The astonishing success that greeted Tapestry is difficult to overstate. It was one of those very rare records that becomes transformed into a completely unavoidable social phenomenon, becoming certified diamond in America for sales of over ten million copies, with an estimated 22 million sold around the world to date. It stayed in the Billboard charts for more than 300 weeks, and scooped the Grammys for Album of the Year, Record of the Year (for ‘It’s Too Late’) and Song of the Year (for ‘You’ve Got A Friend’), representing the first time that a woman had won either of the latter two awards. Truly, Tapestry’s success was a trailblazer for female artists. Carole King ... ‘My life has been a tapestry.’ Photograph: Jim McCrary/Ode Records / Lou Adler Archive

If you want to know, "What is the Best Carole King album of all time?" or "What are the top Carole King albums?" then this list will answer your questions. First getting started in 1958, Carole King has lead a long and prolific career. She's easily one of the greatest female singers and songwriters of all time, with multiple number-one albums, among other great achievements. The list here includes every studio album from Tapestry to Wrap. A never-seen concert film of classic singer-songwriter Carole King’s first-ever show outside the US in 1973 will be released by Eagle Vision on 14 June. Live at Montreux 1973 captures her performance at the Montreux Pavillon as part of that year’s Montreux Jazz Festival, and includes hits from King’s landmark albums of the early 1970s, Tapestry, Writer and the then-just-released Fantasy.He became the Beale Street Blues Boy, eventually shortening it to BB, or just B to his friends. In 1975 he set up home in Las Vegas, where he would reside for the rest of his life. Three years later, The BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opened in a restored cotton gin at 400 Second Street in Indianola. When he came to the grand opening, King revealed that he had worked there in the 1940s. In 2015 he was posthumously named Secretary Of State Of The Blues.

These days, Indianola is like any other small Mississippi town. There’s a main thoroughfare where you’ll see clumps of fast-food joints set apart by Mexican cantinas, gas stations and supermarkets. At the beginning of the 21st century, King continued to record, perform and write, providing songs for both newer and more established artists, including k.d. lang, Steven Tyler, Celine Dion and Babyface. She toured the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and recorded a successful live album. In 2007 she reunited with James Taylor for a series of sold-out shows at the Troubadour, where their performing careers had first taken off. In 2010 they took their double act on a highly successful tour of the U.S. and Australia, and recorded an album, Live at the Troubadour, that sold over half a million copies and remained on the charts for 34 weeks. February 2014: Carole King received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement at a ceremony in Washington.Indeed, for all its energy of arrival, “Tapestry” actually marked the beginning of an unlikely second act for King, who at age 28 had left behind a life and career as half of a prolific Brill Building songwriting duo with her husband, Gerry Goffin, and had moved to L.A. with her two young daughters, Louise and Sherry. Here, nestled in the verdant hills above Hollywood, the woman who co-wrote the deathless “ Up on the Roof,” “ The Loco-Motion” and “ Will You Love Me Tomorrow” remade herself as a new kind of pop star: thoughtful, relatable, understated. The album’s iconic cover, showing wavy-haired King and her cat sitting contentedly by a window in her home on Wonderland Avenue, said it all. I think you could make a pretty good case that Carole King and Gerry Goffin were the best popular songwriters of the last half of the 20th century. I love Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. Everything she sings is deeply felt. Sharon Van Etten Medley: “Take Good Care of My Baby/”It Might As Well Rain Until September”/”Go Away Little Girl”/”I’m into Something Good”/”Hey Girl”/”One Fine Day”/”Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (Goffin, King) – 8:39 Carole King’s first solo album, Writer, failed to chart in 1970, but her next effort would change everything. Tapestry, released in 1971, included re-interpretations of some of her previous hits for other artists, including “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” as well as the new songs “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet,”“It’s Too Late” and “You’ve Got a Friend.” March 1971: American singer-songwriter Carole King in record producer Lou Adler’s office, holding the four Grammy Awards she received for her album Tapestry, in Los Angeles, California. The album won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year. (Jim McCrary) a b c d "Carole King Full Official Chart History". Official Charts. UK Albums Chart . Retrieved 2021-03-20.