Her debut album, Carly Simon, was released in 1971 and won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1972, while the lead single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" earned her a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the same ceremony.

[1] Simon's 1977 worldwide hit "Nobody Does It Better", the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, garnered her another Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1978.

[2] Simon's seventh album, Boys in the Trees, was released later that year and spawned the hit single "You Belong to Me", which earned her another Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1979.

Boys in the Trees won Best Album Package at the same ceremony; the Grammy went to Johnny Lee and Tony Lane.

[3] Simon's eighth album, Spy, was released in 1979 and its lead single, "Vengeance", earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1980, the first year to feature this category.

It became a major hit and earned her two Grammy nominations: Best Recording for Children for "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in 1987 and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the album in 1988.

[11] Simon was set to be honored at Carnegie Hall with a tribute concert on March 19, 2020, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The museum documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have influenced its development.

On May 4, 2022, Simon was announced as one of the seven artists in the performer category being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

[51][52] The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an American institution founded in 1969 to honor those whose work represents and maintains the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved English language songs from the world's popular music songbook.