Carole King

Carole King

Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. The most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carole King has received more than 13,091,150 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Carole King is the 299th most popular singer (down from 231st in 2019), the 1,907th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,530th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Singer.