Cher :: Charts & Sales History

[alfiebot]

^I wonder if we'll ever get the grosses for the 3 shows from March Alfie?

Not sure, but we can assume they grossed around $4.5 million, luckily it's only 3 dates and not more.

[alfiebot]

Cher's Spotify update thanks to CasperBoyToy member of Cher's official fan forum:

** Nov. '20 Update** (as of Nov. 30th)

This month's milestones in albums were Dancing Queen reaching 90 million cumulative streams, Love Hurts past 70 million, Heart Of Stone way over 200 million and All I Really Want To Do at 5 million.

And Believe just joined Dancing Queen as the second album with ALL its songs having at least 1 million streams.

Both "Walking in Memphis" and "Strong Enough" went past 50 million streams.

In its first full month "Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe" is at 200k (reaching this at a faster pace than the Spanish version of "Chiquitita").

The BBC2 All Stars charity is rocketing fast: "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" is already at 387k!

• Cher's albums are totaling 825,8 million streams (+20 millions, up 2,3%)
• 'Orphan' songs count for 109 million streams (+1,5 million, up 1,3%)
• EPs of remixes 5,7 million (up 1,2%)
• Sonny & Cher's records' total is 111,6 million (+3 millions, up 2,7%)

• Grand total is 1,122,205,474 streamed songs (+25 million from last month, +2,2%)
• Monthly listeners : 6 901 432
• Users subscribed to Cher : 1 817 018

[alfiebot]

Some info for the 60s singles sales posted by Dave Taylor (a UK chart expert):

UK Top 100 Hits of 1965

#7 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe (690,000)

UK Top 100 Hits of 1966

#56 Cher - Bang Bang (250,000)

#75 Sonny & Cher - Little Man (225,000-250,000)

These slightly differ from the official OCC lists (IGYB is at #9, BB is at #53 and LM is at #69) but it's good to get some actual figures from the 60s!

[alfiebot]

UK Top 100 Hits of 1971

#37 Cher - Gypsies Tramps and Thieves (300,000)

UK Top 100 Hits of 1972

#96 Sonny & Cher - All I Ever Need Is You (180,000)

UK Top 100 Hits of 1982

#42 Meat Loaf and Cher - Dead Ringer For Love (340,000)

[alfiebot]

Update ~ Cher's estimated singles sales in the UK:

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• Believe : 2,150,000
• I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher) : 900,000
• The Shoop Shoop Song : 690,000
• If I Could Turn Back Time : 670,000
• Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves : 400,000
• Dead Ringer For Love (with Meat Loaf) : 350,000
• Love Can Build A Bridge (with Neneh Cherry, Chrissie Hynde and Eric Clapton) : 300,000
• Strong Enough : 300,000
• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) : 280,000
• I Found Someone : 240,000
• Little Man (Sonny & Cher) : 225,000
• Walking In Memphis : 200,000
• All I Ever Need Is You (Sonny & Cher) : 190,000
• Just Like Jesse James : 180,000
• One By One : 160,000
• Fernando (with Andy Garcia) : 150,000
• Baby Don't Go (Sonny & Cher) : 135,000
• All I Really Want To Do : 125,000
• Super Trouper (Cher with the Mamma Mia 2 cast) : 120,000
• What Now My Love (Sonny & Cher) : 110,000
• Love And Understanding : 100,000
• All or Nothing : 100,000
• The Music's No Good Without You : 95,000
• But You're Mine (Sonny & Cher) : 85,000
• Save Up All Your Tears : 55,000
• I Hope You Find It : 50,000
• After All (with Peter Cetera) : 50,000
• You Haven't Seen the Last of Me : 45,000
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) : 40,000
• Stop Crying Your Heart Out (BBC Radio2 All Stars) : 40,000
• Welcome to Burlesque : 40,000
• SOS : 40,000
• The Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher) : 40,000
• Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore : 35,000
• Dov'e l'amore : 35,000
• Heart Of Stone : 30,000
• Oh No Not My Baby : 30,000
• Sunny : 25,000
• Dark Lady : 25,000
• Not Enough Love In The World : 25,000
• We All Sleep Alone : 20,000
• Love Hurts : 20,000
• Could've Been You : 20,000
• Living For You (Sonny & Cher) : 20,000
• You Wouldn't Know Love : 15,000
• Many Rivers To Cross : 15,000
• I Got You Babe (with Beavis and Butt-head) : 15,000
• I Feel Something In The Air : 10,000
• Have I Stayed Too Long (Sonny & Cher) : 10,000
• Woman's World : 5,000
• Whenever You're Near : 5,000

Total : 9,015,000

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Sources: Haven UK charts forum, Dave Taylor, Official Charts Company 2019 / 2020 update

[alfiebot]

“Believe” was #6 top streamed '90s song by female artists (#3 solo artists) in 2020 on Spotify:

1. “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls (1996)

2. “No Scrubs” by TLC (1999)

3. “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child (1999)

4. “...Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears (1998)

5. “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia (1997)

6. “Believe” by Cher (1998)

7. “You’re Still the One” by Shania Twain (1998)

8. “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” by Shania Twain (1999)

9. “Because You Loved Me (Theme from Up Close and Personal)” by Celine Dion (1996)

10. “Let’s Get Loud” by Jennifer Lopez (1999)

[belmont]

Pollstar Year End 2020:
#16 Cher - $22.5 million (16 shows)

Timeframe: November 2019 to November 2020

[alfiebot]

^All the Pollstar year-end positions:

Top Worldwide Tours:
#16 Cher - $22.5 million (16 shows)

Top North American Tours:
#9 Cher - $22.5 million (16 shows)

Top Worldwide Ticket Sales:
#17 Cher - 179,838

Top 200 Concert Grosses:
#27 $3,842,660
#112 $1,809,893
#119 $1,739,513
#144 $1,608,662
#157 $1,535,735
#161 $1,518,495
#172 $1,469,074
#173 $1,466,665
#190 $1,378,938

[alfiebot]

Official UK video charts from May 1992, Music Week magazine - Cher's 'Extravaganza - Live' is #2 on Top Music Video chart and 'CherFitness: A New Attitude' #2 on Top Video chart.

