What is the title of Aretha Franklin's best-selling live gospel album?

The title of Aretha Franklin’s best-selling live gospel album is Amazing Grace. Released in 1972, it became the best-selling album of Franklin’s entire recording career and the best-selling live gospel album of all time.

The album was recorded over two nights in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Franklin was joined by Reverend James Cleveland, who served as musical director, and the Southern California Community Choir. The church setting connected the project to Franklin’s childhood, when she sang gospel in her father’s Detroit congregation.

Amazing Grace was released as a double album by Atlantic Records on June 1, 1972. Its performances included gospel standards such as “How I Got Over,” “Precious Memories,” and the title hymn. The record sold more than two million copies in the United States and earned Franklin a 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance.

Readers sometimes confuse the album’s title with one of its songs, but Amazing Grace is both the name of the famous hymn and the official album title. The album’s live setting is also essential: it captures a church performance rather than a conventional studio session.