Guilty Pleasures (Barbra Streisand album)

Guilty Pleasures
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 20, 2005
RecordedApril–June, 2005
StudioHit Factory Criteria (Miami), Sony (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length47:43
LabelColumbia
ProducerBarry Gibb • John Merchant
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Movie Album
(2003)
Guilty Pleasures
(2005)
Live in Concert 2006
(2007)
Singles from Guilty Pleasures
  1. "Stranger in a Strange Land"
    Released: August 16, 2005
  2. "Night of My Life"
    Released: September 27, 2005
  3. "Come Tomorrow"
    Released: December 19, 2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The New York TimesPositive[2]

Guilty Pleasures is the thirty-first studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand. It was released in September 2005 in conjunction with Barry Gibb. In Ireland and the UK, the album is titled Guilty Too. It is the follow-up to Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty, which also featured Barry Gibb. The album features a cover of Gibb's late brother Andy's song "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away".

In the United States the album peaked at no. 5 and has been certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) continuing Streisand's record of achieving the most gold and platinum records for a female artist,[3] and in second place in general behind Elvis Presley. The album was also top 3 in the UK, where it has been certified Platinum (over 300,000 copies sold). Both albums can also be considered partial-collaboration albums, since Streisand not only did two duets with Gibb, but Gibb could also be heard as a background vocalist in a few other songs solely by the artist herself, along with the fact that both singers were on the cover for both albums issued.

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (September 20, 2005). "Guilty Pleasures - Barbra Streisand - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Holden, Stephen (September 19, 2005). "Critics' Choices: New CD's; Barbra Streisand". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Columbia Records (2005-08-29). "New Barbra Streisand-Barry Gibb Collaborative Album, 'Guilty Pleasures,' to be Released as CD and DualDisc on Tuesday, September 20". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2012-10-01.