Linda Ronstadt - What's New

Today (September 6th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of What’s New, the twelfth studio album from Linda Ronstadt. For this outing, she decided to change things up a bit and go for a collection of standards sung in a torch style.

Teaming up with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra for backing, the album scored big (becoming a multi-Platinum seller and spending eight-one weeks on the US Billboard Album chart). It charted at number 31 in the UK, number 29 in Japan, number 21 in New Zealand, number 18 in Canada, number 11 in Australia, number 3 on the US Billboard Album chart and number 2 on the US Billboard Jazz chart. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female.