Barbra Streisand discography

Barbra Streisand is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and author. Her discography consists of 117 singles, 35 studio albums, and 9 compilations, 7 live albums and 15 soundtracks. She is one of the best-selling female music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States and with a total of 145 million records sold worldwide, making her the best-selling female artist among the top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America. (The only female in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock 'n' roll genre.)

Contents

• Albums
• Compilation albums
• Notes
• Number ones per country
• Singles
• Music videos
• References

In the United States, she has certified sales of more than 68.5 million albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With 52 gold and 31 platinum albums, Streisand exceeds all other female singers and all other recording artists other than Elvis Presley. She is the only female artist to have achieved fourteen multi-platinum albums, including the soundtrack for her film A Star Is Born. Her recordings have earned her eight Grammy Awards and the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award and Legend Award. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums (11). Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Billboard Hot 100 chart. She has had No. 1 albums in each of the last six decades, a record not matched by any other artist. Her most recent Columbia Records album, Partners became her tenth No. 1 album. With a total of 34 Billboard Top 10 albums to her credit since 1963, Streisand holds the records for the most Top 10 albums by a female artist and for the widest span (52 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums by a female recording artist. Her albums Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), Love Is the Answer (2009), Partners (2014 ) and Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway (2016) all entered the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 1.

She has achieved five No. 1 singles in the US, the most for a female singer in the 1970s, and sang lead on a No. 1 hit single at least once every year from 1977 to 1980 in the US, a period of 4 consecutive years and the first female performer to achieve it. Streisand also was one of the elite acts with top 10s in four different decades. In 1974, "The Way We Were" became the first original single by a female artist to achieve the No. 1 song of the year in US. "Woman in Love" from Guilty is the best-selling singles by a female performer in France.

In 1964, Streisand became the first and only female artist to place three albums in the top 10 on Billboard's annual albums chart. Five Barbra Streisand albums appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart on October 31, 1964, Streisand held the record for the female with the Most albums in the Top 200 simultaneously for nearly half a century, until Whitney Houston had ten albums place in the Billboard 200 chart at the same time after fans learned of her death. In 1982, "Memories" became the UK's best-selling album of the year, the first album by a female performer to achieve it. During March 5-19, 1977, Streisand became the first female singer to have a No. 1 album (A Star Is Born) and single (Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)) in the same week in US. Streisand's biggest-selling album, Guilty (1980), was a collaboration with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and sold between 15-20 million copies worldwide as well as spawning several hit singles. In the UK, she became the first female singer to have a No. 1 album (Guilty) and single ("Woman in Love") in the same week. 25 years later, Streisand and Gibb teamed up again to create Guilty Pleasures, known as Guilty Too in some countries.