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8 Gold albums, 5 Platinum albums, and 10 Gold singles in America |
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The #1 best-selling American group between 1970 and 1980 |
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In their first year, from July 1970 to June 1971, the Carpenters had four Top 5 hits (twice the number of any other artist during that period) |
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Second
on the list of "Artists With The Most #2 Hits" (Carpenters had five, Elvis Presley had six.) |
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The
Singles 1969-73, became one of the best-selling albums of all time
and was on the LP charts for an amazing 115 weeks. |
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Conjured a total of 12 TOP TEN Hits, a consecutive string of 16 TOP TWENTIES Hits and 20 TOP FORTIES Hits. |
The
Top 10 SINGLES of 1970
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TO YOU single Within weeks of its release, the single had sold 300,000 copies and by 22 July 1970, it had reached the top of the national best-sellers AND sold a million! This single was their biggest seller in US. CLOSE TO YOU album This album was the Carpenters' true moment of arrival, ultimately selling nearly 5 million copies to achieve multiplatinium sales status, contributing to six Grammy nominations, including the categories Record of the Year (for "CLOSE TO YOU" single) and the Album of the Year (for LP of that title). Richard and Karen won Grammy Awards as Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Vocal Group. RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS single In late 1971, upon its release, this single became a prerennial radio play and remains to this day one of the Carpenters' most popular tracks. Though it was held off the number-one spot by Carole King's "Its too late", it became Richard and Karen's fourth million seller. CARPENTERS album This album continued their march to the top, going gold and winning a 1971 Grammy award plus three nominations. SING single This lightweight "SING", a trite sing-along from the TV series "Sesame Street", complete with children chorus, returned them to their million-selling status and won two Grammy nominations. YESTERDAY ONCE MORE album This album sold a million copies very quickly in the United States and send their already strong popularity soaring in Japan. ONLY YESTERDAY single This song reached the Top Five in April 1975. |
WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN single Released a mere three months after "Close to you", "We've only just begun" roared to the top as the Carpenters' second consecutive smash and was a gold record soon afterward. A hundred and fifty artists were to record it eventually, Karen and Richard's would remain the classic version and their signature song. FOR ALL WE KNOW single By early January 1971 this single was released and within 2 months, at the start of a new decade, became their third gold, million-selling single. SUPERSTAR single Release on 12 August 1971, it helped the Carpenters to secure a gold record within eight weeks. GOODBYE TO LOVE single Was number Seven on the National Charts. YESTERDAY ONCE MORE single In 1973, this single sold an astounding 750,000 copies. This single was their biggest seller in Japan and Britain. TOP OF THE WORLD single In late 1973, this released single went to the top of the charts, becoming the Carpenters' second number one (After CLOSE TO YOU). In Britain, where it went to number five, the song remains one of their most popular radio plays. BEST SELLING single The biggest-selling Carpenters Single internationally remains "Please Mr. Postman". In the United States, the biggest-seller is "Close To You", and in Britian and Japan "Yesterday Once More". |