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{{Short description|American singer-songwriter (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name              = Janis Ian
| image             = Janis Ian 2.jpg
| caption           = Ian performing in concert in [[Dublin, Ireland]], 1981
| birth_name        = Janis Eddy Fink
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1951|4|7}}
| birth_place       = [[Farmingdale, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}}
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Folk music|Folk]]|[[soft rock]]}}
| occupation        = Singer-songwriter
| years_active      = 1965–present
| spouse            = {{marriage|Tino Sargo|1978|1983|end=divorced}}<br/>{{marriage|Patricia Snyder|2003}}
| label             = {{hlist|Rude Girl|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Verve Records|Verve]]|[[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]]}}
| website           = {{URL|janisian.com}}
}}
'''Janis Ian''' (born '''Janis Eddy Fink'''; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "[[Society's Child|Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)]]"<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Song that Made Janis Ian the Most Notorious Folk Singer in America {{!}} WNYC {{!}} New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/janis-ian-folk-singer/|access-date=2021-12-05|website=WNYC|language=en|archive-date=December 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205102423/https://www.wnyc.org/story/janis-ian-folk-singer/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the 1975 Top Ten single "[[At Seventeen]]", from her seventh studio album ''[[Between the Lines (Janis Ian album)|Between the Lines]]'', which in September 1975 reached No. 1 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart.

Born in [[Farmingdale, New Jersey]], Ian entered the American [[folk music]] scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two [[Grammy Awards]], the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for [[Best Spoken Word Album]], for her autobiography, ''Society's Child'', with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.

Ian is a columnist and [[science fiction author]].<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=http://www.janisian.com/press/JanisIan2006Bio.pdf|title=Janis Ian: A Life in Song|work=Janis Ian Website|year=2006|access-date=2007-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070507222117/http://janisian.com/press/JanisIan2006Bio.pdf|archive-date=May 7, 2007}}</ref>

==Early life==
Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ian|first=Janis|title=Janis Ian Through the Years|url=https://www.janisian.com/downloads/janisiantimeline.pdf|url-status=live|website=Janis Ian| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220130215803/https://www.janisian.com/downloads/janisiantimeline.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-30}}</ref> Ian was raised on a farm and attended [[East Orange Campus High School|East Orange High School]] in [[East Orange, New Jersey]]<ref>Nash, Margo. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DC1631F935A25750C0A9659C8B63 "JERSEY FOOTLIGHTS"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225814/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/nyregion/jersey-footlights.html |date=July 8, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 16, 2003: "Yet when Janis Ian went to East Orange High School, she was kicked out of the chorus." Retrieved December 19, 2007.</ref> and the [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts|New York City High School of Music & Art]] in [[Manhattan]]. Both sets of grandparents (from [[Poland]], [[Ukraine]], and [[Tashkent|Tashkent, Uzbekistan]]) lived in the New York-New Jersey area, having emigrated via [[England]] around 1918.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&dq=%22janis+ian%22+fink+parents+born&pg=PA137|isbn = 9781584653035|title = Stars of David: Rock'n'roll's Jewish Stories|year = 2003|last1 = Benarde|first1 = Scott R.|access-date = March 19, 2023|archive-date = July 8, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225837/https://books.google.com/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&dq=%22janis+ian%22+fink+parents+born&pg=PA137|url-status = live}}</ref> Her parents, Victor, a music teacher, and Pearl, a college fundraiser, were [[Jews|Jewish]]-born liberal atheists who ran several summer camps in [[Upstate New York|upstate]] New York.<ref>{{Cite news|title='At 60,' Janis Ian is no longer lonely|url=https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/music/at-60-janis-ian-is-no-longer-lonely|access-date=2020-12-09|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post &#124; Jpost.com|language=en-US|archive-date=March 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310205238/http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/At-60-Janis-Ian-is-no-longer-lonely|url-status=live}}</ref>

As a child, Ian admired the work of folk musicians including [[Joan Baez]] and [[Odetta]]. Starting with piano lessons at the age of two (at her own insistence), Ian, by the time she entered her teens, was playing the organ, harmonica, French horn, and guitar.<ref name="Life Magazine 53">''Life Magazine'', October 27, 1967, p. 53.</ref> At the age of 12, she wrote her first song, "Hair of Spun Gold", which was subsequently published in the folk publication ''[[Broadside (magazine)|Broadside]]'' and was later recorded for her eponymous debut album. In 1964, she legally changed her name to Janis Ian, taking her brother Eric's middle name as her new surname.<ref name="musicguide">{{cite book|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|title=All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues|publisher=Backbeat Books|year=2003|isbn=0-87930-736-6|editor=Bogdanov, Vladimir|editor2=Woodstra, Chris|editor3=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas}}</ref>

==Music career==
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At the age of 14, Ian wrote and recorded her first hit single, "[[Society's Child|Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)]]", about an [[Interracial marriage|interracial romance]] forbidden by a girl's mother and frowned upon by her peers and teachers. Produced by [[Shadow Morton|George "Shadow" Morton]] and released three times from 1965 to 1967, "Society's Child" became a national hit upon its third release after [[Leonard Bernstein]] featured it in a late-April 1967 CBS TV special titled ''[[Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution]]''.<ref name="musicguide"/>

