| 1975 | Ensemble Pieces | Christopher Hobbs, John Adams, Gavin Bryars | | 3 |
| 1984 | Adams: Grand Pianola / Reich: Eight Lines | John Adams, Steve Reich; Ransom Wilson, Solisti New York | | 1 |
| 1984 | Harmonium | John Adams; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Edo de Waart | | 3 |
| 1985 | Harmonielehre | John Adams | | 2 |
| 1985 | John Adams: Grand Pianola / Steve Reich: Eight Lines / Vermont Counterpoint | John Adams, Steve Reich; Solisti New York, Ransom Wilson | 4 | 4 |
| 1986 | Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates | John Adams; Mack McCray | | 1 |
| 1987 | The Chairman Dances | John Adams; San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart | | 2 |
| 1988 | Nixon in China | John Adams, Alice Goodman; Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Edo de Waart | | 1 |
| 1989 | Fearful Symmetries / The Wound-Dresser | John Adams | | 1 |
| 1991 | John Adams Conducts American Elegies | Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Dawn Upshaw, Paul Crossley, John Adams | | 3 |
| 1992 | The Death of Klinghoffer | John Adams, Alice Goodman; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Kent Nagano | | 2 |
| 1993 | Carter: Night Fantasies / Adams: Phrygian Gates | Elliott Carter, John Adams; Ursula Oppens | | 1 |
| 1993 | Hoodoo Zephyr | John Adams | 4 | 1 |
| 1994 | Harmonielehre / The Chairman Dances / Tromba Lontana / Short Ride in a Fast Machine | John Adams; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle | 5 | 3 |
| 1994 | Chamber Symphony / Grand Pianola Music | John Adams; London Sinfonietta | | 1 |
| 1995 | John Adams: Grand Pianola Music / Short Ride in a Fast Machine / David Lang: Are You Experienced? / Under Orpheus | John Adams, David Lang; Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Stephen Mosko | | 2 |
| 1996 | The Desert Music / Shaker Loops | Reich, Adams; BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Péter Eötvös, Richard Buckley | | 2 |
| 1996 | El Dorado | John Adams | | 1 |
| 1996 | Century Rolls | John Adams; Emanuel Ax | | 2 |
| 1996 | Harmonium / The Bells | Adams, Rachmaninoff; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Robert Shaw | | 1 |
| 1997 | East of Eden / Rebel Without a Cause | Leonard Rosenman; London Sinfonietta, John Adams | | 1 |
| 1997 | Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates / Chamber Symphony | John Adams; Ensemble Modern | | 1 |
| 1998 | Gnarly Buttons / John's Book of Alleged Dances | John Adams; Kronos Quartet | | 1 |
| 1998 | Piano Music of John Adams and Terry Riley | John Adams, Terry Riley; Gloria Cheng-Cochran | | 1 |
| 1998 | I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky | John Adams, June Jordan | | 1 |
| 1999 | Violin Concertos | John Adams, Philip Glass; Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach, Robert McDuffie | | 1 |
| 1999 | American Clarinet | Carter, Reich, Sandroff, Adams; Alain Damiens, Andre Trouttet, Ensemble intercontemporain, David Robertson | | 1 |
| 2000 | Fearful Symmetries / Chamber Symphony / Four Songs / Christian Zeal and Activity | John Adams; Orchestre philharmonique de Montpellier L.-R., René Bosc | | 1 |
| 2000 | Harmonium / The Klinghoffer Choruses | John Adams | | 1 |
| 2001 | El Niño | John Adams; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White, Kent Nagano | | 1 |
| 2001 | Shifting Landscapes | John Adams, Lepo Sumera; Symphony Orchestra of Norrlands Opera, Kristjan Järvi | | 1 |
| 2002 | BBC Music, Volume 11, Number 2: Short Ride in a Fast Machine / The Chairman Dances / Harmonium | John Adams, Louis Andriessen | | 1 |
| 2002 | Naive and Sentimental Music | John Adams; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen | | 1 |
| 2002 | Tromba Lontana / Violin Concerto / The Wound Dresser | John Adams; BBC Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| 2004 | On the Transmigration of Souls | John Adams; New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel | | 1 |
| 2004 | Shaker Loops / The Wound-Dresser / Short Ride in a Fast Machine | John Adams; Nathan Gunn, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop | | 2 |
| 2004 | Road Movies | John Adams | 5 | 1 |
| 2005 | Road Movies | John Adams; Andrew Russo, James Ehnes | | 1 |
| 2005 | I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky | John Adams, June Jordan; The Band of Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon | | 1 |
| 2006 | Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: Red Violin "Chaconne" | John Adams, John Corigliano; Chloë Hanslip, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | | 1 |
| 2006 | The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives | John Adams; BBC Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| 2007 | Complete Piano Music | John Adams; Ralph van Raat | | 1 |
| 2008 | String Poetic | Jennifer Higdon, Lou Harrison, John Adams, Carl Ruggles; Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida | | 1 |
