Cher :: Charts & Sales History

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Cher’s ‘Believe’ has now surpassed 200 million streams on Spotify!

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Sales of 'One By One' while in the Top 10 on the UK chart:

7- ONE BY ONE - Cher (26,000)
7- ONE BY ONE - Cher (29,000)
8- ONE BY ONE - Cher (36,000)
9- ONE BY ONE - Cher (28,000)

Total sales while in the Top 10: 119,000
Total sales in the 1990s: 165,000

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Album: Dancing Queen
iTunes:
#126 Canada
#296 United States
Apple Music:
#100 Lebanon
#139 Bulgaria
#193 Papua New Guinea

Album: Believe
iTunes:
#738 United States
Apple Music:
#48 Bahrain

Album: Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992
iTunes:
#283 United Kingdom
Apple Music:
#1013 United Kingdom

Album: Heart of Stone
iTunes:
#827 United States

Album: If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits
iTunes:
#1230 United States

Believe
iTunes: #156 Cayman Islands
#235 Netherlands
#468 Mexico
#984 United Kingdom
Apple Music:
#930 United Kingdom

Needles and Pins
iTunes:
#149 Sweden

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
iTunes:
#396 Austria

If I Could Turn Back Time
iTunes:
#740 United Kingdom

Strong Enough
iTunes:
#1253 United Kingdom

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Believe
iTunes:
#115 Brazil
#673 United Kingdom
Apple Music:
#996 United Kingdom

Love Hurts
iTunes:
#16 Greece

When Lovers Become Strangers
iTunes:
#21 Greece

I'll Never Stop Loving You
iTunes:
#22 Greece

If I Could Turn Back Time
iTunes:
#38 Sweden
#1441 United Kingdom

Album: Dancing Queen
iTunes:
#83 Canada
#186 United States
Apple Music:
#173 Lebanon

Album: Good Times
iTunes:
#92 Belgium

Album: Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992
iTunes:
#194 United Kingdom
Apple Music:
#1187 United Kingdom

Album: Believe
iTunes:
#868 United States

Album: Living Proof
iTunes:
#915 United States

Album: Heart of Stone
iTunes:
#1037 United States

Album: If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits
iTunes:
#1422 United States

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Update by OCC:

The best-selling singles of all time on the Official UK Chart

The top selling song released in the 21st century goes to Pharrell Williams' Happy, which is eighth with 1.95 million sales, while in 10th is the top selling song never to reach Number 1 – Wham!'s Last Christmas, which was blocked by Band Aid in 1984 and has sold 1.9 million. Cher's Believe, the best-selling song by a female artist, is 17th in the rundown, with 1.84 million.

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Album: Dancing Queen

iTunes:
#74 Canada
#173 United States

Album: Cher

iTunes:
#111 Italy

Album: All I Really Want to Do

iTunes:
#140 Italy

Album: Prisoner / Take Me Home

iTunes:
#141 Italy

Album: Believe

iTunes:
#384 United States

Apple Music:
#165 Mauritius
#190 Saint Kitts and Nevis

Album: If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits

iTunes:
#473 Canada
#797 United States

Album: Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992

iTunes:
#529 United Kingdom

Apple Music:
#1088 United Kingdom

Album: Heart of Stone

iTunes:
#933 United States


Believe

iTunes:
#236 Australia
#771 United Kingdom
#1108 United States

Apple Music:
#89 Tajikistan
#949 United Kingdom

Dov'è L'amore

Apple Music:
#88 Tajikistan

If I Could Turn Back Time

iTunes:
#230 Australia

Strong Enough

iTunes:
#1437 United Kingdom

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Found an article mentioning that Cher's 1st fitness video sold a million copies in less than a year, she really is a multimedia queen!

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Just discovered that 'The Best of Sonny and Cher' reached #9 in Canada in October of 1967.

The chart run (as per recently updated RPM magazine database, though some issues are still missing) 19-18-16-17-14-9-?

[AndiIversen]

BB Boxscores


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Cher Park Theater Las Vegas, Nev. Feb. 19-21, 2020 $1,317,506 8253/10358 2/0 $395, $60 MGM Resorts International, AEG Presents

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Cher Park Theater Las Vegas, Nev. Feb. 19-21, 2020 $1,317,506 8253/10358 2/0 $395, $60 MGM Resorts International, AEG Presents

Great!

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Btw, they just officially announced that they added 19 new Vegas shows!

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"Classic Cher" updated gross: $52,881,124

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Once Upon a Time in the Top Spot: Cher, “Believe”

21 years ago today, Cher performed an unbelievable feat: she became the oldest female artist ever to top the Billboard Hot 100.

In fact, there are quite a few unbelievable things about “Believe,” not least of which is the fact that it took months for its original songwriters – Matthew Gray, Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennen, and Timothy Powell – to find someone who was even interested in recording the song. The demo eventually found its way into Cher’s camp, at which point two additional songwriters – Steve Torch and Paul Barry – entered the composition process and turned it into the song you know and love.

Well, more or less.

