Carly Simon discography

The discography of Carly Simon, an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author, consists of twenty-three studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums, one Christmas album, four soundtrack albums, one audiobook, and forty-one singles, on Elektra Records, Warner Bros. Records, Epic Records, Arista Records, Rhino Entertainment, Columbia Records, Hear Music, and Iris Records, with special releases on Qwest Records, Angel Records, Walt Disney Records, and Macmillan Audio. These lists include all live and studio albums, and the motion picture soundtracks list includes albums containing more than 50% of music by Simon. She has five Platinum-certified albums, and three Gold-certified albums. All but three of her studio albums have charted on the Billboard 200, with 12 charting in the Top 40, and five in the Top 10. Two of her compilation albums have also charted in the Top 40. Apart from her album successes, she also has amassed 24 Billboard Hot 100 singles, with 13 of them hitting the Top 40, and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary chart singles, all charting in the Top 40. Four of her singles have been certified Gold by the US RIAA: "You're So Vain", "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), "Nobody Does It Better", and "Jesse". Two of those singles have also been certified Silver by the UK BPI: "You're So Vain" and "Nobody Does It Better".

Carly Simon discography
Elektra Records promo photo of Simon
Studio albums23
Live albums1
Compilation albums9
Video albums4
Singles41
Soundtrack albums4
No. 1 singles2

Simon released her self-titled debut album, Carly Simon, in 1971. It won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and spawned her first Top 10 single, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (No. 10). Her second album, Anticipation, followed later that year and yielded the successful singles "Anticipation" and "Legend in Your Own Time". Anticipation earned Simon another Grammy nomination in 1973 and was later certified Gold by the RIAA. She achieved international fame following the release of her third album, No Secrets, in 1972. The album sat firmly at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks, was certified Platinum, and spawned the No. 1 worldwide hit "You're So Vain", which went Gold, and the Top 20 hit "The Right Thing to Do". No Secrets earned four Grammy nominations in 1974, including three for "You're So Vain". Simon's forth album, Hotcakes, was released that same year and became an instant hit, quickly going Gold and spawning the Top 10 singles "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor) and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain". Simon's fifth album, Playing Possum, and its lead single, "Attitude Dancing", appeared in 1975. Later that year, Simon released her first greatest hits collection, The Best of Carly Simon. It achieved Triple Platinum status in the United States and remains her best selling album to date. Another Passenger followed in 1976, to critical acclaim.[1] "Nobody Does It Better", from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, became a smash hit in 1977. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, went Gold, and earned Simon a Grammy nomination. Simon's seventh album, Boys in the Trees, was released the following year and spawned the hit singles "You Belong to Me", which earned Simon another Grammy nomination, and "Devoted to You" (with James Taylor). The album was certified Platinum, and won the Grammy award for Best Album Package the following year. Simon's eighth album and her last for Elektra Records, Spy, was released in 1979. It’s lead single, "Vengeance", earned Simon a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, the first year to feature this category.[2]

Simon signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1980 and released her ninth studio album Come Upstairs. The lead single from the album, "Jesse", became a major hit: it remained on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for six months, peaking at No. 11, and went Gold. Also in 1980, Simon appeared in the documentary and concert film No Nukes, and it accompanying soundtrack album of the same name.The standards album Torch followed in 1981, and Hello Big Man followed in 1983. In 1982, she hit the Top 10 in the U.K. with the Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards-produced single "Why", from the soundtrack to the film Soup for One.[3] After her contract with Warner Bros. had ended, she signed with Epic Records and released Spoiled Girl in 1985. The album yielded two singles, "Tired of Being Blonde" and "My New Boyfriend", with only the former charting. The album was commercially unsuccessful and her contract with Epic was cancelled. In 1986, Simon signed with Arista Records and released Coming Around Again the following year. The album became a smash hit, spawning four Top 10 Adult Contemporary singles; "Coming Around Again" (written for the film Heartburn), "Give Me All Night", "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", and "All I Want Is You", was certified Platinum, and earned Simon another Grammy nomination in 1988. Live from Martha's Vineyard was recorded in 1987, and broadcast as an HBO special. It featured Simon performing a majority of the just released Coming Around Again album, as well as some of her classic hits. Greatest Hits Live was released the following year and went Platinum as well. "Let the River Run" was written for the film Working Girl in 1988, and Simon won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1989, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in 1990. The Working Girl soundtrack album was released in August 1989 and featured more music by Simon.

