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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Eros Ramazzotti
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Eros Walter Luciano Ramazzotti is an Italian musician and singer-songwriter. Ramazzotti is popular in Italy and most European countries, and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, since 1984, Ramazzotti he has released 11 studio albums, one EP, three compilation albums, three live albums, and 37 singles. He has sold over 60 million records in his 30-year career and this success led to a BMG International record contract in 1994. Ramazzotti was born on 28 October 1963 in Cinecittà Est, a suburb of Rome and he is the son of Rodolfo Ramazzotti, a construction worker and Raffaela Molina, a housewife. His father originated from the province of Viterbo in Lazio and his mother from the province of Vibo Valentia in Calabria and he was named after Eros, the Greek god of love. He began playing the guitar at age seven, as a teenager, he wrote songs with the help of his father who was a music lover and played piano. He wanted to attend a conservatory but failed the admission examination, and started training in bookkeeping. He occasionally appeared as an extra in films while dreaming of having a career as a pop-star, in 1981, Ramazzotti took part in a music contest, Voci Nuove di Castrocaro with the song Rock 80, which he wrote, performing in front of various record label representatives. DDD gave Eros his first contract and he moved to Milan with his brother Marco and his mother Raffaella, and they initially lived in the same building as the record label company. Ramazzottis first single, Ad un amico, was released in 1982, soon after, Eros met Renato Brioschi, who mentored the young artist toward his first success in 1984 at the highly regarded Sanremo Festival. His song, Terra promessa won the Newcomers category, and was released widely throughout Europe. In 1985, Ramazzotti took part in the Sanremo Festival again with the song Una storia importante, taken from his debut album Cuori agitati. While only placing sixth at the festival, Una storia importante was released as a single and became a hit in many European countries. His second album Nuovi eroi, released in 1986, earned two Platinum-awards in Switzerland with over 100,000 sales, and Gold status in Germany with over 250,000 sales. At his third Sanremo Festival appearance in 1986 his memorable single, in 1987, Ramazzotti went on a nine-month-long tour after releasing his third album In certi momenti, performing in front of more than a million people. In certi momenti went Gold in Germany with over 250,000 sales and Platinum in Switzerland with over 50,000 sales, and reached more than 3 million copies worldwide. As his career developed, he performed La Luce Buona Delle Stelle with Patsy Kensit on 22 November 1987 and his fifth album, In ogni senso, released in April 1990, attracted more than two hundred journalists from around the world to the albums press conference launch in Venice. However, he was disappointed to learn that most of his audience was of Italian descent
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Cher
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Cher is an American singer and actress. Commonly referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she is described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song I Got You Babe reached number one on the American and she began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song, Bang Bang. She became a personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run. She emerged as a trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While working on television, she established herself as a solo artist with the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, Half-Breed, and Dark Lady. After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, Cher launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–82 residency show in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation of the same title. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in such as Silkwood, Mask. She then revived her career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher, Heart of Stone. She reached a new peak in 1998 with the album Believe. It also features the use of Auto-Tune, also known as the Cher effect. Her 2002–2005 Living Proof, The Farewell Tour became one of the concert tours of all time. In 2008, she signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years, after seven years of absence, she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque. Chers first studio album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth, Cher has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a special CFDA Fashion Award, among several other honors. Throughout her career, she has sold 100 million records worldwide and she is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her views, philanthropic endeavors and social activism, including LGBT rights. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20,1946, Chers father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old
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Bertelsmann Music Group
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Bertelsmann Music Group was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japans Sony Corporation of America on October 1,2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music activities of Bertelsmann. The joint venture with Sony Music was set up in August 2004 and it reduced the Big Five record companies to the Big Four record companies. At that time, the company had a 21. 5% share in the music market. Sony Music and BMG remained separate in Japan, although BMG Music Japan was wholly owned by Sony BMG. Bertelsmann sold its 50% share of Sony BMG to Sony Corporation of America for a total of $1.5 billion, and it is focused mainly in BMGs European stronghold markets. The basis of the company was formed through BMGs decision to withhold selected European music catalogues from the former Sony BMG joint venture, also kept separate from the acquisition by Sony Corporation of America was Sony BMGs wholly owned and operated BMG Japan. Sony Music Japan remained independent from the Sony BMG joint venture, therefore BMG, during Sony BMGs buyout, BMG Japan was instead picked up by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It briefly continued to operate as an entity until a reorganization in early 2009 folded the company into Sony Music Japan. Barry Weiss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Zomba Label Group CEO Now part of Sony Music Entertainment after the buyout of Bertelsmann AGs 50% stake in Sony BMG. BMG Music Publishing, which was not part of the Sony BMG merger, was a business of the Bertelsmann Music Group until it was sold to Universal Music Group for €1.63 billion in 2007. Universal then folded the company into Universal Music Publishing Group, the company was headquartered at 245 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor New York, New York 10016 and had operations in 36 offices in 25 countries. BMG Music publishing controlled over one million copyrights, BMG Music Publishing was the global leader in Classical music and was number one in Contemporary Christian music. Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing is BMG Music Publishings Christian publisher and owns over 60,000 copyrights, BMG Music Publishing and its assets have now been completely absorbed and folded into Universal Music Publishing Group. After Sony bought out Bertelsmanns share in Sony BMG, Bertelsmann was allowed to keep the rights to recordings from the former joint venture. These songs served as the foundation to BMG Rights Management, BMG Rights Management now serves as a division within Bertelsmann and as a replacement to the defunct Bertelsmann Music Group. A settlement in 2002 included the publishers and distributors, Sony Music, Warner Music, Bertelsmann Music Group, EMI Music. In restitution for price fixing they agreed to pay a $67.4 million fine and distribute $75.7 million in CDs to public and non-profit groups and it is estimated customers were overcharged by nearly $500 million and up to $5 per album
