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We are used to being reminded how Britney Spears was still a child when Madonna was already topping the charts. In August 1965, when the Queen of Pop was going to turn 7 years old, Cher was leading the US Hot 100 ahead of Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones and until being topped by the Beatles' Yesterday. I Got You Babe, her duet with former husband Sonny Bono was the third longest #1 of the year precisely behind those two monstrous hits.
Since that early breakthrough, Cher faced an extensive run of flops and successes. She was never the biggest pop star on Earth a la Madonna or Celine Dion, but she undoubtedly accumulated record sales all along a never ending road. Impressively, she managed various stunning come backs, most notably the 1998 smash Believe. With 6 studio albums with Sonny, 25 solo LPs, various Soundtracks, countless compilations and tons of singles, her catalog is much deeper than just Believe though.
How many records has the godmother of all divas sold? How is her catalog performing nowadays? How does she stand in comparison to the other household female singers names?
Original Albums Sales (Sonny & Cher)
NB: N/A means no specific number is available. Sales from the country are still accounted for in the Worldwide estimate by using figure patterns of both the artist and the country market. Countries not displayed in this fixed panel are also factored in.
Look At Us (1965)
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- America
- US - 1,100,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 20,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 75,000
- UK - 50,000
- World - 1,300,000
The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher (1966)
- America
- US - 175,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 40,000
- UK - 25,000
- World - 250,000
In Case You're in Love (1967)
- America
- US - 200,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 250,000
Good Times (1967)
- America
- US - 100,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 125,000
All I Ever Need Is You (1972)
- America
- US - 550,000
- Canada - 60,000
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 700,000
Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973)
- America
- US - 50,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 75,000
Original Albums Sales (Cher)
All I Really Want to Do (1965)
- America
- US - 300,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 100,000
- UK - 75,000
- World - 450,000
The Sonny Side of Cher (1966)
- America
- US - 200,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 80,000
- UK - 60,000
- World - 325,000
Cher (1966)
- America
- US - 175,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 250,000
With Love, Cher (1967)
- America
- US - 200,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 250,000
Backstage (1968)
- America
- US - 50,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 25,000
- UK - 15,000
- World - 100,000
3614 Jackson Highway (1969)
- America
- US - 60,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 20,000
- UK - 10,000
- World - 100,000
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971)
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- America
- US - 850,000
- Canada - 75,000
- Oceania
- Australia - 5,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 40,000
- UK - 20,000
- World - 1,000,000
Foxy Lady (1972)
- America
- US - 300,000
- Canada - 25,000
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 375,000
Bittersweet White Light (1973)
- America
- US - 75,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 100,000
Half-Breed (1973)
- America
- US - 450,000
- Canada - 60,000
- Oceania
- Australia - 15,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 600,000
Dark Lady (1974)
- America
- US - 200,000
- Canada - 30,000
- Oceania
- Australia - 5,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 300,000
Stars (1975)
- America
- US - 100,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 2,500
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 125,000
I'd Rather Believe in You (1976)
- America
- US - 50,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 75,000
Cherished (1977)
- America
- US - 30,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 50,000
Two The Hard Way (1977)
- America
- US - 30,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 50,000
Take Me Home (1979)
- America
- US - 450,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 550,000
Prisoner (1979)
- America
- US - 60,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 75,000
I Paralyze (1982)
- America
- US - 30,000
- Canada - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - N/A
- UK - N/A
- World - 50,000
Cher (1987)
- America
- US - 1,300,000
- Canada - 175,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 100,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 380,000
- UK - 200,000
- France - N/A
- Germany - N/A
- Italy - N/A
- Spain - N/A
- Sweden - 20,000
- Netherland - N/A
- Switzerland - N/A
- Austria - N/A
- Finland - N/A
- World - 2,050,000
Heart of Stone (1989)
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- America
- US - 3,400,000
- Canada - 525,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 315,000
- New Zealand - 25,000
- Europe - 1,450,000
- UK - 750,000
- France - N/A
- Germany - 250,000
- Italy - 40,000
- Spain - N/A
- Sweden - 70,000
- Netherland - 15,000
- Switzerland - N/A
- Austria - 30,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 6,000,000
Love Hurts (1991)
- America
- US - 800,000
- Canada - 120,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 85,000
- New Zealand - 20,000
- Europe - 2,230,000
- UK - 975,000
- France - N/A
- Germany - 550,000
- Italy - N/A
- Spain - N/A
- Sweden - 60,000
- Netherland - 30,000
- Switzerland - 80,000
- Austria - 75,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 3,500,000
It's a Man's World (1995)
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- America
- US - 250,000
- Canada - 40,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 480,000
- UK - 225,000
- France - N/A
- Germany - 80,000
- Italy - N/A
- Spain - N/A
- Sweden - 15,000
- Netherland - 5,000
- Switzerland - N/A
- Austria - 15,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 850,000
Believe (1998)
- America
- US - 4,700,000
- Canada - 750,000
- Argentina - 100,000
- Brazil - 225,000
- Mexico - 250,000
- Asia - 465,000
- Japan - 200,000
- Oceania
- Australia - 165,000
- New Zealand - 40,000
- Europe - 4,840,000
- UK - 775,000
- France - 375,000
- Germany - 1,225,000
- Italy - 375,000
- Spain - 450,000
- Sweden - 255,000
- Netherland - 120,000
- Switzerland - 140,000
- Austria - 125,000
- Finland - 35,000
- World - 11,800,000
Living Proof (2001)
- America
- US - 600,000
- Canada - 75,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - N/A
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 350,000
- UK - 70,000
- France - 25,000
- Germany - 100,000
- Italy - 15,000
- Spain - 30,000
- Sweden - 10,000
- Netherland - 5,000
- Switzerland - 15,000
- Austria - 10,000
- Finland - 2,000
- World - 1,125,000
Burlesque (2010)
- America
- US – 800,000
- Canada – 80,000
- Argentina – N/A
- Brazil – 5,000
- Mexico – 20,000
- Asia – 180,000
- Japan – 120,000
- Oceania
- Australia – 70,000
- New Zealand – 10,000
- Europe – 190,000
- UK – 65,000
- France – 5,000
- Germany – 60,000
- Italy – N/A
- Spain – 3,000
- Sweden – N/A
- Netherlands – 2,000
- Switzerland – 15,000
- Austria – 10,000
- Finland – N/A
- World – 1,375,000
Closer to the Truth (2013)
- America
- US - 380,000
- Canada - 50,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - 10,000
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 15,000
- New Zealand - N/A
- Europe - 110,000
- UK - 60,000
- France - 5,000
- Germany - 25,000
- Italy - 3,000
- Spain - 1,000
- Sweden - 1,000
- Netherland - 1,000
- Switzerland - 2,000
- Austria - N/A
- Finland - N/A
- World - 600,000
Original Album Sales - Comments
The debut album of Sonny & Cher, Look At Us, was strongly successful in the US. It peaked at #2 for 8 weeks, all of them behind Help! by the Beatles. The market was dreadful for LPs then though. The absence of catalog sales for this album limits its to date tally which is on 1,3 million only.
That's the main issue of all the pre-1987 albums. Some had success upon release including All I Really Want to Do, Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (titled Cher), Half-Breed and Take Me Home, but they were all deleted a few years later. They were released in a few countries only as most markets were dominated by singles instead. Bad market conditions coupled with no catalog sales mean that even her hit albums moved around half a million units only. In fact, her first 18 solo albums add for less than 5 million sales!
This situation changed with Cher, the 1987 album. It sold 2 million copies and opened the door to larger promotional campaigns. Heart of Stone sold 6 million copies, confirming the trend. Both albums saw most of their sales come from North America. Her Love Hurts smashed various countries but flopped in the US, although 3,5 million is still great. It's A Man's World bombed, only to see Believe smash ever harder. Then, Living Proof was a disastrous follow up. This sequence resumes perfectly the career of Cher, made up of huge and unexpected smashes followed by hard core flops. Her ups and downs are unmatched.
In total, she sold nearly 35 million studio albums, including 27,3 million from the last eight sets.
Sonny & Cher Albums
1965 Look At Us - 1,300,000
1966 The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher - 250,000
1967 In Case You're in Love - 250,000
1967 Good Times - 125,000
1972 All I Ever Need Is You - 700,000
1973 Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs - 75,000
Cher solo Albums
1965 All I Really Want to Do - 450,000
1966 The Sonny Side of Cher - 325,000
1966 Cher - 250,000
1967 With Love, Cher - 250,000
1968 Backstage - 100,000
1969 3614 Jackson Highway - 100,000
1971 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - 1,000,000
1972 Foxy Lady - 375,000
1973 Bittersweet White Light - 100,000
1973 Half-Breed - 600,000
1974 Dark Lady - 300,000
1975 Stars - 125,000
1976 I'd Rather Believe in You - 75,000
1977 Cherished - 50,000
1977 Two The Hard Way - 50,000
1979 Take Me Home - 550,000
1979 Prisoner - 75,000
1982 I Paralyze - 50,000
1987 Cher - 2,050,000
1989 Heart of Stone - 6,000,000
1991 Love Hurts - 3,500,000
1995 It's a Man's World - 850,000
1998 Believe - 11,800,000
2001 Living Proof - 1,125,000
2010 Burlesque - 1,375,000
2013 Closer to the Truth - 600,000
Physical Singles Sales
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
Sonny & Cher
A big transatlantic hit, I Got You Babe sold close to 3 million units, a total rarely seen in this format. This smash was never reproduced by the duet, but they still registered various hits including the million sellers Little Man and The Beat Goes On.
This adds for more than 9 million sales in less than 2 years and more is still to come.
In 1971, the hit Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves has Cher back out under the spotlight. This gave the opportunity to relaunch successfully the career of the duet with back to back million sellers All I Ever Need Is You and A Cowboys Work Is Never Done.
After a few years only, the duet amassed 14,5 million singles sold. Obviously, Cher sold a lot of tunes too which we are going to list right now.
Look At Us (1965) - 1,071,000 equivalent albums
I Got You Babe - 2,870,000
Sing C'est La Vie - 40,000
Just You - 430,000
The Letter - 230,000
The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher (1966) - 744,000 equivalent albums
(Sonny Solo) The Revolution Kind - 230,000
(Sonny Solo) Laugh At Me - 830,000
But You're Mine - 550,000
What Now My Love - 570,000
Have I Stayed Too Long - 300,000
In Case You're in Love (1967) - 927,000 equivalent albums
Little Man - 1,270,000
Living For You - 170,000
The Beat Goes On - 1,360,000
Good Combination - 290,000
Good Times (1967) - 105,000 equivalent albums
It's The Little Things - 350,000
All I Ever Need Is You (1972) - 729,000 equivalent albums
All I Ever Need Is You - 1,290,000
A Cowboys Work Is Never Done - 1,140,000
Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973) - 42,000 equivalent albums
Mama Was A Rock And Roll Singer, Papa Used To Write All Her Songs Part 1 - 140,000
Orphan Album - 735,000 equivalent albums
Baby Don't Go - 1,300,000
Love Is Strange - 90,000
A Beautiful Story - 290,000
Plasting Man - 190,000
When You Say Love - 580,000
Cher - The 60s
The hit or miss logic of Cher's career was already obvious during the 60s. Among the first category was All I Really Want To Do, Bang Bang and You Better Sit Down Baby while the second is home of Mama, Hey Joe and more.
Nevertheless, she still sold 4,3 million physical singles as a solo singer during the 60s.
All I Really Want to Do (1965) - 198,000 equivalent albums
All I Really Want To Do - 660,000
The Sonny Side of Cher (1966) - 600,000 equivalent albums
Where Do You Go - 430,000
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - 1,570,000
Cher (1966) - 153,000 equivalent albums
Alfie - 350,000
I Feel Something In The Air - 40,000
Sunny - 120,000
With Love, Cher (1967) - 318,000 equivalent albums
Behind The Door - 120,000
Mama - 30,000
Hey Joe - 100,000
You Better Sit Down Baby - 810,000
Backstage (1968) - 12,000 equivalent albums
All singles - 40,000
3614 Jackson Highway (1969) - 9,000 equivalent albums
All singles - 30,000
Cher - The early 70s
The early 70s were a very sweet period for Cher. Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves sold well over 2 million, Half-Breed came close and Dark Lady sold 1,5 million. All those eras generated as many equivalent albums sales from singles than from the albums themselves.
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971) - 990,000 equivalent albums
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - 2,370,000
The Way of Love - 930,000
Foxy Lady (1972) - 276,000 equivalent albums
Living In A House Divided - 690,000
Don't Hide Your Love - 230,000
Bittersweet White Light (1973) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Half-Breed (1973) - 555,000 equivalent albums
Half-Breed - 1,850,000
Dark Lady (1974) - 654,000 equivalent albums
Dark Lady - 1,510,000
Train Of Thought - 350,000
I Saw A Man And He Danced With His Wife - 290,000
Rescue Me - 30,000
Cher - The late 70s
This era is typical of Cher. As well known as she has always been, she has still met times during which she wasn't selling a thing. Unlike most big pop stars, she never managed to build a fanbase and encountered dry spells.
Stars (1975) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Cherished (1977) - 51,000 equivalent albums
Pirate - 140,000
War Paint And Soft Feathers - 30,000
Two The Hard Way (1977) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Cher - The 80s
Take Me Home was a decent come back for Cher, after which she quickly disappeared again with disco becoming old fashioned some months later. I Found Someone provided her a fifth life - not her last one though.
Take Me Home (1979) - 315,000 equivalent albums
Take Me Home - 810,000
Wasn't It Good - 230,000
It's Too Late To Love Me Now - 10,000
Prisoner (1979) - 51,000 equivalent albums
Hell On Wheels - 170,000
I Paralyze (1982) - 6,000 equivalent albums
All singles - 20,000
Cher (1987) - 492,000 equivalent albums
I Found Someone - 980,000
We All Sleep Alone - 510,000
Skin Deep - 130,000
Cher - The early 90s
Almost 25 years into her career, Cher achived some consistency in the end of the 80s. If I Could Turn Back Time was a huge hit for her while following singles sold less but still respectable amounts.
Heart of Stone (1989) - 1,233,000 equivalent albums
After All - 930,000
If I Could Turn Back Time - 1,780,000
Just Like Jesse James - 1,010,000
Heart Of Stone - 380,000
You Wouldn't Know Love - 10,000
Love Hurts (1991) - 306,000 equivalent albums
Love And Understanding - 580,000
Save Up All Your Tears - 390,000
Love Hurts - 20,000
Could've Been You - 10,000
When Lovers Become Strangers - 20,000
It's A Man's World (1995) - 201,000 equivalent albums
Walking In Memphis - 180,000
One By One- 440,000
Not Enough Love In The World - 30,000
Remaining Singles - 20,000
Cher - 1998 onwards and orphan songs
At 52, Cher registered one of the biggest selling single of all-time. So far, out of all artists studied, the rare cases of singles selling over 7 million were Soundtrack hits like I Will Always Love You, Stayin' Alive and You Are The One That I Want or hits from the Beatles outside of an album era. It is the first proper single coming from an artist's studio album selling that many units.
The Shoop Shoop Song and Strong Enough sold over one million copies a piece as well. Although it feels like Cher went through various chaotic periods, she sold over 32 million physical singles as a solo artist. Merging the discography with Sonny, the legendary diva sold 46 million singles.
Believe (1998) - 2,550,000 equivalent albums
Believe - 7,020,000
Strong Enough - 1,170,000
All Or Nothing - 170,000
Dov'e L'amore - 140,000
Living Proof (2001) - 111,000 equivalent albums
The Music's No Good Without You - 200,000
Alive Again - 20,000
Song For The Lonely - 150,000
Burlesque (2010) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Closer To The Truth (2013) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Orphan Album - 780,000 equivalent album
Dead Ringer for Love - 410,000
The Shoop Shoop Song - 1,710,000
Oh No Not My Baby - 50,000
Whenever You're Near - 10,000
Many Rivers To Cross - 20,000
Love Can Build A Bridge - 360,000
Piu Che Puoi - 40,000
Digital Singles Sales
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.
Sonny & Cher
During their initial run Sonny & Cher recorded 5 Top 10 hits over a 7 year period. If they weren't one-hit wonders in the first place, I Got You Babe truly is the only relevant tune remaining in their catalog. With 1 million downloads, it represents the immense majority of their total sales nowadays.
