Barbra Streisand’s Lowest-Charting Album in Decades

She's utterly irrelevant. I didn't even know she was still alivew.

See, Barbra? Time to STOP, and stop embarrassing yourself and your legacy.

R1 And here at the DL, we all say the same about you. Coincidence?

So long, Gorgeous.

Who?

So we're supposed to be impressed you're still alive, OP? Eeew.

R6 Whoever said or implied that ?

She'll be fine. Her music and her life. She should just retire in peace.

Whatever, R8. Just RETIRE.

She could always tour to support it. But the album is a dud.

She should have done a dance album, something to cater to her huge gay fanbase. Or pop. You get Mariah and Ariana for a duet, and that shit was the best she could come up with?

Nobody. Cares.

Fuck my legacy!

R10 What world are you living in? Her core gay fanbase is somewhere between 60 and death.

R2 is saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

She is in the sad predicament of outliving most of her fan base.

The good news is sales of Brazilian Coffee ice cream in Malibu are the highest-charting in decades.

EGOT? Does a special Tony Award count? Why did she get one?

"The American Theatre Wing's Tony nominating committee gave Streisand a special 'Star of the Decade' award in 1970,"

[Quote] something to cater to her huge gay fanbase

Oh yes, her gay fanbase. Look at all the love in these comments.

[quote]See, Barbra? Time to STOP, and stop embarrassing yourself and your legacy.

True. So many other 83 year old recording artists are debuting in the Top 5 this year, and she's down at #31. What an embarrassment, huh ?

"Enough is Enough" is still played in many gay bars and brunches around the world.

She has a gay fanbase from that alone.

R19 you're making the mistake of assuming that DL is the mainstream.

Star Of The Decade is deserving of a theater honor? Bah. It's an EGOt

Several people are EGOTs because of special awards. They are listed separately.

Whoopi fell into this category until 2001 when she won a competitive Tony for producing and her Emmy is for Daytime tv.

Where’s Dionne Warwick when you need her?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGh

We're at the same chart spot we got to in 1969 with the first crack at contemporary pop What About Today. Way not worth remembering as an album, but it was the first batch. Now either she gets another Stoney End with the next album or god forbid, a rap collab, in a last ditch hail mary, or she will fade away..

I love you Barbra...

But enough with the "Duet" albums. They may be lush and gorgeous, but they're boring.

Barbra...make another album with some upbeat songs. Something along the lines of Stoney End, You're the Top and even a Broadway tune or two that is fun gets you moving. We don't want to emote any longer.

R20 a Paul McCartney album in 2024 debuted at #10. Same age as Barbra. More relevant.

My Barbra obsessed friend texted me today that this album went platinum. On what planet?! I replied

Her CD is still full price in the Underground Mall's Sam Goody's.

[quote]a Paul McCartney album in 2024 debuted at #10. Same age as Barbra. More relevant.

R28 It looks like you're referring to 'One Hand Clapping' - a live concert album with his band Wings, which was recorded 50 years earlier in August, 1974, and never released. It debuted / peaked at #74 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart. By my calculations, that's 43 spots lower than Streisand debuted / peaked (so far). Not sure how you consider that 'more relevant'. Do explain for us, please...

For the record, McCartney hasn't released a new studio album of new material since 2020.

I've never been a fan. My mother, who is postmenopausal now, has never been a fan. But my grandmother loved Babs to pieces.

I'm happy that the eldergays are happy, but she simply doesn't have the same appeal to the under-50 crowd now that she's so far beyond them. Same goes for Paul McCartney. Of course we all know who these icons are, and we respect their talent, but we're not rushing to pay money for their music.

I know who she is and what she's done...but I'm not ONE OF HER FAAAAAANNNNNS!

I love her, but the album is a real dud.

My generation only knows her from this.

"Curse your black heart, Barbra Streisand!!!!"

R26, What About Today was NOT a contemporary album. It had newer, non-Broadway songs, but the arrangements were big old Broadway/Vegas. Stony End changed that and I hated it.

Gen X here. As far as gay fans go, Barbra was never as big with Gen X gays as she was with Boomer gays. And of course so many Boomer gays died from AIDS which really decimated that audience. Gen X gays were all about Madonna, Barbra was not the big icon she was with us as she was with Boomers. And Millennials were like "Barbra who?" She was pretty irrelevant to them.