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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The Music's No Good Without You
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The Musics No Good Without You is a song recorded by American singer Cher for her twenty-fourth studio album, Living Proof. It was released on November 27,2001 by Warner Bros, the song reached the top 10 in many countries worldwide, expanding Chers chart success into five decades. com. mercial, in 2000, her first album not sold in stores but exclusively online. Later, in 2001, Cher reunited with the UK-rooted production team of Taylor and Brian Rawlings, Cher also collaborated with Rick Nowels, British musician/producer Chicane, and Norwegian team Stargate. Cher described the album, titled Living Proof, as a record with a positive lyrical tone. She further added, This had subconsciously become an album filled with love and it was a pleasant surprise, and its certainly an appropriate time to put some positive energy out into the world. The Musics No Good Without You was released as the albums first international single, the single was also released as a double A-side single, along with A Different Kind of Love Song, on August 13,2002. The Musics No Good Without You was written by Cher, James Thomas, Mark Taylor and Paul Barry, while production was done by Taylor, with co-production by Thomas, the song is drenched in hypnotic synth lines and computer-savvy vocal effects. The song received mixed reviews from music critics. The song managed to become a top ten hit in Canada, Italy, with a peak position of #8 in the UK Singles Chart, Cher became the only female recording artist to have top 10 hits in every decade, beginning in the 1960s. It was Chers 12th consecutive and 33rd overall top 40 single in the UK, in the United States the album Living Proof was not released until February 2002 and its lead single was Song for the Lonely. The Musics No Good Without You was exclusively released as a single only. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart at number nineteen, the accompanying music video for The Musics No Good Without You was directed by Nigel Dick, who had previously directed Chers music videos for Believe and Strong Enough. It was filmed on October 7–8,2001, on a sound stage with a spaced out design at Nikken Building, in Irvine. The video follows the concept of the lyrics of the song, in the music video Cher is an outer space queen who is sad because her lover has left her. Throughout the whole video she writes a letter claiming that she knows he doesnt need her anymore, in the end she places the letter in an empty bottle and sends it floating into space. It appears that this had not been the first letter that she had sent to him there are dozens of bottles floating in space. A remix video was made for the The Musics No Good Without You, the remix video was the entitled Almighty Edit and the remix used for the video was the radio edit of the Almighty mix. The video was released by Warner Bros. as a promo only
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Italian language
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By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is a language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City. Italian is spoken by minorities in places such as France, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages, Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world. Italian is a major European language, being one of the languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers, including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian is the working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as the official language of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Italian is known as the language of music because of its use in musical terminology and its influence is also widespread in the arts and in the luxury goods market. Italian has been reported as the fourth or fifth most frequently taught foreign language in the world, Italian was adopted by the state after the Unification of Italy, having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was influenced by other Italian languages and to some minor extent. Its vowels are the second-closest to Latin after Sardinian, unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latins contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive, however, Italian as a language used in Italy and some surrounding regions has a longer history. What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the language of Italy. Italian was also one of the recognised languages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Italy has always had a dialect for each city, because the cities. Those dialects now have considerable variety, as Tuscan-derived Italian came to be used throughout Italy, features of local speech were naturally adopted, producing various versions of Regional Italian. Even in the case of Northern Italian languages, however, scholars are not to overstate the effects of outsiders on the natural indigenous developments of the languages
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GfK Entertainment Charts
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The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Following a lawsuit in March 2014 by Media Control AG, Media Control® GfK International had to change its name, dissemination of the charts is conducted by various media outlets, some of which include VIVA music channel, and the Swiss charts website. Other entities that present the charts are MusicLoad and MIX1, furthermore, GfK Entertainment also runs a dedicated website providing chart-related news and access to most of the charts. Charts have been published in Germany since 1959, in a magazine called Der Musikmarkt, since 1959, the growing desire to have a well-developed music program has made Bundesverband Musikindustrie work together with charts providers to improve the way the charts are determined. For this purpose, different research institutes were tested, out of which Media Control, hence, the first official charts were made available in the magazine Der Musikmarkt in September 1977. Initially, there used to be 50 positions only, which later in January 1980, was extended to 75 slots, since 1989, however, GfK Entertainment has adapted the international standards providing 100 positions, now called Offizielle Top 100 Charts. In 2001, the Top-100 singles charts was modified to reflect the sales of the singles, Media Control developed Music Video charts in 2001, which later, in 2004, was renamed as DVD charts. While music-videos have their own charts, in 2001, GfK Entertainment made it possible for the music-video singles to have the ability to enter the Top-100 singles chart. Similarly, in 2002, it was available for music-video albums to chart on the Top-100 album chart. If not, then, the DVD album could qualify for the DVD chart only, in the same vein, if an audio CD contains at least 50% of video recording, then, it could qualify to chart on the DVD chart. In 2003, Media Control joined forces with GfK, thus the name officially being changed to Media Control GfK International GmbH. In 2004, Germany became one of the first music markets wherein sales charts were reflected by online digital downloads, digital-only releases came into existence on 13 July 2007, for online downloads only, which also altered the way the sales figures were conducted up to that point. Consequently, chart positions would no longer be affected by the number of music downloads as before. Thus, the albums would not necessarily be the ones ending up in the number-one position on the charts. In March 2014, GfK announced that the official chart providers name in Germany will change from Media Control GfK International GmbH to GfK Entertainment, there are currently 3,000 outlets that report their sales on weekly bases in Germany. The weekly sales data is transmitted to GfK Entertainment via communication network channel and this is the list of categories, for each of which charts are provided by GfK Entertainment
