Recorded 2015–16 Artist Barbra Streisand Label Columbia Records | Length 43:41 Release date 26 August 2016 Genre Traditional pop music | |
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Released August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) Producer Walter Afanasieff, Barbra Streisand Nominations Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Similar Barbra Streisand albums, Traditional pop music albums | ||
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway is the thirty-fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand, released on August 26, 2016 by Columbia Records. Encore debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart, extending Streisand's record as the woman with the most number-one albums in chart history. The album also reached number one in Australia and the United Kingdom, where it became her third and seventh chart-topper respectively. Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway received a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards to be held in February 2017.
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Commercial performance
The first leg of Barbra: The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic concert tour preceded the album release, helping promote the duets collection. Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 149,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, of which 148,000 were pure sales. Of that figure, physical album sales (CDs and vinyl LPs) equated to 126,000, the largest sales week for a physical album in 2016. Previously, Blink-182's California held the biggest physical week for an album of 2016, with 107,000 sold. Encore extended her record for the most number one albums among women, tying her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more number ones are The Beatles (with 19) and Jay Z (with 13). Streisand has overtaken Madonna among women, the runner-up with eight Billboard 200 number ones.
Streisand also surpassed her own record for the longest span between number ones on the Billboard 200 as Encore arrived 51 years and 10 months after her first chart-topper, People, spent its initial week at number one (Oct. 31, 1964). Further, Streisand continued to be the only act to have achieved number one albums in the last six decades (1960s–2010s).
The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with combined units of 20,000 in its first week, giving Streisand her seventh number one album in the United Kingdom. With that achievement, Streisand ranks second as the female solo artist with the most number one albums in UK, behind only Madonna, who has twelve number one albums. It also peaked at number 3 in Canada, selling 10,318 copies in its first week.
The album debuted at number one spot in Australia, making it her third number one album there.
Songs
1At the Ballet (from A Chorus Line)Anne Hathaway7:29
2Loving You (from Passion)Patrick Wilson3:30
3Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (from The Roar of the Greasepaint — The Smell of the Crowd)Anthony Newley4:23