The song's theme of interracial relationships was considered taboo by some radio stations, who withdrew or banned it from their playlists accordingly. In her 2008 autobiography ''Society's Child'', Ian recalls receiving hate mail and [[death threat]]s as a response to the song and mentions that a radio station in Atlanta that played it was burned down.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} In July 1967, "Society's Child" reached No. 14 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. The single sold 600,000 copies and the album sold 350,000 copies.<ref name="Life Magazine 53" />

At the age of 16, Ian met comedian [[Bill Cosby]] backstage at a [[Smothers Brothers]] show where she was promoting "Society's Child". Since she was underage, she was accompanied by a chaperone while touring. After her set, Ian had been sleeping with her head on the lap of her chaperone (an older female family friend). According to Ian in a 2015 interview, she was told by her then manager that Cosby had interpreted their interaction as "[[lesbian]]" and as a result "had made it his business" to warn other television shows that Ian wasn't "suitable family entertainment" and "shouldn't be on television" because of her sexuality, thus attempting to blacklist her.<ref name=cosby>{{cite news |last1=Silman |first1=Anna |title=Janis Ian says Bill Cosby spread lesbian rumors about her as a teen, tried to blacklist her from TV |url=http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/janis_ian_says_bill_cosby_spread_lesbian_rumors_about_her_as_a_teen_tried_to_blacklist_her_from_tv/ |access-date=July 29, 2015 |work=Salon |date=July 29, 2015 |archive-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731000028/http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/janis_ian_says_bill_cosby_spread_lesbian_rumors_about_her_as_a_teen_tried_to_blacklist_her_from_tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=cosbyagain>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Nate |title=Janis Ian Shares Her Own Creepy Bill Cosby Story |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/07/janis-ian-shares-her-own-creepy-cosby-story.html |access-date=July 29, 2015 |work=Vulture |date=July 29, 2015 |archive-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731091059/http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/janis-ian-shares-her-own-creepy-cosby-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=cosbycosby>{{cite magazine |last1=Goodman |first1=Jessica |title=Janis Ian recalls personal story about Bill Cosby following New York cover feature |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/29/janis-ian-bill-cosby |access-date= July 29, 2015 |issue=July 29, 2015 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> Although Ian would later come out, she states that at the time of the encounter with Cosby she had only been kissed once, by a boy she had a crush on, in broad daylight at summer camp.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/29/folk-singer-janis-ian-bill-cosby-tried-to-ban-me-from-tv-because-he-thought-i-was-gay/ |title=Veteran singer-songwriter Janis Ian has claimed that Bill Cosby tried to get her banned from TV – because he thought she was a lesbian |date=July 29, 2015 |work=Pink News |access-date=May 2, 2020 |last=Duffy |first=Nick |archive-date=February 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215041539/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/29/folk-singer-janis-ian-bill-cosby-tried-to-ban-me-from-tv-because-he-thought-i-was-gay/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On her website Ian relates that although "Society's Child" was originally intended for [[Atlantic Records]] and the label paid for her recording session, Atlantic subsequently returned the [[Master recording|master]] to her and quietly refused to release it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/janis_ian/ |title=Janis Ian interview |date=March 14, 2003 |work=Songfacts |access-date=September 27, 2012 |last=Wiser |first=Carl |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001055149/http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/janis_ian/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ian relates that years later, Atlantic's president at the time, [[Jerry Wexler]], publicly apologized to her for this. The single and Ian's 1967 debut album (which reached No. 29 on the charts) were finally released on [[Verve Forecast]]. In 2001, "Society's Child" was inducted into the [[List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Q-Z|Grammy Hall of Fame]], which honors recordings considered timeless and important to [[music history]]. Her first four albums were released on a double CD entitled ''Society's Child: The Verve Recordings'' in 1995.

[[File:Janis Ian 1.jpg|thumb|left|Ian performing at the [[National Stadium (Ireland)|National Stadium]] in [[Dublin|Dublin, Ireland]], May 1981]]

"Society's Child" stigmatized Ian as a [[one-hit wonder]] until her most successful US single, "[[At Seventeen]]", was released in 1975. "At Seventeen" is a bittersweet commentary on adolescent cruelty, the illusion of popularity and teenage angst, from the perspective of a narrator looking back on her earlier experience. The song was a major hit as it charted at number 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, hit number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and won the 1976 [[Grammy Award]] for [[Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female]], beating out [[Linda Ronstadt]], [[Olivia Newton-John]], [[Judy Collins]] and [[Helen Reddy]]. Ian appeared as the second musical guest on the series premiere of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on October 11, 1975, performing "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter".<ref name="SNL">{{Cite book |last1=Cader |first1=Michael |last2=Baskin |first2=Edie |title=Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=1994 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/saturdaynightliv00cade/page/124 124–127] |isbn=0-395-70895-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/saturdaynightliv00cade/page/124 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75a.phtml |title=SNL Transcripts |work=Snltranscripts.jt.org |access-date=February 28, 2016 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093819/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75a.phtml |url-status=live }}</ref> The album ''[[Between the Lines (Janis Ian album)|Between the Lines]]'' was also a smash and reached number one on ''Billboard''′s album chart. The album would be certified [[Platinum record|platinum]] for sales of over one million copies sold in the US. Another measure of her success is anecdotal: on [[Valentine's Day]] 1977, Ian received 461 valentine cards, having indicated in the lyrics to "At Seventeen" that she never received one as a teenager.<ref name=dafydd>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Rock Stars |first=Dafydd |last=Rees |author2=Luke Crampton |year=1996 |publisher=Dk Pub |isbn=0-7894-1263-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/dkencyclopediaof00dafy}}</ref>

