Cher singles discography

Cher singles discography

Cher performing her biggest-selling single "Believe" during the Dressed to Kill Tour in 2014
Releases
Singles 79
Promotional singles 15
Other appearances 17

American entertainer Cher has released seventy-nine official singles, fifteen promotional singles and appeared in eleven other songs. On the Billboard Hot 100, she has achieved: 4 #1 singles, 12 Top 10 singles, 22 Top 40 singles and a total of 33 charted singles as a solo artist, and combined with the entries she has had as part of a duo Sonny & Cher: 5 #1 singles, 17 Top 10 singles, 32 Top 40 hits and a total of 51 singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.[1]

Cher is #5 female artist with the most Billboard Hot 100 charted singles, making her one of few women in the rock era with that many chart entries.[1] She has reached the Top 10 on the Hot 100 during each of four decades—the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s—placing her in a tie for second place in that category as of May 2014, alongside Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, and Aerosmith and behind only Michael Jackson. Cher's span of top 10 records on the Hot 100 stretches for a total of 33 years, one month and three weeks (not counting the Sonny and Cher hits "I Got You Babe" and "Baby Don't Go"), from "Bang Bang" in 1966 to "Believe" in 1999, placing her in third place in that category as of May 2014, behind only Jackson and Carlos Santana.[2]

Cher has had a total of 15 number one hits and a total of 33 top ten hits on all Billboard charts combined. Cher's career as a recording artist spans six decades and is the only artist (counting Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe") to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of those past six decades. This feat was accomplished when "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" reached number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart the week of January 19, 2011.

In the UK, she is the only female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades. She has had a total of 34 top 40 hits, beginning with "All I Really Want To Do" in 1965 through "I Hope You Find It" in 2013.[3]

Singles

1960s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
AUS
[5]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
NLD
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12]
UK
[13]
1965 "All I Really Want To Do"
b/w "I'm Gonna Love You" (Non-album track)
15 68 26 15 13 9 All I Really Want to Do
"Where Do You Go"
b/w "See See Blues" (from All I Really Want To Do)
25 95 5 The Sonny Side Of Chér
1966 "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
b/w "Needles and Pins" (first pressings, from All I Really Want To Do)
"Our Day Will Come" (later pressings)
2 11 6 4 17 3 16 2 12 3
"Alfie"
b/w "She's No Better Than Me" (Non-album track)
32 96 26 36 Chér
"I Feel Something In The Air"
b/w "Come To Your Window"
89 43
"Sunny"
b/w "She's No Better Than Me" (Non-album track)
2 4 32
"Behind The Door"
b/w "I Feel Something in the Air" (from Chér)
97 74 With Love, Chér
"Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)"
b/w "Dream Baby" (from All I Really Want To Do)

[A]
45
1967 "Hey Joe"
b/w "Our Day Will Come" (from The Sonny Side Of Chér)
94
"You Better Sit Down Kids"
b/w "Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)" (first pressings, see above)
"Elusive Butterfly" (later pressings, from The Sonny Side Of Chér)
9 100 12
1968 "The Click Song Number One"
b/w "But I Can't Love You More" (from With Love, Chér)
Backstage
"Take Me For A Little While"
b/w "Song Called Children"
"Yours Until Tomorrow"
b/w "The Thought Of Loving You"
Non-album track
1969 "For What It's Worth"
b/w "(Just Enough To Keep Me) Hangin' On"

[B]
88 3614 Jackson Highway
"Chastity's Song (Band Of Thieves)"
b/w "I Walk On Guilded Splinters" (from 3614 Jackson Highway)
Chastity
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
US AC
[4]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[7]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
NLD
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12]
UK
[13]
1971 "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves"
b/w "He'll Never Know"
1 6 5 1 25 3 23 2 4 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
1972 "The Way Of Love"
b/w "Don't Put It On Me" (Non-album track)
7 2 42 6
"Living In A House Divided"
b/w "One Honest Man" (from Gypsys, Tramps & Theives)
22 2 61 17 Foxy Lady
"Don't Hide Your Love"
b/w "The First Time"
46 19 44
1973 "Am I Blue?"
b/w "How Long Has This Been Going On"

[C]
Bittersweet White Light
"Half-Breed"
b/w "Melody"
1 3 4 1 29 1 Half-Breed
1974 "Dark Lady"
b/w "Two People Clinging To A Thread" (from Half-Breed)
1 3 17 2 15 11 4 36 Dark Lady
"Train Of Thought"
b/w "Dixie Girl"
27 9 84 18
"I Saw A Man and He Danced With His Wife"
b/w "I Hate To Sleep Alone" (from Gypsys, Tramps & Theives)
42 3 31
"Rescue Me"
b/w "Dixie Girl"
82
"A Woman's Story"
b/w "Baby, I Love You"
88 Non-album track
1975 "Geronimo's Cadillac"
b/w "These Days"
Stars
1976 "Long Distance Love Affair"
b/w "Borrowed Time"
I'd Rather Believe In You
1977 "Pirate"
b/w "Send The Man Over"
93 Cherished
"War Paint and Soft Feathers"
b/w "Send The Man Over"
1979 "Take Me Home"
b/w "My Song (Too Far Gone)"
8 19 10 49 Take Me Home
"Wasn't It Good" 49 65
"It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)"[D]
"Hell On Wheels"
b/w "Git Down (Guitar Groupie)" (from Take Me Home)
59 Prisoner
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

