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Best of The Carpenters

The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister and brother Karen and Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as “The Carpenters”, the duo’s official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply “Carpenters”, without the definite article. During a period in the 1970s when louder and wilder rock was in great demand, Richard and Karen produced a distinctively soft musical style that made them among the best-selling music artists of all time. Carpenters’ melodic pop produced a record-breaking run of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, and they became leading sellers in the soft rock, easy listening and adult contemporary... Read on...

• Rank
• Artist
• Song
• Year
• Points

• 1
• The Carpenters
• We'Ve Only Just Begun
• 1970
• 344

• 2
• The Carpenters
• Superstar
• 1971
• 183

• 3
• The Carpenters
• Yesterday Once More
• 1973
• 178

• 4
• The Carpenters
• Rainy Days And Mondays
• 1971
• 172

• 5
• The Carpenters
• (They Long To Be) Close To You
• 1970
• 131

• 6
• The Carpenters
• Please Mr. Postman
• 1975
• 53

• 7
• The Carpenters
• Top Of The World
• 1973
• 30