Look At Us (1965) - 150,000 equivalent albums
I Got You Babe - 1,000,000
The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher (1966) - 6,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 40,000
In Case You're in Love (1967) - 30,000 equivalent albums
The Beat Goes On - 100,000
All tracks - 100,000
Good Times (1967) - 6,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 40,000
All I Ever Need Is You (1972) - 9,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 60,000
Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973) - 0 equivalent albums
All tracks - 0
Orphan Album - 6,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 40,000
Cher - The 60s
Cher's singles from the 60s are not stronger than her songs with her former husband. It seems the interest generated by big hits back in the day like Bang Bang is now completely gone.
All I Really Want to Do (1965) - 15,000 equivalent albums
All Tracks - 100,000
The Sonny Side of Cher (1966) - 22,500 equivalent albums
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - 125,000
All Tracks - 25,000
Cher (1966) - 6,000 equivalent albums
All Tracks - 40,000
With Love, Cher (1967) - 1,500 equivalent albums
All Tracks - 10,000
Backstage (1968) - 1,500 equivalent albums
All singles - 10,000
3614 Jackson Highway (1969) - 3,000 equivalent albums
All singles - 20,000
Cher - The early 70s
Among dreadful results, Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves' sales of 700,000 units via downloads are refreshing.
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971) - 111,000 equivalent albums
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - 700,000
Remaining tracks - 40,000
Foxy Lady (1972) - 4,500 equivalent albums
All tracks - 30,000
Bittersweet White Light (1973) - 1,500 equivalent album
All tracks - 10,000
Half-Breed (1973) - 15,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 100,000
Dark Lady (1974) - 24,000 equivalent albums
Dark Lady - 150,000
Remaining tracks - 10,000
Cher - The late 70s
The hole between Dark Lady and Take Me Home was already a disaster in the first place, by now this discography can be described as non-existent. Those LPs are long deleted in physical format, but they also don't exist on the Cher's list of albums at both iTunes and Spotify. It feels like nothing ever happened.
Stars (1975) - 4,500 equivalent album
All tracks - 30,000
I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Cherished (1977) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Two The Hard Way (1977) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Cher - The 80s
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. At 300,000 units sold in downloads, I Found Someone is a blockbuster among songs listed on this page. It is far from impressive for a single that is one of the largest hits of one of the biggest divas ever though.
Take Me Home (1979) - 7,500 equivalent albums
All tracks - 50,000
Prisoner (1979) - 1,500 equivalent albums
All tracks - 10,000
I Paralyze (1982) - 0 equivalent album
No single sold
Cher (1987) - 64,500 equivalent albums
I Found Someone - 300,000
We All Sleep Alone - 100,000
Skin Deep - 30,000
Cher - The 90s
Although Believe took all of the limelight, the era of Heart of Stone was a big return to form for Cher. It was a great seller upon release but its songs' popularity remain fairly solid. If I Could Turn Back Time sold over a million, her second biggest hit in digital format.
Heart of Stone (1989) - 337,500 equivalent albums
After All - 550,000
If I Could Turn Back Time - 1,100,000
Just Like Jesse James - 400,000
Heart Of Stone - 150,000
Remaining tracks - 50,000
Love Hurts (1991) - 48,000 equivalent albums
Love And Understanding - 150,000
Save Up All Your Tears - 150,000
Remaining tracks - 20,000
It's A Man's World (1995) - 52,500 equivalent albums
Walking In Memphis - 250,000
Remaining tracks - 100,000
1998 onwards and orphan songs
Naturally, Believe is Cher's biggest hit in download sales. The gap isn't that big over I Got You Babe and If I Could Turn Back Time though. In fact, all three songs sold similar amounts in the US. The 1998 powerhouse edges ahead thanks to a wider impact globally.
In total, Cher, including her catalog with Sonny, sold 12 million copies in downloads and ringtones, an awful result in line with her low presence from 2005 to 2013.
Believe (1998) - 292,500 equivalent albums
Believe - 1,500,000
Strong Enough - 300,000
Remaining tracks - 150,000
Living Proof (2001) - 15,000 equivalent albums
All tracks - 100,000
Burlesque (2010) - 360,000 equivalent album
Express – 400,000
Show Me How You Burlesque – 800,000
Remaining tracks – 1,200,000
Closer To The Truth (2013) - 60,000 equivalent album
All tracks - 400,000
Orphan Album - 99,000 equivalent album
Dead Ringer for Love - 60,000
The Shoop Shoop Song - 500,000
All tracks - 100,000
Cher's streaming sales
Streaming is made up of two families - audio and video. Our CSPC methodology now includes both to better reflect the real popularity of each track. The main source of data for each avenue is respectively Spotify and YouTube. As detailed in the Fixing Log article, Spotify represents 132 million of the 212 million users of streaming platforms, while YouTube is pretty much the only video platform generating some revenue for the industry. Below is the equivalence set on the aforementioned article:
Audio Stream - 1500 plays equal 1 album unit
Video Stream - 11,750 views equal 1 album unit
Equivalent Albums Sales = 212/132 * Spotify streams / 1500 + YouTube views / 11750
Sonny & Cher - Streaming Part 1
During the last year, we met various artists with not-so-good streaming figures. We rarely saw abysmal numbers like those of Cher though. I Got You Babe has an OK total of 20 million streams, not so good for a former US #1 smash, but still acceptable. The remaining songs aren't even worth commenting on. The song 500 Miles falls under 10,000 streams at Spotify.
Obviously, the count of equivalent album sales doesn't increase much. With artists like Drake, we start thinking that streams are easy, almost unfair, bringing tons of free sales. Nothing is free though. Big streams highlight a large popularity. You may be named Cher, if the public isn't interested anymore in some part of your catalog, Spotify and YouTube won't bring you anything.
