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Carole King discography
Carole King at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.
Studio albums17
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums4
Compilation albums7
Singles33
Video albums6
No. 1 singles5

The discography of Carole King, an American singer-songwriter and musician, consists of 17 studio albums, four live albums, seven compilation albums, one soundtrack album and 33 singles as a lead artist.

King has sold over 75 million records worldwide.[1] Billboard ranked her as the 73rd greatest artist of all time.[2] Her second album, Tapestry (1971), was the world's best-selling album by a female artist for a quarter-century, with global sales of 30 million.[3][4][5] According to the Recording Industry Association of America, King has sold 19.6 million records in the United States.[6] She is also recognized as the most successful female songwriter of the 20th century, having written or co-written 118 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.[7] Official Charts named King as the most successful female songwriter in the UK charts, penning 61 hits between 1952 and 2005 in the country.[7]

Albums

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Studio albums

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List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[8]
AUS
[9]
CAN
[10]
JPN
[11][12]
NL
[13]
NOR
[14]
NZ
[15]
UK
[16]
Writer
  • Released: May 1970
  • Label: Ode
84 67
Tapestry
  • Released: February 10, 1971
  • Label: Ode
1 3 1 29 8 13 4
Music
  • Released: December 1971
  • Label: Ode
1 5 2 28 10 18
Rhymes & Reasons
  • Released: November 1972
  • Label: Ode
2 19 1 34 40
Fantasy
  • Released: June 1973
  • Label: Ode
6 24 7 21
Wrap Around Joy
  • Released: September 1974
  • Label: Ode
1 24 1 73
Thoroughbred
  • Released: January 1976
  • Label: Ode
3 87 29 72
Simple Things
  • Released: July 1977
  • Label: Avatar / Capitol
17 19 27
Welcome Home
  • Released: May 1978
  • Label: Avatar / Capitol
104 69
Touch the Sky
  • Released: June 1979
  • Label: Capitol
104 84 62
Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Capitol
44 52 66
One to One 119
Speeding Time
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Atlantic
City Streets
  • Released: April 1989
  • Label: Capitol
111 40 66 67
Colour of Your Dreams
  • Released: July 25, 1993
  • Label: Rhythm Safari / Kings X
72
Love Makes the World
  • Released: September 25, 2001
  • Label: Rockingale / KELA / Koch
158 90 86
A Holiday Carole
  • Released: November 1, 2011
  • Label: Rockingale / Hear Music
52
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

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List of live albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[8]
AUS
[9]
CAN
[21]
ITA
[22]
JPN
[11][12]
KOR
[23]
NL
[13]
NOR
[14]
NZ
[15]
SPN
[24]
UK
[16]
In Concert
  • Released: March 1, 1994
  • Label: Rhythm Safari
94 97
The Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971
The Living Room Tour
  • Released: July 12, 2005
  • Label: Hear Music / Rockingale
17 51
Live at the Troubadour (with James Taylor)
  • Release date: May 4, 2010
  • Label: Hear Music / Concord Music Group
4 16 30 19 81 76 24 4 39 33
Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park [25]
  • Release date: September 15, 2017
  • Label: Legacy Recordings
49
Live At Montreux 1973 [26]
  • Release date: June 14, 2019
  • Label: Eagle Vision / Universal Music Group
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

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List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[8]
AUS
[9]
JPN
[11][12]
NZ
[15]
UK
[16]
Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Ode
47 73
A Natural Woman: The Ode Collection (1968–1976)
  • Released: September 13, 1994
  • Label: Epic/Sony Legacy
35 31
Time Gone By
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Priority
Goin' Back
  • Released: June 2, 1998
  • Label: Sony
Super Hits
  • Released: May 9, 2000
  • Label: Sony
Collections
  • Released: March 7, 2006
  • Label: Sony
The Essential Carole King
  • Released: May 25, 2010
  • Label: Ode/Epic/Legacy
The Legendary Demos
  • Released: April 24, 2012
  • Label: Hear Music
56 286
A Beautiful Collection
  • Released: February 27, 2015
  • Label: Sony
16 32
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Soundtrack albums

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List of soundtrack albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[8]
Really Rosie
  • Released: February 1975
  • Label: Ode
20

Other appearances

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Year Single Album
1998 "Anyone at All" You've Got Mail: Music from the Motion Picture

