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The Very Best Of Cher
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Publisher: Rhino / Wea
21 unforgettable Cher songs on one disc spotlighting Sonny & Cher along with her recent hits. slipcase. Warner/Geffen. 2003.
Given a five-decade career that's been one long series of critical write-offs and subsequent comeback triumphs, it's tempting to argue that the natural elements are actually earth, wind, fire, water--and Cher. Anchored by her 1998 international mega-success "Believe" (the song that made Cher the oldest woman to score a chart topper) and its equally club-savvy contemporary collaborations with producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings, "Song for the Lonely" and "A Different Kind of Love Song," this 21-track anthology is indeed the first to contain all her No. 1 hits, stretching back to her epochal 1965 duet with Sonny Bono on the faux-Dylan "I Got You Babe." And if it shortchanges her Phil Spector-rooted origins and a true perspective on her '60s and '70s career (though kitsch classic chart toppers "Dark Lady," "Half-Breed," and "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" are all here) to focus on her string of '80s and '90s pop successes in service of writers like Diane Warren ("If I Could Turn Back Time") and Desmond Child ("Just Like Jesse James"), it's good to remember that, according to the pop soothsayers, none of them were even supposed to happen, let alone make her an icon for a whole new generation. It's a tribute to sheer, fashion-defying willpower--and as unlikely an argument for the notion of "the singer, not the song" as one is likely to find. --Jerry McCulley
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| chers hits |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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expecting a great album and found a lousy poorly arranged album, choice of songs are terrible!!!
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| Cher's 260 Million Dollar (?) Farewell Tour |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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**Ray Waddell Billboard 5-28-2005 reports Cher's Farewell Tour grossed $194,683,927 million, selling 2,880,726 tickets from 280 North American shows, realizing 90% of her gross potential and playing to 92% of capacity, and that Cher's Worldwide tour had 325 shows and grossed well over $200 million
(Pollstar reports that Cher's average ticket price was about $68.)
**Ray Waddell Billboard 4-22-2006 reports Madonna's Confessions Tour has a gross potential in the $200 million range, and her closest rival in terms of the top gross ever for a female artist would be fellow icon Cher, whose never-ending Farewell tour grossed $192.5 million from an endurance-testing 273 shows between June 2002 ans April 2005.
**Tamara Conniff Billboard editor 10-14-2006 reports that Madonna's Confessions Tour is the top-grossing tour by a female artist, grossing $193 million from 60 shows, selling about 1.2 million tickets, besting Cher's $192.5 million from 273 shows.
(Pollstar reports that Madonna's average ticket price was about $184.)
**Billboard Boxscore/ Ray Waddell Quote, USA Today 2-7-2008 - Cher's extravagant 2002-05 Farewell Tour rang up $192.5 million from 273 shows, the ninth-highest-grossing tour in history, according to Billboard Boxscore.
"Cher definitely achieved elite status as a live performer on her Farewell Tour, which was a remarkable endurance test and a hugely popular draw," says Billboard touring editor Ray Waddell. "With her elaborate costumes, long list of hits and over-the-top presentation, I can't think of another artist more suited to Vegas. A Cher concert is just a really good time."
**Ben DeVries USA Today 5-2-2005 reports on Cher's Farewell Tour and writes: "this final concert on her 325-stop tour"
**Mitchell Peters Billboard.com 2-7-2008 -reports that Cher's three-year Living Proof Farewell Tour, which concluded in 2005, played 280 shows in North America, grossing $194.6 and drawing 2.8 million fans, according to Billboard Boxscore. The only other female artist to break that touring record is Madonna, whose 2006 global Confessions run took in just under $195 million from 60 shows that drew more than 1.2 million in paid attendance.
**Mitchell Peters Billboard.com 2-7-2008 later that same day -reports that Cher's three-year Living Proof Farewell Tour, which concluded in 2005, played 273 shows in North America, grossing $192.5 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. The only other female artist to break that touring record is Madonna, whose 2006 global Confessions run took in just under $195 million from 60 shows that drew more than 1.2 million in paid attendance
** FORBES Celebrity 100: 6-14-2007 reports that Madonna's Confessions Tour crisscrossed the globe and grossed $194 million, making it the top earning tour by a female artist in history.
**FORBES Top Earning Women In Music 1-29-2008 reports that Madonna is #1 on the list, and that her "landmark Confessions tour, the highest grossing tour for a female artist, earning $260 million Worldwide"
**WIKIPEDIA reports that Madonna's Confessions Tour grossed $260,119,588
----- all this "reporting" makes me believe Cher's 325 date Worldwide Farewell Tour earned about $260 Million
Nielsen Soundscan reports that Cher's 2002 "Living Proof" album has sold 500,000 copies in the U.S., and Madonna's 2005 "Confessions on a Dancefloor" album sold 1.6 million copies in the U.S.
Nielsen Media Research reports:
CHER NBC 4-8-2003 9-11pm
#7 -16.6 million viewers
#10 -5.9/15 in the 18-49 demographic
Cher was aged 56
MADONNA NBC 11-22-2006 8-10pm
#73 -4.6 million viewers
#72 -1.8/5 in the 18-49 demographic
Madonna was aged 48
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| Cher's Greatest Collection of Songs! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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An amazing span of work. Cher truly knew how to reinvent herself over the decades and come out with a winning hit that would have next generations of fans listening to her songs. Way to go Cher! I like all of the songs on this cd.
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| The Very Best Of Cher |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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It has alot of good songs, but I felt it needed more I would have liked to be a 2 disc set then it would have been the very best cause a lot of my faviorite songs were not in it!
Like Carousel Men etc...
but it is still good and worth getting!
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| The Very Best Of Cher |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I am satisfied, it shows all her carrier and all songs are great.
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Believe
If I Could Turn Back Time
Heart Of Stone
Just Like Jesse James
Save Up All Your Tears
After All (Love Theme From Chances Are) -- duet with Peter Cetera
I Found Someone
One By One
Strong Enough
All Or Nothing
Song For The Lonely
Take Me Home
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
All I Really Want To Do
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Half-Breed
Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Dark Lady
The Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
A Different Kind Of Love Song (Rodney Jerkins main mix (faster))
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