Editing Court and Spark (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Court and Spark
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Joni Mitchell]]
| cover      = Courtandspark.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = January 17, 1974
| recorded   = 1973
| studio     = [[A&M Studios|A&M]], Hollywood<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18ENXRfNqy8C&pg=PA124 |title=Joni Mitchell |isbn=9781589792210 |last1=Bego |first1=Mark |date=May 26, 2005|publisher=Taylor Trade Publications }}</ref>
| genre      = {{flatlist|
* [[Soft rock]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macpherson |first1=Alex |title=Joni Mitchell at 70: bolt from the Blue |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/nov/07/joni-mitchell-70-birthday-blue |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Macpherson |first1=Alex |title=Joni Mitchell at 70: bolt from the Blue |work=The New York Times |date=January 14, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/arts/pop-view-three-women-their-journeys-song-too-feminine-for-rock-rock-too-macho.html |access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[Pop music|pop]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-joni-mitchell-strikes-a-delicate-balance-on-court-and-spark-194402/|title=Review: Joni Mitchell Strikes a Delicate Balance on 'Court and Spark'|first1=Jon|last1=Landau|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=February 28, 1974}}</ref>
* [[jazz pop]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r13213 |title=The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell &#124; AllMusic |first=Jason |last=Ankeny |publisher=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref><ref name="RSAlbum">{{cite book |chapter=Joni Mitchell |chapter-url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/joni-mitchell/albumguide|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/547 547] |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |ref=RSAlbum |title-link=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |archive-date=July 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731021221/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/joni-mitchell/albumguide |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[jazz-rock]]<ref name="Spectrum">{{cite web |last1=Coleman |first1=Rodger |title=Joni Mitchell: Hejira |url=https://spectrumculture.com/2012/10/29/revisit-joni-mitchell-hejira/ |website=Spectrum Culture |date=October 30, 2012 |access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>
}}
| length     = 36:58
| label      = [[Asylum Records|Asylum]]
| producer   = Joni Mitchell
| prev_title = [[For the Roses]]
| prev_year  = 1972
| next_title = [[Miles of Aisles]]
| next_year  = 1974
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Court and Spark
 | type        = Studio
 | single1     = [[Raised on Robbery]]
 | single1date = December 1973
 | single2     = [[Help Me (Joni Mitchell song)|Help Me]]
 | single2date = March 1974
 | single3     = [[Free Man in Paris]]
 | single3date = July 1974
}}
}}

'''''Court and Spark''''' is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter [[Joni Mitchell]]. Released by [[A&M Studios|A&M]] in January 1974, it infuses the [[folk rock]] style of her previous albums with [[jazz]] elements.

It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. It reached No. 2 in the [[Billboard 200|United States]] and No. 1 in [[Canadian Albums Chart|Canada]] and eventually received a [[Music recording sales certification|double platinum]] certification by the [[RIAA]], the highest of Mitchell's career.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS |title=Gold & Platinum – August&nbsp;07, 2010 |publisher=RIAA |access-date=August 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626051113/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS |archive-date=June 26, 2007}}</ref> It also reached the Top 20 in the [[UK Albums Chart|UK]] and was voted the best album of the year for 1974 in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' [[Pazz & Jop]] Critics Poll.<ref name="PazzJop">{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=January 20, 1975 |title=The 1974 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres74.php |access-date=March 21, 2005 |ref=PazzJop}}</ref> In 2020, it was ranked at number 110 in [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|''Rolling Stone'''s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-10-09|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2004, ''Court and Spark'' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#c |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref>