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Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
Streisand Encore cover.jpg
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26)
Recorded 2015–16
Genre Traditional pop
Length 43:41
Label Columbia
Producer Walter Afanasieff, Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand chronology
Partners
(2014)
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
(2016)
Singles from Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
  1. "At the Ballet"
    Released: June 10, 2016
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
The Huffington Post Favorable
Metro Weekly 3/4 stars
Newsday A-
NPR Music Favorable
Yahoo! Movies Unfavorable
USA Today Favorable
The Times Favorable

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.

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).


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