Barbra Streisand has put together a fantastic musical career that has included releasing a massive total of 34 studio albums, seven live albums, and countless amounts of other media albums. She has acted in some films and is still out performing today at 72 years old! These are the highest selling Barbra Streisand albums of all time.
5. Back to Broadway
Back to Broadway is Streisand’s 26th studio album and came out back in 1993. It is a sequel to The Broadway Album which she released in 1985 and had massive success with. On this album, Streisand put together another collection of classic Broadway songs that she performed. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart and eventually reached platinum two times in the United States as well as once in Canada.
4. The Way We Are
The Way We Are was released in 1974 and featured only 10 tracks. The album first hit some snags on the way to being released because the title was the same as a movie and had to be changed. Once that was settled, it was put out into the market and reached double platinum in the United States and Canada.
3. Higher Ground
Higher Ground was released in 1997 and is the 27th studio album released by Streisand. This album was the first she had put out in four years and became her eighth number one album. Higher Ground featured 12 tracks total and was right under an hour long; it reached platinum status three times in the United States and Canada while also reaching platinum in Australia and gold in the UK.
2. The Broadway Album
The Broadway album was released in 1985 and featured the star singing classic show tunes. Streisand had a history of performing in musicals and this album was a compilations of tracks she thoroughly enjoyed. The album went platinum four times in the U.S. as well as twice in Canada while reaching a gold status in the UK.
1. Guilty
Guilty was released in 1980 and was the 22nd studio album that Streisand had released. The album was 41 minutes long and featured 9 total tracks including one of her most successful songs ever, “Woman in Love”. The album went platinum five times in the United States and Canada as well as six times in Australia. Guilty reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when it released and Streisand won a Grammy Award in 1981.
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