Cher :: Charts & Sales History

[StephenN17]

Some of them seem wrong, for example I Got you Babe was supposed to be at 780,000, not 100,000 less? And some of the others, TMNGWY and Walking In Memphis seem too high as well.

[alfiebot]

Here are the estimated single sales in the UK counting both Cher/Sonny & Cher singles:

Believe :: 1,790k
I Got You Babe :: 695k
The Shoop Shoop Song :: 550k
Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves :: 355k
Love Can Build A Bridge :: 300k
Dead Ringer For Love :: 270k
If I Could Turn Back Time :: 265k
Strong Enough :: 265k
Bang Bang :: 200k
I Found Someone :: 195k
One By One :: 165k
Little Man :: 140k
Baby Don't Go :: 135k
Just Like Jesse James :: 130k
All I Really Want To Do :: 125k
All I Ever Need Is You :: 125k
Walking In Memphis :: 115k
What Now My Love :: 110k
Music's No Good Without You :: 97k
Love And Understanding :: 95k
But You're Mine :: 85k
All Or Nothing :: 70k
The Beat Goes On :: 40k
I Hope You Find It :: 35k
Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore :: 35k
Dov'e L'Amour :: 35k
Heart Of Stone :: 30k
Oh No Not My Baby :: 30k
Sunny :: 25k
Dark Lady :: 25k
Save Up All Your Tears :: 25k
Not Enough Love In The World :: 25k
We All Sleep Alone :: 20k
Love Hurts :: 20k
Could've Been You :: 20k
Living For You :: 20k
You Wouldn't Know Love :: 15k
Many Rivers To Cross :: 15k
I've Got You Babe (1994) :: 15k
I Feel Something In The Air :: 10k
Have I Stayed Too Long :: 10k
Whenever You're Near :: 5k

total singles sales: 6 694 000

*source - HAVEN charts and sales forum

[StephenN17]

Canada Catalogue Chart
25 UNI 37 29 22 CHER ICON 331 5 314 12,760

And from last week:
1 RCA 37 BURLESQUE ORIGINAL MOTION PICT SOUNDTRACK 281 212 90 70,023

[alfiebot]

There is a very accurate wiki page which lists the best selling artists according to their claimed sales and their available certified sales.

Cher is of course in the 100 million category with her available and listed certifications - almost 40 million (though not all the countries are included as they can be referenced at the moment) backing up very strongly her claimed records sales. Therefore, according to the list, she is the 2nd best selling female artist who started out in the 1960s.

Many veteran artists are not included on the list (Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, etc) as they don't have enough certifications for their claims of 100 million records sold, which means (though not necessarily) that their claimed sales are inflated and can't be verified...

Here's the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... ic_artists

[alfiebot]

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of All Time By Female Artists revealed!

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we reveal the UK’s Official Top 40 biggest singles by female artists of all time. Which lady do you reckon will claim the crown?

Today (Saturday March 8) marks International Women’s Day – the annual celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women right across the globe; it’s an all-round outpouring of love and appreciation for all the ladies in our lives and beyond.

If there’s one thing the Official Singles Chart would be pretty dull without, it’s female singers, and to honour the musical achievements of women, we are counting down the UK’s Official Top 40 biggest selling singles of all time by female artists!

Far out in front of everybody – and no doubt guiding the way for her fellow female artists with some kind of huge, illuminated headgear – it’s Cher. Her Number 1 smash Believe has sold almost 1.79 million copies in the UK, and spent a staggering seven weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart in 1998 and was, unsurprisingly the biggest selling single of that year. How fitting that the biggest seller should come from a living legend who next year will celebrate 50 years since her first UK Number 1.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-new ... ists-2803/

almost 1.79 mill - so it takes a bit more than 10k for it to hit 3 x Platinum!

[alfiebot]

CANADA: TOP CATALOGUE albums

24 UNI 24 37 29 CHER ICON 314 20 262 12,429

[alfiebot]

^Thanks! Well, there are tons of records of Cher/Sonny and Cher which are not certified but sold a lot, so the estimations by some fans are realistically around 100 million records sold. For example, Billboard stated in the 60s that Look at Us sold 3 million copies in the US alone (8 weeks at #2 on BB 200), but as we can see it is certified Gold. Also, only a few countries had certifications back then so for a lot of albums/singles from the 60s early 70s we can't really say how many copies were shipped/sold. The fascinating thing about Cher is how she managed to always comeback and garner new fans, be on the charts and sell millions in each of the past several decades. That alone is a huge achievement, especially for an artist who has never really been accepted by the music critics or the music industry for that matter...

[Wayne]

^ That's some fantastic work there, well done!

I am of the opinion that she's sold/shipped around the 50m mark in terms of albums, and around two thirds of that in singles.

[alfiebot]

Post with all the available certifications now moved to the 1st page!

[StephenN17]

Something i've just noticed when looking at sales from 2003 and 2004. I thought Cher's The Very Best Of album had only sold about 150,000 in total in the UK, but i've just seen these figures:

2003
127. Cher - The Very Best Of 145,000

2004
184 The Very Best of - Cher 101,000

So that would put the sales at 246,000 from these 2 years, does anyone know if these are accurate, since the album was only in the charts for 4 weeks in 2003? And surely the total sales would be close to Platinum now?

[greek_boy]

I was at a Walmart yesterday.

They had WBR's Very Best Of for $9.

They had Geffen's If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits for $9.

Great ! The Very Best of costs $16.29 at Target (online store) but it's not sold in the physical stores ( :-? )

[thebigham]

I was at a Walmart yesterday.

They had WBR's Very Best Of for $9.

They had Geffen's If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits for $9.

