Cher :: Charts & Sales History

[alfiebot]

Is that 2,400,000?

Yes, it sold 1,84 million physical & digital copies & 560k in streaming sales (57 million UK streams).

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^It's been accumulating around 100k chart sales a year since 2014.

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Album: Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992

iTunes:
#47 United Kingdom

Apple Music:
#962 United Kingdom

Album: Living Proof

iTunes:
#7 Greece

Album: Heart of Stone

iTunes:
#992 United Kingdom

If I Could Turn Back Time

iTunes:
#145 United States
#153 Canada
#180 Austria
#190 United Kingdom

Believe

iTunes:
#112 Spain
#125 United Kingdom
#427 Australia
#482 Canada
#914 United States

Apple Music:
#355 United Kingdom
#370 Ireland
#389 Netherlands
#462 Denmark

Strong Enough

iTunes:
#114 Spain

I Found Someone

iTunes:
#679 United Kingdom

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

iTunes:
#1244 United Kingdom

[alfiebot]

Update August 2021 ~ Cher's / Sonny & Cher's estimated singles sales in the UK:

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• Believe : 2,400,000
• I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher) : 930,000
• The Shoop Shoop Song : 720,000
• If I Could Turn Back Time : 700,000
• Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves : 400,000
• Strong Enough : 390,000
• Dead Ringer For Love (with Meat Loaf) : 350,000
• Love Can Build A Bridge (with Neneh Cherry, Chrissie Hynde and Eric Clapton) : 300,000
• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) : 280,000
• I Found Someone : 250,000
• Little Man (Sonny & Cher) : 230,000
• Walking In Memphis : 220,000
• All I Ever Need Is You (Sonny & Cher) : 190,000
• Just Like Jesse James : 180,000
• Fernando (with Andy Garcia) : 180,000
• One By One : 160,000
• Super Trouper (Cher with the Mamma Mia 2 cast) : 150,000
• Baby Don't Go (Sonny & Cher) : 135,000
• All I Really Want To Do : 125,000
• 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 : 60,000
• I Hope You Find It : 55,000
• After All (with Peter Cetera) : 55,000
• You Haven't Seen the Last of Me : 55,000
• The Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher) : 50,000
• Stop Crying Your Heart Out (BBC Radio2 All Stars) : 50,000
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) : 50,000
• Welcome to Burlesque : 45,000
• SOS : 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 : 9,600,000

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

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[adamf2thedeath]

How can some of her most iconic earlier songs like dark lady and the beat goes on have sold so little?!!

[alfiebot]

How can some of her most iconic earlier songs like dark lady and the beat goes on have sold so little?!!

They weren't big hits in the UK, they reached #29 and #36. But those are estimates anyway, with downloads the totals could be higher.

[alfiebot]

UK Official Album Downloads Chart Top 100 (13 -19 August 2021)

94 (RE) 5 - Cher's Greatest Hits 1965-1992

*total estimated UK sales: 1,200,000+

[adamf2thedeath]

I wonder how long for strong enough and all I ever need is you to go gold and silver respectively!

[alfiebot]

I wonder how long for strong enough and all I ever need is you to go gold and silver respectively!

Strong Enough sold 300,000 (physical and downloads) and has almost 10 million UK streams so it should be Gold in some months.

All I Ever Need is You sold 180k in 1972, so further sales/downloads/streams may have already pushed it passed 200k but I guess we'll never know as it won't get auto-certified.

[InFamous]

Would be good to see Strong Enough certified - good think in the UK its automatic !

[alfiebot]

The Heart of Stone album has just surpassed 250 million streams on Spotify.

[Mikerocha]

Cher Youtube Remasters


00:00 AM EST Sunday 8/22/2021
Total plays/views

Stars - 145,000

I’d Rather Believe In You - 76,700

Cherished - 23,800


All together = 245,500
Not bad, obviously Stars sparked the most curiosity, Cherished is so far the one with lowest and least plays in the first 24 hours.