| 2008 | A Flowering Tree | John Adams | | 2 |
| 2009 | Doctor Atomic Symphony | John Adams; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | | 1 |
| 2009 | Transmigration | Adams, Barber, Corigliano, Higdon; Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choruses, Nmon Ford | | 1 |
| 2010 | American Counterpoint | John Adams, Conlon Nancarrow, John Cage | | 1 |
| 2011 | John Adams: Portrait | John Adams; Angèle Dubeau, La Pietà, Louise Bessette | | 1 |
| 2011 | Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet | John Adams; International Contemporary Ensemble, John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2012 | Harmonielehre / Short Ride in a Fast Machine | John Adams; San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas | | 1 |
| 2012 | If You Love for Beauty, Vol I | Adams, Handel, Mahler; Sasha Cooke, Colburn Orchestra, Yehuda Gilad | | 1 |
| 2012 | If You Love for Beauty | Adams, Chausson, Handel, Mahler; Sasha Cooke, The Colburn Orchestra, Yehuda Gilad | | 1 |
| 2013 | Fellow Traveller: the complete quartet works of John Adams | John Adams; Attacca Quartet | | 1 |
| 2013 | Harmonielehre / Doctor Atomic Symphony / Short Ride in a Fast Machine | John Adams; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian | | 1 |
| 2014 | Composing America | Adams, Bolcom, Copland, Moravec; Lark Quartet | | 1 |
| 2014 | American Grace | John Adams, Steven Mackey; Orli Shaham, Jon Kimura Parker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, David Robertson | | 1 |
| 2014 | The Gospel According to the Other Mary | John Adams; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel | | 1 |
| 2014 | Violin concertos | Felix Mendelssohn, John Adams; Chad Hoopes, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi | | 1 |
| 2014 | City Noir | John Adams; Saint Louis Symphony, David Robertson | | 1 |
| 2015 | Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music | John Adams; San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas | | 1 |
| 2016 | Visions | Adams, Bach, Messiaen; Christina and Michelle Naughton | | 1 |
| 2016 | The Minimalists | Reich, Riley, Andriessen, Gann, Adams, Lang; Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Orkest de Volharding, Jussi Jaatinen | | 1 |
| 2016 | Scheherazade.2 | John Adams; Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson | | 2 |
| 2016 | Violin Concertos | Roy Harris, John Adams; Tamsin Waley-Cohen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton | | 1 |
| 2017 | The John Adams Edition | John Adams; Berliner Philharmoniker, Adams, Dudamel, Gilbert, Petrenko, Rattle | | 1 |
| 2017 | Piano Music | Adams; Jeroen van Veen | | 1 |
| 2018 | Violin Concerto | John Adams; Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | | 1 |
| 2018 | Naive and Sentimental Music / Absolute Jest | John Adams; Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian | | 1 |
| 2018 | Doctor Atomic | John Adams; Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams | | 1 |
| 2019 | Berlioz: Les nuits d’été / Ravel: Shéhérazade / Debussy/Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire | Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy, John Adams; Ian Bostridge, Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot | | 1 |
| 2019 | The John Adams Album | John Adams; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano | | 2 |
| 2020 | Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? | John Adams; Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic | | 2 |
| 2021 | My Father Knew Charles Ives / Harmonielehre | John Adams; Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero | | 2 |
| 2021 | Chamber Symphony / Common Tones in Simple Time / Son of Chamber Symphony | John Adams; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose | | 1 |
| 2021 | This is America! | Adams, Bernstein, Glass, Monk; Vanessa Wagner, Wilhem Latchoumia | | 1 |
| 2022 | John Adams | John Adams; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi | | 1 |
| 2024 | BBC Music, Volume 32, Number 5: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / John Adams: Harmonielehre | Gershwin, John Adams; William Wolfram, Eric Stern, Ryan Bancroft, BBC National Orchestra of Wales | | 1 |
| 2024 | Girls of the Golden West | John Adams; Los Angeles Philharmonic | | 1 |
| 2024 | City Noir / Fearful Symmetries / Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance | John Adams; ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop | | 1 |
| 2024 | American Road Trip | Amy Beach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Charles Ives, William Kroll, Manuel María Ponce, Stephen Hartke, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Howdy Forrester, Augustin Hadelich, Eddie South, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein & Aaron Copland | | 1 |
| — | Feel Good | Keith Mansfield & John Adams | | 1 |
| — | The Death of Klinghoffer | John Adams;London Symphony Orchestra,Penny Woolcock | | 1 |