Simon released two albums in 1990; the standards album My Romance, which was followed by the HBO special Carly in Concert – My Romance, and Have You Seen Me Lately, which yielded the major Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit "Better Not Tell Her" (No. 4), Simon's biggest hit of the 1990s. She scored another Adult Contemporary hit in 1992 with "Love of My Life" (No. 16), written for the film This Is My Life, and featured on the soundtrack album which also includes more music by Simon. She was jointly commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association and the Kennedy Center in 1993 to write a contemporary opera that would appeal to younger people, Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera was the result and was released on Angel Records that year. Letters Never Sent was released in 1994; the album featured "Like A River" in honor of her mother, Andrea Simon, and "Touched By The Sun" for her dear friend, Jackie Onassis,[4] both of whom died from cancer in 1994. Live at Grand Central was an unannounced concert recorded for Lifetime in 1995 and was broadcast latter that year. It featured Simon performing a majority of the just released Letters Never Sent album, as well as some of her classic hits. The three-disc career retrospective Clouds in My Coffee was released that same year. Simon's third standards album, Film Noir, was released in 1997. It featured duets with Jimmy Webb and John Travolta, and earned Simon a Grammy nomination. Simon's twentieth studio album and her last for Arista Records, The Bedroom Tapes, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim.[5]

In 2001, Simon performed on "Son of a Gun" with Janet Jackson on Jackson's album All for You; the song was released as a single and peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2002, Simon released her first Christmas album Christmas Is Almost Here, and the two-disc career retrospective Anthology. The single disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits was released in 2004 to great commercial success; it peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, remained on the chart for 19 weeks, and went Gold. In 2005, Simon signed with Columbia Records and released her fourth album of standards, Moonlight Serenade, which reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200, and earned Simon her fourteenth Grammy nomination the following year. In the fall of 2005, Simon performed two concerts on board the RMS Queen Mary 2. A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 was broadcast on various PBS stations that December and released on DVD. Simon performed with Andreas Vollenweider on four tracks for his 2006 holiday album, Midnight Clear. Simon's fifth collection of covers, Into White, was released to critical acclaim in January 2007 and became Billboard's Hot Shot Debut, entering the chart at No. 15 and peaking at No. 13 in its second week. In Spring 2008, Simon released This Kind of Love on the Starbucks label, Hear Music. In October 2009, Simon released Never Been Gone, an album of acoustic reworkings of some of her classic songs, which is her most recent studio album to date. Songs From The Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection) was simultaneously released as a tie-in to Simon's 2015 autobiography, Boys in the Trees: A Memoir. The two-disc set contained two previously unreleased songs, "Showdown" (originally recorded during the sessions for her 1978 album Boys in the Trees) and "I Can’t Thank You Enough", a brand new song written and performed with her son Ben Taylor.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[6]
AUS
[7]
CAN
[8]
JPN
[9]
UK
[10]
1971 Carly Simon 30 55 17
Anticipation
  • Released: November 1971
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
30 12 36
1972 No Secrets
  • Released: November 28, 1972
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
1 1 1 3 3
1974 Hotcakes
  • Released: January 11, 1974
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
3 9 7 39 19
1975 Playing Possum
  • Released: April 8, 1975
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
10 25 22 70
1976 Another Passenger
  • Released: June 8, 1976
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
29 44 44
1978 Boys in the Trees
  • Released: April 4, 1978
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
10 27 4
1979 Spy
  • Released: June 12, 1979
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
45 33 56
1980 Come Upstairs
  • Released: June 16, 1980
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
36 43 86
1981 Torch
  • Released: September 29, 1981
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
50 77 50 56
1983 Hello Big Man
  • Released: September 20, 1983
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
69
1985 Spoiled Girl
  • Released: July 2, 1985
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
88 97 96
1987 Coming Around Again
  • Released: April 13, 1987
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
25 24 57 25
1990 My Romance
  • Released: March 6, 1990
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
46
Have You Seen Me Lately
  • Released: September 25, 1990
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
60 64
1994 Letters Never Sent
  • Released: November 1, 1994
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
129
1997 Film Noir
  • Released: September 16, 1997
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
84
2000 The Bedroom Tapes
  • Released: May 16, 2000
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
90
2005 Moonlight Serenade
  • Released: July 19, 2005
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
7
2007 Into White
  • Released: January 2, 2007
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
13
2008 This Kind of Love
  • Released: April 29, 2008
  • Label: Hear Music
  • Format: CD
15
2009 Never Been Gone
  • Released: October 27, 2009
  • Labels: Iris, Rhino (UK/EU)
  • Formats: CD, LP
134 45
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[6]
AUS
[7]
CAN
[8]
UK
[10]
1975 The Best of Carly Simon
  • Released: November 1975
  • Label: Elektra
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
17 42 40
1995 Clouds in My Coffee
  • Released: November 7, 1995
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1999 The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better
  • Released: March 5, 1999
  • Labels: Global TV, WSM
  • Formats: CD, cassette
22
2002 Anthology
  • Released: November 5, 2002
  • Labels: Elektra, Rhino
  • Format: CD
2004 Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
  • Released: May 4, 2004
  • Labels: Rhino, BMG Heritage
  • Formats: CD, LP
22 25
2009 Carly Simon Collector's Edition
  • Released: March 31, 2009
  • Label: Madacy
  • Format: CD
2011 Original Album Series
  • Released: October 10, 2011
  • Label: Rhino
  • Format: CD
2014 Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon
2015 Songs from the Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection
  • Released: November 20, 2015
  • Label: Rhino
  • Format: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[6]
UK
[10]
1988 Greatest Hits Live 87 49

