Partners (Barbra Streisand album)

Partners
Studio album by
Barbra Streisand
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2014
Recorded2013–2014
Studio
  • Brandon's Way (Hollywood, California)
  • Capitol Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)
  • Crescent Moon Studios (Miami, Florida)
  • Grandma's House (Malibu, California)
  • SoulFuel Studios (Brentwood, Tennessee)
  • The Eastwood Scoring Stage, Warner Brothers Studios (Burbank, California)
  • The Newman Scoring Stage, Fox Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • The Streisand Scoring Stage, Sony Pictures (Culver City, California)
  • Verve Studio (Santa Monica, California)
  • WallyWorld Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • Woodshed Recording Studios (Malibu, California)
Genre
Length50:27
LabelColumbia
Producer
Barbra Streisand chronology
Back to Brooklyn
(2013) 		Partners
(2014) 		Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
(2016)
Singles from Partners
  1. "It Had to Be You"
    Released: 2014
  2. "What Kind of Fool"
    Released: 2014

Partners is the thirty-fourth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on September 16, 2014, by Columbia Records. The album features Streisand singing duets with an all-male lineup including Stevie Wonder, Michael Bublé, Billy Joel, John Legend, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, and from an earlier recording, Elvis Presley (who died in 1977). The collection also features Streisand's first studio-recorded duet with her now 47-year-old son, Jason Gould.[1] The album release was promoted on The Tonight Show, where Streisand was the evening's sole guest and sang a medley with host Jimmy Fallon.[2]

While the recordings are new, most of the songs have a previous history as Streisand releases. Two classic Streisand duets are updated with new partners: "What Kind of Fool", newly performed with John Legend (originally with Barry Gibb) and "Lost Inside of You", newly performed with Kenny Edmonds (originally with Kris Kristofferson). The deluxe edition features an additional duet with Edmonds along with previously released material featuring Frank Sinatra (who died in 1998), Bryan Adams, Barry Manilow, and Barry Gibb (from The Bee Gees).

Partners is one of 2014's best-selling albums in the US, having sold 856,000 copies.[3] Partners topped the Billboard 200 with sales of 196,000 copies in the first week, making Streisand the only recording artist to have a number-one album in six different decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.)[4] It was also certified gold in November 2014 and platinum in January 2015, thus becoming Streisand's 52nd gold and 31st Platinum album (she also has 7 Gold-certified singles to her credit), more than any other female artist in history.[5] The album was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal album at the 57th Grammy Awards.

  1. ^ "Barbra Streisand, a Voice to Be Reckoned With" by Jacob Bernstein, New York Times September 12, 2014.
  2. ^ "Barbra Streisand returns to late night with Jimmy Fallon" by Lisa Respers France, CNN September 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Caulfield, Keith (December 31, 2014). "Taylor Swift's '1989' Beats 'Frozen' As Top Selling Album of 2014". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  4. ^ Caulfield, Keith (September 23, 2014). "Barbra Streisand Makes History at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  5. ^ "Gay icon Barbra Streisand makes more history with latest album". Gay Star News. November 7, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2014.