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Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana
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The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy. It was established in 1992, when major corporate labels left the previously existing Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani, during the following years, most of the remaining Italian record labels left AFI to join the new organization. As of 2011, FIMI represents 2,500 companies operating in the music business, FIMI is a member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and of the Italian employers federation, Confindustria. Its main purpose is to protect the interests of the Italian record industry, starting in March 1995, the Italian Music Industry Federation began providing the Italian official albums chart. In January 1997, FIMI also became the provider of the Italian official singles chart, due to the decrease of CD singles sales in Italy, FIMI replaced its physical singles chart with a digital downloads chart—based on legal internet and mobile downloads—on 1 January 2008. In July 2011, Enzo Mazza was confirmed as FIMI chairman, the Italian Music Industry Federation compiled its first album chart in March 1995. Issued on 7 March 1995, it was based on sales between 23 February 1995 and 1 March 1995 and this period coincided with the first week of sales for the albums released by the 45th Sanremo Music Festival contestants, the most important music event in Italy. The first number-one album was Bruce Springsteens Greatest Hits, between 1995 and 2009, the FIMI Album Chart was based on data provided by Nielsen. From January 2010, the FIMI Album Charts positions have been derived from GfK Retail, in 1995, the chart was based on data digitally gathered by 130 sellers. The number of sellers was later increased and, as of 2011, starting from 14 October 2011, the FIMI Albums Chart also includes digital sales. In March 1995, alongside the FIMI Album Chart, the Italian Music Industry Federation also began the FIMI Compilations Chart and these albums are not included in the FIMI Album Chart. The first number-one was Sanremo 95, released by RTI Music, in January 1997, the Italian Music Industry Federation also started an official singles chart. The first number-one single was Depeche Modes Barrel of a Gun, compiled by Nielsen, the chart listed the best-selling physical singles in Italy, but on 1 January 2008 it was replaced by the Top Digital Download, listing the best-selling digital singles. The last number one on the physical FIMI Singles Chart was The Singles Collection by Vasco Rossi, the Italian DVD Chart was established by the Italian Music Industry Federation in October 2003. The first Italian DVD Chart listed only the first ten positions, as of July 2011, it lists the 20 best-selling music DVDs in Italy, and is compiled by ACNielsen. On 10 April 2006, FIMI published the first chart listing the best-selling digital singles in Italy, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, the chart was based on data provided by 10 digital stores. The first number-one single was Sei nellanima by Gianna Nannini, due to the decrease of CD singles sales in Italy, on 1 January 2008 the Top Digital Download became the Italian official singles chart, replacing the chart based on physical sales. A certification system has existed in Italy since the mid 1970s, during that period, albums had to sell 500,000 units to qualify for a Silver status, while for Gold, the requirement was 1,000,000 units
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Cher albums discography
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American entertainer Cher has released 25 studio albums, nine compilation albums, three soundtrack albums, and one live album. In 1964 Cher signed a contract with Imperial Records, a label owned by Liberty Records. After the success of her first major single, Bob Dylans All I Really Want to Do she, the album peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard 200 and at number seven on the UK Albums Chart. After the massive success of I Got You Babe the record label encouraged her to record the second album, the record peaked within the top 30 in several countries. Chér and With Love, Chér were less successful on the music charts, backstage and her first official compilation album Chers Golden Greats her last efforts with Imperial were critically and commercially unsuccessful. Cher entered the 1970s with the release of the album Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, next year she followed it with her less successful eighth studio album Foxy Lady. In 1973 she released two records, Bittersweet White Light and Half-Breed her second album in the United States. Dark Lady was released as her studio album in 1974 and was less successful on the music charts. After the separation with Sonny she signed a new $2.5 million recording contract and business deal with Warner Bros. From 1975 to 1977 she released a string of critic and commercial failures, Stars, Id Rather Believe in You, Cherished, in 1979 she signed with Casablanca Records and released her fifteenth album, Take Me Home, which was certified gold in the United States. Prisoner was less successful than its predecessor, in the beginning of the 1980s, Cher formed a band called the Black Rose and released their first album Black Rose which was later re-released in Germany as Chers solo album. In 1982 Columbia Records released the album I Paralyze, with decreasing album sales, in 1987 Cher signed with Geffen Records and released her first album in five years, Cher proved to be successful on the music charts and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 1991 Cher released her studio album Love Hurts, it became her first number-one in the United Kingdom. However, it was successful in North America. In 1995 she signed with Warner Bros. which became her record company. The first release with Warner was her twenty-first studio album Its a Mans World which was successful than its predecessors. Her twenty-second studio album Believe released at the end of 1998 was heralded as her album and became her best-selling studio album ever. 1999s compilation The Greatest Hits released outside the United States became an international chart-topper, Cher entered the 2000s with the release of the independent album not. com. mercial exclusively through her official website
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Cher singles discography
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American entertainer Cher has released seventy-nine official singles, fifteen promotional singles and appeared in eleven other songs. Cher is the female artist with the most Billboard Hot 100 charted singles. Cher has had a total of 15 number one hits and a total of 33 top ten hits on all Billboard charts combined. Chers career as a recording artist spans six decades and is the only artist to have a single on a Billboard chart in each of those past six decades. This feat was accomplished when You Havent Seen the Last of Me reached number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart the week of January 19,2011, in the UK, she is the only female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades. She has had a total of 34 top 40 hits, beginning with All I Really Want to Do in 1965 through I Hope You Find It in 2013. Notes, A ^ Mama did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, B ^ For What Its Worth did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number twenty-five. Did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number eleven, D ^ The I Got You Babe duet with Beavis and Butt-head did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number eight. E ^ Womans World did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number twenty five. S
