{"id":391,"date":"2016-09-04T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:49:40","slug":"barbra-streisand-earns-11th-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-encore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand Earns 11th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With &#8216;Encore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article__deck\">The icon extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1 albums in chart history.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/280667\/barbra-streisand\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbra Streisand<\/a> achieves her<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, <em>Encore:<\/em> <em>Movie Partners Sing Broadway<\/em>, enters atop the list.<\/p>\n<p>Her newest leader extends her record for the most No. 1 albums among women, and ties her with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/298448\/bruce-springsteen\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more No. 1s are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/383540\/beatles\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beatles<\/a>, with a record 19 chart-toppers, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/304305\/jay-z\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay Z<\/a>, with 13.<\/p>\n<p>Among women, Streisand outpaces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/308786\/madonna\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a>, the runner-up with eight Billboard 200 No. 1s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encore<\/em> was released on Aug. 26 through Columbia Records, and starts with 149,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music. That\u2019s a stronger-than-expected launch for the set, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/7494565\/florida-georgia-line-bound-no-1-album\">forecast by industry sources to start in the No. 2 slot<\/a>, behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/302251\/florida-georgia-line\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Georgia Line<\/a>\u2019s new <em>Dig Your Roots<\/em>. The latter album enters in the runner-up position, with 145,000 units.<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks\">multi-metric consumption<\/a>, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Sept. 17-dated chart (where <em>Encore <\/em>debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s websites on Wednesday, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S).<\/p>\n<p><em>Encore<\/em> follows Streisand\u2019s previous No. 1 albums: <em>Partners<\/em> (2014), <em>Love Is the Answer<\/em>(2009), <em>Higher Ground<\/em> (1997), <em>Back to Broadway<\/em> (1993), <em>The Broadway Album<\/em> (1986),<em>Guilty<\/em> (1980), <em>Barbra Streisand\u2019s Greatest Hits, Volume 2<\/em> (1979), <em>A Star Is Born<\/em> (1977),<em>The Way We Were <\/em>(1974), and <em>People<\/em> (1964).<\/p>\n<p>Further, Streisand surpasses her own record for the longest span between No. 1s on the Billboard 200. <em>Encore<\/em> arrives 51 years, 10 months and 17 days after her first No. 1, <em>People<\/em>, spent its initial week at No. 1 (Oct. 31, 1964). <em>People<\/em> ruled the tally for five consecutive weeks. Streisand previously set the record for the longest span between No. 1s when she topped the chart in 2014 with <em>Partners<\/em> &#8212; 49 years, 11 months and 14 days after <em>People<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One more fun fact: Streisand continues to be the only act to have achieved No. 1 albums in the last six decades &#8212; the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encore<\/em> is an all-star collaborative affair, and pairs Streisand with a range of actors to cover songs from Broadway. For example, Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley (<em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>) team up with Streisand for \u201cAt the Ballet,\u201d from <em>A Chorus Line<\/em>; Jamie Foxx guests on \u201cClimb Ev\u2019ry Mountain\u201d (from <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>) and Melissa McCarthy duets on \u201cAnything You Can Do\u201d (from <em>Annie Get Your Gun<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of <em>Encore\u2019s<\/em> first-week unit total was comprised of traditional album sales &#8212; 148,000. And of that figure, physical album sales (CDs and vinyl LPs) equated to 126,000 &#8212; the largest sales week for a physical album in 2016. Previously, Blink-182\u2019s <em>California<\/em> held the biggest physical week for an album this year, when it started with 107,000 sold.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encore\u2019s<\/em> physical sales were bolstered by the availability of a deluxe edition of the set sold through Target, which came with four bonus solo Streisand performances.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the album benefits from a promotion with Streisand\u2019s recent concert tour, where tickets purchased online were bundled with an offer for a CD copy of<em>Encore<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket\/album bundle offers where the purchase price of a ticket includes an album, only those albums that are actively redeemed by a customer count towards the charts.\u00a0(The redemption rate is usually low for these offers, but can vary depending on the type of artist and how effectively they promote the ticket\/album offer to their fans.)<\/p>\n<p>Streisand is one of many acts that have employed a ticket\/album bundle offer to sell music. Others include Kanye West (who sold <em>The Life of Pablo<\/em> with tickets to his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show), Justin Bieber, Duran Duran, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Buble, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Petty, Bon Jovi and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Streisand supported <em>Encore<\/em> by doing a number of big media appearances, including a sit-down chat and two performances on NBC\u2019s <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em> on Aug. 25. She was joined by one of her <em>Encore<\/em> partners, Alec Baldwin, on the show, and also did a humorous duet with Fallon (who impersonated Donald Trump). In addition, Streisand was interviewed on NPR\u2019s<em>Weekend Edition<\/em> (Aug. 20), <em>CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> (Aug. 28) and CNN (Aug. 29).<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-391\" data-postid=\"391\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-391 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The icon extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1 albums in chart history. Barbra Streisand achieves her\u00a011th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, enters atop the list. 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