Holiday albums

Year Album details Peak positions
US Holiday
2002 Christmas Is Almost Here
  • Released: October 22, 2002
  • Label: Rhino
  • Format: CD
14

Soundtrack albums

Year Album Chart
positions
US
1989 Working Girl (Original Soundtrack Album) 45
1992 This Is My Life (Music from the Motion Picture)
  • Released: April 1992
  • Label: Quest
  • Formats: CD, cassette
2003 Piglet's Big Movie (soundtrack)
2005 The Best of Pooh and Heffalumps, Too

Other albums

Year Album Chart
positions
Certifications
US
1979 No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future
1980 In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record
  • Released: October 1980
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
156
1982 In Harmony 2
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
1993 Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera
  • Released: November 16, 1993
  • Label: Angel
  • Formats: CD, cassette

Audiobooks

Year Album
1994 Bells, Bears and Fishermen[15]
  • Released: February 8, 1994
  • Label: Bantam Doubleday
  • Formats: CD, cassette
2015 Boys in the Trees: A Memoir[16]

Deluxe editions

Year Album details Bonus material
2012 Spoiled Girl: Deluxe Edition[17]
  • Released: July 2012
  • Label: Hot Shot Records
  • Formats: CD
Four bonus tracks: "Black Honeymoon", the 7" single version of "Tired of Being Blonde", and two 12" remixes of "My New Boyfriend".
2015 The Bedroom Tapes: Special Edition[18]
  • Released: April 2015
  • Label: C'est Music
  • Formats: CD
Two bonus tracks: "Grandmother's House" and "When Manhattan Was a Maiden".
2017 Coming Around Again: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition[19]
  • Released: October 2017
  • Label: Hot Shot Records
  • Formats: CD
Six bonus tracks, and a second disc consisting of Simon's Greatest Hits Live album, retitled for this set as Carly in Concert – Coming Around Again.

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certification Album
US BB Pop
[6]
US CB Pop
[20]
US
A/C

