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Carly Simon
Solo artist The Bronx United States
Carly Simon is an artist from The Bronx. Carly Simon has 13 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You're So Vain”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #165. The station that charted Carly Simon most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 6 appearances.
Carly Simon, born in the Bronx in 1943, started out performing with her sister Lucy as the Simon Sisters in 1963, and once Lucy left the act she became one of the most popular of the new confessional singer-songwriters. Her self-titled 1971 debut won her the Grammy for Best New Artist, and Anticipation followed that same year, its title track all jittery, restless nerves.
No Secrets, in 1972, is where she went global. It sat at the top of the album chart for five weeks and went Platinum, and "You're So Vain" is the reason: slinky, sneering and impossible to shake, with a vocal that cuts. It stayed at number one for three weeks and picked up Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year.
The hits kept coming: "Mockingbird" with James Taylor, "Nobody Does It Better" for the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and, in 1988, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl, a song she wrote and sang all by herself that brought home a Grammy, a Golden Globe and an Oscar, something no artist had managed before. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame took her in in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Carly Simon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're So Vain | 10 | #165 | – | – | |
| 2 | That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be | 1 | #899 | – | – | |
| 3 | Anticipation | 1 | #1953 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 165 | You're So Vain | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2026 | 730 | You're So Vain | KXT 917 Song Countdown |
| 2026 | 899 | That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2023 | 253 | You're So Vain | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 |
| 2022 | 284 | You're So Vain | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s |
| 2020 | 869 | You're So Vain | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2020 | 1953 | Anticipation | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2019 | 398 | You're So Vain | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 398 | You're So Vain | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2012 | 235 | You're So Vain | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown |
| 2006 | 286 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2005 | 436 | You're So Vain | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) |
| 2001 | 1828 | You're So Vain | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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