Linda Ronstadt discography

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Linda Ronstadt discography
LindaRonstadtPerforming.jpg
Linda Ronstadt in concert in 1978
Studio albums 28
Live albums 1
Compilation albums 13
Music videos 14
Singles 63
B-sides 6

The discography of Linda Ronstadt, an American rock, pop and country artist (who also recorded in other genres, such as light opera and traditional Mexican music), consists of 24 solo studio albums, one live album, numerous compilation albums, and 63 singles. After recording three albums with her folk rock band, The Stone Poneys, Ronstadt debuted on Capitol Records as a solo artist with 1969's Hand Sown ... Home Grown.[1] Her final album was released in 2006. Ronstadt has sold over 30 million records in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America.[2]

Between 1970 and 1973, Ronstadt released three studio albums: two on the Capitol label, Silk Purse (1970) and Linda Ronstadt (1971); and one on the Asylum label, Don't Cry Now (1973). Developing a country rock sound similar to that of the Eagles, Ronstadt recorded 1974's Grammy-winning Heart Like a Wheel, which sold over two million U. S. copies and spawned the #1 hits "When Will I Be Loved" and "You're No Good".[1] Her next album was 1975's Prisoner in Disguise, which followed a similar musical style and contained a top five cover of "Heat Wave". Released in 1976, Hasten Down the Wind featured two Ronstadt-composed originals and established Ronstadt as the first ever female recording artist to release three million-selling albums. Its biggest hits were a cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" and a reworking of Willie Nelson's "Crazy". The album won Ronstadt her second Grammy Award.

Her 1977 release, Simple Dreams, followed a more rock-oriented format. It went triple platinum in the United States and produced two simultaneous top five hits: the platinum-certified "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy". Additional hits from the album included "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Tumbling Dice", and the Top 10 country hit "I Never Will Marry". The following album, Living in the USA included a cover of Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A.". It also contained a cover of the Motown classic "Ooh Baby Baby" which crossed over to R&B radio. In addition to the conventional Asylum release that is listed below, special limited-edition releases were also made of this album in red vinyl and picture disc. "Just One Look" was the album's third hit single.

Ronstadt's first disc of the 1980s was the New Wave-styled Mad Love. It debuted at number 5 on the Billboard album chart and quickly became her seventh million-selling album in a row. It produced Top 10 singles with "How Do I Make You" and the scorching "Hurt So Bad". "Get Closer", regarded as her final Rock album, followed in 1982. Four music videos were filmed for this album, all were popular on the fledgling MTV cable channel. On April 24, 1980, Ronstadt recorded a concert at Hollywood's Television Center Studios for HBO, to coincide with the release of Mad Love. 12 hand-picked performances by Ronstadt were later released in her only live album, Live in Hollywood on February 1, 2019.[3] In 1983, Ronstadt changed musical directions towards big band jazz and traditional pop music, recording What's New, which was certified Triple Platinum in the United States. It was succeeded by 1984's Lush Life and 1986's For Sentimental Reasons (both Platinum-certified).

To celebrate her Mexican American heritage, Ronstadt recorded the Spanish-language album Canciones de Mi Padre in 1987, which sold more than two million copies in the U.S. and won Ronstadt another Grammy Award. It stands as the best-selling non-English language record in U.S. music history. The same year, she also teamed with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton for the collaborative album Trio, which spawned four Top 10 country music hits, including the number 1 single, "To Know Him Is To Love Him". Her 1989 release, titled Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, was Ronstadt's first pop music album in seven years.[1] It produced two Grammy Award-winning duets with Aaron Neville on the Billboard Hot 100: the Gold-certified number 2 hit "Don't Know Much" and the number 11 hit "All My Life". Both songs were long-running number 1 Adult Contemporary hits.