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Cher filmography
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Throughout her acting career, Cher has mainly in comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in thirteen films, including two as a cameo, Cher has starred in various international television commercials, as well as high-profile print advertising for Lori Davis. Before she started her career, she had a couple of hits in the 1960s, as a solo artist. Her first appearance as an actress was in 1967 in the American television series The Man from U. N. C. L. E. as the model Ramona. That same year, she started her career with Sonny Bono in the poorly received-film Good Times. Since then she has starred in independent and Hollywood motion pictures. She made her Broadway debut in Robert Altmans Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean and it was a commercial success and grossed $35 million in the United States alone. Cher then appeared in the drama Mask directed by Peter Bogdanovich and with Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, the film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. Rocky Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. The film was considered her first critical and commercial success as a leading actress, for her role as a mother of a severely disfigured boy, Cher won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1987, she starred in three films, the thriller Suspect, with Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson, the film has been credited for the quality of acting despite the severe loopholes of the story. In particular, Cher, in the role, has received positive reviews. The fantasy film The Witches of Eastwick, with Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, Moonstruck is also her most commercial success to date, grossing over $80 million in the United States alone. The film was a modest success with only $35 million in USA, Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player and Prêt-à-Porter. She starred in the poorly received film Faithful with Ryan ONeal and Chazz Palminteri, then, later in 1999, Cher co-starred in the well-received Franco Zeffirelli film Tea With Mussolini with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Lily Tomlin. She had an appearance in the Farrelly Brothers comedy Stuck on You with Matt Damon. She plays herself and Honey, a character of a TV series and she also spoofed her own image, appearing in bed with a high school boyfriend. Cher has also contributed music to films, like Alfie, After All The Shoop Shoop Song, Cher has received many awards and nominations for her work in films. She was also nominated twice for the Academy Award, in 1984 for her role in Silkwood, and in 1987, when she won the Best Actress award for her role in Moonstruck
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All I Really Want to Do (album)
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All I Really Want to Do is the debut solo studio album by American singer-actress Cher and was released on October 16,1965 by Imperial Records. The album was produced for Cher by her husband and singing partner, Sonny Bono. The album is by-and-large a collection of cover versions but does contain three songs written by Bono, upon its release, the album was well received by critics and garnered positive reviews. At the same time that the duo Sonny & Cher were debuting on Atco Records, after the success of Sonny & Chers I Got You Babe single, Bono decided to promote his wife as a solo act, producing her first full-length album himself. All I Really Want to Do, like the album by Sonny & Cher, Look at Us. The album includes recordings of contemporary, uptempo rock songs, but it also has a somewhat folky slant to it, in order to differentiate it from the musical style of Sonny & Chers records. On the album, Cher covered three songs written and performed by Bob Dylan, All I Really Want to Do, Blowin in the Wind and Dont Think Twice, Its All Right. The album contains the Bono-penned Needles and Pins, which was a hit for the British band, The Searchers, other covers on the album are She Thinks I Still Care, The Bells of Rhymney and Come and Stay With Me. The song was included on the 1967 Sonny & Cher soundtrack album. All I Really Want to Do has received reviews from music critics, with Tim Sendra, of the Allmusic website. Sendra went on to note that Cher isnt the most subtle singer, in 1992, All I Really Want to Do and Chers follow-up solo album, The Sonny Side of Chér, were reissued on one CD by EMI Records. Later, in 1995, EMI released a collection titled The Originals, the album was again reissued on one CD with The Sonny Side of Chér by BGO Records in 2005 in the UK only. The original twelve track All I Really Want to Do album has never issued on Compact Disc on its own. All I Really Want to Do was a success on the Billboard 200 album chart, the album entered the chart while the debut album by Sonny & Cher, Look at Us, was still at #2. The album also entered the UK Albums Chart, debuting at #20 in early October 1965, the album remained in the UK chart for nine weeks between early October and late November. Although All I Really Want to Do reached the UK Album Chart, the song All I Really Want to Do was the only single to be taken from the album and reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the UK singles chart. The song also entered the Canadian, Dutch and Swedish single charts, All I Really Want to Do was the first single to be released by Cher under that name and was also her first solo hit. The album also contained the Bono-penned song, Dream Baby, which had released as a single in 1964 by Cher, under the pseudonym of Cherylin
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Backstage (album)
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Backstage is the fifth album by American singer-actress Cher, released in July 1968 by Imperial Records. This album was her first commercial failure, failed to chart, the album is by-and-large a covers album. Backstage was released in 1968, was produced again by Sonny Bono with Denis Pregnolato and Harold R. Battiste Jr. and was Chers last album on the Liberty Records subsidiary. The album was not a success and was her first to produce no hit singles, the Click Song and Take Me For A Little While were released as singles, but they did not chart. Ten of the 12 tracks were issued in 1970 as an LP on Sunset Records as This Is Cher. In this year Cher recorded also others two songs, Yours Until Tomorrow and The Thought Of Loving You, Yours Until Tomorrow was released as a single with The Thought Of Loving You. The album was re-issued on CD in 2007 along with the greatest hits release Golden Greats, in 2016, the song It All Adds Up Now was used in the NatWest Advertisement campaign, with the title of the song being used as the companys slogan. This was following the success of Amazon TV ad using Sonny & Chers hit Little man, Cher – lead vocals Production Sonny Bono – record producer Harold R. Battiste, Jr
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3614 Jackson Highway