"Fly Too High" (1979), produced by [[disco]] producer [[Giorgio Moroder]], was Ian's contribution to the soundtrack of the [[Jodie Foster]] film ''[[Foxes (film)|Foxes]]'' and was also featured on Ian's 1979 album ''Night Rains''. It also became another international hit, reaching number one in many countries, including South Africa, Belgium, Australia, Israel and the Netherlands, and going gold or platinum in those countries and others. Another country where Ian has achieved a high level of popularity is Japan: Ian had two Top 10 singles on the Japanese [[Oricon]] charts, "Love Is Blind" in 1976 and "You Are Love" in 1980. Ian's 1976 album ''[[Aftertones]]'' also topped Oricon's album chart in October 1976.<ref name="officialwebsite">{{cite web|url=http://www.janisian.com/|title=Janis Ian|publisher=janisian.com|access-date=September 23, 2002|archive-date=April 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410001827/http://www.janisian.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> "You Are Love (Toujours Gai Mon Cher)" is the theme song of [[Kinji Fukasaku]]'s 1980 movie ''[[Virus (1980 film)|Virus]]''. Ian cut several other singles specifically for the Japanese market, including 1998's "The Last Great Place". In the US, Ian did not chart in the Top 40 on the pop charts after "At Seventeen", though she had several songs reach the [[Adult Contemporary]] singles chart through 1980 (all failing to make the Top 20).

Ian started Rude Girl Records, Inc., and its publishing arm, Rude Girl Publishing, on January 2, 1992. Since then, RGR has steadily grown, with its ownership of more than twenty-five Janis Ian albums and DVDs overseas, as well as hundreds of unreleased recordings and videos, including unreleased songs, concerts, demos, and rehearsal tapes. The Rude Girl label oversees the production of Ian's newer work, and in the case of older work, its re-mastering and the re-creation of the original artwork.<ref name="officialwebsite_RGR">{{cite web |url=http://www.janisian.com/rudegirlrecords.php |title=Rude Girl Records, Inc. |publisher=janisian.com |access-date=September 8, 2016 |archive-date=September 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917093542/http://www.janisian.com/rudegirlrecords.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From 1982–92, Ian continued to write songs, often in collaboration with then songwriting partner [[Kye Fleming]], some of which have been covered by [[Amy Grant]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Marti Jones]] and other artists. She released ''[[Breaking Silence]]'' in 1993 and came out as a lesbian.<ref name="keehnen">{{cite web |url=http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Keehnen/Ian.html |title=At 42: Lesbian Legend Janis Ian Comes Out |first=Owen |last=Keehnen |date=March 24, 2005 |publisher=Queer Culture Center |access-date=November 15, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051104135414/http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Keehnen/Ian.html|archive-date = 2005-11-04|url-status = dead}}</ref> Other artists have recorded Ian's compositions, including [[Roberta Flack]], who had a hit in 1973 with Ian's song "Jesse", which peaked at #30 on the [[Hot 100]] on October 27, 1973.<ref name="keehnen" /> Ian's own version is included on her 1974 album ''Stars'' (the title song of which has also been oft-covered, including versions by [[Joan Baez]], [[Shirley Bassey]], [[Cher]], [[Nina Simone]] and [[Barbara Cook]]). "At Seventeen" is Ian's most covered composition with 50 versions by artists including [[Celine Dion]], [[Miki Howard]] and [[Julia Fordham]]. Ian's song "In The Winter" has also been covered many times by singers including [[Dusty Springfield]] and [[Sheena Easton]]. [[Richard Barone]] recorded Ian's song "Sweet Misery" on his album ''Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s'' in 2016. She continues to tour worldwide, though she stated that her 2022 North-American tour, which was cancelled when a laryngitis diagnosis became severe, would be her "last full tour".<ref name="officialwebsite_tour">{{cite web |url=http://www.janisian.com/ontour.php |title=Janis Ian: On Tour |publisher=janisian.com |access-date=January 20, 2014 |archive-date=January 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106004749/http://www.janisian.com/ontour.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> In August 2018 Ian performed at the [[United Kingdom|UK]]'s [[Cambridge Folk Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/06/cambridge-folk-festival-review-cherry-hinton-hall-rhiannon-giddens-patti-smith-eliza-carthy |title=Cambridge folk festival review – verve and energy in a female-focused weekend |first=Colin |last=Irwin |date=August 6, 2018 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815005952/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/06/cambridge-folk-festival-review-cherry-hinton-hall-rhiannon-giddens-patti-smith-eliza-carthy |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/what-s-on/events-and-festivals/cambridge-folk-festival-2018-a-resounding-and-countrified-success-1-5641082 |title=Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 a resounding – and countrified – success |first=Adrian Peel & Mike |last=Scialom |date=August 7, 2018 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816025504/http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/what-s-on/events-and-festivals/cambridge-folk-festival-2018-a-resounding-and-countrified-success-1-5641082 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Criticism of the RIAA==
Ian is an outspoken critic of the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA),<ref name=debacle>{{cite web|url=http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html|title=The Internet Debacle – An Alternative View|first=Janis|last=Ian|work=Performing Songwriter|date=May 2002|access-date=June 9, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509181400/http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html|archive-date=May 9, 2007}}</ref> which she sees as acting against the interests of musicians and consumers. Thus, she has released several of her songs for free download from her website.<ref>[http://www.janisian.com/mp3_downloads.html Free Music Downloads] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728220607/http://www.janisian.com/mp3_downloads.html |date=July 28, 2014 }} on Janis Ian's official website</ref> "I've been surprised at how few people are willing to get annoyed with me over it," she laughs. "There was a little backlash here and there. I was scheduled to appear on a panel somewhere and somebody from a record company said if I was there they would boycott it. But that's been pretty much it. In general, the entire reaction has been favorable. I hear from a lot of people in my industry who don't want to be quoted, but say 'yeah, we're aware of this and we'd like to see a change too.'"<ref name=towerofbabel>{{cite web|url=http://towerofbabel.com/sections/music/troubadours/janisian/|title=Janis Ian: Doing It From The Heart|first=Jan|last=Vanderhorst|work=Babel|date=October 2002|access-date=June 9, 2007|archive-date=June 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623110709/http://towerofbabel.com/sections/music/troubadours/janisian/|url-status=live}}</ref> Along with science fiction authors [[Eric Flint]] and [[Cory Doctorow]], she has argued that their experience provides conclusive evidence that free downloads dramatically increased hard-copy sales, contrary to the claims of RIAA and [[NARAS]].<ref>[http://www.baen.com/library/palaver11.htm Prime Palaver #11] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202111200/http://www.baen.com/library/palaver11.htm |date=February 2, 2007 }} – letter by Janis Ian to [[Baen Free Library#Letters to and from Baen's first librarian|Baen librarian]], Eric Flint, September 16, 2002</ref>

