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singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn includes 50
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s, 36
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s, two
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s, seven video albums, two
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s and 27 additional album appearances. Briefly recording with the Zero label, she signed an official recording contract with Decca Records in 1961, remaining there for over 20 years The first under the label was her debut studio album ''
Loretta Lynn Sings ''Loretta Lynn Sings'' is the debut studio album by American country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on December 9, 1963 via Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album contained songs recorded shortly after she had ...
'' (1963). It peaked at number two on the ''
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Top Country Albums Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales a ...
survey. Lynn would issue several albums a year with her growing success, including a duet album with Ernest Tubb (1965), a gospel album (1965), and a
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(1966). Her seventh studio album ''
You Ain't Woman Enough ''You Ain't Woman Enough'' is the seventh solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on September 12, 1966, by Decca Records. It was Lynn's first No. 1 album on the US ''Billboard'' Hot Country Alb ...
'' (1966) was her first release to top the country albums chart and to chart within the ''
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''. Other albums to reach number one during this period were ''
Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) ''Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)'' is the ninth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on February 6, 1967, by Decca Records. Critical reception In the issue dated Fe ...
'' (1967) and ''
Fist City "Fist City" is a country music song written and performed by Loretta Lynn, released in 1968. Inspired by her husband's dalliances with other women who pursued him while she was busy touring, Lynn wrote the song as a warning for other women to stay ...
''. ''Don't Come A'Drinkin'' would also become Lynn's first album to certify gold by the
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(RIAA). Lynn's 1971 album '' Coal Miner's Daughter'' reached number four on the country albums chart, number eighty three on the ''Billboard'' 200 and certified gold in the United States. Her third album of gospel music ''
God Bless America Again ''God Bless America Again'' is the twentieth solo studio album and third gospel album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on June 5, 1972, by Decca Records. This was Lynn's last album of religious material for ...
'' was issued in 1972 and reached number seven on the country chart. She topped the Top Country Albums list twice in 1973 with the studio albums '' Entertainer of the Year – Loretta'' and ''
Love Is the Foundation ''Love Is the Foundation'' is the twenty-third solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on August 13, 1973, by MCA Records. Critical reception In the August 25, 1973 issue, ''Billboard'' publis ...
''. Her second greatest hits album appeared in 1974 and would certify gold in the United States. After topping the country albums chart again with ''Somebody Somewhere'' (1976), Lynn released a tribute album dedicated to her friend and mentor Patsy Cline, ''I Remember Patsy'' (1977). Lynn entered the 1980s with the studio album ''Loretta'' (1980), which became her first release to chart on the Canadian ''
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'' Country Albums survey. She recorded albums with less frequency as the decade progressed. ''
Who Was That Stranger ''Who Was That Stranger'' is the thirty-eighth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on May 24, 1988, by MCA Records. This was Lynn's first album to be issued on CD at the time of its release ...
'' (1988) was Lynn's final studio album with the
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(formerly Decca Records) label, reaching number sixty three on the Top Country Albums chart. In 1993, she collaborated with
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and
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to record the studio album ''
Honky Tonk Angels ''Honky Tonk Angels'' is a collaborative studio album by Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. It was released on November 2, 1993, by Columbia Records. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 5, 1994, for sales of 500,000 c ...
''. Reaching number six on the country albums list and forty two of the ''Billboard'' 200, the album would also certify gold in the United States and Canada. Lynn then paused her music career due to her husband's failing health. After his death she returned in 2000 with her first solo studio album in twelve years, ''
Still Country ''Still Country'' is the forty-first solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn, released on September 12, 2000, by Audium Entertainment, Audium Records and Koch Records. It was Lynn's first commercial studio album ...
''. Lynn's next studio album was the critically acclaimed ''
Van Lear Rose ''Van Lear Rose'' is the forty-second solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on April 27, 2004, by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Jack White. The album was widely praised by critic ...
'' (2004). Produced by
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musician Jack White, the album reached number two on the ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart and number twenty four on the ''Billboard'' 200. Between 2006 and 2017, Lynn recorded dozens of songs with producer John Carter Cash. In 2016, she released her first studio album contained from these sessions titled '' Full Circle.'' This was followed in 2018 by ''
Wouldn't It Be Great ''Wouldn't It Be Great'' is the forty-fifth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released by Sony Legacy on September 28, 2018. The album is produced by Lynn's daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Ca ...
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Live albums


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