Reception
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
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Heart Like a Wheel was well regarded from its initial release. Stephen Holden in his review for Rolling Stone found her voice on the album "totally, irresistibly sexy." And later marking it as a classic, Allmusic wrote that "it stands as a landmark of '70s mainstream pop/rock."
Heart Like a Wheel spent 51 weeks on the album chart. Based on her performance on the singles and album charts, Billboard magazine named Ronstadt the top female pop artist of the year. The album was certified Gold in January 1975 by the Recording Industry Association of America and belatedly both Platinum and Double Platinum in 1991.
Ronstadt won her first of a record 11 Grammy Awards in early 1976 for Best Country Vocal Performance Female for "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)." She was also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female (losing to Janis Ian for "At Seventeen"), and the album was nominated for Album Of The Year (losing to Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years).
In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Heart Like a Wheel at #164 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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