NEW YORK (Columbia Records/ www.barbrastreisand.com) - The legendary singer
Barbra Streisand has reunited with producer/songwriter/vocalist
Barry Gibb for "Guilty Pleasures," a new collaborative album slated for release on Tuesday,
September 20 from Columbia Records.
The eagerly-awaited release of "
Guilty Pleasures" comes 25 years after the pair's first multi-platinum album, "Guilty," made pop music history as a worldwide chart-topping smash which helped define the emerging Adult Contemporary pop music genre following its release in 1980.
One of the four top-selling albums - alongside "Greatest Hits Vol. 2," "A Christmas Album," and "
Memories" - in Ms. Streisand's extraordinary catalog, the original "
Guilty" became the artist's fifth album to reach the No 1 spot on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The album generated three hit singles: "
Woman In Love" (No 1 Adult Contemporary, No 1 Pop) and the duets with Barry Gibb, "
Guilty" (No 5 Adult Contemporary, No 3 Pop) and "What Kind of Fool" (No 1 Adult Contemporary, No 10 Pop). The album's title track, "Guilty," took home the coveted Grammy Award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Duo or Group."
Shortly after its release, the original "
Guilty" album was certified Gold by the Recording
Industry Association of
America with Platinum status following within two months. "
Guilty" has gone on to be certified 5x Platinum, with sales exceeding five million copies in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. With 49 Gold, 30 Platinum and 13 Multi-Platinum albums to her credit,
Barbra Streisand is the music industry's No 1 best-selling female artist and the only female on the RIAA's Top 10 list of artists.