==Writing and acting==
[[File:Janis Ian.jpg|thumb|upright|Ian at a [[Borders (retailer)|Borders]] store book-signing, May 2005]]

Ian writes science fiction. A long-time reader of the genre, she became involved in [[science fiction fandom]] in 2001 by attending the [[59th World Science Fiction Convention|Millennium Philcon]] in [[Philadelphia]]. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and with [[Mike Resnick]], she co-edited ''Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian'', an anthology published in 2003. She continues to occasionally go to [[science fiction conventions]].<ref>{{cite web|author=John Teehan |url=http://www.sff.net/people/jdteehan/report.html |title=Janis at Worldcon 2001 |publisher=Sff.net |access-date=December 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004174619/http://www.sff.net/people/jdteehan/report.html |archive-date=October 4, 2013}}</ref> Ian performed at the 2009 Nebula Award Conference in [[Los Angeles]], where she sang "Welcome Home," a version of her song "At Seventeen" with the lyrics changed to talk about the acceptance she found by reading science fiction.<ref>{{Citation | last = Ian | first = Janis | title = Welcome Home | newspaper = Argentus | pages = 20 | year = 2009 | url = http://efanzines.com/Argentus/Ag09.pdf | access-date = 2022-03-10 | archive-date = February 17, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220217071300/http://efanzines.com/Argentus/Ag09.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

Ian was a regular columnist for the [[LGBT]] news magazine ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]''<ref name="oasis">[http://www.oasismag.com/Issues/9603/oasis-coverstory.html "Revenge is sweet for Janis Ian"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021140005/http://www.oasismag.com/Issues/9603/oasis-coverstory.html |date=October 21, 2006 }} by Jeff Walsh, March 1, 1996</ref> and contributed to ''Performing Songwriter'' magazine from 1993<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Interview with Janis Ian |url=https://performingsongwriter.com/back-issues/1993-back-issues/issue-1-julyaugust-1993/ |magazine=Performing Songwriter |location=United States |date=August 1993 |access-date=14 January 2022|volume=3|issue=1}}</ref> to 2006.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Interview with Janis Ian |url=https://performingsongwriter.com/back-issues/2006-back-issues/issue-92-marchapril-2006/ |magazine=Performing Songwriter |location=United States |date=April 2006 |access-date=14 January 2022|issue=92}}</ref> On July 24, 2008, Ian released autobiography ''Society's Child'' (published by [[Penguin Tarcher]]), which was positively received. An accompanying double CD, ''The Autobiography Collection'', has been released with many of Ian's best loved songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.janisian.com/albums/bestof.php|title=Janis Ian - American songwriter, singer, musician, author and multiple Grammy-winning writer of "At 17," "Jesse" and "Society's Child": Listening Room: Best Of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection|last=Ian|first=Janis|website=www.janisian.com|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-date=1 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235221/http://www.janisian.com/albums/bestof.php}}</ref>

