“Sleep Through The Static” is the fifth album from former pro-surfer, filmmaker and singer songwriter Jack Johnson, released in the U.S. on February 5, 2008.
The effort was announced on Johnson’s personal website as renovation began for the release of this new album. It was recorded at L.A.’s Solar Powered Plastic Plant, which makes it Johnson’s first album not made in Hawaii.

The first single, “If I Had Eyes”, was released via Johnson’s MySpace page on December 17, 2007. It was followed by “Sleep Through the Static”.
The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 375,000 copies in its first week, including 139,000 digital downloads. This was a record high for weekly digital album sales.
It also debuted at number one on the Worldwide chart with sales of 577,000.