[1] She has released five studio albums: Tidal (1996), When the Pawn... (1999), Extraordinary Machine (2005), The Idler Wheel... (2012), and Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020).

[2] Apple's debut album earned her several recognitions, including the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "Criminal" and the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video for "Sleep to Dream".

For When the Pawn..., Apple received six nominations and won one, the California Music Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist.

Of three nominations received for Extraordinary Machine, she won an Esky Music Award for Best Songbird.

[5] In 2000, the music video for "Fast as You Can" earned Apple her second nominated in the category Best Clip of the Year.

Established in 2001 as an alternative to the commercial Grammy Awards,[36][37] recipients are chosen by a panel of entertainment industry members and journalists known as the "Listmakers".

In 2005, the year Apple was nominated, the prize was renamed the New Pantheon Music Award following a dispute between its founders.

[44] Reader's Poll results published in the January 1998 issue of the magazine revealed that Apple was voted "Best Female Performer".

[45] Robert Dimery included Tidal in his book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2006).

[47] Rolling Stone included Tidal as number 83 on its 2011 list of the "100 Best Albums of the Nineties".

[51] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Apple at number 111 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.