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3614 Jackson Highway is the sixth album by American singer-actress Cher, released on June 20,1969 by ATCO. This album was a failure, peaking at #160, although it received praise. 3614 Jackson Highway was the address of Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, the album is by-and-large a covers album. 3614 Jackson Highway was released in the summer of 1969, was her first and last solo album for Atco. The cover is a photograph of Cher with the musicians who played on the album, back row, left to right, lead guitarist Jimmy Johnson, producer Arif Mardin, drummer Roger Hawkins and keyboardist Barry Beckett. Missing were background vocalists Mary Holiday and Sue Pilkington, the worldwide pop culture was moving on, but Sonny & Cher stayed in their original image and style. Pop music was transforming into a style marked by anti-war songs protesting the war in Vietnam. Chers and Sonny & Chers music didnt really fit in, so their records werent really selling anymore. For months they had an act, but the audience response was less than positive. If the public response to this album was low, the criticism was ecstatic, critics judged this as one of Chers best albums. A surprising element of the disc was the voice of Cher. Another surprise was the instrumentation and arrangements, which gave the disc a rock edge. The title of the album represents the address of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, in 1968 and 1969 Cher recorded songs which would have become an album in 1970. For unknown reasons the release was cancelled however five songs were released as singles, the song Superstar is also included which was originally cut from the cancelled album
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Foxy Lady (Cher album)
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Foxy Lady is the eighth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in July 1972 by Kapp Records. Following the commercial success of the previous album Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves, Cher again collaborated with Snuff Garrett, Al Capp, Foxy Lady was also the second and last record for Kapp. The album was promoted on Chers successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show. After its release, it was received by critics, but unlike her previous effort Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves, had only moderate chart and sales success. When it was released, Foxy Lady was on the charts with two other Cher-related albums, Chers Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves and Sonny & Chers comeback album All I Ever Need Is You. This period was successful for Cher, in which she established herself as a solo recording artist. During this period Snuff Garrett helped with Chers records and these collaborations were so stress filled that Garrett resigned as producer after the album was finished. Bono then went on to produce Chers next album Bittersweet White Light, Garrett was then approached to return to record Half-Breed, he accepted with the condition that Bono not be involved. The opening track of the album is Living in a House Divided, a song about divorce, but the album as a whole wasnt able to compete with Chers other early 1970s solo records. The album contains two covers, A Song for You and Hoyt Axtons Never Been to Spain, the latter had been a hit in the US for rock band Three Dog Night before The Way of Love. On this album, Cher again collaborated with Bob Stone, who had written the song Gypsys. Two songs from the album were later covered by American singer Maureen McGovern for her 1973 debut album The Morning After. In 1976, when Cher was busy with the Cher TV show, one outfit was dedicated to the album. The Foxy Lady outfit is in two pieces, a pink metallic with a black lace. This outfit also includes a black cape, in 1993, Foxy Lady and Chers 1971 album Cher were reissued onto one CD called Cher/Foxy Lady, which features all tracks from both albums. The original Foxy Lady album in its entirety remains unreleased on compact disc, Foxy Lady received positive reviews from music critics. Rolling Stone praised the album saying that it is work and will take her right up the charts once again and described it as a sure. Despite good sales of the first single, Living in a House Divided, the album wasnt appreciated by the public, and unlike its predecessor, the war between Garrett and Bono may have damaged the sales of the record
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Bittersweet White Light
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Bittersweet White Light was the ninth studio album by American singer Cher. The album was released in April 1973 by MCA and it was the last solo Cher album to be produced by then-performing partner and husband Sonny Bono. While many fans consider the album to be her best vocal performance, Bittersweet White Light and it was Chers first record released only by MCA, both in the UK and the US. Bittersweet White Light was a collection of fully orchestrated, lushly-arranged classics, Bono had started in the music business working with legendary Wall of Sound producer Phil Spector and the album clearly demonstrates Spectors influence. The album was promoted on her successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show, the title of the album was reported to be taken from the staging of such songs on her television show—which she performed in front of a torch spotlight. The other albums that got tracks mixed together were Take Me Home, the disc was compiled and co-produced by Mike Khouri. Bittersweet White Light received mixed reviews from music critics, rolling Stone said about the album that it consists entirely of ballad-rocked standards by Kern, Gershwin, etc. and should please the artists TV fans. Bittersweet White Light was her first commercial failure of the 1970s and it charted only in the Billboard 200 at #140. The album, unlike the release, didnt enter the Canadian album chart. Due to the lack of success, only one single was released. It missed the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #111 in Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, additional notes Jolson Medley is a medley of the songs Sonny Boy, My Mammy and Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
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Half-Breed (album)
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Half-Breed is the tenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in September,1973 by MCA. For the production of the album Cher returned with Snuff Garrett, Half-Breed was the second record for MCA and also promoted on her successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show. After its release, the album faced mixed reviews critics. The album was her solo album to receive a certification by RIAA. The second album released by Cher in 1973 was Half-Breed, after the failure of the previous pop-standard style album, Bittersweet White Light, Cher abandoned forever her husband Sonny Bono as a producer for her albums. Snuff Garrett returned to work with Cher after the success of Cher, the opening track of the album is the cover of the penned hit song by Paul and Linda McCartney My Love, that was released in March 1973. The album contains two covers, the Bee-Gees How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and The Beatles The Long and Winding Road. All the songs that Cher covered in the album were originally number one hits by the artists on the US Billboard 200 in the early 70s. David Paich contributed for the Davids Song and for the arrangements in the album, the last song of the album, Chastity Sun, was re-written by Cher. Originally entitled Ruby Jean & Billy Lee was a song by rock band Seals. The re-written version of Cher was a dedication to her first child Chaz Bono, in August 1993, the original album was combined with Dark Lady and issued on one CD. Called Half Breed/Dark Lady, this included all the tracks from both original albums. In contrast, several budget CDs have also released titled Half Breed by various labels. These albums use different covers, and contain two tracks from the original album alongside selected tracks from other Cher albums, including Cher, Foxy Lady. The original Half-Breed album in its entirety remains unreleased on compact disc, Half-Breed received mixed reviews from music critics. About the album style, it read Melancholy and bittersweet from start to finish, Half-Breed debuted on the Billboard 200 at #171 in late September, eventually peaking at number #28. During 1974 sales reached 500,000 copies in North America, the album also charted in the Canadian album chart and reached #21. In Europe it charted only in the Norway album chart, like her previous successful albums Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves and Foxy Lady, only two singles were released
