As of this writing, her albums total seventy-three, eleven occupying the number one spot on Billboard (more than any other female artist), and a number one album in each of the last six decades, an achievement equaled by no other artist.
Her albums have been reshuffled, remastered, and reconfigured with almost periodic regularity as “greatest hits,” “highlights,” and “essential” collections, culminating in the 1991 Barbra Streisand: Just for the record, a four-CD retrospective, with lavish 93-page book, that offers a comprehensive cross-section of her recordings up to that point in her career (she was forty-eight).Īnd still the compilations continued, along with albums of new material. Doing It Her Way: Streisand Live at Bon Soir Finally Drops 1962 recording considered technically "problematic" gets a "fix"īarbra Streisand has garnered virtually every accolade, tribute, award, and honor it’s possible for a great popular artist to get: ten Grammys, nine Golden Globes, five Emmys, two Oscars, and a Tony, not to mention four Peabody Awards, the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Arts, and France’s Légion d'honneur.
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