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[alfiebot]

Did some research and it seems that along with RIAA, during the 60s, 70s & early 80s - the American Academy of Music (AAM) issued certifications to commemorate record sales as well.



It has been estimated that these two Greatest Hits albums from 1974 have both sold well over 500k in the US but were never certified by the RIAA, so finding these AAM awards in a way supports those sales estimate reports.

[StephenN17]

UK Brit Certified

GOLD	TITLEIf I Could Turn Back Time LABELGeffen FORMATSingle CERTIFIED15.01.2021 RELEASED14.11.2004

[alfiebot]

^Amazing! So the total (counting the physical copies) is at about 670k!

[alfiebot]

Cher's UK BPI / BRIT certifications update:

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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=
I Got You Babe (Sonny and Cher) - Silver
Dead Ringer for Love (Meat Loaf and Cher) - Silver
If I Could Turn Back Time - Gold
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

3,650,000

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

100,000

Total certified records: 7,690,000

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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 (Sonny and Cher) - Silver
Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves - Silver

Total: 500,000

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[adamf2thedeath]

It always amazes me that she doesn’t have more certified singles in the UK!

[alfiebot]

It always amazes me that she doesn’t have more certified singles in the UK!

She has quite a few pre-1994 singles that could be certified based on their original sales and/or streams - 'Bang Bang', 'Little Man', 'Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves', 'I Found Someone', 'Just Like Jesse James'...

[alfiebot]

From Retro Pop:

Twenty singles turning 20 in 2021

Release date: 27 November 2001
Album: Living Proof

Following her mega-hit 22nd album Believe, Cher returned with the electro-pop hit The Music’s No Good Without You as the lead European single from follow-up LP, Living Proof. It landed in the UK Top 10, expanding Cher’s chart success into five decades.

[alfiebot]

UK Top 200 positions for the It's A Man's World era:


It's A Man's World
• 1995
28 39 53 60 70 75 74 99
• 1996
98 36 24 16 10 11 13 21 26 37 42 59 88 100 157 140 142


Walking in Memphis
• 1995
11 12 22 32 43 59 68 114 111 129
• 1996
97 100 137 148 156


One by One
• 1996
7 7 8 9 16 26 37 50 70 106 149 185 174


Not Enough Love in the World
• 1996
31 56 92 117 131 165 189 170 187 151


The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
• 1996
26 47 71 94 114 121 158 136 166 143 182

[alfiebot]

UK Top 200 positions for the Believe era:

Believe (album)
• 1998 (year-end sales 383,000)
8 13 23 20 18 18 15 16 13 17
• 1999 (year-end sales 258,000)
20 15 18 25 29 27 30 20 15 7 16 21 20 26 31 33 36 41 38 38 35 44 36 33 21 13 22 26 36 43 44 46 60 74 90 106 113 149 190 199 191 127 121 117 173 200 200


Believe (single)
• 1998 (year-end sales 1,519,000)
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 3 4
• 1999 (year-end sales 150,000)
7 14 21 23 28 29 30 35 38 37 48 62 61 68 72 77 59 61 137 160 156 157 122 127 100 96 130 166 176 191


Strong Enough
• 1999 (year-end sales 253,000)
5 8 8 11 19 25 29 37 50 56 80 96 94 119 161 165 161 168 185 x x x x x x x 148 178


All or Nothing
• 1999 (year-end sales 82,000)
12 20 30 45 53 58 73 82 x x x x x x x x x x x 86 84 116 129 100 94


Dov'è L'Amore
• 1999
21 47 63 89 93 90 126 116 98 118
• 2000
181


These are from Chart Watch so there may be some differences with the OCC numbers.

[alfiebot]

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

1- BELIEVE - Cher (167,751)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (205,236)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (186,768)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (164,642)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (139,132)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (126,011)
1- BELIEVE - Cher (114,633)
2- BELIEVE - Cher (114,452)
4- BELIEVE - Cher (123,699)
3- BELIEVE - Cher (120,292)
4- BELIEVE - Cher (56,745)
7- BELIEVE - Cher (30,000)

Total sales while in the Top 10: 1,550,000

[alfiebot]

^Now that was a COMEBACK!

[alfiebot]

According to a recent post on ChartMasters, Cher is the 19th best selling female artist (48th artist overall) in Brazil. Based on available shipments of 7 albums and 4 DVDs she has sold 233,300 records there since 2003.

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Sales of 'Strong Enough' during its first 4 weeks on the UK chart:

5- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (75,000)
8- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (47,000)
8- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (40,000)
11- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (30,000)

Total year-end sales: 253,000

[StephenN17]

Sales of 'Strong Enough' during its first 4 weeks on the UK chart:

5- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (75,000)
8- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (47,000)
8- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (40,000)
11- STRONG ENOUGH - Cher (30,000)

Total year-end sales: 253,000

I remember a year or two ago someone on Buzzjack said the week Strong Enough came out it sold over 100k and if it was released 2 weeks earlier would have been number 1. Think it was either Brit Award week or was a week it was high sales for singles. I'll try and find it for you.