Exactly, R36.

Her final run of pop hits was ‘79 to ‘81, from The Main Event thru the Guilty singles and then a #11 hit Coming In And Out Of Your Life. It all sounded much more ‘70s than ‘80s.

She’s free to put out another Duets album at age 83 but it’s absurd to think it would sell well.

Madonna was THE gay icon to Gen X. By a mile, nobody else came close to the impact she had on our generation.

r27: Could not agree more, and I'm a huge fan. NO Barbra fan wanted another "Duets" album.

I only listened to the songs free on Barbras YouTube channel. Beautifully sing but deadly dull. I don't want to hear any of these other people.

[quote] "Enough is Enough" is still played in many gay bars and brunches around the world.

No it’s not.

She sounds like an old lady on this album. And has lost about 2 octaves.

[quote]She should have done a dance album, something to cater to her huge gay fanbase.

Her fanbase is in their 80s. She'd be responsible for thousands of broken hips if she released a dance album.

Barbra does not have enough voice left to do an upbeat Stoney End like pop album. Don’t you guys get that?

R31 McCartney also continues to sell out baseball stadiums in 2025 globally. You’d have to be an imbecile to claim that Streisand’s musical legacy is stronger and will be longer lasting than McCartney and the Beatles.

R31, yes his last studio album was in 2020. It peaked at #2. His 2018 new studio album went to #1.

Barbra’s last two studio albums peaked at #31 and #12.

Hope that helps, since charts matter so much to you.

Can someone describe the underground mall for me? Does it actually have fully stocked name brand stores? How many are there? I dont get it. Who shops there?

I've never been a huge fan, but I respect her. She has a lot more talent than many of the pop divas gays go for. these days.

R46 It’s not that kind of mall. It’s a few cute little square spaces, sectioned off by glass windows and made to look like they have little storefronts. And inside each one is a bunch of crap she already owns. A little shop for dolls. A little shop for hats. A little shop for fat pants.

She goes through it to “shop” for stuff, but it’s just a weird hybrid of closet and flea market. I pity the five people she pays to dust it all.

[Quote] I'm happy that the eldergays are happy,

Oh yes, they’re clearly thrilled.

R44 / R45 You've already embarrassed yourself by saying McCartney released an album last year which hit #10. Now you're trying to move the goal posts by throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks, and it's all nothing of which we're discussing here.

Barbara does have limited range- to be expected at her age-- She has lost significant power- but not all power.

I always find Stevie Nicks interesting- she literally has a NO OCTAVE range- however, she still has a significant amount of power in her voice (if you see her live performances from last year on YouTube) For a former cokehead- its pretty amazing-

And Tori Amos is someone. who has lost all range and power- Its fucking sad.

It's interesting how singer's voices age as they do...

Op you are such a hater. She is 80 something years old. Not of these young thots could hold a note next to her legacy and resume except Queen Bey, who Babs loves and adores.

Barbra was already twenty years into a successful career in the 80s. Beyoncé and Taylor Swift would eclipse Madonna in the 2000s and 2010s to become the reigning queens of music.

Tastes change.

Barbra who?

I guy James Brolin’s power to eat your pussy and provide career boosting magic is GONE

Now she can focus on GYPSY!

[quote] The collaborations project, which features tunes that pair Streisand with stars like Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey and Bob Dylan…

Is there a number with Roz?

Damn. It's only old show tunes queens, older than her 83 years, who care about her. Her last performance on Broadway was 60 years ago (1965). Generations of people know her name as someone who used to be famous, who has a shipping mall in her house, who starred in some wretched films (and one good one by Bogdanovich), as a woman with bad hair and long fingernails and diaphanous gowns. She was too good for everything yet most of the world knows her for Meet The Fockers, FFS.

With her husband wonderful singing skills I'm surprised Babs and JIm have never recorded an album together.

R52 Cool your tits. The last thing I am is a 'hater'. What are you - a fifteen year old girl ?

All did was share an article about the new album from an on-line magazine. If you want to call people a 'hater', email the writer of the article, young lady.

