Success

After a year long stint on Arc Records, Anne switched to Capitol Records in 1969 to record her second album. With this her second album, This Way Is My Way, was released in the fall 1969. This album featured the single that launched her successful career, Snowbird, which became a major hit. With Snowbird being a number one in Canada led to a surprise hit on the US charts. The song led to Anne being awarded the first gold record given to a Canadian solo artist in the United States. Anne became the demand of several television appearances in Canada and the United States, along with becoming a regular on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

After the success of Snowbird, Anne had a number of subsequent singles that have charted both pop and country simultaneously. During 1970s and early 1980s, her hits included Danny's Song (1972), He Thinks I Still Care (1974), You Needed Me (1978), I Just Fall In Love Again, Shadows in the Moonlight and Broken Hearted Me (all 1979), Could I Have This Dance (1980), Blessed Are the Believers (1981), and A Little Good News (1983). Her hits started to taper off into the mid '80s, and her last top 100 charting pop hit was Now and Forever (You and Me) from 1986, it also was her last #1 on the country charts.

Even though success in the singles charts have slowed down, she signed on with a new manager, Bruce Allen, who also has managed careers for Bryan Adams and Martina McBride in 1996. She recorded her first live album in 1997 and in 1999, she released What A Wonderful World, an inspirational album. She also released Country Croonin, the follow up to her successful 1993 album, Croonin. In 2004, she released I'll Be Seeing You, which features a collection of songs from the early 20th century through to the mid 1940's. The American version, titled All of Me, features a bonus disc containing many of her hit singles.

Anne Murray was ranked #24 in Country Music Television's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.

In 2007, Anne will release a duets album, titled Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, due out in November in Canada and February in the United States. The duets album will consist of many of Anne's biggest hits re-recorded as duets. Artists such as Shania Twain, k.d. lang, Isabelle Boulay, Nelly Furtado, Carole King, C?line Dion, her daughter Dawn Langstroth and more artists will be featured. She also will duet her number one hit Snowbird with Sarah Brightman.The album was recorded in Toronto, Nashville and Los Angeles.

On October 10, 2007, Murray announced that she will embark on her final major tour. She will tour in February and March in the U.S. and April and May in Canada.