Sonny & Cher - Streaming Part 2
A mere 2,000 equivalent album sales after combining those three records. I'll pass on my turn for comments.
Sonny & Cher - Streaming Part 3
Here is the list of orphan songs of Sonny & Cher with more unnoticeable songs. Dead catalog.
Cher - Streaming Part 1
Once again, we can't really say that Cher is performing better than in her duet days. All those songs have lackluster totals with only Bang Bang reaching a million streams on Spotify and YouTube.
Cher - Streaming Part 2
Is there anybody out there?
Cher - Streaming Part 3
Streams follow the same pattern met with downloads. Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, although rather average, seems to be a big hit in comparison to the other tracks issued during the first part of the 70s by Cher.
Cher - Streaming Part 4
Half-Breed was a#1 hit in the US for 2 weeks until being dethroned by the Rolling Stones' classic Angie. Most #1 hits from 1973 have from 20 to 150 plus million streams on Spotify. Most, but not all, as Half-Breed is struggling at 1,6 million only. Dark Lady is just as chaotic.
Cher - Streaming Part 5
As mentioned in the download sales category, albums from the mid-70s are completely non-existent nowadays. The only way to listen to them is by searching for their songs on YouTube, but obviously nobody is seriously doing that.
Take Me Home was a Top 10 hit in 1979 but falls under 1 million Spotify streams.
Cher - Streaming Part 6
More of the same. The album Cher is slightly more consistent than the previous LPs although it remains at at very low figures.
Cher - Streaming Part 7
At last! The album Heart Of Stone is the first one with respectable streams. The song If I Could Turn Back Time is up to 32 million streams on Spotify and nearly as many on YouTube. Three more songs are over 1 million while the entire track list is over 100,000 streams. Nothing record breaking, but at least that's quite decent. The album has a total of 57,000 equivalent album sales from streams.
Both Love Hurts and It's a Man's World have occasional moderate hits but no consistency.
Cher - Streaming Part 8
At 68 million streams on Spotify, the song Believe is bigger than all albums by Cher (including Sonny) from 1965 to 1987 combined. Strong Enough is a decent runner up at 14 million. In total, the album is up to 108,000 equivalent album sales.
Living Proof was an absolute bomb as shown by its less than 5,000 equivalent album sales.
Cher - Streaming Part 9
The soundtrack Burlesque is clearly a one of a kind among the discography of Cher. She sings only two tracks but shares the credits with Christina Aguilera. All its songs are as big as the biggest hits of Cher, which clearly highlights an issue on her personal streams.
Released when streams where already increasing strongly, Closer to the Truth hasn't attracted the masses with under 15 million streams on both Spotify and YouTube.
Cher - Streaming Part 10
Among the orphan songs of Cher, the only one with decent streams is Dead Ringer for Love, the duet with Meat Loaf.
Cher's full length related record sales
It sounds fairly logical to add together weighted sales of one era - studio album, physical singles, downloads, streams - to get the full picture of an album's popularity. For older releases though, they also generate sales of various live, music videos and compilation albums.
All those packaging-only records do not create value, they exploit the value originating from the parent studio album of each of its tracks instead. Inevitably, when such compilations are issued, this downgrades catalog sales of the original LP. Thus, to perfectly gauge the worth of these releases, we need to re-assign sales proportionally to its contribution of all the compilations which feature its songs. The following table explains this method.
Remaining Long Format - Part 1 - Compilations
How to understand this table? If you check for example the Greatest Hits of Cher compilation line (the last one) those figures mean it sold 700,000 units worldwide. The second statistics column means all versions of all the songs included on this package add for 14,000 equivalent album sales from streams of all types.
The second part on the right of the table shows how many equivalent streams are coming from each original album, plus the share it represents on the overall package. Thus, streaming figures tell us songs from Dark Lady are responsible for 26% of the Greatest Hits track list attractiveness. This means it generated 182,000 of its 700,000 album sales and so forth for the other records.
Released at random moments and quickly replaced, those compilations haven't amassed many sales individually. Their overall total is decent though. The main provider of sales of Sonny & Cher compilations is clearly Look At Us, which is logical since its I Got You Babe is the only song remembered by the duet.
Early compilations of Cher have their sales spread more equally among her 1965-1974 studio albums.
Remaining Long Format - Part 2 - Compilations
Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 quickly became an essential of Cher. Her first career-spanning compilation which includes her late 80s hits, the best of sold fairly well in Europe and Oceania. This package wasn't available in the US that continued to buy during the 90s its main attractiveness provider, Heart of Stone.
Remaining Long Format - Part 3 - Compilations
With no surprise, Believe is the main strength behind all sales of the most recent compilations. Heart of Stone remains strong too. Some best of albums continue to be themed around earlier material like Millennium Collection and Icon.
Remaining Long Format - Part 4 - Live Albums & Folders
As it is impossible to track sales of very minor and local compilations that came out over the years, two folders for Remaining Compilations are added. The most representative track lists of both acts Sonny & Cher and Cher were used.
Remaining Long Format - Part 5 - Music Videos
Ironically, while Cher has some tragic sales in various formats, she has music video sales much higher than most of the divas. The Farewell Tour sold a strong 800,000 units. Including songs from most of her albums, we notice how unbalanced her discography is with Believe and Heart of Stone accounting for 69% of its strength.
Full Length related records Sales - Summary
Here is the most underestimated indicator of an album's success - the amount of compilation sales of all kinds it generated. Due to the dependency of sales of the original studio albums on these releases, they are a key piece of the jigsaw.
