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Judy Collins discography
Publicity photo of Collins, 1975.
Studio albums	36
Live albums	9
Compilation albums	24 plus
Tribute albums	3
Singles	21

The discography of Judy Collins, an American singer and songwriter, consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles. She has two Platinum-certified albums, which includes a greatest hits collection, and four Gold-certified albums. Eleven of her singles have charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with five of them hitting the Top 40, and twelve have charted on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, with eleven hitting the Top 40.

Collins's debut album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, was released in 1961 and consisted of traditional folk songs. She had her first charting single with "Hard Lovin' Loser" (No. 97) from her 1966 album In My Life, but it was the lead single from her 1967 album Wildflowers, Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now", that gave Collins international prominence. The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and won Collins her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance, while Wildflowers went Gold. Collins experienced the biggest success of her career with her recording of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" from her 1975 album Judith. The single peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1975 and then again in 1977 at No. 19, spending 27 non-consecutive weeks on the chart and earning Collins a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, as well as a Grammy Award for Sondheim for Song of the Year. Judith would also become Collins' best-selling studio album, eventually going Platinum.

In 2017, Collins's rendition of the song "Amazing Grace" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2019 at the age of 80, Collins scored her first No. 1 album on an American Billboard Chart with Winter Stories, a duet album with Jonas Fjeld featuring the Chatham County Line.

Her 2022 release, Spellbound, was her first album to feature all original material. Spellbound was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, her first since Silver Skies Blue with Ari Hest in 2016.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Other albums

Singles

Notes

1. Paradise did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 11 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.
2. Paradise did not enter the Official Albums Chart, but it peaked at number 49 on the Official Independent Albums Chart in the UK.
3. Winter Stories did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 1 on the Bluegrass Albums chart.
4. Spellbound did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 60 on the Top Current Album Sales chart.
5. Spellbound did not enter the Official Albums Chart, but it peaked at number 26 on the Official Americana Chart in the UK.
6. Reissue of All on a Wintry Night with 2 bonus tracks
7. Collins first released "Turn! Turn! Turn!" on her 1963 album Judy Collins 3.
8. "Home Again" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but it peaked at number 57 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
9. "Fires of Eden" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but it peaked at number 31 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

References

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    • "Someday Soon": "The RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 10, no. 24. 1969-02-10. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
    • "Chelsea Morning": "RPM 100 Singles". RPM. Vol. 12, no. 2. 1969-08-30. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
    • "Turn! Turn! Turn!": "RPM 100 Singles". RPM. Vol. 12, no. 19. 1969-12-27. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
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    • "Cook With Honey": "RPM 100 Singles". RPM. Vol. 19, no. 9. 1974-04-14. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
    • "Send In the Clowns": "RPM 100 Singles". RPM. Vol. 28, no. 11. 1977-12-03. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
    • "Hard Times for Lovers": "RPM 100 Singles". RPM. Vol. 31, no. 7. 1979-05-12. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
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56. NZ Top 40 Singles Chart positions:
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External Links

• Judy Collins discography at Discogs

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Discography
Studio albums	A Maid of Constant Sorrow (1961) Golden Apples of the Sun (1962) Judy Collins #3 (1963) Fifth Album (1965) In My Life (1966) Wildflowers (1967) Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968) Whales & Nightingales (1970) True Stories and Other Dreams (1973) Judith (1975) Bread and Roses (1976) Hard Times for Lovers (1979) Running for My Life (1980) Times of Our Lives (1982) Home Again (1984) Amazing Grace (1985) Fires of Eden (1990) Judy Sings Dylan... Just Like a Woman (1993) Come Rejoice! A Judy Collins Christmas (1994) Voices (1995) Portrait of an American Girl (2005) Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney (2007) Paradise (2010) Bohemian (2011) Strangers Again (2015) Silver Skies Blue with Ari Hest (2016) A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim (2017) Everybody Knows with Stephen Stills (2017) Winter Stories with Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line (2019) Spellbound (2022)
Live albums	The Judy Collins Concert (1964) Living (1971) Sanity and Grace (1989) Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012)
Compilation albums	Recollections (1969) Colors of the Day (1972) So Early in the Spring (1977) Forever: An Anthology (1997) Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (2004) White Bird: Anthology of Favorites (2021)
Singles	"Both Sides, Now" "Someday Soon" "Chelsea Morning"
Related	Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins Stephen Stills
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