{"id":3462,"date":"2025-07-08T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/barbra-streisand-extends-album-chart-record-secret-of-life-1236015485\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:41:09","slug":"barbra-streisand-extends-album-chart-record-secret-of-life-1236015485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/barbra-streisand-extends-album-chart-record-secret-of-life-1236015485\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand Extends Billboard Chart Record With Top 40 Debut of \u2018The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume\u00a0Two\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBarbra Streisand<\/a> scores her 55th top 40-charted album on the Billboard 200<\/a>, as the star-studded The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two<\/em> debuts at No. 31 on the July 12-dated chart. With the arrival, she extends her record for the most top 40 albums among women in the history of the chart (since it began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956).<\/p>\n

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\n\tAmong women, Aretha Franklin and Madonna have the second-most top 40 albums, with 26 each. Among soloists, Streisand continues to have the second-most top 40 albums, with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra each in the lead with 58. Among all acts, Grateful Dead has the most top 40 albums, with 64.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreisand also continues to be the only woman with top 40-charted albums on the Billboard 200 in every decade from the 1960s through the 2020s. She notched her first top 40 set of the current decade in 2021 with the archival project Release Me 2<\/em>, which peaked at No. 15.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two<\/em> is an all-collaborations project, and is a sequel to Streisand\u2019s chart-topping 2014 duets album Partners<\/em>. On the new effort, she is joined by stars including Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, Ariana Grande, Paul McCartney and Sting.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new album also takes a bow at No. 4 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreisand made her Billboard 200 debut 62 years ago, when her first album, the aptly-titled The Barbra Streisand Album<\/em>, debuted on the chart dated April 13, 1963. It peaked at No. 8 and became her first of 34 top 10-charted albums for Streisand \u2014 a record among soloists.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. The new July 12, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<\/em>Billboard\u2018s website on July 8.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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