The triptych I Got You Babe / If I Could Turn Back Time / Believe easily dominate the discography of Cher. Those three iconic songs generated some 4,5 million equivalent album sales for their respective parent albums. Apart from those records, Love Hurts is the only one that is responsible for more than a million sales of compilations of every kind.
BONUS: Compilation Albums Sales
Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 (1992)
- America
- US - Not Released (If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits 1,200,000)
- Canada - Not Released (If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits 180,000)
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 100,000
- New Zealand - 60,000
- Europe - 2,490,000
- UK - 1,325,000
- France - N/A
- Germany - 375,000
- Italy - N/A
- Spain - 125,000
- Sweden - 100,000
- Netherlands - 50,000
- Switzerland - 40,000
- Austria - 40,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 2,950,000
The Greatest Hits (1999)
- America
- US - Not Released
- Canada - Not Released
- Argentina - 40,000
- Brazil - 75,000
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 195,000
- New Zealand - 30,000
- Europe - 2,780,000
- UK - 700,000
- France - 180,000
- Germany - 550,000
- Italy - 175,000
- Spain - 160,000
- Sweden - 185,000
- Netherlands - 125,000
- Switzerland - 80,000
- Austria - 80,000
- Finland - 40,000
- World - 3,400,000
The Very Best of Cher (2003)
- America
- US - 3,100,000
- Canada - 230,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - 40,000
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 150,000
- New Zealand - 20,000
- Europe - 680,000
- UK - 300,000
- France - 40,000
- Germany - 75,000
- Italy - 15,000
- Spain - N/A
- Sweden - 85,000
- Netherlands - 15,000
- Switzerland - 20,000
- Austria - 10,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 4,400,000
BONUS: Total Album (all types) Sales per Country
- America
- US - 26,485,000
- Canada - 2,705,000
- Argentina - N/A
- Brazil - N/A
- Mexico - N/A
- Asia - N/A
- Japan - N/A
- Oceania
- Australia - 1,400,000
- New Zealand - 220,000
- Europe - 17,500,000
- UK - 5,900,000
- France - 900,000
- Germany - 3,400,000
- Italy - 900,000
- Spain - 1,000,000
- Sweden - 1,000,000
- Netherlands - 400,000
- Switzerland - 500,000
- Austria - 450,000
- Finland - N/A
- World - 53,550,000
Please note that some of the countries totals may be slightly incomplete when the figure is N/A for minor releases. Countries with too much missing information to be precise enough are listed as N/A.
CHER CAREER CSPC RESULTS
So, after checking all of the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each Cher album achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!
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It is obvious that over a career spanning more than 50 years an artist has to go through some flops. In all fairness, Cher flopped way more often than she made it big. Does it matter that much? At the end of the day, selling 10 million records over 1 or 2 or 3 eras is still worth 10 million records.
She did have some great periods. Believe confirms it's status of a super successful era. It wasn't only a big hit single. At 19,2 million equivalent album sales, it is a LP strong enough to be envied by anyone. Heart of Stone was a huge record as well with a total passing 12 million units.
The dramatic downloads and streams are worrying for the future, but at 71 we can't expect Cher to be looking for a fresh new ground breaking hit. Her career is now mostly behind her. A career that adds for 72,4 million equivalent album sales. Way under the likes Madonna or Celine Dion, this is still a very healthy total, out of reach by many popular divas.
The following sections list her most successful songs as well as her records and achievements.
As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!
Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Chartmasters.org.
BIGGEST TRACKS - Cher
The list of most successful songs is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each of them. It includes the song's own physical singles sales with a 0,3 weighting, its download and streaming sales, and with appropriate weighting too, plus its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
1 1998 Cher - Believe [Believe] - 14,850,000
2 1989 Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time [Heart of Stone] - 7,950,000
3 1965 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe [Look at Us] - 6,960,000
4 1991 Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) [Love Hurts] - 4,730,000
5 1971 Cher - Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves [Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves] - 3,390,000
6 1998 Cher - Strong Enough [Believe] - 3,010,000
7 1989 Cher - Just Like Jesse James [Heart of Stone] - 2,140,000
8 1987 Cher - I Found Someone [Cher] - 2,090,000
9 1989 Cher - After All [Heart of Stone] - 1,420,000
9 1974 Cher - Dark Lady [Dark Lady] - 1,420,000
11 1973 Cher - Half-Breed [Half-Breed] - 1,360,000
12 1966 Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) [The Sonny Side of Chér] - 1,280,000
13 1995 Cher - Walking in Memphis [It's a Man's World] - 1,060,000
14 1972 Sonny & Cher - All I Ever Need Is You [All I Ever Need Is You] - 1,010,000
14 1967 Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On [In Case You're in Love] - 1,010,000
Records & Achievements
- With 33 years, 7 months and 3 weeks between I Got You Babe and Believe, Cher has topped the US Hot 100 chart over the longest span ever, 8 years ahead of Michael Jackson.
- Cher is the oldest artist to ever top the Hot 100, she was 52 when Believe went to #1.
- Believe is the most successful album ever released by an artist over 50.
- Cher is one of the few artists that won all the main awards of the American culture industry - Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe.
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Great work!
How flops she have! Really she had good combacks? I don't think so!
She thinks she have a great legacy...
Wow! 80 pages of great work! Thank you guys! Some fans had said that her album Cher, was missing a cert by RIAA, but it's not near that... I'm surprised that Believe almost reach a platinum cert here in Brasil, só happy to read that! Thank you!