[StephenN17]

Canadian Catalogue Chart

1 UNI 139 CHER ICON 133 13 118 4,400

[AndiIversen]

about the USA:
Love Hurts was last certified Gold in mid-91' and it has sold about 600k since SS began so it might be up for 1xP as well

Love Hurts sold 598,000 in total in the US. The album was released after Sound Scan began.

Oh thanks! i got the release date mixed up.

Still... let's recall that Soundscan covered less than 40% at the time it began tracking sales and the album got certified just 2 months after its release, so many of its actual sales are certainly not reflected on that SS total.

[StephenN17]

about the USA:
Love Hurts was last certified Gold in mid-91' and it has sold about 600k since SS began so it might be up for 1xP as well

Love Hurts sold 598,000 in total in the US. The album was released after Sound Scan began.

[AndiIversen]

her certs in Finland:


Cher Believe Warner | 1998 32 682 Kultalevy 1999 (Gold)
Cher Greatest Hits Warner | 1999 37 032 Kultalevy 1999 (Gold)

note: both of these figures are outdated, so both should be past 40k now and eligible for 1xP each.


her certs in Austria:

Cher Believe PLATIN WARNER 15-12-1998
Cher Believe GOLD WARNER 12-11-1998
Cher Believe (Single) PLATIN WARNER 09-12-1998
Cher Believe (Single) GOLD WARNER 12-11-1998
Cher Greatest Hits GOLD BMG 02-04-1993
Cher Love Hurts PLATIN BMG 09-12-1991
Cher Love Hurts GOLD BMG 28-08-1991
Cher Shoop Shoop Song (Single) GOLD SONY 07-08-1991
Cher The Greatest Hits PLATIN WARNER 14-12-1999
Cher The Greatest Hits GOLD WARNER 05-11-1999

[BadMan125]

UK

The last single to sell upwards of 100,000 copies for five weeks in a row?. Cher's 1998 monster Believe, which actually recorded a six figure sale for each of its first 10 weeks in the shops (a phrase I can't really use about singles any more) with tallies of 167,751, 205,238, 186,768, 164,642, 139,132, 126,011, 114,633, 114,452, 123,699 and 120,292. Its latter stages were buoyed by the approach of Christmas, and its sales collapsed immediately afterwards, with tallies of 56,745 on its 11th week, as it dropped 3-4. It was number one for its first seven weeks, and remains one of the UK's most successful singles ever, with to-date sales of 1,770,757, including 25,735 in the last year.

I actually think there's a really good reason why it sold as well as it did in the UK besides the fact it's a catchy dance record of someone that was (and is) still admired especially in the UK: it was recorded there and along with Madonna brought dance music back to the top in the last years of the 20th century. Plus I'm sure her label promoted it to the hilt so this contributed to her selling that much.

[AndiIversen]

about the USA:
The very best of Cher should be closer to 3xP it was 2.8M a while back but i'm not sure it has sold 200k in the meantime..what about club sales, if any?
If I could turn back time Cher's greatest hits should be 1xP already
also all of her 70s gold singles should be recertified Plat, as they all sold 1M when certified gold back then
There's an off chance that Heart of stone gets a 4xP but it's not sure
Love Hurts was last certified Gold in mid-91' and it has sold about 600k since SS began so it might be up for 1xP as well
I'm sure some of her earlier stuff must be under certified...most artists are


about the UK:
here are the new certs on the database:

CHER - LIVE IN CONCERT
Platinum Certification (VIDEO) 22 July 2013
WARNER MUSIC (WARNER MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT)
Released 08 November 1999

CHER - THE FAREWELL TOUR
Platinum Certification (VIDEO) 22 July 2013
SONY MUSIC (IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT)
Released 25 August 2003

[LostAvenger]

Music Week Magazine:

The "Believe" album has sold 700,000 copies in the UK.

[88marcus88]

Charts and certifications in Spain

CHER
Albums
27 mar 93 Greatest hits 65-92 23 /20/
7 nov 98 Believe 2 /49/ 4PL
13 nov 99 The Greatest hits 5 /13/ PL
1 dec 01 Living proof 17 /2/ PL

Singles
14 nov 98 Believe 1 /x9/ /19/
6 mar 99 Strong enough 4 /11/
13 nov 99 D'ove l'amore 4 /6/
17 nov 01 The music´s no good without you 8 /4/

SONNY & CHER
Single
1965 I got you babe 8 /16/


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[arab]

Incredible that we have actual sales for the songs first 11 weeks! And total sales too!

You should thank Get Lucky and its 5-week-run with sales over 100k

[Nackar]

Wow... I knew Believe was big and I figured it had sold a million copies, but that much o.o

Unbelievable!

[StephenN17]

Incredible that we have actual sales for the songs first 11 weeks! And total sales too!

[arab]

UK

The last single to sell upwards of 100,000 copies for five weeks in a row?. Cher's 1998 monster Believe, which actually recorded a six figure sale for each of its first 10 weeks in the shops (a phrase I can't really use about singles any more) with tallies of 167,751, 205,238, 186,768, 164,642, 139,132, 126,011, 114,633, 114,452, 123,699 and 120,292. Its latter stages were buoyed by the approach of Christmas, and its sales collapsed immediately afterwards, with tallies of 56,745 on its 11th week, as it dropped 3-4. It was number one for its first seven weeks, and remains one of the UK's most successful singles ever, with to-date sales of 1,770,757, including 25,735 in the last year.

[StephenN17]

I don't know if anyone knows this yet, but Cher has a new album coming out. There's no release date yet but apparently this is her first single called Womans World. It was debuted last night at a club for the first time, here's 54 seconds of the song:
http://soundcloud.com/thomashall91/cher ... rld-longer