Barbra Joan Streisand (
STRY-sand; born
Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theater actress. She has also achieved note as a composer,
liberal political activist, film producer, and film director. She had won two
Academy Awards,
[awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp;jsessionid=B86E461C2746B4E1B0BF45DF42A83458?curTime=1258189043639] eight
Grammy Awards,
[riaa.org/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH] four
Emmy Awards,
[cdn.emmys.tv/awards/2009ptemmys/searchpastwinners.php] a Special
Tony Award, an
American Film Institute award,
[www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laa01.aspx] and a
Peabody Award.
[www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laa01.aspx]
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best-selling solo recording artists with more than 71 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide.
[riaa.org/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTopArt][www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6276710/The-way-she-was-Barbra-Streisands-personal-items-up-for-auction.html] She is the best selling female artist on the
Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list and the only female recording artist in the top ten.
[Gold and Platinum Top Selling Artists. RIAA.com.]
According to the
RIAA, Streisand has a total of 31 top ten albums to her credit since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. With her
2009 album
Love Is The Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number 1 albums in five consecutive decades.
[www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200#/news/barbra-streisand-surprises-with-ninth-no-1004019217.story] Streisand also holds the record for the most top 10 albums of any female recording artist.
[new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/16329/chart-watch-extra-the-acts-with-the-most-top-10-albums-ever/] Her RIAA tally shows she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.
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