Ian took acting lessons and script interpretation classes from [[Stella Adler]] in the early 1980s to help her feel more comfortable on stage, and she and Adler remained close friends until Adler's death in 1992. In December 2015, Ian appeared in the series finale of [[HBO]] comedy series ''[[Getting On (U.S. TV series)|Getting On]]'' playing a patient who refused to stop singing.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lambe|first1=Stacy|title='Getting On' Creators on Taking Big Swings With the Series Finale|url=http://www.etonline.com/tv/178023_getting_on_creators_on_taking_big_swings_with_the_season_finale/|access-date=February 21, 2016|publisher=ET Online|date=December 14, 2015|archive-date=February 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218205220/http://www.etonline.com/tv/178023_getting_on_creators_on_taking_big_swings_with_the_season_finale/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title="Getting On" from the HBO series "Getting On"|url=http://store.janisianstore.com/mp3gettingon.html|website=Janis Ian Shopping Mall|access-date= February 21, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302093247/http://store.janisianstore.com/mp3gettingon.html|archive-date=March 2, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Ian's mother, Pearl Yadoff Fink, was diagnosed with [[multiple sclerosis]] in 1975. Because of this, Ian and her brother persuaded their mother to pursue her lifelong dream of going to college. Fink eventually enrolled in [[Goddard College]]'s adult education program and graduated with a master's degree. After Fink's death in 1997, Ian decided to auction off memorabilia to raise money to endow a scholarship at Goddard specifically for older [[continuing education]] students, which became the Pearl Foundation, a [[501(c)(3)]] public charity. At the end of each year, 90% or more of funds raised from sale of merchandise, donations from fans and contributions from Ian herself are disbursed to various educational institutions to fund scholarships.<ref name="Ian 2008">Ian, Janis. 2008. ''Society's Child: My Autobiography.'' New York City: Tarcher. {{ISBN|978-1-58542-675-1}}.</ref> By 2020, it had endowed more than $1,250,000 in scholarship funds at four schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepearlfoundation.org/|title=Pearl Foundation|access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202021528/http://www.thepearlfoundation.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ian married [[Cinema of Portugal|Portuguese filmmaker]] Tino Sargo in 1978 and the two divorced in 1983. In her autobiography, Ian accused Sargo of physical and emotional abuse.<ref name="Ian 2008" /><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2011-09-09-ct-ott-0909-janis-ian-20110909-story.html|title = Janis Ian still makes people uneasy|website = [[Chicago Tribune]]|date = September 9, 2011|access-date = July 18, 2021|archive-date = July 8, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225830/https://www.chicagotribune.com/|url-status = live}}</ref> After moving to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], she met Patricia Snyder in 1989. Ian [[came out]] as a lesbian in 1993 with the worldwide release of her album ''[[Breaking Silence]]''.<ref name="keehnen" /> Snyder and Ian married in [[Toronto]] on August 27, 2003.<ref name="glbtq">{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/ian_j.html|title=Ian profile|publisher=Glbtq.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018224416/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/ian_j.html|archive-date=October 18, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> Ian has a stepdaughter and two grandchildren with Snyder.<ref name="Sohn_nytimes">{{cite news |last=Sohn |first=Amy |date=2015-09-10 |title=Janis Ian and Patricia Snyder's Relationship Builds Upon Decades of Social Upheaval | work= New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/fashion/weddings/janis-ian-and-patricia-snyders-relationship-builds-upon-decades-of-social-upheaval.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914041404/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/fashion/weddings/janis-ian-and-patricia-snyders-relationship-builds-upon-decades-of-social-upheaval.html?_r=0|archive-date=2015-09-14 | url-status=live | access-date=2022-08-09 }}</ref>