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Dark Lady (album)
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Dark Lady is the 11th studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in May 1974 by MCA. Cher again collaborated with Snuff Garrett as a producer. Dark Lady was the third and final album for MCA. It was also the last record promoted on her successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show, after its release, the album received positive reviews from critics but, unlike her previous record produced by Garrett, was only moderately successful. After the success of Half-Breed, Cher, for her final record under MCA, again chose Snuff Garrett to produce, during that same year, she divorced her first husband Sonny Bono, dissolving the Sonny & Cher couple. This ended their musical ties and television show for a while. Due to the success of albums produced by Garrett, Dark Lady followed the same narrative ballad style. She attracted many fans during this period of her career for her style of glamour pop. MCA released Greatest Hits with the letter E accented in Chér on the album cover, the next albums released by Warner Bros completely remove the stress. The opening track of the album is a written by Alan ODay Train of Thought that had moderate success on the pop charts. The album also two covers, The Great Gatsby theme song Whatll I Do and the 1965 Fontella Bass hit song Rescue Me. Cher also does a tribute to Bette Midler on the retro Miss Subway of 1952, Dark Lady had received positive reviews from music critics. Decades later, Peter Fawthrop of Allmusic gave it three stars and compared this album with the previous Half-Breed saying that is more upbeat. He also said that she was more wholesome and organic in the early 70s, about Cher, said that she is a personality as well as a singer, so display in rock, pop and on stepdowns. In August 1993, the album was combined with Half-Breed and issued on one CD titled Half Breed/Dark Lady. A CD of the original Dark Lady album in its entirety has not yet been produced, Dark Lady debuted on the Billboard 200 at #191 in early June 1974. The highest position it reached was #69, the album debuted at number ninety-eight on the Canadian Albums Chart in late June, eventually reaching its highest position at #33 in July. Like her previous albums, the album didnt make it to the UK album charts, Dark Lady, the albums first single release, reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Canadian Singles
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Stars (Cher album)
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Stars is the 12th studio album by American singer Cher, released in 1975 by Warner Bros. The album was one in a string of commercial flops for Cher in the 1970s, the album is by-and-large a covers album. Stars was released April 19,1975 and it was the first record for Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Jimmy Webb. The album was also her very first without Sonnys influence as it followed Chers divorce with Sonny, the album reviews were good, but sales were below expectations despite promotion. Two singles, These Days and Geronimos Cadillac, were released to promote the albums release, both songs did not enter the charts. To help sales, Cher performed material from the album on the The Carol Burnett Show, the songs performed were Love Hurts, Just This One Time and Geronimos Cadillac. In early 1975, Cher began recording with Phil Spector and these sessions beget the songs A Womans Story, and the previously recorded song by The Ronettes, Baby, I Love You. However, due to Spectors expensive use of time, the album was eventually shelved. These songs were released as singles but were unsuccessful, these releases are now considered hard-to-find rarities, Cher then turned to Jimmy Webb to record this album. The album has never released on CD or iTunes. According to Billboard, Cher owned this albums master rights and Warner had no right to reissue
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I'd Rather Believe in You
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Id Rather Believe in You is the 13th studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on October 1976 by Warner Bros. This album, like other several predecessors, was a commercial failure, because Stars was such an abysmal financial failure, Cher was put back with narrative pop songs on her next album. The album did not chart, and the public did not pay attention to it, the albums producer Michael Omartian said it was a lack of promotion. Cher recorded this album while she was pregnant with Elijah Blue Allman and she wrote a dedication to him on the back-sleeve of the album, And a special thanks to Elijah for waiting until the day after I finished my album. The album has never released on CD, and the only CDs in circulation arent official. According to Billboard, Cher owned this albums master rights and Warner had no right to reissue
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Cherished
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Cherished is the 14th studio album by American singer-actress Cher released in September 1977 by Warner Bros. This album, like several other predecessors, was a commercial failure, cherished was released in 1977 and was the last album produced by Snuff Garrett. The years 1975,1976 and 1977 were very unsuccessful for her, the Cher Show was a top-10 rated show but the album wasnt much publicized. As a result, it very little, failed in the charts and was ignored by critics. Also Cher was dissatisfied with the results of the album. The style of the record recalls her old hits like Dark Lady, cherished is also Chers first album without her name on the cover because the title of the album is a pun of the Cher name. The first single released was Pirate, which reached #93 in Billboard and this song was also used as a bonus track on some editions of the Id Rather Believe in You album, being track number one in the Australian version, retitled Images. Pirate was a hit, but a second single, War Paint and Soft Feathers. The album has never released on CD. The only CDs in circulation are bootlegs with no information as to a legitimate release. According to Billboard, Cher owned this albums master rights and Warner had no right to reissue
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Take Me Home (Cher album)
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Take Me Home is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on January 25,1979 on Casablanca Records. The RIAA certified it gold on May 17 of that year for the sales of 500,000 copies in the US, Take Me Home was Chers first album of 1979, and also her first released by Casablanca Records. It was produced by Bob Esty and Ron Dante, and most of the songs were written by Michele Aller and this marked the beginning of her brief venture into disco music. Much to Chers chagrin, she was pressured into recording an album of this genre, from the album came a major comeback hit, Take Me Home. She contributed a lyrically self-penned song about her marriage to Gregg Allman on the closing ballad. This album is dedicated to Butterfly, Take Me Home was also the first album to have three tracks mixed, Take Me Home, Wasnt It Good and Git Down available on the Hell on Wheels single. Gene Simmons, her boyfriend at the time, received a credit on the album owing to his presence on the track Git Down. Take Me Home has been released on CD together with her second Casablanca Records album, Prisoner and this CD unites all the tracks from both albums, merging them onto one single CD. The album was released in 1993 and re-released in 1996 with a different cover, unreleased songs from the sessions include Oh God America, Sometime Somewhere both written by Cher but she didnt like her contributions so they were left off the inclusion on the album. The Ron Dante produced If Hed Take Me Back Again was also recorded during the Take Me Home sessions and remains unreleased. To promote the album, Cher recorded a video for Take Me Home which was used as part of an exclusive TV special called Cher. She also performed Take me Home along with two album tracks Love & Pain and Happy Was the Day We Met on The Mike Douglas Show. In 1979 Cher made her first solo tour, the Take Me Home Tour which was successful with two dates of the show recorded for broadcast, in Monte Carlo and at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. For the latter performance, Cher was awarded Best Actress in a Variety Program at the 1983 CableACE Awards