1980s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
US AC
[4]
AUS
[5][18]
CAN
[7]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
NLD
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12]
UK
[13]
1981 "Dead Ringer for Love"[E] (Meat Loaf & Cher)
b/w "More Than You Deserve" (By Meat Loaf)
65 2 32 16 5 Dead Ringer
1982 "Rudy"
b/w "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
I Paralyze
"I Paralyze"
b/w "Walk With Me"
1987 "I Found Someone"
b/w "Dangerous Times"
10 33 8 14 35 4 94 5 Cher
1988 "We All Sleep Alone"
b/w "Working Girl"
14 11 76 27 47
"Skin Deep"
b/w "Perfection"
79
1989 "After All" (Cher & Peter Cetera)
b/w "Dangerous Times" (from Cher)
6 1 50 6 24 84 Chances Are
"If I Could Turn Back Time"
b/w "Some Guys" (Non-album track)
3 1 1 7 16 6 4 3 11 6 Heart of Stone
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

1990s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
US Club
[4]
US AC
[4]
AUS
[5][18]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
SCO
[22]
UK
[13]
1990 "Just Like Jesse James"
b/w "Starting Over"
8 9 14 8 38 10 11 Heart of Stone
"Heart of Stone"
b/w "All Because Of You"
20 30 60 26 24 43
"You Wouldn't Know Love"
b/w "Kiss To Kiss"
29 55
"Baby I'm Yours"
b/w "Hard Enough Getting Over You" (from Cher)
89 Mermaids
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"
b/w "Love On A Rooftop" (from Heart Of Stone)
33
[F]
7 4 1 21 3 1 1
1991 "Love and Understanding"
b/w "Trail Of Broken Hearts" (from Days Of Thunder Soundtrack)
17 3 23 6 8 20 7 10 Love Hurts
"Save Up All Your Tears"
b/w "A World Without Heroes"
37 16 18 32 56 30 37
"Love Hurts"
b/w "One Small Step"
43
1992 "Could've Been You"
b/w "Love and Understanding" (see above)
75 31
"When Lovers Become Strangers" 15 37
"Oh No Not My Baby"
b/w "Love Hurts" (from Love Hurts)
30 52 33 Greatest Hits: 1965-1992
"Whenever You're Near"
b/w "Could've Been You" (from Love Hurts)
72
1993 "Many Rivers To Cross" (live from The Mirage)
b/w "Who You Gonna Believe" (from Love Hurts)
37
"I Got You Babe" (Cher & Beavis and Butt-head)
[G]
69 35 The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
1995 "Love Can Build A Bridge"
(Cher, Chrissie Hynde & Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton)
b/w "Help" (by Bananarana & Lananeeneenoonoo)
18 62 5 1 1 Comic Relief charity single
"Walking In Memphis" 65 17 60 63 7 11 It's A Man's World
1996 "One By One" 52 7 9 22 13 5 7
"Not Enough Love In The World"" 27 31
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" 15 26
"Paradise Is Here" 11
1998 "Believe"
b/w "Believe" (Xenomania Edit)
1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 Believe
1999 "Strong Enough" 57 1 29 11 4 30 3 11 4 5
"All Or Nothing" 1 62 38 44 26 10 12
"Dov'è l'amore" 5 49 38 31 16 21
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

2000s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
US Club
[4]
US AC
[4]
AUS
[18]
AUT
[6]
CAN
[7]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
SCO
[28]
UK
[13]
2001 "Più Che Puoi" (Eros Ramazzotti & Cher) 61 Stilelibero
"The Music's No Good Without You" 19 23 24 5 27 25 8 8 Living Proof
2002 "Alive Again" 27
"Song for the Lonely" 85 1 11 18
"A Different Kind of Love Song"
[H]
1 30
2003 "When the Money's Gone"
[I]
1
"Love One Another" 2
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rod Stewart & Cher) 17 As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

2010s

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
US
[4]
US Club
[4][29]
US AC
[4][30]
AUS
[18]
AUT
[6]
GER
[8]
IRE
[9]
SCO
[31]
SWI
[32]
UK
[13]
2010 "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" 1 91 Burlesque
2013 "Woman's World"
[J]
1 28 77 60 66 93 26 129 Closer to the Truth
"I Hope You Find It" 17 43 49 39 22 26 25
"Take It Like a Man" 2
2014 "I Walk Alone" 2
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

Notes:

Promotional singles

Year Song Notes
1964 "Ringo, I Love You"
  • The first song recorded by Cher as a solo artist.[36] It was released only as a promotional single (Annette Records 1000) under the pseudonym Bonnie Jo Mason.[36]
"Dream Baby"
  • From her 1965 debut studio album All I Really Want to Do. The song was used as a promo single and was released under the name Cherilyn.[37]
1967 "Ma Piano (Per Non Svegliarmi)"
  • Non-album Italian-language single.
1970 "Superstar"
  • The final song that Cher recorded under the Atco Records label was the Stan Vincent produced "Superstar".[38] The song appeared on a one-sided white label DJ promotional single.[38]
"(Just Enough to Keep Me) Hangin' On"
  • The mono version was released as a one-sided white label DJ promotional single.[38]
1971 "Don't Put It on Me"
  • B-side to the 1972 single "The Way of Love". "Don't Put It On Me" was released only for radio station in North America. In UK the song was released on April 7, 1971,[39] also as a 7" promotional single.
1973 "Carousel Man"
  • "Carousel Man" is a U.S. promo single from the album Half-Breed. It was issued only to radio DJs in 1973 as a single and charted at #41 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It also charted on Canadian singles chart, reaching number 83.
1979 "Holdin' Out for Love"
  • From the 1979 studio album Prisoner. "Holdin' Out for Love" was released as a promotional single in North America, UK and Japan. In North America it was released as a DJ promo,[40] in UK "Outrageous" is on its B-side,[41] while "Boys and Girls" was the B-side of the Japanese single.[42]
1980 "Bad Love"
  • This track was released as a promotional single from the soundtrack of the film Foxes in 1980 and reached No. 30 on the U.S. Dance/Club Play Billboard Chart the same year.
1988 "Bang Bang"
  • The rock version from the Cher album was released as a promo single in 1988 in the US.
1988 "Main Man"
  • Originally to be released as the fifth and final single from Cher. The song was released only as a promotional single for North America and Canada. In Canada the song was released as a 7" single,[43] while in North America as a one-track CD.[44]
1999 "The Star Spangled Banner" (live)
2000 "If I Could Turn Back Time" (Almighty Definitive Mix)
  • From the 1989 studio album Heart of Stone. The song was later remixed for the UK 12" Vinyl Promo Almighty v Cher, released by Eternal/WEA.[47] The 12" contains two other mixes of "If I Could Turn Back Time" and mixes of "Believe" and "One by One".[47]
2003 "Human"
  • Recorded for the film Stuck on You, in which Cher starred. An official soundtrack was not released, apart from on a German promotional CD called "Unzertrennlich". A promotional single of "Human" was also released to DJs.

Other appearances

Year Song Notes
1975 "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)"
1978 "Living in Sin"
  • Performed by Gene Simmons on his debut studio album, Gene Simmons. Cher sang only in one verse on backing vocals as the telephone groupie.[49]
1990 "Trail of Broken Hearts"
1992 "Just Begin Again"
1994 "It Ain't Necessarily So"
1996 "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes"
  • Appears on the compilation For Our Children Too!: To Benefit Pediatric AIDS Foundation.[51]
1999 "Don't Come Cryin' to Me"
"Crimson and Clover"
"Proud Mary" (live)
"If I Could Turn Back Time" (live)
  • A live performance for Divas Live '99 also appeared on the album.
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
  • Cher performed the song in character as Elsa Morganthal in Tea with Mussolini. The soundtrack was not released.
2000 "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"
  • Performed by rock band Majic Ship from the album Songwaves Project, Cher sings backing vocals.[54]
2002 "Believe" (live)
  • A live performance for Divas Las Vegas appeared on the album release of the concert.
"(This Is) A Song for the Lonely" (live)
  • A live performance for Divas Las Vegas also appeared on the album.
"Heartbreak Hotel" (live)
  • Cher contributed to the Elvis Presley medley at Divas Las Vegas. Also appeared on the album.
2011 "More Than a Feeling"
  • A cover of the song was recorded by the cast of the film, Zookeeper, including Cher, and appears over the picture's end titles. It was not released.
2012 "Silver Wings"
  • A duet with Cher's goddaughter Jesse Jo Stark, the Merle Haggard cover was released on Cher's YouTube site. It was a "birthday present" to Stark's father, Richard Stark, and a "gift" for Cher fans who were awaiting the as-yet unnamed Closer to the Truth album.
2013 "I'm Just Your Yesterday"
  • A duet with Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, appearing on Holt's album Honky Tonk Woman.[55] The snippet of the duet is featured in a television special entitled Dear Mom, Love Cher.
"The Greatest Thing"
  • A duet with Lady Gaga. Recorded in 2012, Cher stated in 2013 the song would not be released due to disaffection by Gaga with the result. A demo version of the duet leaked in August 2013.

See also

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References

  • Coplon, Jeff; Cher (1999), The First Time, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-03488-X
  • Williams, Richard (2003), Phil Spector: out of his head, Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-9864-7
  • Taraborrelli, J. Randy (1992), Cher: A Biography, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-13170-4
  • Rees, Dafydd; Crampton, Luke (1991), Rock movers & shakers, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 0-87436-661-5

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