Barbra Streisand "Love Is The Answer" 9-29-2009!

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HITS:

IF IT'S TUESDAY, IT MUST BE SUPER: Sept. 29, this Q4’s Super Tuesday, boasts anticipated releases from Island/IDJ’s Mariah Carey (whose previous LP debuted with 463k and did 1.3m), Interscope’s AFI (183k, 995k), Hollywood’s Breaking Benjamin (125k, 1m), Columbia’s Barbra Streisand (101k, 515k) and Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic’s Paramore (42k, 1.2m), along with Madonna’s Warner Bros. swan song, a greatest hits collection (280k, 730k). This field holds great promise, starting with Carey, who has a pair of breaking singles in play.

[Wrecking Ball]

i saw her on Oprah, she sounded amazing. LOVE her

[shaq91]

Leaked!!

[Wrecking Ball]

^^ooooh thanks

[starr]

Pre-Order Update:

Amazon: #1 (Deluxe); #6 (Standard)
Barnes & Noble: #3 (Standard); #9 (Deluxe)
iTunes: #53 (Deluxe)

[areyoureadytojump]

J&R Music World in downtown NYC has this on sale for $6.99.

[areyoureadytojump]

Out today in the USA.

Target $9.98 (DE $15.98)
Best Buy $9.99 (DE $16.99)

[starr]

www.barbrastreisand.com/us/news/streisand-1

STREISAND #1

OCTOBER 7, 2009, 12:04 am

Billboard has just announced that Barbra Streisand's album Love is the Answer debuts at #1 on the US charts. More information to follow.

[starr]

www.billboard.com/#/news/barbra-streisand-surprises-with-ninth-no-1004019217.story

Barbra Streisand Surprises With Ninth No. 1 On Billboard 200

by Keith Caulfield, L.A. and Monica Herrera, N.Y. | October 07, 2009


While many were focused on a battle between Paramore's "Brand New Eyes" and Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" for the top slot on the Billboard 200 this week, Barbra Streisand trumps them both. "Love Is the Answer" earns Streisand her ninth No. 1 on the chart, opening with 180,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The debut extends Streisand's lead as the female act with the most No. 1s in the history of the Billboard 200. It's also the her best sales week and highest charting album since 1997, when "Higher Ground" started at No. 1 with 207,000.

"Answer" beats the arrivals of Paramore's "Brand New Eyes," which enters at No. 2 with 175,000, and Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," arriving at No. 3 with 168,000. First-week sales projections had estimated that Paramore would finish ahead of the two divas. As it turns out, Streisand surprised many with how well her album sold in non-traditional ways -- such as through Starbucks, QVC and via her Web site -- and that likely threw a wrench into forecasting sales.

"Brand New Eyes" gives Paramore its best sales week and highest charting album ever. The band's sophomore album, "Riot!," peaked at No. 15 in 2007. "Eyes" also starts at No. 1 on the Top Digital Albums tally with a whopping 73,000 downloads.

Carey's "Memoirs" begins its Billboard 200 life with 168,000 -- off quite a bit from the opening of her last set, 2008's "E=MC2." The latter effort bowed at No. 1 with 463,000, her biggest first-week sum ever.

Those titles are just three of the record-breaking eight entries in the top 10. Rock band Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony" arrives at No. 4 with the act's best sales week -- 134,000. It's the Hollywood Records band's first release since 2006's "Phobia" debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 125,000.

Alice in Chains visits the top 10 for the first time since 1996 as its new album, "Black Gives Way to Blue," bows at No. 5 with 126,000. The album is the band's first with new vocalist William DuVall, who replaced the band's late frontman Layne Staley in 2006.

Madonna's new greatest hits set, "Celebration," starts the party at No. 7 this week with 72,000. Rounding out the top 10 entries are Miranda Lambert's third album, "Revolution" (No. 8 with 66,000) and Selena Gomez and the Scene's "Kiss and Tell," which debuts just a little behind Lambert's sum at No. 9 with 66,000. Only two albums in this week's top 10 also appeared on last week's chart: Pearl Jam's "Backspacer" falls from No. 1 to No. 10 with 58,000 (down 69%) while Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" drops from No. 2 to No. 6 with 89,000 (down 34%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Oct. 4) totaled 6.87 million units, up 16% compared to the sum last week (5.93 million) and down 8% compared to the same sales week of 2008 (7.50 million). Year to date album sales stand at 263.4 million, down 14% compared to the same total at this point last year (305.3 million).

[PDC1987]

From carlos06 at UKMix:

BARBRA STREISAND
FIVE DECADES OF #1 ALBUMS
ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS

1964
PEOPLE

#1 for 5 weeks (October 31-December 4 1964)
It kepf-off the top spot two albums: Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" and The Beach Boys' "The Beach Boys Concert"
Hit singles: "People" (#5)
RIAA Certification: Platinum

1974
THE WAY WE WERE

#1 for 2 weeks (March 16-March 29 1974)
It kepf-off the top spot one album: Joni Mitchell's "Court And Spark"
Hit singles: "The Way We Were" (#1), "All In Love Is Fair" (#63)
RIAA Certification: 2xPlatinum

1976
A STAR IS BORN

#1 for 5 weeks (February 12-March 25 1977)
Hit singles: "Evergreen" (#1)
RIAA Certification: 4xPlatinum

