Barbra Streisand's 2016 Concert Tour Takes in Magical $46 Million

Barbra Streisand, who made history earlier this year when she hit number one on the Billboard 200 album chart for the 11th time, is wrapping up 2016 with a magical concert tour gross of $46 million.

Billboard reports that she earned $10.7 million alone in ticket sales from concerts in Houston, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami this fall on her THE MUSIC...THE MEM'IRES...THE MAGIC! tour. Streisand also visited nine cities over the summer before the August release of her album ENCORE: MOVIE PARTNERS SING BROADWAY.

Overall, the final gross is $46 million, based on 177,524 seats sold at 14 concerts across 13 cities, including Los Angeles, San Jose, Las Vegas, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Toronto.

The only recording artist or group to achieve number one albums in each of six decades, THE MUSIC...THE MEM'IRES...THE MAGIC! featured Streisand performing her hits from each decade and other favorites, including from her latest number one album, ENCORE: MOVIE PARTNERS SING BROADWAY, celebrating a career of unparalleled creative achievement.

The best-selling female recording artist, Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. Streisand also has the longest span of number one albums in history, just under 52 years.

With her live performances being so rare and special, the excitement surrounding a Streisand tour is unequaled. Following a 27-year hiatus from live concerts, Streisand's 1994 world tour garnered a record-setting 5 million phone requests to Ticketmaster and sold out within the first hour. Her shows in fall 2006 broke house records in 14 of the 16 venues in which she played (in the other two arenas, Streisand already held the buildings' records).

Streisand's 2012 tour, BACK TO BROOKLYN, highlighted an emotional return to performing in concert in her home borough for the first time since she was in grade school. Following a North American run, the tour broke records throughout Europe, and culminated in two spine-tingling performances in Israel, thrilling crowds who "loved her even before a perfectly-pitched note came out of her mouth," as described by Haaretz, "and every note was, indeed perfect."

Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter. Streisand has been awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes, eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, a special Tony award in 1970, and two CableACE Awards - the only artist to receive honors in all of those fields of endeavor. Streisand received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama this past November. Her many other honors include the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Medal, three Peabody Awards and the French Légion d'Honneur. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.

Streisand is a devoted philanthropist who works tirelessly to fight for what she believes in. A woman of action, Streisand founded The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, helping to raise awareness and push research into women's heart disease, the leading cause of death among women.

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