==Discography==
===Studio albums===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Year
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Title
!align="left" colspan="6"|Chart positions
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Label
|-
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Billboard 200|US]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]}}<br /><ref name="aus">{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|edition=illustrated|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|page=145|author-link=David Kent (historian)}}</ref>
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Oricon|JPN]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Dutch Album Top 100|NLD]]}}<br /><ref name="Albumdossier">van Slooten, Johan; ''Albumdossier 1969-2002'' GottmerBecht, 2002.</ref>
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]}}<br /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18125/janis-ian/|title=Janis Ian|publisher=Official Charts|date=October 8, 2021|access-date=October 8, 2021|archive-date=October 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008092902/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18125/janis-ian/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|1967
|''[[Janis Ian (1967 album)|Janis Ian]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 29
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;rowspan=" 4" |[[Verve Forecast Records|Verve Forecast]]
|-
|1967
|''[[For All the Seasons of Your Mind]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 179
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
| 1968
| ''[[The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink]]'' 
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
| 1969
| ''[[Who Really Cares (Janis Ian album)|Who Really Cares]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Present Company]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Stars (Janis Ian album)|Stars]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 63
| style="text-align:center;"| 82
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" | [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
|-
|1975
| ''[[Between the Lines (Janis Ian album)|Between the Lines]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 1
| style="text-align:center;"| 16
| style="text-align:center;"| 4<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4033a.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4033a.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - September 27, 1975}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 22
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|1976
|''[[Aftertones]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| style="text-align:center;" | 45
| style="text-align:center;" | 81<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4111b.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4111b.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - April 7, 1976}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" | 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 23
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|1977
|''[[Miracle Row]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | 45
| style="text-align:center;" | 58
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 26
| style="text-align:center;" | 20
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|1978
| ''[[Janis Ian (1978 album)|Janis Ian]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | 120
| style="text-align:center;" | 97
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|1979
|''[[Night Rains]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|1981
|''[[Restless Eyes]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | 156
| style="text-align:center;" | 57
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 15
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|1985
|''[[Uncle Wonderful]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 93
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | Interfusion
|-
|1992
|''[[Breaking Silence]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | Morgan Creek
|-
|1995
|''[[Revenge (Janis Ian album)|Revenge]]''{{efn|At this time, Ian made a parody version of ''Revenge'' under the name ''Simon Renshaw Presents: Janis Ian Shares Your Pain'' as a private joke and prank on her manager, Simon Renshaw. The album was later{{when|We don't know when. There is an unreliable source that says 2001. But possibly December 2009, or some other time|date=December 2023}} released publicly on [[iTunes]]; it's never been released on CD.{{fact|date=December 2023}}}}
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | 81
| style="text-align:center;" | Beacon
|-
|1997
|''[[Hunger (Janis Ian album)|Hunger]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Windham Hill/Rude Girl
|-
|2000
|''[[God and the FBI]]''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2001
|''Lost Cuts 1''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | Rude Girl
|-
|2004
|''Billie's Bones''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2006
|''Folk Is the New Black''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2014
|''Strictly Solo''{{efn|Available only at live shows.}}
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2020
|''Hope''
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2022
|''[[The Light at the End of the Line]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Light At The End Of The Line – Janis Ian®|url=https://janisian.com/music/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-line/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-06|website=The Official Website of Janis Ian|language=en-US | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220121172406/https://janisian.com/music/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-line/ | archive-date=2022-01-21}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|}

===Live albums===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! align="center" |Year
! align="left" |Title
! align="left" |Label
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |1978
|''[[Remember...]]''
|orig. JVC Japan, now Rude Girl
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |1996
|''Live On the Test 1976''
|BBC World Wide
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |1999
|''The Bottom Line Encore Collection''
|The Bottom Line Record Company
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |2003
|''Live: Working Without a Net''
|Rude Girl/Oh Boy
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |2023
|''Live at The Calderone Theater 1975''
|Rude Girl
|}

===Compilation albums===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" align="left" |Year
! rowspan="2" align="left" |Title
! colspan="2" align="left" |Chart positions
! rowspan="2" align="left" |Label
|-
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]}}<br /><ref name="aus"/>
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Dutch Album Top 100|NLD]]}}<br /><ref name="Albumdossier"/>
|-
|1970
|''Golden Archive Series: Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |[[MGM Records]]
|-
|1977
|''Best of Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |69
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Interfusion
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1980
|''The Best of Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[CBS Records (2006)|CBS]] Benelux
|-
|''My Favourites''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |5
|-
|1990
|''At Seventeen''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |CBS
|-
|1992
|''Up 'Til Now - The Best of Janis Ian''{{efn|A limited-edition two-CD combining ''Up 'Til Now - The Best of Janis Ian'' with ''Breaking Silence'' was issued by Sony in 1993.}}
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |18
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Sony Music|Sony]]
|-
|1995
|''Society's Child: The Verve Recordings''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Polydor Records|Polydor]]/[[Universal Music Group|UMG]]
|-
|1998
|''Unreleased 1: Mary's Eyes''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |Rude Girl
|-
|2000
|''Unreleased 2: Take No Prisoners''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
|-
|2001
|''Unreleased 3: Society's Child''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
|-
|2002
|''The Best of Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Festival Australia
|-
|2004
|''Souvenirs: Best of 1972–1981''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Rude Girl
|-
|2007
|''Ultimate Best''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |JVC Victory
|-
|2008
|''Best of Janis Ian: Autobiography Collection''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Rude Girl
|-
|2009
|''The Essential Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Columbia/Legacy/Rude Girl
|-
|2011
|''Playlist: The Very Best of Janis Ian''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
|-
|2017
|''The Essential Janis Ian 2.0''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Sony (worldwide)
|-
|2023
|''Worktapes & Demos, Vol. 1''
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |—
| style="text-align:center;" |Rude Girl
|}