After releasing two less successful Spanish-language albums in the early 1990s, Ronstadt returned to more contemporary music with 1993's New Age-styled Winter Light. It was followed by Feels Like Home, a return to country rock. Her Grammy-winning album of children's lullabies was issued in 1996 and had strong sales. Her 1998 release, We Ran, featured more rock-oriented album material. In 1999, Ronstadt reunited with Harris and Parton for Trio II, which won Ronstadt her eleventh competitive Grammy Award and nineteenth Gold album. That year she also recorded a Southwestern-inspired release with Harris, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions. Her 2004 release, Hummin' to Myself, was Ronstadt's fourth album of traditional jazz standards. In 2006, she made what turned out to be her final studio album – Adieu False Heart – mixing Cajun music with rock in a collaboration with Ann Savoy.[1]

The lists that follow do not include the many singles and albums on which Ronstadt provided guest vocals, such as the 1986 Philip Glass album Songs from Liquid Days on which she performed tracks written by Suzanne Vega and Laurie Anderson. It also omits her singles and albums as lead singer of Stone Poneys, although a number of recordings from that era have been included on her compilation albums.

Studio albums

1960s and 1970s

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Country
[4]
AUS
[5][6]
CAN
[7]
JPN
[8][9]
NLD
[10]
NZ
[11]
UK
[12]
Hand Sown ... Home Grown
Silk Purse
  • Release date: April 13, 1970
  • Label: Capitol Records
103 34 59
Linda Ronstadt[A]
  • Release date: January 17, 1972
  • Label: Capitol Records
163 35 87
Don't Cry Now[B] 45 5 46 57 161
Heart Like a Wheel
  • Release date: November 11, 1974
  • Label: Capitol Records
1 1 35 7
  • US: 2× Platinum[14]
Prisoner in Disguise[B]
  • Release date: September 15, 1975
  • Label: Asylum Records
4 2 76 13 151
Hasten Down the Wind
  • Release date: August 9, 1976
  • Label: Asylum Records
3 1 28 3 74 14 32
Simple Dreams
  • Release date: September 5, 1977
  • Label: Asylum Records
1 1 1 1 38 8 2 15
Living in the USA[C]
  • Release date: September 18, 1978
  • Label: Asylum Records
1 3 3 9 23 19 3 39
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Country
[4]
US
Jazz

[4]
US Latin
[4]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[7]
JPN
[8]
NLD
[10]
NZ
[11]
UK
[12]
Mad Love
  • Release date: February 18, 1980
  • Label: Asylum Records
3 6 11 12 37 22 65
Get Closer
  • Release date: September 27, 1982
  • Label: Asylum Records
31 19 26 48 28
What's New
  • Release date: September 12, 1983
  • Label: Asylum Records
3 5 11 18 29 21 31
  • US: 3× Platinum[23]
  • CAN: Platinum[24]
Lush Life
  • Release date: November 16, 1984
  • Label: Asylum Records
13 8 32 35 38 100
For Sentimental Reasons
  • Release date: September 22, 1986
  • Label: Asylum Records
46 43 72 34
Canciones de Mi Padre
  • Release date: November 13, 1987
  • Label: Asylum Records
42 4 54
  • US: 2× Platinum[27]
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind 7 11 6 65 13 42
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s and 2000s

Title Details Peak chart positions
US
[4]
US
Jazz

[4]
US Latin
[4]
CAN
[7]
JPN
[8]
Mas Canciones
  • Release date: November 19, 1991
  • Label: Elektra Records
88 16
Frenesí
  • Release date: August 25, 1992
  • Label: Elektra Records
193 17 79
Winter Light
  • Release date: November 23, 1993
  • Label: Elektra Records
92 50
Feels Like Home
  • Release date: March 14, 1995
  • Label: Elektra Records
75
Dedicated to the One I Love
  • Release date: June 11, 1996
  • Label: Elektra Records
78
We Ran
  • Release date: June 23, 1998
  • Label: Elektra Records
160
Hummin' to Myself 166 3
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Holiday album

Title Details Peak positions
US
[4]
A Merry Little Christmas
  • Release date: October 17, 2000
  • Label: Elektra Records
179

Live album

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Country
[4]
CAN
[7]
UK
[12]
Live in Hollywood
  • Release date: February 1, 2019
  • Label: Rhino Records
97