[adamf2thedeath]

Are these unreleased tracks or old album tracks?

[Mikerocha]

her 3 70's warner bros albums, which were only released on vinyl, cassette and 8-track in 1975, 1976 and 1977, finally remastered and released digitally on youtube only.

[StephenN17]

UK

CherGOLDGOLDSILVER

TITLEStrong Enough LABELWea FORMATSingle CERTIFIED27.08.2021 RELEASED14.11.2004

[alfiebot]

^ That's awesome, much sooner than I expected!

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** August '21 Spotify action ** (as of Aug. 31st)

This month's milestones are the albums Heart of Stone crossing over 250 million cumulative streams and Believe past 400 million. Sonny & Cher's Look At Us moved past 110 million.

Cher's albums are totalling 1 billion 99 million streams (+22,2 millions, up 2%);
Sonny & Cher's 138,4 million (+2,7 millions, up 1,99%);
'Orphan' songs count for 124,6 million streams (+1.6 million, up 1.3%);
Remixes 6,6 million (+0,2 million, up 3,8%).

Grand total is 1,369,225,235 (+26,8 million from last month, +2%).

Spotify monthly listeners : 7,867,593 (down 0,7% from last month)
Spotify users subscribed to Cher : 2,156,520 (+ 1,9%)

Thanks to CasperBoyToy from Cher's official message board!

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Most certified pre-2000 female acts in the UK:

1. Madonna — 29,335,000
2. Whitney Houston — 18,605,000
3. Celine Dion — 15,215,000
4. Kylie Minogue — 15,100,000
5. Mariah Carey — 14,060,000
6. Britney Spears — 13,750,000
7. Spice Girls — 13,650,000
8. Christina Aguilera — 10,870,000
9. Tina Turner — 9,275,000
10. Cher — 8,490,000

Most certified pre-1980s female acts in the UK:

1. Tina Turner — 9,275,000
2. Cher — 8,490,000
3. Diana Ross — 8,300,000
4. Barbra Streisand — 5,825,000
5. Kate Bush - 5,560,000
6. Dolly Parton - 4,200,000
7. Donna Summer — 3,995,000
8. Olivia Newton-John — 3,950,000
9. Aretha Franklin — 2,440,000
10. Shirley Bassey — 1,800,000

[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 (It's In His Kiss) - Gold
Love Can Build a Bridge (Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton) - Silver
Walking in Memphis - Silver
Believe - 4x Platinum
Strong Enough - Gold

4,450,000

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

100,000

Total certified records: 8,490,000

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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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According to Record-Mirror, November 4th 1989 issue, 'If I Could Turn Back Time' reached #1 in Argentina:

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

337 Cher, 'Believe' 1998
WRITER(S): Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennen, Paul Barry, Steven Torch, Matthew Gray, Timothy Powell, Cher

At a time when pretty much every artist of her generation was still sticking with guitar-based pop rock, Cher took a gamble on a new futuristic technology called Auto-Tune and won big time. Her secret? Making sure that even through the robotic vocal effects, she sounded like a force to be reckoned with: “I was singing [the song] in the bathtub, and it seemed to me the second verse was too whiny. It kind of pissed me off, so I changed it. I toughened it up a bit.” “Believe” introduced the then-52-year-old singer to a whole new generation of fans, becoming an indelible anthem for the queer community and earning Cher a permanent place in the canon of empowerment-pop anthems.

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Three years ago Cher released her 26th studio album "Dancing Queen". The album was listed by Rolling Stone as the #5 Best Pop Album of 2018, and the "The Name of The Game" as the #22 Best Song of 2018. Estimated sales and streams as of October 2021:

US sales: 380,000
UK sales: 90,000 (Silver)
Canada sales: 50,000 (Gold)

Worldwide sales: 750,000+

Spotify streams: 107,000,000+
Youtube streams: 65,000,000+