Barba Streisand scores her 11th no. 1 album on the Billboard 200

J.G. Taruc

September 5, 2016

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  Photo credit: Billboard.com

  Barbra Streisand’s scores her 11th no. 1 album on Billboard 200 after her latest album ‘Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway’ tops the chart according to Billboard.

  The singing icon now holds the record for most no. 1 albums among women, and ties her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts.

  ‘Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway’ was released on August 26 under Columbia Records and starts with 149,000 equivalent album units sold in the week ending September 1 according to Neilsen Music.

  ‘Encore’ follows Streisand’s previous No. 1 albums: Partners (2014), Love Is the Answer(2009), Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), The Broadway Album (1986), Guilty (1980), Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1979), A Star Is Born (1977), The Way We Were (1974), and People (1964).

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