Four of her singles have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA): "You're So Vain", "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), "Nobody Does It Better", and "Jesse".

Simon's fourth album, Hotcakes, was released that same year and became an instant hit; it went Gold and spawned the Top 10 singles "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor) and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain".

Its lead single, "Vengeance", earned Simon a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female in 1980, the first year to feature this category.

[5] Simon signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1980 and released her ninth studio album, Come Upstairs.

[6][7] In 1982, she hit the Top 10 in the U.K. with the Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards-produced single "Why", from the soundtrack album to the film Soup for One.

17) with the single "Kissing with Confidence", a song from the 1983 album Dancing For Mental Health by Will Powers (a pseudonym for photographer Lynn Goldsmith).

The album became a great success, and spawned 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".

[2] Live from Martha's Vineyard was broadcast as an HBO special in 1987, and featured Simon performing a majority of the just released Coming Around Again album, as well as some of her classic hits.

The album featured "Like a River" in honor of her mother, Andrea Simon, and "Touched By The Sun" for her dear friend, Jackie Onassis, both of whom died from cancer in 1994.

[16] Live at Grand Central was an unannounced concert recorded for Lifetime in 1995 and was broadcast later that year.

It featured Simon performing a majority of the just released Letters Never Sent album, as well as some of her classic hits.

Simon's 20th studio album and her last for Arista Records, The Bedroom Tapes, was released on May 16, 2000, to near unanimous critical acclaim.

The single-disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits was released in 2004 to great commercial success; it peaked at No.

In 2005, Simon signed with Columbia Records and released her fourth album of standards, Moonlight Serenade, which reached No.

A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 was broadcast on various PBS stations that December and released on DVD.

[19] 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.

It was her first album of original material since The Bedroom Tapes eight years earlier and was released on the Starbucks label, Hear Music.

[21] It was announced on July 12, 2023, that the compilation album These Are the Good Old Days: The Carly Simon and Jac Holzman Story would be released on CD and Vinyl on September 15, 2023.

The collection features a mix of hits and deep cuts selected from Simon's first three albums, chosen and sequenced by Holzman.