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Carole King discography

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

Studio albums

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

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

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

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

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

Singles

As lead artist

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

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

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

References

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