After the song was fully written, producers Mark Taylor and Brian Higgins followed the directives of Cher’s executive producer, Warner Brothers chairman Rob Dickins, and turned it into a dance song. The big thing that made “Believe” stand out was the sound of Cher’s voice and the effect that was placed on it, but contrary to past reports, it was not the work of a vocoder but, rather, Auto-Tune turned up to 11 (or some setting well beyond the norm, anyway).

As it happens, Warner Brothers originally hated the way Cher’s voice sounded and wanted the effect removed, but per a New York Times interview with Neil Strauss, she replied, “Over my dead body!” Thankfully, she lived, the label kept the effect, and everybody ended up with a #1 hit.

Beyond being the oldest female artist to achieve a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, Cher set a few other records with “Believe.” She set the record for a solo artist with the longest span of time between #1 hits (her previous chart-topper, “Dark Lady,” was released in 1974) and the record for the longest gap between her first #1 song (Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” was released in 1965). It went on to rank as the #1 song of 1999 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and it was incredibly popular in the UK as well, spending seven weeks at #1, winning three Ivor Novello Awards (Best Selling UK Single, Best Song Musically and Lyrically, and International Hit of the Year), and – in 2014 – it became the first female solo single to be certified Triple Platinum in the UK.

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Cher
Title: Walking in Memphis
Certification Date: March 20, 2020
Format: SINGLE
Silver

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Cher's UK BPI / BRIT certifications as of now:

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=Albums=
Cher - Gold
Heart of Stone - Platinum
Love Hurts - 3x Platinum
Cher’s Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 - 3x Platinum
It’s a Man’s World - Gold
Believe - 2x Platinum
The Greatest Hits - 2x Platinum
Living Proof - Gold
The Very Best of Cher - Gold
Gold - Silver
Icon - Silver
Closer To The Truth - Silver
Dancing Queen - Silver

3,940,000

=Singles=
Dead Ringer for Love (Meat Loaf and Cher) - Silver
If I Could Turn Back Time - Silver
The Shoop Shoop Song - Gold
Love Can Build a Bridge (Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton) - Silver
Walking in Memphis - Silver
Believe - 3x Platinum
Strong Enough - Silver

3,250,000

=Videos=
Live in Concert - Platinum
The Farewell Tour - Platinum

100,000

Total certified records: 7,290,000

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Bonus:

*Mermaids OST - Silver
*Burlesque OST - Silver
*Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again OST - Platinum

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UK DISC Magazine certifications (1959-1973):

I Got You Babe - Silver
Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves - Silver

Total: 500,000

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[nympho]

How far is “Dancing Queen” from Gold in UK? Last known sales figure?

[StephenN17]

Cher
Title: Walking in Memphis
Certification Date: March 20, 2020
Format: SINGLE
Silver

Yay! The Shoop Shoop Song should be Platinum next and If I Could Turn Back Time should be Gold. I'm sure that was only recently certified as Silver though, not sure if that was based on just downloads or not.

[StephenN17]

How far is “Dancing Queen” from Gold in UK? Last known sales figure?

It's probably around 80,000, think it was about 72k last time we had an update, maybe a little more.

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How far is “Dancing Queen” from Gold in UK? Last known sales figure?

Yeah, I'd say it's at 80-83k. A shame she didn't do a few UK TV appearances during her tour last year...

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Yay! The Shoop Shoop Song should be Platinum next and If I Could Turn Back Time should be Gold. I'm sure that was only recently certified as Silver though, not sure if that was based on just downloads or not.

I think that 'I Got You Babe' or 'Fernando', or even 'Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves' might be next?

Since both TSSS and TBT were released before 1994 they won't get re-certified any time soon. For example, TBT sold 250k in the 80s and 200k downloads plus streams since 2004, so its sales are way over 400k in the UK but half of them were before 1994...

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Album: Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992
iTunes:
#55 South Africa
#285 United Kingdom
Apple Music:
#1187 United Kingdom

Album: Dancing Queen
Apple Music:
#159 Jordan

Believe
iTunes:
#301 Germany
#565 United Kingdom
#1349 United States
Apple Music:
#724 United Kingdom

If I Could Turn Back Time
iTunes:
#32 Fiji
#724 United Kingdom
#1212 United States

Strong Enough
iTunes:
#490 Germany

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
iTunes:
#574 United Kingdom

The Shoop Shoop Song
iTunes:
#854 United Kingdom

I Got You Babe
iTunes:
#1241 United Kingdom

[alfiebot]

Yay! The Shoop Shoop Song should be Platinum next and If I Could Turn Back Time should be Gold. I'm sure that was only recently certified as Silver though, not sure if that was based on just downloads or not.

Also, do you reckon that 'One by One' will get the overdue certification any time soon? It surely deserves it!

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Cher's 10 most streamed tracks on Spotify:

1. Believe - 209,306,320
2. If I Could Turn Back Time - 111,137,502
3. I Got You Babe - 67,066,302
4. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - 43,819,601
5. Fernando - 38,451,595
6. Strong Enough - 37,784,518
7. Walking in Memphis - 37,091,437
8. After All - 24,068,428
9. Dead Ringer For Love - 22,221,797
10. You Haven't Seen the Last of Me - 21,519,371