Her fans are ancient if not dead! She’s 80! She’s been making music for older people since the 60s, of course they’re going to go extinct

Barbra should have devoted the 80s and 90s to recording the American Songbook.

I haven’t heard this album but I’m sure she barks through it

[quote] It's only old show tunes queens, older than her 83 years, who care about her. Her last performance on Broadway was 60 years ago (1965).

Darling, Miss Barbra RECORDED quality music until 1970, and again in 1985. Being on Broadway has nothing to do with that. These recordings can still be purchased. Besides me, my mother, grandmother, gay uncle and 20 something nieces all love that period of her career. They don't go near the teen queen stuff and ask me, yes, me why such a great vocalist ended up recording the dreck everyone else did better.

This is the last time I think she did something that truly could have hit the mainstream in a big way. There were a couple of remixes of the song that were really good as well. She could have had a video featuring a bunch of drag queens lipsynching to it. Instead, she went with ANOTHER ballad as lead single.

Barbra is one of the most boring singers and performers. This was true in her heyday and it’s true now.

She seems to think she’s this infinitely talented goddess who is also extremely beautiful.

Old Jews and old queens have enforced her delusion, but they’re dying off. The past year has been such an embarrassment for her.

R48. Don't pity me!

I’m in the will, right?

DL is slipping. It took 66 posts before the word 'delusional' was dropped into a response ? That 60 more than usual.

A message from Barbra on her official FB page:

"After all these years, I still love going into the studio, getting that perfect mix in my headphones... and then singing! It can be challenging, liberating and emotionally uplifting. I’m always touched that people are still listening to my work…and deeply grateful that fans around the world have embraced the new album The Secret of Life - Partners, Vol. 2. It was a joy singing with my wonderful partners on this album. Wishing you all a happy and peaceful summer."

[quote]She goes through it to “shop” for stuff, but it’s just a weird hybrid of closet and flea market.

Five minutes after the funeral, the truck is backing up to that fucking mall and taking every last goddamn thing to the auction house.

[quote] For a former cokehead- its pretty amazing-

It's pretty amazing that Stevie Nicks is even alive at all at age 77. Bitch snorted up 3/4 of Peru for how many years and she's still here and still ticking. Incredible.

Does Barbra believe in Zionism? That's a barrier to obtaining cultural relevance in 2025.

Barbra is a Jew by identity, not religion. Her religion is California therapy, shrinkdom.

Therapy, shrinkdom, AND canine cloning.

R66 Her closet full of Grammys and historical run of best -selling albums through decades since the 1960s might beg to differ. You might not like her singing but millions of fans across the planet apparently don’t find her boring.

Because multiple social media promotional outlets, IMO: She even has a YouTube channel where her latest album’s cuts are posted in full and followers can listen to them there. Why even bother needing to purchase the thing, then??

One of my favorite-ever Barbra performances from her heyday 1960s standards years. 💿 ❤️🎶

R78, she rarely sang standards, that’s not one of them. The Third Album and Simply Streisand, both excellent, were LPs of standards.

I love her but she is the zenith of the deluded boomer artist who thinks that regardless of age they can continue on as if both they and the world has not changed. Most younger people today want steadily churned out disposable musical pablum, not schlocky overproduced ballads. Madonna is another, trying to be an elderly.sex kitten with a grill. Both of these women have incredible legacies, so it must be hard to acknowledge it’s over a la Gloria Swanson.

Except she's not even close to a Boomer. She's older than Biden, for Christ's sake.

I have to admit, I love it when someone pokes the Barbra bears.

She and Biden are the same age. She just seems like a boomer but yep she technically isn’t.

I’m a geriatric millennial (born 1985 but to see me you’d guess closer to 2005).

I grew up aware of Barbra, but to me she was just a self-important formerly famous person who showed up at award shows to present honorary Oscars etc. I knew she had a “big career”, and as a gayling eventually learned about Funny Girl and her appearance on the Judy Garland Show in the 60s.