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Prisoner (Cher album)
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Prisoner is the 16th studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on October 22,1979 by Casablanca Records. The album was a failure and failed to chart. Hell on Wheels was released as the single which had a moderate success. Prisoner was Chers second album of 1979, and was released nine months after Take Me Home and this was the last album of Chers to date to be produced by Bob Esty, with Esty and Michelle Aller contributing several of the songs. Compared to the style of Take Me Home, Prisoner featured a relatively new wave sound. Prisoner also marked the first time that Cher released an album which featured songs that were exclusively for her. The producer wanted to take advantage of Chers image and the obsession with her. On the front cover of the album, she appears to be completely naked and she is wrapped in chains and wearing a wide metal collar. Her wrists and ankles are tightly shackled with wide metal bands, the cover spurred controversy among some womens rights groups for her perceived sex slave image. Originally the album was planned to be titled Mirror Image, pointing out Chers known brave-side, since Cher wasnt really into the album she kept on refusing songs on one hand and adding songs on the other hand. Boys & Girls, a more rock-based song was added by Cher, since there was nothing left from the albums original plan, the title was changed into Prisoner before release. Prisoner has been released on CD together with the first Casablanca Records album Take me Home, in a CD entitled and this CD unites all the tracks from both albums, merging them onto one single CD. To promote the release of the album, the song Shoppin was performed in an American television show, also the song Holdin Out For Love was performed. Hell on Wheels, the single from the album reached only number fifty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100. To promote the single a video was filmed, in it, Cher was featured wearing roller skates being followed by some truckers. The song was included in original soundtrack to the film. Holdin Out For Love was released in Japan as a single, and in the UK as a commercial 7. Just prior to its release, Casablanca ran an ad on Billboard magazines inside back cover that duplicated Prisoners album cover art
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I Paralyze
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I Paralyze is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on May 28,1982 by Columbia Records. This album was a failure and failed to chart. Following the records release, Cher took a hiatus from music to focus on a film career until 1987. Recorded and released in 1982, this was her album for Columbia Records. The record was produced by John Farrar and David Wolpert and it is her first collaboration with composer and producer Desmond Child. The album was promoted only on American Bandstand and Solid Gold, the album was released on CD for the first time in 1989 By The Entertainment Company, Columbia Records and CBS Records International. Later, in 1999, the album was reissued on the Varèse Sarabande reissue label, and an old 80s style on Back On the Street Again and Games. Rudy and I Paralyze were released as singles to promote the album, rudy was originally recorded by French singer Dalida as Quand je naime plus, je men vais. In 1981 Cher recorded a song with Meat Loaf called Dead Ringer for Love, the song was a hit in UK, Cher at the Internet Movie Database
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Cher (1987 album)
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Cher is the self-titled eighteenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on November 10,1987 by Geffen Records. Worldwide the album has sold 2 million copies, the self-titled album Cher was released in the fall of 1987. The record was produced by Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, among the notable guest artists, Bonnie Tyler and Darlene Love were backing vocalists on Perfection. After a series of pop and disco records, Cher moved to a rock sound. The album reached #26 in the UK, and peaked at #32 on the US Billboard album charts, the first single released from the album and its only UK top 10 hit was I Found Someone, which reached #5 in the UK and #10 in the US. The second single, We All Sleep Alone, peaked at #14 on Billboards Hot 100 chart and just missed breaking the Adult Contemporary top 10 in the US and it was less successful in the UK, however, peaking at #47. The albums other singles were Skin Deep, Bang-Bang, and Main Man, the last two released only as promo singles in North America. This was also her second album to be named Cher, as Gypsys and she also released a similarly-titled studio album in 1966 entitled Chér. Later released on VHS, the Letterman performance would be her last with ex-husband Sonny Bono before his death, the album was also promoted on UK television. Cher at the Internet Movie Database
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Heart of Stone (Cher album)
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Heart of Stone is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on June 19,1989 by Geffen Records. It is one of Chers best-selling albums with more than 4 million copies worldwide as of January 1991. The album was supported by her 1990 sold-out Heart of Stone Tour, Heart of Stone was released in 1989 and was her second studio album for Geffen Records. As with her previous album Cher, Peter Asher, Jon Bon Jovi, Diane Warren, Guy Roche, bonnie Tyler and Michael Bolton performed background vocals on the song Emotional Fire, which was an outtake from Boltons 1987 album The Hunger, as was Starting Over. The album was recorded in late 1988/early 1989, during the year of Chers relationship with Rob Camilletti. Heart of Stone reached number ten in the United States, number seven in the United Kingdom and it was her first solo album in the United States to reach the top 10. Further on in her career, Cher would go on to have four top ten albums - Believe, Living Proof. It peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for sales of 209,000 copies, the album was first released with artwork, and later re-released with more conventional studio photos. The original was a painting by Octavio Ocampo, featuring Cher sitting beside a stone heart, the artwork was changed shortly after its release, making copies with the original artwork collectors items. She recorded two songs for the album, Dont Come Cryin to Me and Some Guys. A remixed version of Dont Come Cryin to Me was included on the Geffen compilation album If I Could Turn Back Time, the reissue of that album, per Chers request, does not include the song. A demo version of Some Guys was included on the If I Could Turn Back Time 7-, Heart of Stone and If I Could Turn Back Time were both slightly remixed for the single. The Heart of Stone remix is available on CD on the compilation If I Could Turn Back Time, the album produced three top 10 hits as well as a top 20 hit with the title track. Additional notes If I Could Turn Back Time from first copies got length 4,16, after All is the Love theme from Chances Are. Adapted taken from CD Booklet,1989 Geffen Records Track 1 Produced by Diane Warren & Guy Roche, recorded & Mixed by Frank Wolf, assisted by Guy Roche Drums, Percussion, Mark T