Singles

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As lead artist

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List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
US
[28]
US AC
[29]
AUS
[9]
AUT
[30]
CAN
[31]
CAN AC
[32]
BEL (FL)
[33]
NZ
[15]
SWI
[34]
UK
[16]
"The Right Girl" / "Goin' Wild" 1958 Non-album singles
"Baby Sittin'" / "Under the Stars" 1959
"Short Mort" / "Queen of the Beach"
"Oh Neil" / "A Very Special Boy" 1960
"School Bells Are Ringing" / "I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance" 1962 123
"It Might as Well Rain Until September" / "Nobody's Perfect" 22 13 12 3 The Dimension Dolls
"He's a Bad Boy" / "We Grew Up Together" 1963 94
"A Road to Nowhere" / "Some of Your Loving" 1966 Non-album single
"Up on the Roof" / "Eventually" 1970 Writer
"It's Too Late" / "I Feel the Earth Move" 1971 1 1 5 1 2 6 Tapestry
"So Far Away" / "Smackwater Jack" 14 3 80 17 12
"You've Got a Friend" / "Beautiful"
"Sweet Seasons" 1972 9 2 19 12 21 Music
"Been to Canaan" 24 1 97 15 2 Rhymes and Reasons
"Believe in Humanity" 1973 28 100 44 9 Fantasy
"You Light Up My Life" 67 6 44 97
"Corazon" 37 5 28 5
"Jazzman" 1974 2 4 56 5 1 Wrap Around Joy
"Nightingale" 1975 9 1 13
"Only Love Is Real" 1976 28 1 53 7 Thoroughbred
"High Out of Time" 76 40 40
"Hard Rock Cafe" 1977 30 8 10 19 23 12 21 37 12 Simple Things
"Simple Things" 37 6
"Morning Sun" 1978 43 Welcome Home
"One Fine Day" 1980 12 11 86 2 Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King
"One to One" 1982 45 20 7 One to One
"City Streets" 1989 14 74 92 City Streets
"Now and Forever" 1992 18 Colour of Your Dreams
"Love Makes the World" 2001 Love Makes the World
"Girl Power" 2007 Non-album singles
"I Believe in Loving You" 2013
"One Small Voice"[35] 2017
"One (2018)"[36] 2018
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Collaborations

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Single Year Artist Album
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" 1998 Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan,
Aretha Franklin, and Shania Twain
VH1 Divas Live
"You've Got a Friend" Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, and Shania Twain
"One True Love" 2001 Semisonic All About Chemistry
"Everyday People" 2007 Reba McEntire Reba: Duets

Video albums

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Title Year Certification
One to One 1982
In Concert 1994
Welcome to My Living Room 2007
Live At The Troubadour
(with James Taylor)
2010
In Tokyo 2010
Carole King: Natural Woman 2016
Live at Montruex - 1973 2019

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Greatest of All Time Artists". Billboard. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  3. ^ "'Tapestry' at 50: How Carole King 'bet on herself' to record a singer-songwriter classic". Los Angeles Times. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. ^ "Carole King's classic album 'Tapestry' turns 50". torontosun. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  5. ^ Bauder, David (2012-05-11). "Carole King: 'It Would be Lovely to Retire'". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  6. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  7. ^ a b "Carole King | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
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  14. ^ a b "Search for: Artist: Carole King". Norwegian Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  15. ^ a b c d "Search for: Carole King". New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
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  18. ^ "2018 Annual ARIA Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
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  20. ^ "RIAJ > The Record > February 1996 > Page 5 > Certified Awards (December 1995)" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-01-01.
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  23. ^ Gaon Album Chart positions:
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  25. ^ "Carole King: Tapestry - Live in Hyde Park". PopMatters. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  26. ^ "See Carole King Perform In Newly Unearthed Video Of 1973 Concert". NWPB. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  27. ^ "Gold/Platinum (Carole King search)". Music Canada. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  28. ^ "Carole King Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  29. ^ "Carole King Chart History - Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  30. ^ "Suche nach: Carole King". Austrian Charts (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  31. ^ "Search - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 2004-10-01. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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  33. ^ "Zoeken naar: Carole King". Ultratop (Vlaanderen) (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  34. ^ "Carole King Charts". Hitparade (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  35. ^ "Carole King releases new version of One Small Voice in protest against Trump". The Guardian. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  36. ^ Browne, David (2018-10-29). "Carole King Gets Political on First New Song in Seven Years". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
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