Description
Cher – Dancing Queen / SOS, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Chiquitita, One Of Us, The Name Of The Game & Fernando (From Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) / Warner Bros. Records Audio CD 2018 / 9362490444
UPC 093624904441
Product Details:
Editorial Reviews:
Tracklist:
1 | Dancing Queen | 3:43 |
2 | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) |
4:11 |
3 | The Name Of The Game | 4:49 |
4 | SOS | 3:23 |
5 | Waterloo | 2:53 |
6 | Mamma Mia | 3:34 |
7 | Chiquitita | 5:14 |
8 | Fernando | 3:54 |
9 | The Winner Takes It All | 4:32 |
10 |
One Of Us | 3:54 |
Description:
Dancing Queen is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer and actress Cher, released by Warner Bros. Records on September 28, 2018. It is Cher's first album in five years, following Closer to the Truth (2013). The album contains cover versions of songs recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with the title referencing their 1976 song "Dancing Queen". The album follows Cher's appearance in the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, based on the music of ABBA.
The album received acclaim from music critics, and was a success commercially, debuting at number three on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 153,000 copies, becoming Cher's highest debut sales week for an album in the United States. Dancing Queen also debuted at number one on the US Top Album Sales chart with 150,000 pure copies, making it Cher's first number one album on that chart. The album also peaked within the top ten of charts in another 18 countries, with nine of those being top five entries. As of March 2019, Dancing Queen was certified gold by Music Canada and silver by BPI.
To promote the album, Cher embarked on a concert tour, titled Here We Go Again Tour which began on September 21, 2018. It also marks her first worldwide tour since the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour.
More Details:
- A&R [Administration] – Allen Wolfe
- Arranged By [Strings] – Matt Brind (tracks: 1)
- Art Direction, Design – Jeri Heiden, Nick Steinhardt, SMOG Design, Inc.
- Backing Vocals – Andy Caine (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Hayley Sanderson (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Bass – Mats Englund (tracks: 8), Rocco Palladino (tracks: 1, 3, 6)
- Concept By, Executive-Producer – Cher
- Conductor – Martin Koch (3) (tracks: 8), Matt Brind (tracks: 1)
- Contractor – Isobel Griffiths (tracks: 8)
- Copyist [Music Preparation] – Dakota Music Limited
- Drums – Ash Soan (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Per Lindvall (tracks: 8)
- Engineer [Assistant Recording Engineer] – Chris Barrett (tracks: 8), Linn Fijal (tracks: 8)
- Engineer [Recording] – Bernard Löhr (tracks: 8)
- Executive-Producer – Björn Ulvaeus And Benny Andersson* (tracks: 8), Judy Craymer (tracks: 8)
- Guitar – Adam Phillips (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Lasse Jonsson (tracks: 8), Lasse Wellander (tracks: 8)
- Keyboards – Benny Andersson (tracks: 8), Mark Taylor (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Paul Meehan (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Leader [Orchestra] – Thomas Bowes (tracks: 8)
- Legal – Roger L. Armstrong, Esq.
- Management – Lindsay Scott (2), LSM, Inc., Roger Davies, RDWM
- Management [Business Management] – Dyson Capital Advisors, Nicholas Perrins, Sheree Zawistowski
- Mastered By – Björn Engelmann (tracks: 8), Stephen Marcussen (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Mixed By – Benny Andersson (tracks: 8), Bernard Löhr (tracks: 8), Mark Taylor (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Matt Furmidge (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Orchestra – The London Session Orchestra (tracks: 8)
- Orchestrated By – Martin Koch (3) (tracks: 8)
- Orchestrated By [Additional], Transcription By – Göran Arnberg (tracks: 8)
- Other [Hair] – Serena Radaelli
- Other [Makeup] – Francesca Tolot
- Other [Personal Assistant] – Deb Paull*, Jennifer Ruiz
- Other [Stylist] – Marjan Malakpour
- Percussion – Jörgen Stenberg (tracks: 8)
- Photography By – Machado Cicala
- Piano – Benny Andersson (tracks: 8), Rob Barron (tracks: 1)
- Producer – Benny Andersson (tracks: 8), Mark Taylor (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Producer [Cher Vocals] – Mark Taylor (tracks: 8)
- Programmed By – Mark Taylor (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Paul Meehan (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Promotion [Publicity] – Liz Rosenberg Media
- Recorded By – Mark Taylor (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Mat Bartram (tracks: 1), Paul Meehan (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
- Saxophone – Simon Meredith (tracks: 5)
- Tour Manager [Tour Coordinator] – Bill Buntain
- Written-By – Benny Andersson (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 8), Björn Ulvaeus (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 8), Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus (tracks: 2, 7, 9, 10), Stig Anderson (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 8)
About the Artist:
Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Commonly referred to by the media as the Goddess of Pop, she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career.
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 her first million-seller song, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her 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". After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–1982 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 reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, whose title track 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.
Having sold 100 million records to date, Cher is one of the world's best-selling music artists. Her achievements include a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and awards from the Kennedy Center Honors and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.