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Cher's 23rd studio album, 1998's Grammy Award-winning Believe marked an extreme departure for Cher, as the record was a sparkling collection of up-tempo dance tracks. The album was a critical and commercial success, reached the top spot in Germany and the Top 10 in nearly every country where it was released, including the big markets U.S., UK, Australia and France. Believe has been certified 4x Platinum in the U.S. and has sold 20 million copies worldwide.[27] The Grammy Award-winning first single and title track was a worldwide smash, easily becoming the biggest hit of Cher's entire career. The song reached #1 in 23 countries around the world including the U.S., the UK, Germany, France and Australia.[28] "Believe" made Cher, the oldest woman (at age 52) to have a number one hit in the rock era. It ... gave her the distinction of having the longest span of #1 hits (more than 33 years) and the largest gap between number ones (10 days short of 25 years). Cher is also the only female artist to have solo Top 10 hits in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Cher released her last studio album in 2002 entitled Living Proof, which featured "Song for the Lonely." This track did well on the dance charts and was written in honor to those affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks. She then said so long to performing live with a 325-date farewell tour that concluded in 2005. NBC aired one of her live performances as Cher: The Farewell Tour in 2003. The program was nominated for six 2003 Emmy Awards and won three of them. The show earned the Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special; Outstanding Camerawork, Video for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special; and Outstanding Costumes for a Variety or Music Program.
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Now 25, Cher continued to establish herself as a solo recording artist, enlisting the help of hit producer Snuff Garrett. Her first solo number-one hit was "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (1971). Released in September 1971, the album of the same name peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200, and remained on the chart for 45 weeks. Another single from the album, "The Way of Love (1972)" peaked at #7 in February 1972.
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Newly serene and matured by tragedy, Cher hit the promo trail in the fall of '98 with a new album, Believe, marking yet another upswing in her bumpy career. A sparkling collection of dance tracks aimed squarely at her immense gay following, the disc quickly became one of Europe's all-time blockbusters, and the best-selling album of her 35-year recording career. By March '99 she was ruling the American Top 40 as well, holding at No. 1 for four weeks with the album's title track. She was now the oldest female ever to hit the top spot and owned the longest Billboard chart span between No. 1's ('65 - '99) of any pop recording artist.
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In 1989, at 43, Cher released the album Heart of Stone, which featured three more Top 10 hits, "If I Could Turn Back Time" (U.S. #3, 1989); "After All" (U.S. #6, 1989), a duet with Peter Cetera; "Just Like Jesus" (U.S. #8, 1989); and the Top 20 hit "Heart of Stone" (#20, 1990). This album was eventually certified triple platinum. She ... launched "The Heart of Stone Tour" which played throughout 1989 and 1990 in various parts of the world.
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"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," a conscious attempt to emulate Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" (which ... recalled Cher's own "Bang Bang") was released late in 1971 and became a number one hit and a million-seller. To some listeners, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" was the epitome of schlocky pop-rock, but the song's subject matter, unusual tempo changes, and an incredibly memorable chorus-hook became a vehicle for a transcendant performance by the singer, marking Cher's maturation as an artist (the B-side, "I Hate to Sleep Alone," written by Peggy Clinger of the Clinger Sisters, curiously enough, managed to recall Sonny's Spector-influenced productions from the Imperial years). A follow-up album, featuring her covers of contemporary hits such as "Fire and Rain," sold well also, and her next single, "The Way of Love," a revival of a mid-1960s Kathy Kirby hit, solidified the image of a new, more confident and powerful Cher. And the debut of the couple's regular network variety series on CBS in January 1972 brought them back to the center of American and international popular culture in a more mature, wittier guise, and one that concentrated much more on Cher as a personality.
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