Pickups, 2026

Conclusion

Few discographies swing as wildly as Weezer’s — from the unison-guitar crunch of the Blue Album, through Pinkerton’s confessional rawness, into a four-part seasonal EP cycle, and now a 20th album that critics are calling one of their strongest in years. Whatever era you land on, this list of Weezer Albums in Order shows a band that keeps reinventing its own formula rather than repeating it. With the Gold Album freshly out and a new label home at Reprise, the Weezer story is still very much being written.

Weezer FAQs

What is Weezer’s best-selling album? The Blue Album remains Weezer’s best-selling and most decorated release, having gone multi-platinum in the U.S.

Which Weezer album is considered the most influential? Pinkerton is the album most frequently cited by critics and later artists as Weezer’s most influential work, despite its rocky initial reception.

Why does Weezer keep making self-titled albums? The band has released six color-coded, self-titled albums (Blue, Green, White, Teal, Black, and now Gold) as a recurring visual and thematic device rather than literal sequels to one another.

What is Weezer’s newest album? The Gold Album, Weezer’s 20th studio album, was released on August 21, 2026 on Reprise Records — their first release on a new label after a decade with Atlantic.

What is Weezer’s biggest hit song? “Island in the Sun,” “Buddy Holly,” and “Say It Ain’t So” are generally considered the band’s most enduring radio and streaming hits, alongside the more recent “Africa” cover.