New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Cher has unveiled the cover of her upcoming Christmas album, which appeared to be titled "Cher Christmas." The album will be released later this year.
"I really am proud of this. It's a Cher Christmas album. It's not your mother's Christmas album," Cher recently said in an interview on Good Morning Britain.
While Cher has not officially revealed what songs will appear on the album, she has teased that it will include other artists featured on the songs, which she has never done before.
"I'm really, really excited because there's millions of people on it!" she added. "I've never had duets! I've never had people on any of my records! This was a last-minute thing… but they're special. All of them."
Cher has also released several previews of the upcoming album on her Twitter account. Mixed in with her classic hit "Believe," she can be heard singing the lyrics: "That's the only thing I want this year."
Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo
Sonny & Cher after their song "I Got You Babe" peaked at number one on the US and UK charts. By the end of 1967, they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine, rock's "it" couple.
She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 the transatlantic top three single "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows The
Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and Cher. She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows.
While working on television, Cher established herself as a solo artist with the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady", becoming the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. After her divorce from
Sonny Bono in 1975, she launched a comeback with the disco album Take Me Home (1979) and earned $300,000 a week for her 1979-1982 concert residency in Las Vegas.
In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently garnered critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and Moonstruck (1987), the latter of which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She then revived her music career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987),
Heart of Stone (1989), and Love
Hurts (1991), all of which yielded successful singles such as "I Found Someone", "If I Could Turn Back Time", and "Love and Understanding". Cher contributed to the soundtrack for her next film, Mermaids (1990), which spawned the UK number-one single "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)".
She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These
Walls Could Talk (1996), which received widespread critical acclaim after premiering on HBO.
Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, whose title track won her the Billboard
Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It features pioneering use of Auto-Tune to distort her vocals, known as the "Cher effect".
Her 2002-2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million. In 2008, she signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at
Caesars Palace in Las
Vegas for three years. In 2018, Cher returned to film for her first on-screen role since 2010's Burlesque, starring in the musical romantic comedy film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Inspired by the film, the album Dancing
Queen (2018) debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, tying with 2013's Closer to the Truth for Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US.