Collaborations

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Country
[4]
US Indie
[4]
AUS
[30]
CAN
[7]
CAN Country
[7]
UK
[12]
Escalator Over the Hill
(with Carla Bley and Paul Haines)
  • Release date: December 1971
  • Label: JCOA Records (LP) WATT (CD)
Trio
(with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton)
6 1 12 4 60
Trio II
(with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton)
  • Release date: February 9, 1999
  • Label: Asylum Records
64 4 66 4
Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions
(with Emmylou Harris)
  • Release date: August 24, 1999
  • Label: Asylum Records
73 6
Adieu False Heart
(with Ann Savoy)
146 12
The Complete Trio Collection
(with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris)
  • Release date: September 9, 2016
  • Label: Rhino Records
124 7 3 47
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Country
[4]
CAN
[7]
UK
[12]
Different Drum
  • Release date: January 1974
  • Label: Capitol Records
92
Greatest Hits
  • Release date: December 1976
  • Label: Asylum Records
6 2 55 37
  • US: 7× Platinum[33]
  • CAN: Platinum[34]
A Retrospective
  • Release date: April 1977
  • Label: Capitol Records
46 44
Greatest Hits, Volume 2
  • Release date: October 1980
  • Label: Asylum Records
26 39
Round Midnight
with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
  • Release date: October 1986
  • Label: Asylum Records
124
The Linda Ronstadt Box Set
  • Release date: November 1999
  • Label: Elektra Records
The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt 165 19 46
Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas
  • Release date: April 2004
  • Label: Rhino Records
The Best of Linda Ronstadt:
The Capitol Years
  • Release date: January 2006
  • Label: Capitol Records
Linda Ronstadt Greatest Hits I & II
  • Release date: 2007
  • Label: Rhino Records
Duets
  • Release date: April 2014
  • Label: Rhino Records
32
Opus Collection
  • Release date: September 2014
  • Label: Rhino Records
65
Just One Look: Classic Linda Ronstadt
  • Release date: August 21, 2015
  • Label: Rhino Records
32
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1960s & 1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US
[39]
US
AC

[39]
US
Country

[39]
CAN
[40]
CAN
AC

[40]
CAN
Country

[40]
AUS
[41]
UK
[42]
NED
[43]
NZ
[44]
1967 "Sweet Summer Blue and Gold" - The Stone Poneys
"One For One" - Evergreen, Vol. 2
"Different Drum" 13 - -
1968 "Up to My Neck In High Muddy Water" Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III
"Some of Shelly's Blues" - - -
1969 "Baby You've Been On My Mind" - Hand Sown ... Home Grown
"Long Way Around" - - -
1970 "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" 111 Silk Purse
"Long, Long Time" 25 20 15
"He Darked the Sun"
1971 "(She's a) Very Lovely Woman" 70 17 57 non-LP track
"I Fall to Pieces" Linda Ronstadt
1972 "Rock Me on the Water" 85
1973 "Love Has No Pride" 51 23 59 6 Don't Cry Now
1974 "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" 67 20 90 20
"Colorado" 108
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" 2 6 Heart Like a Wheel
1975 "You're No Good" 1 10 7 2 15 17 24
"When Will I Be Loved" 2 3 1 7 1 1
"Heat Wave" 5 19 12 12 Prisoner in Disguise
"Love Is a Rose" 63 5 100 46
"The Tracks of My Tears" 25 4 11 22 2 25 42
1976 "That'll Be the Day" 11 16 27 2 14 17 Hasten Down the Wind
"Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" 42 38 58 37
1977 "Lose Again" 76 43 42
"Blue Bayou" 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 35 3 Simple Dreams
"It's So Easy" 5 37 81 9 13 11
"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" 31 27 46 26 9 36
"Lo Siento Mi Vida" Hasten Down the Wind
1978 "Tumbling Dice"/"I Never Will Marry" (*) 32 30 * 8 * 39 * 16 * Simple Dreams
"Back in the U.S.A." 16 30 41 8 43 18 24 Living in the U.S.A.
"Ooh Baby Baby" 7 2 85 6 26
1979 "Just One Look" 44 5 46 4 38
"Alison" 30 66
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US
[39]
US
AC

