
In 1964, Streisand became the first and only female artist to place three albums in the top 10 on Billboard's annual albums chart. " Woman in Love" from Guilty is one of the best-selling singles of all time in France. In 1974, " The Way We Were" became the first original single by a female artist to achieve the No. 1 singles in the US, and is also one of the few acts with top 10 hits in four different decades.
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Her albums Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), Love Is the Answer (2009), Partners (2014) and Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway (2016) all entered the Billboard 200 album chart at No. With a total of 34 Billboard Top 10 albums to her credit since 1963, Streisand holds the records for the most Top 10 albums by a female artist and for the widest span (52 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums by a female recording artist. Her 2014 Columbia Records album, Partners became her tenth No. 1 albums in each of the last six decades, a record not matched by any other artist. Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Billboard Hot 100 chart. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums (11). Her recordings have earned her eight Grammy Awards and the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award and Legend Award. She is the only female artist to have achieved fourteen multi-platinum albums, including the soundtrack for her film A Star Is Born.

With 52 gold and 31 platinum albums, Streisand exceeds all other female singers and all other recording artists other than Elvis Presley. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Streisand is the second-best-selling female album artist in the United States with 68.5 million certified albums in the country, (the only female in the top ten and only artist outside the rock 'n' roll genre) and a career total of 150 million (to as high as 245 million claimed records sold globally), making her one of the best-selling music artists Her discography consists of 117 singles, 36 studio albums, 11 compilations, 11 live albums, and 15 soundtracks. Barbra Streisand is an American actress and singer.