It wasn’t until last year when I found her memoir on Spotify that I learned more. I had a couple cross-country drives coming up (flying phobia); I saw that the audiobook was 48 hours long and figured what the hell. When I tell you I was enthralled…

Following along the memoir, I started watching every live performance she talked about, listened to the albums, watched every movie (even Up the Sandbox — blech!). Her memoir made a lifelong fan out of me. I don’t much want to listen to her new music because I prefer to remember her voice as it was pre-2000, but she’s one of the few celebrities who I will actually mourn when they die.

I broke down last week and started a second listen of her book. Six hours in, 42 and change to go, and I couldn’t be more self-satisfied with my decision.

Barbra is the Songbird of the Silent Generation.

Yentl is a masterpiece. I will give her that. She did a brilliant job with that film. And the academy snubbing it was pure sexism.

R85 hi Babs…

They’re not they common but a lot of her fans are in their 30s and 40s.

[quote]I’m a geriatric millennial (born 1985 but to see me you’d guess closer to 2005).

A quintessentially DL description.

[quote]I’m a geriatric millennial (born 1985 but to see me you’d guess closer to 2005).

[quote]I grew up aware of Barbra, but to me she was just a self-important formerly famous person who showed up at award shows to present honorary Oscars etc. I knew she had a “big career”, and as a gayling eventually learned about Funny Girl...

I was born a whole 25 years than spry and fresh R83 (and shouldn't like to speculate on how youthful I look), but R83 provides an excellent description of my perception of Streisand.

She is 18 years older than me, but musical theatre and showtunes always seemed an old-fashioned thing to me, generationally more Boys in the Band -- not that distant in years but a world apart. She always seemed more than a generation older than me -- not 20 years but 30 or more. Streisand always seemed to me that her peak was long in the past. She had a strong voice and talent clearly, but to me she was very old-fashioned and didn't appeal.

Your comment makes no sense, R87. You claim they’re not common but “a lot” of her fans are in their 30s and 40s. Ha!

R85 Right. Sexism. That's the only reason.

In it's second week, the album falls from #31 to 'completely off the Hot 200 Albums' chart.

Geez - I miss the old days.

#48 = Jason, taking a break from shop-bottoming at Mirrors & Faces Cosmetics.

I miss the days in the 70s and 80s when an album would debut in the 50s and 60s and then climb up to the top 20s, 10s, all the way to #1. Then there was excitement to see how long it stayed there, before it slowly made its descent. It would stay on the charts for months.

R92 = Casey Kasem, dialing in from Hell

[quote]R66 Barbra is one of the most boring singers and performers. This was true in her heyday and it’s true now.

How fucking [italic]dare you ? !

Streisand isn't taking the sales too well.

[quote]She’s devastated,” a longtime pal says. “She thought that recording with Ariana would deliver a top 10 hit. This was supposed to be Barbra’s big moment. She thought she was making Grammy history — instead she’s facing one of her biggest flops.”

As relevant as the pencil you use to dial your rotary with.

It’s what she deserves.

Where’s Babsbot?

[quote] She and Biden are the same age. She just seems like a boomer

No she doesn’t. She comes across older than dirt.

She's like 80, did we really expect her to have a hit album now?

No one was even interested in her life story. It must kill her. Cher’s memoir was #1 for 5 weeks. Babs was like top 5 for 1 week only and then it disappeared. Her music is completely forgotten and irrelevant and as a person she’s a nobody.

[quote] She's like 80, did we really expect her to have a hit album now?

She certainly believed it.

She’s 83 years old and all the face work has left her looking like Ron Perlman in Beauty and the Beast.

R105, that was so cruel, but your post did make me cackle.

The charts are fake and bought. I doubt she cares.

R107 = Babs

It’s a shame Barbra is so competitive with her own past self per the “devastated” gossip at R97. That shit, that mindset, is a method of self inflicted psychological injury.

Gurl… wake up, you’re elderly! You’re 83!

She has so much. She could be basking in her $$$$$ fortune and in gratitude for what she has done and is still able to do.

R76, you’re absolutely right. We are talking about the same recording Academy who gave Christopher Cross (beat Babs that year) and Billie Eilish clean sweeps in the General Field, but point taken. I just personally think she’s dull, awful, mean and unattractive.

I don’t think I’m alone either. She waited too long to tell her life story and I don’t think enough of her fans are alive anymore to bring in the numbers people were expecting.

She did live long enough to see her flop era though.

