Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

=== Selected career achievements ===
[[File:Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt Honorary Doctorate From Berklee Presentation.jpg|thumb|right|Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris receiving honors from Berklee, 2009]]
On April 10, 2014, Ronstadt was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].<ref>" [http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/linda-ronstadt/ Linda Ronstadt] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824234854/http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/linda-ronstadt/|date=August 24, 2016}}. "Linda Ronstadt : inducted in 2014 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum".</ref> In July 2019, Ronstadt was selected as a [[Kennedy Center Honors|Kennedy Center Honoree]].<ref name="vari_Sall" /> On May 7, 2022, during the International Mariachi Conference, the Tucson Music Hall at the [[Tucson Convention Center]] was officially renamed as The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 8, 2022 |author=Kelly Presnell |title=The Tucson Music Hall renamed for Grammy and Emmy Award winner Linda Ronstadt |url=https://tucson.com/news/local/photos-the-tucson-music-hall-renamed-for-grammy-and-emmy-award-winner-linda-ronstadt/collection_0ac716ea-ce7f-11ec-b585-6f12cad9c54f.html |work=The Arizona Daily Star |access-date=May 8, 2022 |archive-date=May 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508034401/https://tucson.com/news/local/photos-the-tucson-music-hall-renamed-for-grammy-and-emmy-award-winner-linda-ronstadt/collection_0ac716ea-ce7f-11ec-b585-6f12cad9c54f.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2019, Ronstadt had earned three number-one pop albums, 10 top-ten pop albums, and 38 charting pop albums on the ''Billboard'' Pop Album Charts. She has 15 albums on the [[Top Country Albums|''Billboard'' Top Country Albums]] chart, including four that hit number one. Ronstadt's singles have earned her a number-one hit and three number-two hits on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart, with 10 top-ten pop singles and 21 reaching the Top 40. She has also scored two number-one hits on the [[Hot Country Songs|''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs]] chart, and two number-one hits on the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary]] chart. ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that a whole generation "but for her, might never have heard the work of [[Buddy Holly]], [[Chuck Berry]], or [[Elvis Costello]]."<ref name="interpreter6" />

She has recorded and released over 30 studio albums and has made guest appearances on an estimated 120 albums by other artists. Her guest appearances included the classical minimalist [[Philip Glass]]'s album ''[[Songs from Liquid Days]]'', a hit classical record with other major pop stars either singing or writing lyrics (Ronstadt's two tracks on the album saw her singing lyrics written by [[Suzanne Vega]] and [[Laurie Anderson]]). She also appeared on Glass's follow-up recording ''[[1000 Airplanes on the Roof]]''. She appeared on [[Paul Simon]]'s ''[[Graceland (album)|Graceland]]'', where she sang a duet with Simon, "[[Under African Skies]]". In that song, there is a verse dedicated to Ronstadt, her voice and harmonies and her birth in Tucson, Arizona. She voiced herself in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Mr. Plow]]" and sang a duet, "[[Funny How Time Slips Away]]", with [[Homer Simpson]] on ''[[The Yellow Album]]''.

Ronstadt has also appeared on albums by a vast range of artists including Emmylou Harris, [[the Chieftains]], [[Dolly Parton]], Neil Young, [[JD Souther]], [[Gram Parsons]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]], [[Earl Scruggs]], the Eagles, [[Andrew Gold]], [[Wendy Waldman]], [[Hoyt Axton]], [[Kate and Anna McGarrigle]], [[Ann Savoy]], [[Karla Bonoff]], [[James Taylor]], Jimmy Webb, [[Valerie Carter]], [[Warren Zevon]], [[Maria Muldaur]], [[Randy Newman]] (specifically his [[Randy Newman's Faust|musical adaptation of Faust]]), [[Nicolette Larson]], [[Seldom Scene|the Seldom Scene]], [[Rosemary Clooney]], Aaron Neville, [[Rodney Crowell]], [[Hearts and Flowers]], [[Laurie Lewis]] and [[Flaco Jiménez]]. As a singer-songwriter, Ronstadt has written songs covered by several artists, such as "Try Me Again", covered by [[Trisha Yearwood]]; and "Winter Light", which was co-written and composed with Zbigniew Preisner and Eric Kaz, and covered by [[Sarah Brightman]].