===Singles===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Year
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Titles (A-side, B-side)<br /><small>Both sides from same album except where indicated</small>
! colspan="9" align="left" |Chart positions
!align="left" rowspan="2"|Album
|-
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Billboard Hot 100|US ''Billboard'']]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Cashbox (magazine)|US ''Cash Box'']]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Adult Contemporary (chart)|US A/C]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]}}<br /><ref name=aus/>
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Springbok Radio|SA]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]}}
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Dutch Top 40|NLD]]}}<br /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.top40.nl/top40-artiesten/Janis-Ian|title=Janis Ian – Top 40-hits|publisher=top40.nl|access-date=October 8, 2021|archive-date=October 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008122653/https://www.top40.nl/top40-artiesten/Janis-Ian|url-status=live}}</ref>
! style="text-align:center; width:40px;"|{{small|[[Oricon|JPN]]}}
|-
|rowspan=3|1967
|align="left"|"[[Society's Child|Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)]]"<br /><small>b/w "Letter to Jon" (Non-album track)</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| 14
| style="text-align:center;"| 13
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;" | 13<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.10081.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.10081.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - July 22, 1967}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left" rowspan="2"|''Janis Ian''<small> (Verve Forecast)</small>
|-
|align="left"|"Younger Generation Blues"<br /><small>b/w "I'll Give You a Stone If You'll Throw It" </small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|align="left"|"Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind"<br /><small>b/w "Sunflakes Fall, Snowrays Call"</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| 109
| style="text-align:center;"| 82
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;" | 76<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.100145.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.100145.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - December 30, 1967}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left" rowspan="2"|''...For All The Seasons Of Your Mind''
|-
|rowspan=3|1968
|align="left"|"A Song for All the Seasons of Your Mind"<br /><small>b/w "Lonely One" </small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|align="left"|"Friends Again"<br /><small>b/w "Lady of the Night" (Non-album track)</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left"|''The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink''
|-
|align="left"|"Janey's Blues"<br /><small>b/w "Everybody Knows" (from ''The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink'')</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left"|''Janis Ian'' <small>(Verve Forecast)</small>
|-
|| 1969
|align="left"|"Calling Your Name"<br /><small>b/w "Month of May" </small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left"|''Who Really Cares''
|-
|| 1971
|align="left"|"He's a Rainbow"<br /><small>b/w "Here in Spain" (US) or "See My Grammy Ride" (UK)</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| align="left"|''Present Company''
|-
|| 1974
|align="left"|"The Man You Are in Me"<br /><small>b/w "[[Jesse (Janis Ian song)|Jesse]]"</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| 104
| style="text-align:center;"| 105
| style="text-align:center;"| 33
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|align="left"|"When the Party's Over"<br /><small>b/w "Bright Lights and Promises"</small>
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|align="left"|"[[At Seventeen]]"<br /><small>b/w "Stars" (from ''Stars'')</small>
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|align="left"|"In the Winter"<br /><small>b/w "Thankyous" (from ''Stars'')</small>
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|rowspan=5|1976
|align="left"|"Boy I Really Tied One On"<br /><small>b/w "Aftertones"</small>
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|align="left"|"I Would Like to Dance"<br /><small>b/w "Goodbye To Morning"</small>
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|align="left"|"Roses"<br/><small>b/w "Love Is Blind"</small>
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|align="left"|"Love Is Blind"<br/><small>b/w "Miracle Row" (from ''Miracle Row'')</small>
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|align="left"|"Between the Lines"<br /><small>b/w "Sweet Sympathy" (from ''Stars'')</small>
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|rowspan=3|1977
|align="left"|"Miracle Row"<br /><small>b/w "Take to the Sky" </small>
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|align="left"|"I Want to Make You Love Me"<br /><small>b/w "Candlelight" </small>
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|align="left"|"Will You Dance?"<br /><small>b/w "I Want to Make You Love Me"</small>
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|rowspan="2"| 1978
|align="left"|"That Grand Illusion"<br /><small>b/w "Hopper Painting"</small>
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|align="left"|"The Bridge"<br /><small>b/w "Do You Wanna Dance"</small>
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|rowspan=2|1979
|align="left"|"Here Comes the Night"<br /><small>b/w "Tonight Will Last Forever" (from ''Janis Ian'' Columbia album)</small>
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|align="left"|"[[Fly Too High (Janis Ian song)|Fly Too High]]"<br /><small>b/w "Night Rains"</small>
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|rowspan=2|1980
|align="left"|"You Are Love"<br /><small>b/w "All to You"</small>
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| align="left"|''"Virus" soundtrack''<small> (Japan release only)</small>
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|align="left"|"The Other Side of the Sun"<br /><small>b/w "Memories"</small>
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|rowspan=2|1981
|align="left"|"Under the Covers"<br /><small>b/w "Sugar Mountain"</small>
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|align="left"|"Restless Eyes"<br /><small>b/w "I Remember Yesterday" </small>
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|rowspan=2|1985
|"Body Slave (Re-Mix)" <br /><small>b/w "Mechanical Telephone" (Australia)</small>
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| align="left" rowspan="2"|''Uncle Wonderful''
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|"Heart Skip Too Many Beats" <br /><small>b/w "Sniper of the Heart" (Australia/New Zealand)</small>
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|1989
|"Heaven Knows" <br /><small>b/w "Heaven Knows (Non Vocal Version)" (Japan)</small>
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|rowspan=2|1992
|"Days Like These" <br /><small>(promo)</small>
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| ''[[Falling from Grace (film)#Soundtrack|Falling from Grace (Soundtrack)]]''