[39]
US
Country

[39]
CAN
[40]
CAN
AC

[40]
UK
[42]
NED
[43]
NZ
[44]
1980 "How Do I Make You" 10 15 30 Mad Love
"Hurt So Bad" 8 25 17 37 43
"I Can't Let Go" 31 48 28
1982 "Get Closer"[D] 29 30 43 Get Closer
"I Knew You When" 37 29 84 17 90
1983 "Easy for You to Say" 54 7 8
"What's New" 53 5 1 What's New
1984 "I've Got a Crush on You" 7 1
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
"Skylark" 101 12 5 Lush Life
1985 "When I Fall in Love" 24
1986 "When You Wish Upon a Star" 32 For Sentimental Reasons
"I Love You for Sentimental Reasons"
1989 "Don't Know Much"[E] (with Aaron Neville) 2 1 4 1 2 6 4 Cry Like a Rainstorm,
Howl Like the Wind
"All My Life" (with Aaron Neville) 11 1 10 1 96 28
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US
[39]
US
AC

[39]
US
Country

[39]
US
Latin

[39]
CAN
[40]
CAN
AC

[40]
CAN
Country

[40]
1990 "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"
(with Aaron Neville)
78 5 29 10 Cry Like a Rainstorm,
Howl Like the Wind
"Adios" 9 34 9
1991 "Dreams to Dream" 13 69 18 An American Tail:
Fievel Goes West
(soundtrack)
1992 "Gritenme Piedras del Campo" 15 Mas Canciones
"Frenesi" 7 Frenesi
"Perfidia" 7
1993 "Entre Abismos" 33
"Heartbeats Accelerating" 112 31 17 19 Winter Light
1994 "Adónde Voy" 33
"Oh No Not My Baby" 35 33 29
"A River for Him"
1995 "Blue Train" 31 42 7 Feels Like Home
"Walk On" 61 62
"High Sierra"[45]
"Feels Like Home" (with Emmylou Harris) 43
"The Waiting"
"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" 101 The Music of Cinderella
1996 "Dedicated to the One I Love" 45 Dedicated to the One I Love
1998 "When We Ran" We Ran
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Collaborations

Year Single Artist(s) Peak chart positions Album
US
[39]
US
AC

[39]
US
Country

[39]
CAN
[40]
CAN
AC

[40]
CAN
Country

[40]
UK
[42]
NED
[43]
1986 "Somewhere Out There" James Ingram 2 4 2 2 8 51 An American Tail (soundtrack)
1987 "To Know Him Is To Love Him" Emmylou Harris
Dolly Parton
1 1 62 Trio
"Telling Me Lies" 35 3 6
"Those Memories of You" 5 1
1988 "Wildflowers" 6 8
1999 "High Sierra" 90 Trio II
"Feels Like Home"
"After the Gold Rush"
"For a Dancer" Emmylou Harris Western Wall:
The Tucson Sessions
2006 "Walk Away Renée" Ann Savoy Adieu False Heart
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Guest singles

Year Single Artist Peak positions Album
CAN
[40]
1992 "Close Your Eyes" Aaron Neville 90 Warm Your Heart

Charted B-sides

Year Single Peak chart positions A-Side
US
[39]
US
AC

[39]
US
Country

[39]
CAN
[40]
CAN
AC

[40]
CAN
Country

[40]
1970 "The Long Way Around" flip flip "(She's a) Very Lovely Woman"
1975 "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" 47 20 54 83 23 "When Will I Be Loved"
"The Sweetest Gift" (with Emmylou Harris) 12 "Tracks of My Tears"
1976 "Crazy" 6 2 "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"
1978 "Tumbling Dice" 32 flip 35 22 "I Never Will Marry"
1980 "Rambler Gambler" 42 49 "How Do I Make You"
1982 "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" 27 "Get Closer"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year Video Director[46]
1982 "Get Closer"
"Lies" / "Tell Him"
"I Knew You When"
1983 "What's New"
"I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"
"Good-Bye"
1984 "I've Got a Crush on You"
1985 "Skylark" / "You Took Advantage Of Me"
1986 "When You Wish Upon a Star" Michael Smuin
1987 "To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) White Copeman
"Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris)
"Somewhere Out There" (with James Ingram) Jeffrey Abelson
1989 "Don't Know Much" (with Aaron Neville)
1990 "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" (with Aaron Neville) Tom Ackerman
1991 "Dreams To Dream"
1993 "Heartbeats Accelerating"
"Winter Light" Walter Murch
1999 "After the Gold Rush" (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) Jim Shea

Notes

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