Her three biggest-selling studio albums to date are: her 1977 release ''[[Simple Dreams]]'', 1983's ''[[What's New (Linda Ronstadt album)|What's New]]'', and 1989's ''[[Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind]]''. Each one has been certified by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] for over three million copies sold. Her highest-selling album to date is the 1976 compilation ''[[Greatest Hits (Linda Ronstadt)|Greatest Hits]]'', certified for over seven million units sold as of 2001.<ref name="RIAAsearch" /> Ronstadt became music's first major touring female artist to sell out sizeable venues; she was also the top-grossing solo female concert artist for the 1970s.<ref name="doubleplatinum" /> She remained a highly successful touring artist into the 1990s, at which time she decided to scale back to smaller venues. In the 1970s, ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'' magazine, a competitor of ''Billboard'' during that time period, named Ronstadt the "#1 Female Artist of the Decade".<ref name="tiptheirhat" /> "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]" included ''Heart Like a Wheel'' (1974) at number 164 and ''The Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt'' (2002) at number 324.<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104131142/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time|date=January 4, 2009}}. ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.</ref> The 2012 revision kept only the compilation, but raised it to the place once occupied by ''Heart Like a Wheel''.

Ronstadt's album sales have not been certified since 2001. At that time, Ronstadt's U.S. album sales were certified by the Recording Industry Association of America at over 30&nbsp;million albums sold; however, Peter Asher, her former producer and manager, placed her total U.S. album sales at over 45&nbsp;million.<ref name="Asheralbumsales" /> Likewise, her worldwide albums sales are in excess of 100&nbsp;million albums sold, according to the former president of Warner Bros. Records, Joe Smith, now a jury member of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 4, 2016 |title=Linda Ronstadt – Hit Parade Hall of Fame |url=http://hitparadehalloffame.com/linda-ronstadt/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083702/http://hitparadehalloffame.com/linda-ronstadt/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> Her RIAA certification (audits paid for by record companies or artists for promotion) tally as of 2001 totaled 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and 7 Multi-Platinum albums.<ref name="RIAAsearch" /> She was the first female in music history to score three consecutive platinum albums and ultimately racked up a total of eight consecutive platinum albums.<ref name="certifications" /> Her album ''Living in the USA'' was the first album by any recording artist in U.S. music history to ship double platinum (over two million advanced copies).<ref name="doubleplatinum" /> Her first Latin release, the all-Spanish 1987 album ''[[Canciones De Mi Padre]]'', stands as the best-selling non-English-language album in American music history. As of 2013, it had sold over 2{{frac|1|2}}&nbsp;million U.S. copies.

Ronstadt has served as producer on albums from various musicians that include her cousin, [[David Lindley (musician)|David Lindley]], Aaron Neville and singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb.<ref name="producer">{{Cite web |date=April 1995 |title=Homecoming Queen |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artmojo.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184728/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artmojo.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=May 13, 2007 |website=Mojo}}</ref> She produced ''Cristal – Glass Music Through the Ages'', an album of classical music using glass instruments with [[Dennis James (musician)|Dennis James]], where she sang on several of the arrangements.<ref name="Cristal">{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Rich |date=January 2002 |title=Dennis James interview |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/djames.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317220915/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/djames.html |archive-date=March 17, 2007 |access-date=May 8, 2007}}</ref> In 1999, Ronstadt also produced the Grammy Award-winning ''[[Trio II]]''. She has received a total of 27 Grammy Award nominations in various fields that include rock, country, pop and [[Tropical (radio format)|Tropical Latin]], and has won 11 [[Grammy Award]]s in the categories of Pop, Country, Tropical Latin, Musical Album for Children and Mexican-American. In 2016, Ronstadt was again honored by the [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]] with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

She was the first female solo artist to have two Top 5 singles simultaneously on ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot 100: "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy". By December of that year, both "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy" had climbed into ''Billboard''{{'}}s Top 5 and remained there for the month's last four weeks.<ref>McAleer, Dave (2001). ''The Book of Singles{{snds}}Top 20 Charts 1984 to Present Day''. {{ISBN|0-87930-666-1}}</ref> In 1999, Ronstadt ranked number 21 in [[VH1]]'s ''100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll''. Three years later, she ranked number 40 in [[Country Music Television|CMT's]] ''40 Greatest Women in Country Music''. In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Ronstadt at No. 47 on their list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=January 1, 2023|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/linda-ronstadt-3-1234643128/|access-date=August 31, 2023|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>