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Love Hurts (Cher album)
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Love Hurts is the twentieth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on June 11,1991 by Geffen Records. The RIAA certified it Gold on August 27,1991 and it is the final studio album with the record label Geffen. The lead single from the album was, Love and Understanding and it debuted at #48 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with the sales of 19,000. Billboard stated in November 2011 that Love Hurts has sold 600,000 copies in the US, Love Hurts was released in 1991 and was the third and final studio album released by Cher for Geffen Records. The record featured production by Bob Rock and saw her continue to collaborate with John Kalodner, Diane Warren, the album was recorded in late 1990/early 1991, during the first year of Chers relationship to Bon Jovis guitarist Richie Sambora. She dedicated the album to him and every man that made me shed a tear. This time the song was more pop/rock rather than a ballad, the originally version was released by Everly Brothers in 1960. The European version also contains the worldwide hit The Shoop Shoop Song originally recorded by Betty Everett in 1963. Early releases of the album in the UK had the cover as the American release. The European release also included the hit, The Shoop Shoop Song which reached #1 in over 10 countries. In the United States, The Shoop Shoop Song was available only through the original soundtrack, while the album did extremely well in the UK, its singles were only minor hits. Also Love Hurts and Couldve Been You was released only in Europe, the David Cassidy co-written song, Ill Never Stop Loving You, was released a year later on Cassidys album, Didnt You Used to be. One year before, it was recorded by Heart and released on a Japanese special edition bonus CD for their album Brigade. To promote the album, Cher did several performances worldwide, in North America she promoted the album on Late Night with David Letterman. She also made a appearance on the ABC program In Concert on June 21,1991 where she performed Love Hurts, Love and Understanding, Save Up All Your Tears. This particular performance was criticized because Cher lip-synced all songs from the album. Later, during an interview, Cher defended her lip-syncing and In Concert offered her a chance to later in 1991. Cher also promoted the album in some European countries, Cher also performed Save Up All Your Tears in Australia during the Dame Edna Show and with Dame Edna performed I Got You Babe
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It's a Man's World (Cher album)
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Its a Mans World is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-actress Cher released on November 6,1995 by WEA, a label of Warner Music U. K. This is also the start of her stint with Warner Music Group. With an adjusted track list, the album was released in the United States on June 25,1996 by Reprise Records and it peaked at #64 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and only sold 9,000 copies in that week. As of June 2003, the album has sold 194,000 copies in the United States, in the February 22,1997 issue of the Billboard magazine, it was reported that the album sold 700,000 copies worldwide. In the UK the album peaked at #10 and was certified Gold by BPI for selling more than 100,000 copies and its a Mans World found Cher singing unconventional songs in a style more associated with the Deep South, rather than her more familiar pop and rock roots. The album also stands out for Cher stretching her vocals to head register for such songs as One by One and The Gunman, Cher signed with Warner Music U. K. in 1994 and recorded Its a Mans World in London in 1995. That same year the album was released all over Europe with Walking in Memphis as its lead off single, in the same year, it was certified gold in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry. The original album included fourteen songs, but when it was released in the United States in 1996 the setlist included only eleven songs, three songs, I Wouldnt Treat a Dog, Dont Come Around Tonite and Shape of Things to Come had been removed from the American release. The American release was reviewed by critics as a mid-90s R&B/pop phenomenon due to the removal of these three rock songs and also due to five songs remixed to evoke a contemporary R&B feel. The new versions of songs, Not Enough Love in the World, Paradise Is Here, Angels Running, What About the Moonlight. Their new sound carried R&B influences, while their original versions were influenced by Southern rock, because of the alterations, the American release was also compared to the style of Boyz II Men. One critic Jose F. Promis from Allmusic described the album as one of the singers finest, while the album was temporarily sidelined by her dizzying worldwide success with Believe, in recent years it has been rediscovered and credited
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Believe (Cher album)
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Believe is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-actress Cher, first released on October 22,1998 by WEA and distributed in North America by Warner Bros. Following the failure of her previous studio album Its a Mans World, Recording took place over the summer at the Dreamhouse Studios in London and the Soundworks Studios in New York under the guidance of English producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling. The album was dedicated to her ex-husband Sonny Bono, who died earlier that year, the album features some of the new technology of the time, like the usage of Auto-tune, which would eventually become known as the Cher effect. Upon release, the album received mixed reviews from music critics and it won one Grammy for Best Dance Recording from a total of three nominations. Four singles were released from the album, the first single, Believe, became one of the biggest-selling singles ever by topping the charts in a total of 23 countries and has sold more than 10 million copies. Strong Enough was released as the single from the album, being less successful than Believe, especially in the US and UK, peaking at numbers 57 and 5. All or Nothing and Dovè lamore were released as the third and fourth singles respectively, in order to support Believe, Cher embarked on her sixth concert tour entitled the Do You Believe. Tour which became one of the highest grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time, after the poorly received previous record Its a Mans World, head of label Warner Music UK, Rob Dickins, suggested that Cher recorded a dance album. Cher worked also with long-time collaborator Diane Warren and covered two songs, The Power and Love Is the Groove, furthermore, she decided to introduce a remix form of her 1988 single We All Sleep Alone from her 1987 Cher album. The Believe single was written only by Brian Higgins, Matt Gray, Stuart McLennen and Tim Powell. Mark Taylor said, Everyone loved the chorus but not the rest of the song, As we were already writing songs for Cher. Two of our writers, Steve Torch and Paul Barry, got involved and eventually came up with a song that Rob. During early sessions Cher recorded a version of Love Is in the Air that she previously performed a cappella on the talk show The Magic Hour in 1997. The song was mixed and produced by Junior Vasquez, but it did not appear on the cut of the album. Now it is available on file sharing networks. The album featured a new direction for Cher, with use of Auto-Tune. The album was influenced by Sonny Bonos death in an accident earlier that year. Upon release, the album received mixed responses from music critics