I also doubt she cares. She EGOTted when she was like 9 years old, she was the absolute hottest commodity of the 60s and 70s, her popularity extended deep into the naughts. She’s produced and directed major hit films and has gone platinum a zillion times over. She has more money than Christ, along with a devoted husband and a caring son. Neither she nor her workproduct are “forgotten”. She’s truly an American Orignal™️ and the suggestion that she or her huge career is “irrelevant” is risible and is unworthy of a substantive response.

R111: But ya are, Babs!

Too much filler. She must have a Botox clinic in her underground mall.

The reason it flopped is NONE OF HER DIE-HARD FANS WANTED ANOTHER DUETS ALBUM.

What we wanted would not have ignited the charts either, but we'd be happy:

"Streisand Sings Sondheim"......."The Arlen I've Never Sung"........"More Than Just FUNNY GIRL: The Jule Styne Album" ......"Streisand: Swingin' Sassy!" ....

"Streisand sings Lil' Kim"

"I used to be scared of the dick, now I throw lips to the shit. Handle it like a real bitch..."

Those underground mall references apparently pass for wit.

R116 Hi Babs!

She was in denial over no longer being box-office. Had a longer run than most female stars. Now her reliable recording career is sinking in the sun. Will she take a hint and simply enjoy her million$ for her remaining years?

[quote]r113 Too much filler. She must have a Botox clinic in her underground mall.

I love this image! Can you imagine?

I can see her bringing luncheon guests down there for a free shot, too.

She needs something to do. How about inventing some new flowers she can name after herself? There’s at least one so far.

Poor Babs. Her album lasted a total of 1 week on the Billboard 200. Debuted at #31 then fell off the chart. Ouch.

That's harsh r121.

As others have said, a lot of her audience has died off.

As far as gay fans go, she was definitely a Boomer gay thing. I'm Gen X and we've never worshipped her like the Boomer guys. We were all about Madonna.

Sad last days!

FREE, R119? You must be joking!

[quote]As far as gay fans go, she was definitely a Boomer gay thing. I'm Gen X and we've never worshipped her like the Boomer guys. We were all about Madonna.

White gays, yes.

But black gays had Whitney and Janet.

I think that's wonderful, r125

[quote]so it must be hard to acknowledge it’s over a la Gloria Swanson.

R80 I think you mean 'Norma Desmond.'

Gloria Swanson was nothing like her SUNSET BOULEVARD character.

[quote]She’s 83 years old and all the face work has left her looking like Ron Perlman in Beauty and the Beast.

😂

Funny you say that, because I remember when I first saw the movie poster for NUTS way back when, at first glance I thought it was promoting that BEAUTY AND THE BEAST series, because it premiered in 1987 around the same time.

I've always wondered, why did Streisand approve that poster? Isn't she always conscious of her image?

I've always remembered a quote from Joe Queenan in the old Movieline magazine about Nuts: "If women who looked like Barbra Streisand could make $400 for a blowjob, prostitution would be the most overcrowded profession in the country."

R127 = Merv Griffin

R129 yeah, she's supposed to play a high-priced call girl. 🤣

When I saw NUTS on the Upper West Side when it opened, there is a scene where a glammed up Streisand slithers into a gentleman's club and all the men are lustfully ogling her. The audience (or Barbra fans) started laughing at the absurdity of it all.

"Enough is Enough" is still played in many gay bars and brunches around the world.

The R21 gay brunches made me laugh.

Don’t kid yourselves, Barbra most likely shed a few tears over how this new album spectacularly flopped. After all the effort to put it together, all the publicity she got herself up for - very few gave a shit. She knows it’s over. I’m happy it’s over.

[quote]When I saw NUTS on the Upper West Side when it opened, there is a scene where a glammed up Streisand slithers into a gentleman's club and all the men are lustfully ogling her. The audience (or Barbra fans) started laughing at the absurdity of it all.

Yeah, she was an expensive call girl. With a face like that. And at fortysomething years old. Her vanity was off the charts in that movie.

[quote] The reason it flopped is NONE OF HER DIE-HARD FANS WANTED ANOTHER DUETS ALBUM.

All two of em.

Babs has been hated for decades. People just can’t stand her.