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|"Walking On Sacred Ground" <br /><small>b/w "Cosmopolitan Girl (Live)" & "When He Was Here (Live)" (Europe)</small>
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|rowspan=2|1993
|"Tattoo" <br /><small>b/w "Cosmopolitan Girl (Live)" & "When He Was Here (Live)" (Europe)</small>
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|"Guess You Had To Be There" <br /><small>b/w "Breaking Silence" (Europe)</small>
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|rowspan=2|1995
|"Tenderness" <br /><small>b/w "Take No Prisoners" & "When Angels Cry" (Europe)</small>
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| align="left" rowspan="2"| ''Revenge''
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|"Take Me Walking in the Rain" <br /><small>b/w "When the Silence Fall"</small>
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|1997
|"Honor Them All" <br /><small>(promo)</small>
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|1998
|"Getting Over You" <br /><small>(promo)</small>
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|2000
|"Jolene"
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|rowspan=3|2006
|"The Great Divide"
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| align="left" rowspan="2"| ''Folk Is the New Black''
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|"Standing In the Shadows of Love" <br /><small>b/w "All Those Promises" & "Crocodile Song"</small>
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|"Married In London"
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|rowspan=2|2010
|"Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)"
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|align="left"|"Every Woman's Song" <span style="font-size:85%;">(with [[Angela Aki]])</span><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/AngelaAki/info/350743 | title=ジャニス・イアンとの夢のコラボ曲「Every Woman's Song」が 着うた(R)、着うたフル(R)で好評配信中！ |trans-title=Janis Ian dream collabo song, "Every Woman's Song" out as a ringtone and a cellphone download! | language=ja |publisher=Sony Music Japan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531133644/http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/AngelaAki/info/350743 |archive-date=May 31, 2014 |date=September 1, 2010 | access-date=June 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | title=Japan Billboard Hot 100 2010/09/20| url=http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2010&month=09&day=20 | magazine=Billboard |language=ja | date=September 20, 2009 | access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref>
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|2012
|"The Tiny Mouse"
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|2013
|"Architect of All Creation"
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| ''[[Miriam Therese Winter|The Singer & the Song]]'' audiobook
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|rowspan=3|2014
|"I'm Still Standing"
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|"Society's Child (Solo Acoustic)"
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|"At Seventeen (Solo Acoustic)"
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|2015
|"Getting On"
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| ''[[Getting On (American TV series)|Getting On]]''
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|rowspan=3|2017
|"1776"
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|"Perfect Little Girl"
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| align="left" rowspan="3"|''[[The Light at the End of the Line]]''
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|"Swannanoa"
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|2019
|"Resist"
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|rowspan=2|2020
|"Amazing Grace"
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|"Better Times Will Come" with [[Neil Finn]]
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|"I Am the One"
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|"A Thousand Years"
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|2024
|"When He Was Here"
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|2024
|"Swannanoa"
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|''[[The Light at the End of the Line]]''
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|2025
|"One in a Million" (Live, with Joan Baez)
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===Video albums===
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| style="text-align:center;" |1994
|''Live at the Forum'' <small>(Japan)</small>
|Laserdisc
|Midi Inc.
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| style="text-align:center;" |2004
|''Live at Club Cafe''
|DVD
|Rude Girl
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| style="text-align:center;" |2004
|''Janismania''
|DVD
|Rude Girl
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| style="text-align:center;" |2007
|''Through the Years: A Retrospective''
|DVD
|Rude Girl
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| style="text-align:center;" |2007
|'''79: Live In Japan & Australia''
|DVD
|Rude Girl
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| style="text-align:center;" |2008
|''Live From Grand Center''<ref>{{Citation|title=Janis Ian Live From Grand Center| date=June 24, 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW87XbfVlck|language=en|access-date=2021-12-05|archive-date=December 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205201742/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW87XbfVlck&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
|DVD
|Rude Girl
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===Film===
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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 2025
! scope="row" | ''[[Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (film)|Janis Ian: Breaking Silence]]''
| Herself
| Documentary 
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/janis-ian-breaking-silence-documentary-interview-1235938176/|title=Janis Ian Opens Up About Losing Her Voice, Industry Frustrations & Agreeing to Make a Documentary|website=billboard.com|access-date=2025-04-08}}</ref> 
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==Bibliography==
* ''Who Really Cares: Poems From Childhood and Early Youth'', 1969 (2002 re-release), {{ISBN|978-1-930709-37-9}}
* ''Songbook'', 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-7692-0148-1}}
* ''Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian'', 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-7564-0177-1}} (ed., with [[Mike Resnick]])
* "Prayerville", 2003, in Mike Resnick and [[Martin H. Greenberg]] (eds), ''Women Writing Science Fiction As Men'', {{ISBN|978-0-7564-0148-1}}
* ''Society's Child: My Autobiography'', 2008, Tarcher/Penguin; {{ISBN|1-58542-675-X}}; {{ISBN|978-1-58542-675-1}}

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Janis Ian}}
* {{official website|http://janisian.com/}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=1083| name=Janis Ian}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Janis Ian |sopt=t}}
* {{LCAuth|n82139099|Janis Ian|55|}}
* {{ISFDB name|11036}}
*[http://www.songwriter.co.uk/page703.html Interview with Janis Ian in International Songwriters Association's "Songwriter Magazine"]

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