I don't think so. Her album Heart of Stone sold 6 million copies worldwide, that's a great number, don't you think?! And she had 4 Gold singles (1 million copies each) in the 70s too.
Thanks for your hard work MJD! Amazing article, probably the first/only credible and detailed Cher-related sales compilation out there.
Two questions though:
1) Take Me Home has a gold certification in the US for 1 million copies but it's only listed as selling 810,000 copies here. How many of that came from the US and why did it fall so short of its certification?
2) You listed 2 Christina songs under the Burlesque digital sales bracket, could you tell us how many copies the 2 Cher songs (Welcome to Burlesque and You Haven't Seen the Last of Me) have sold?
Hi Chrysalynne!
Thanks for the nice words 🙂 As for your two questions, here we go:
1) Although certified for 1 million units shipped, Take Me Home sold 700,000 units in the US. It was due to the RIAA methodology of double counting 12" singles which were strongly popular during the disco era.
2) I listed the top 2 sellers, both indeed from Christina. The two songs of Cher are estimated on 150,000 units sold each, 300,000 total, which is why her "personal" line of Burlesque among totals has the equivalent album sales from downloads on 45,000 units!
Interesting work. You have Take me Home listed as selling 450K in US. Is that right?
Nice work guys!
Some postive comments:
-It's quite interesting to see that Cher had her first "huge" album in 1989 with Heart and Stone, so deep into her career and in her 40's, as well as experiencing her peak at the age of 52!
-Believe (song) sold much more than I imagined! It's impressive that the song sold 7m copies, being the first song studied from a studio album! Can you tell me how much of that 7m came from Europe, considering that it smashed so hard there.
-Believe (album) is also a big seller too, only failing to generate big sales in Asia! Also, the overall total of 19m+ is big too! It's a shame she didn't release more compilations after it's release to generate more sales for it, especially considering Believe will be the main provider for those sales
-Her first album with her husband was rather a big album with 7m units sold. Would it be much bigger had it not been deleted? I assume it would have generated decent catalog sales during her 1989/1998 years.
Some criticisms:
-Not trying to discredit Cher's success, but for someone of her status, I would have expected a much higher total. She eventually ended lower than Janet, despite being in the industry for many more years and releasing many more albums.
-There is no doubt that she has had more flops than successes throughout her career. She's only had 2/3 "big albums", a few decent ones, while the majority are complete bombs!
-It also seems that Cher is completely non-existent in the digital age as well! Her streaming results are truly atrocious, while her downloads results is even worse. She probably has the worst performance in digital formats than any other artists studied so far.
-As for her sales in phyiscal singles, she definitely has some good showings. The overall total of 45m, while huge, still falls below other divas like Whitney, and Cher's solo material ends up selling less physical singles than Janet and Mariah, despite releasing singles at a much more healthy music market for that format and with twice the amount of songs released!
All in all, very insightful work! I am truly anticipated for Usher's analysis to come out! He's a very interesting case to study as he preformed well in all main formats. Hope you work on him soon! Also, are you going to do an update article on the acts you've studied so far?
Also, MJD, when you estimate album sales for artists, which ones do you find the most difficult to estimate: successful albums that sold well in numerous places, or flops with near to 0 information found? I assume the former is challenging due to having to estimate more sales in more countries, but the latter is also quite difficult as you can't make up a random number for it, even when it flopped so much that no information can be found for its sales.
Hi Richard!
Indeed, Take Me Home (album) is listed with 450,000 US sales although it was certified Gold way back in May 17, 1979. It's fairly standard, when the hype grows around a record, retailers quickly order it. The gross shipment increases fast, sales to consumers follow lagging some weeks / months behind. Most of the time, even when an album slows down popularity-wise, units shipped are sold through the next few months / years.
When the hype grows fast and disappears as fast though, various copies shipped need to be returned. Take Me Home went Gold when the album was peaking at #25, a mere 3 weeks later it was dropping out of the Top 100, it left the Top 200 altogether 5 more weeks later. The drop was too fast to enable retailers to sell ordered copies. The album had virtualy no mid-long run as in mid-1979 majors pushed hard to stop selling disco records when they noticed the airplay to sales ratio was chaotic for this genre of music. This is why big acts of 1979, including the Bee Gees, bombed insanely hard with their next albums. Then, Take Me Home was deleted - it hasn't been in CD until a limited budget issue from 1999, preventing sales to consumers to ever break the half a million units certified back in 1979.
Albums like All I Ever Need Is You, Live and Half-Breed went Gold with less sales too but for a very different reason. Until 1975, rather than 500,000 units, it was needed to gross $1 million in sales to be Gold. The price which matters in that case was the dealer price. During the 60s, LPs were sold from labels to retailers around $2 or even less, so albums were shipped at 500,000 units or more when certified. The inflation increased the dealer price to more than $3 by 1972, which means about 300,000 units were enough to hit Gold. This is how Half-Breed went Gold in spite of a very modest chart run. Due to that consistent price inflation that was deflating the merits of the Gold award, in 1975 the RIAA introduced a double criteria - $1 million grossed AND 500,000 units shipped. Obviously, there was still various cases of over-shipment happening, even more by the end of the 70s when labels had in charge the entire losses in case of unsold copies, thus creating a wide open way for retailers to orders a lot of copies. It changed in early 80s after the disaster of Sgt Pepper's soundtrack that sent RSO label to bankrupcy due to its 2 million copies returned.
Hi Raffi!
Starting with Look At Us question, I think 7 million is really the max it could have achieved. That's an awful lot for an album out of which the only hit has "only" 20 million streams. Although it was quickly deleted on its original form, it continued selling all along the way thanks to various hits package. This is one of the reasons why the Sonny & Cher discography is completely erased these days (none of their albums charted in the UK since 1994 charts, not even inside the budget chart), because 'I Got You Babe' is included in all best of albums by Cher.
