Carly Simon discography
The discography of Carly Simon, an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author, consists of twenty-four 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.
| Carly Simon discography | |
|---|---|
 Elektra Records promo photo of Simon | |
| Studio albums | 23 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 9 |
| Video albums | 4 |
| Singles | 41 |
| Soundtrack albums | 4 |
| No. 1 singles | 2 |
Simon has five Platinum-certified albums, which include a live album and a multi-Platinum greatest hits collection, 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".
Simon has recorded four concert films. Live from Martha's Vineyard was recorded in 1987, and broadcast as an HBO special. Carly in Concert – My Romance, which was also an HBO special, followed in 1990. Live at Grand Central was an unannounced concert recorded for Lifetime in 1995. A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 was recorded in the fall of 2005, and was broadcast on various PBS stations that December. She also appears in the 1980 documentary and concert film No Nukes, and it accompanying soundtrack album of the same name.
Albums
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
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| US [1] |
AUS [2] |
CAN [3] |
JPN [4] |
UK [5] | ||||||||||
| 1971 | Carly Simon | 30 | 55 | 17 | — | — | ||||||||
Anticipation
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30 | 12 | 36 | — | — | |||||||||
| 1972 | No Secrets
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1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1974 | Hotcakes
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3 | 9 | 7 | 39 | 19 |
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| 1975 | Playing Possum
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10 | 25 | 22 | 70 | — | ||||||||
| 1976 | Another Passenger
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29 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||||
| 1978 | Boys in the Trees
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10 | 27 | 4 | — | — |
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| 1979 | Spy
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45 | 33 | 56 | — | — | ||||||||
| 1980 | Come Upstairs
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36 | 43 | 86 | — | — | ||||||||
| 1981 | Torch
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50 | 77 | 50 | 56 | — | ||||||||
| 1983 | Hello Big Man
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69 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1985 | Spoiled Girl
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88 | 97 | 96 | — | — | ||||||||
| 1987 | Coming Around Again
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25 | 24 | 57 | — | 25 | ||||||||
| 1990 | My Romance
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46 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
Have You Seen Me Lately
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60 | — | 64 | — | — | |||||||||
| 1993 | Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera
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— | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1994 | Letters Never Sent
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129 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1997 | Film Noir
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84 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2000 | The Bedroom Tapes
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90 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2005 | Moonlight Serenade
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7 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2007 | Into White
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13 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2008 | This Kind of Love
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15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2009 | Never Been Gone
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134 | — | — | — | 45 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Compilation albums
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
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| US [1] |
AUS [2] |
CAN [3] |
UK [5] | |||||||||||
| 1975 | The Best of Carly Simon | 17 | 42 | 40 | — | |||||||||
| 1995 | Clouds in My Coffee
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 1999 | The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better
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— | — | — | 22 |
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| 2002 | Anthology
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 2004 | Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
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22 | — | — | 25 | |||||||||
| 2009 | Carly Simon Collector's Edition
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 2011 | Original Album Series
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 2014 | Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 2015 | Songs from the Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Live albums
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
UK [5] | |||
| 1988 | Greatest Hits Live | 87 | 49 | |
Holiday albums
| Year | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Holiday | ||
| 2002 | Christmas Is Almost Here | 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)
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| 2003 | Piglet's Big Movie (soundtrack)
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| 2005 | The Best of Pooh and Heffalumps, Too
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— |
Other albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions |
Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | |||
| 1979 | No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future | — |
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| 1980 | In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record
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156 | |
| 1982 | In Harmony 2
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Audiobooks
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Boys in the Trees: A Memoir[10]
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Deluxe editions
| Year | Album details | Bonus material |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Spoiled Girl: Deluxe Edition[11]
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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[12]
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Two bonus tracks: "Grandmother's House" and "When Manhattan Was a Maiden". |
| 2017 | Coming Around Again: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition[13]
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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 [1] |
US CB Pop [14] |
US A/C [1] |
AUS [2] |
CAN [3] |
IRE [15] |
UK [5] | |||||||||
| 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 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "The Girl You Think You See" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "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 |
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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 | — | — |
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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) [16] |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
Notes
- A "Devoted to You" also peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and at #36 on the Cash Box Country chart.
- B Simon sang uncredited co-lead vocals on "Kissing with Confidence".
- C "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" also peaked at #26 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart and at #7 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Video albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| Music Video Sales | ||
| Live from Martha's Vineyard | 7 | |
| Carly in Concert – My Romance |
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11 |
| Live at Grand Central |
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| Live from Martha's Vineyard (re-release) |
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| A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 |
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| Live from Martha's Vineyard (re-release) |
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Music videos
References
- "US Albums and Singles Charts > Carly Simon". Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- David Kent (1993). Australian Charts Book 1970—1992. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- "CAN Charts > Carly Simon". RPM. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
- "Official Charts > Carly Simon". Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- "US Certifications > Carly Simon". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- "BPI Citification search". BPI. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- "CAN Certifications > Carly Simon". Music Canada. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- RIAA.com. "No Nukes". Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- CarlySimon.com. "Boys in the Trees: Audiobook". Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- "Spoiled Girl". Cherry Red Records.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- CarlySimon.com. "The Bedroom Tapes". Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- "Coming Around Again: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition". Cherry Red Records.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- "Cash Box Top Singles". Retrieved August 27, 2015.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Touched by the Sun". Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- "Carly Simon Official Website - Kissing With Confidence". Archived from the original on March 11, 2005. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- "Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters". IMDB.com. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
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