[6]
AUS
[7]
CAN
[8]
IRE
[21]
UK
[10]
1971 "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" 10 9 6 62 15 Carly Simon
"Anticipation" 13 10 3 64 9 Anticipation
1972 "Legend in Your Own Time" 50 61 11 86 39
"I've Got to Have You" 6
"You're So Vain" 1 1 1 1 1 4 3 No Secrets
1973 "The Right Thing to Do"/"We Have No Secrets" 17 10 4 20 17
1974 "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor) 5 3 10 8 3 34 Hotcakes
"Haven't Got Time for the Pain" 14 7 2 74 5
1975 "Attitude Dancing" 21 25 18 70 21 Playing Possum
"Waterfall" 78 76 21
"More and More" 94 90
1976 "It Keeps You Runnin'" 46 49 27 47 Another Passenger
"Half a Chance" 39
1977 "Nobody Does It Better" 2 2 1 8 2 1 7 The Spy Who Loved Me
1978 "You Belong to Me" 6 9 4 47 5 Boys in the Trees
"Devoted to You" (with James Taylor) [A] 36 48 2 50
"Tranquillo (Melt My Heart)" 86
1979 "Vengeance" 48 52 90 94 Spy
"Spy" 34
1980 "Jesse" 11 9 8 4 12 Come Upstairs
"Take Me as I Am" 102
1981 "Hurt" 106 Torch
1982 "Why" 74 73 15 10 Soup for One
1983 "You Know What to Do" 83 36 Hello Big Man
"Kissing with Confidence" (with Will Powers) [B] 17 Dancing for Mental Health (by Will Powers)
1985 "Tired of Being Blonde" 70 63 34 95 Spoiled Girl
"My New Boyfriend"
1986 "Coming Around Again" 18 30 5 29 38 5 10 Coming Around Again
1987 "Give Me All Night" 61 70 5 87 98
"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" 8 28 99
"All I Want Is You" 54 68 7
1988 "You're So Vain" (live version) 96 Greatest Hits Live
1989 "Let the River Run" 49 51 11 91 79 Working Girl (Original Soundtrack Album)
"Why" (extended version) 56 Single only
1990 "Better Not Tell Her" 103 4 30 Have You Seen Me Lately
1991 "Holding Me Tonight" 36
"You're So Vain" (re-release) 41 No Secrets
1992 "Love of My Life" 16 This Is My Life
2001 "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)"
(with Janet Jackson featuring Missy Elliott)[C]
28 20 13 All for You (by Janet Jackson)
2005 "Let It Snow" 6 Singles only
2006 "Best of Friends" (with Livingston Taylor) 39
2019 "Touched by the Sun" (Live at Grand Central - newly mixed)
[22]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Notes

Video albums

Title Album details Peak positions
Music Video Sales
Live from Martha's Vineyard
  • Release date: September 7, 1988
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
7
Carly in Concert – My Romance
  • Release date: July 1, 1991
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
11
Live at Grand Central
  • Release date: December 12, 1995
  • Label: Polygram Video
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
Live from Martha's Vineyard (re-release)
  • Release date: March 9, 2004
  • Label: Grandstand Entertainment
  • Format: DVD
A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2
  • Release date: November 22, 2005
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: DVD
Live from Martha's Vineyard (re-release)
  • Release date: May 11, 2010
  • Label: Iris Records
  • Format: DVD

Music videos

Year Title Album Director
1979 "Vengeance" Spy
"We're So Close"
"Never Been Gone"
1981 "Hurt" Torch
"I Get Along Without You Very Well"
"Body and Soul"
1982 "Why" Soup for One (soundtrack)
1983 "You Know What to Do" Hello Big Man Dominic Orlando
"Hello Big Man"
"It Happens Everyday"
"Kissing with Confidence" (uncredited lead singer)[23] Dancing for Mental Health by Will Powers
1984 "Ghostbusters" (uncredited cameo)[24] Ghostbusters (soundtrack) Ivan Reitman
1985 "My New Boyfriend" Spoiled Girl
"Tired of Being Blonde" Jeremy Irons
1987 "Coming Around Again" Coming Around Again
"Give Me All Night"
1989 "Let the River Run" Working Girl (Original Soundtrack Album)
1990 "Better Not Tell Her" Have You Seen Me Lately
"Holding Me Tonight"
1992 "Love of My Life" This Is My Life (Music from the Motion Picture)
1993 "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" Sleepless in Seattle (soundtrack)
1994 "Touched by the Sun" Letters Never Sent
"Like a River"
1997 "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" Film Noir
2002 "Winnie the Pooh (Theme Song)” The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
2003 "With a Few Good Friends” Piglet’s Big Movie (soundtrack) Francis Glebas
2005 "I Only Have Eyes for You" Moonlight Serenade Tom DiCillo
2007 "Into White" Into White
"Blackbird"
"Quiet Evening"
"Scarborough Fair"
2008 "This Kind of Love" This Kind of Love
"Hold Out Your Heart"
"How Can You Ever Forget"
"Island"
2009 "You're So Vain" Never Been Gone Brett Bisogno

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