Greatest Hits: 1965-1992, If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits, The Greatest Hits, The Very Best Of etc... they all include the Sonny & Cher hit, even if they are credited to Cher only.
Album sales of Usher are already completed, his article is advancing nicely 😉
Well, it depends on how you define difficult!
In terms of relative accuracy, big sellers are easier. There is so many sales confirmed from big countries that the possible window of error in terms of percentage is low. In absolute terms, working on complete bombs is easier. It doesn't matter if an uncharted album sold 20k, 50k or 80k, even if that's a 100-300% error, it represents nothing among the overall total, so it's fine.
In most, now thanks to streams / discogs, it is possible to gauge the difference of sales even between two albums that never charted now. As you no doubt understood, each attractiveness of a song stick over years. The biggest was a song for an artist in first place, the biggest it may remain in the long run. From one artist to another this isn't true, but inside the discography of an artist this is valid. We don't see flop singles become the biggest streamers of an artist with no reason. So, even if numbers of Spotify are atrocious, seeing an album at 3,000 equivalent album sales from streams and an other at 500 units, we can safely assume the first one was the biggest seller in first place. The number of editions / countries were it was released according to discogs also helps.
From a personal point of view, I always prefer working on big selling acts. The ratio work required / sales achieved is much higher which increases the motivation of compiling everything 😉
These are abismal numbers for somebody who gets called "the goddess of pop" by her delusional fans. Don't even mention the Academy Award, since that has nothing to do with music. It's very clear that, with a few exceptions (Heart of Stone and Believe and a few hits here and there) Cher's discography is non eventful to say the least
Thank you very much, MJD.
Cher's status in american pop culture doesn't have to be discussed in spite of her rather low total sales. One should not forget she ran highly-rated TV shows in the late 60's to mid-70's (The Sonny & Cher show, The Cher show). She played in popular movies in the 80's and 90's, won an Academy Award for best actress and in 2013 reached the top of the Dance/Club chart at 67 years old !
MJD mentioned her success on the video format. That's no surprise. Her tours are always among the highest-grossing of the year (especially the Farewell Tour).
WOW! Marvelous work. I'm impressed.
Cher has never been a big contender in the pop music market. Her star appeal has always lied on her personality rather than her artistry. That explains why she has always been requested by big record labels (Warner, Geffen, Casablanca), even with a incredibly huge string of flops beside her name. They knew she could make it big with the right material directed by the right producer.
The power and strength of Cher's legacy can not be estimated based on a single area of her career. Everytime her album sales would slow down or the hits would stop coming, she would enjoy big success in another area of entertainment. And that's how she managed to keep herself in the public eye for 5 decades.
She's had two hugely successful TV shows during the 1970s. Her 1981 Las Vegas residency show, for which she was paid $300,000 a week, topped Frank Sinatra's revenue during a time when her album sales where laughable. She managed to accomplish the most memorable singer-to-actor crossover of all time, winning an Oscar just 5 years after her screen debut as a dramatic actress. Her TV specials never fail to broadcast impressive numbers: her 2003 live concert film 'The Farewell Tour', aired on NBC, attracted 17 million viewers - to put it in perspective, Madonna's 'Confessions Tour' special, also aired on NBC three years later, attracted 4,1 million viewers. It goes without saying that Cher is a huge video album seller, which again proves her status as an image-driven popstar.
Cher was the prototype of today's female pop star (made-for-radio uptempo songs, big concerts, outrageous music videos, constant reinvention of music and image) during a time dominated by Barbras and Dianas, and she never managed to enjoy the benefit of MTV exposure that would rocket 1980s and 1990s image-driven popstars such as Madonna and Britney Spears. Her image appeal was confined to her 1970s shows, which were huge but local successes. When Cher came back in the late 1980s with a then MTV-friendly AOR sound, she was already in her 40s and "too old" for their teenage public.
Cher's discography is kinda messy, as the majority of her studio albums consist of one or two singles and an awful lot of fillers. In fact, she did not have any control over her own recordings until her 1987 self-titled album. The producers would choose the tracks, Cher would learn and record them, and that was that. She even stated that she could record an entire album in 3 days during the 1970s.
Cher is an almost omnipotent personality who can play the role of a singer very well, but in no way can she be defined by such term. There are many, MANY singers whose music legacies are bigger than Cher's, but Cher's overall legacy is just one of a kind.
That being said, Cher's catalog on streaming services such as YouTube and Spotify is a big fat MESS. Her YouTube videos are mostly uploaded by fans in 240p, pitch altered versions to avoid deletion (which eventually always happen). Some of her most popular singles and music videos are unavailable in the U.S. and many other countries and/or can not be viewed in mobile devices. Warner's artist management is a joke.
Again, GREAT work! 🙂
Hello MJD, congratulations on the great work and for the amazing and meticulous article about Cher.
You and your staff are great,each article is superb, detailed, is the site that I visit more frequently.
From recent messages I understand that Usher's article is in the advanced stage, then I think that after that will be the High School Musical soundtrack.
After these programmed articles do you already have in mind which singer or group to analyze ?
fantastic work. i did expect a low number for her - i mean low for someone of her stature. i can only imagine what aretha franklin's numbers would be, or diana ross (without the supremes). same for dolly parton and other 50s-60s-70s big named divas who were promoted as having sold 100 million albums...of all the females the one i am most interested in is streisand as she is the only one of the females who could be quite close to whitney in her total.