1978
BARBRA STREISAND'S GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2

#1 for 3 weeks (January 6-January 26 1977)
It kepf-off the top spot one album: Steve Martin's "Wild And Crazy Guy"
Hit singles: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (Duet with Neil Diamond) (#1)
RIAA Certification: 5xPlatinum

1980
GUILTY

#1 for 3 weeks (October 25-November 7 1980 & December 6-December 12 1980)
Hit singles: "Woman In Love" (#1), "Guilty" (Duet with Barry Gibb) (#3), "What Kind Of Fool" (Duet with Barry Gibb) (#10), "Promises" (#48)
RIAA Certification: 5xPlatinum

1985
THE BROADWAY ALBUM

#1 for 4 weeks (January 15-February 14 1986)
Hit singles: "Somewhere" (#43)
RIAA Certification: 4xPlatinum

1993
BACK TO BROADWAY

#1 for 1 week (July 17-July 23 1993)
RIAA Certification: 2xPlatinum
Barbra's first #1 debut ever and her first achieved since the SoundScan Era began. It debuted at the top with 121,000 copies sold.

1997
HIGHER GROUND

#1 for 1 week (November 29-December 6 1997)
It kept-off the top spot one album: Shania Twain's "Come On Over"
RIAA Certification: 3xPlatinum
It debuted at the top with 207,000 copies sold, against the 170,000 copies sold by Shania Twain's awaited "Come On Over" album. The album included Barbra's duet with Celine Dion in "Tell Him", which was also included on Celine's album "Let's Talk About Love" which was released one week after Streisand's "Higher Ground". Surprisingly, Streisand's album debuted at #1, while Dion's album debuted at #2 the following week.

2009
LOVE IS THE ANSWER

#1 for 1 week (October 17-October 23 2009)
It kept-off the top spot one album: Paramore's "brand new eyes"
RIAA Certification: to be announced
It debuted at #1 with 180,000 copies sold.

[starr]

www.barbrastreisand.com/us/news/letter-barbra

OCTOBER 7, 2009, 12:25 pm

A Letter From Barbra

I was just told that Love Is The Answer came out at Number One, and I want to share that honor with all of you.. my fans, my friends.. who have made that possible. I want to share it as well with Diana Krall and Tommy LiPuma and everyone who worked on the album... with Jay Landers and especially my manager Marty Erlichman and my team at Columbia Records. You'd think that getting the news that you've been Number One in five consecutive decades would make you feel old, but this makes me feel young. Thank you all.

Love, Barbra

[StarSprinkles]

I love her :)

[beebee]

Perhaps just me, but Barbara looks so much like an older Jennifer Aniston lol . She could easily play her mother in a movie.

[SHOOTER]

Oct 8, 2009 8:11:11 GMT -5 beebee said:

Perhaps just me, but Barbara looks so much like an older Jennifer Aniston lol . She could easily play her mother in a movie.

I've always thought they resembled.

[dehaviland]

This will easily be another gold album for her.

[starr]

www.barbrastreisand.com/us/news/new-album-1-uk-too-note-barbra

New Album Is #1 In UK Too + A Note From Barbra.

OCTOBER 11, 2009, 1:26 pm

'Love Is The Answer', Barbra's 63rd album, has climbed to position 1 on the UK album charts, in its second week.

Here's a note from Barbra...

When the album went to #1 in the States I was surprised and thrilled. To have the same thing happen on "the other side of the pond" is just as exciting.

I've always loved spending time in the UK and it's so gratifying to learn how this album has been embraced. With all my appreciation and thanks! Barbra

[Luckie Starchild]

Wow!

[starr]

The Billboard 200 chart for issue date 11/7/09

4 COL 4 4 9 STREISAND*BARBRA LOVE IS THE ANSWER 27,533 -44 49,128 332,268

[nyjoliebebe]

hopefully this can go gold quite soon and possibly even platinum

[PDC1987]

Nov 2, 2009 10:45:25 GMT -5 nyjoliebebe said:

hopefully this can go gold quite soon and possibly even platinum

It will top 500,000 but it isn't going near 1 million.

The promo is over and there are no singles, let alone actual hits, to sustain it, and apparently WOM isn't carrying it past her usual fanbase as the week to week drops haven't minimized in to what can be called great legs.

[starr]

www.barbrastreisand.com/us/news/love-answer-certified-gold

"Love Is The Answer" Certified Gold

NOVEMBER 13, 2009, 2:44 pm

Barbra's 63rd album, "Love Is The Answer" has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), just months after debuting at #1 on the Billboard Charts. This brings the number of gold albums awarded to Barbra to 51. Additionally, Barbra is the recipient of 30 platinum albums and 13 multi-platinum albums.

[starr]

Billboard 200 chart for issue date 12/19/09

100 STREISAND*BARBRA LOVE IS THE ANSWER 11,942 -4 12,423 412,826

[starr]

Billboard 200 chart for issue date 1/2/10

92 STREISAND*BARBRA LOVE IS THE ANSWER 16,347 22 13,373 442,546

[texasdevil]

Dec 28, 2009 7:38:10 GMT -5 starr said:

Billboard 200 chart for issue date 1/2/10

92 STREISAND*BARBRA LOVE IS THE ANSWER 16,347 22 13,373 442,546

Damn! Babs is THE DIVA!