The Essential Barbra Streisand

The Essential Barbra Streisand brings together for the first time all of Streisand's groundbreaking pop hits, classic recordings, and fan favourites on one breathtaking two disc, 40 song collection.

Beginning with 1963's "A Sleepin' Bee" and culminating with a stunning new studio performance of "You'll Never Walk Alone" (the song she performed at the 2001 Emmy Awards ceremony), "The Essential Barbra Streisand" is an indispensable gallery of career highlights - from one of the most successful and enduring artists in recorded music history.
ß The album features "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" - both previously unavailable on CD.

The statistics of Barbra's outstanding career achievements are impressive:
- She is second in the all-time charts, only Elvis Presley has exceeded her, and she is ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Thus, she is the only artist among the top four all-time sellers who was not part of the rock & roll revolution which has dominated the record business for four decades.

- Not only has she had 40 Gold and 25 Platinum albums, but she is the only female artist ever to have achieved twelve multi-platinum albums, (the soundtrack for "A Star Is Born" was also multi-platinum) earning her eight Grammy Awards in the process.

- She continues to be the highest-selling female recording artist ever and her number one albums span a period of over 39 years, the greatest longevity in that statistic for any recording artist or group.