Been listening to this today and I agree that some songs on the digital second disc should have been on the main release: A Woman's Story (because why is the 'new' song not on the physical release) plus Love And Understanding, Just Like Jesse James, The Beat Goes On, Bang Bang and I Got You Babe. These five songs are all classics and I'd have switched them in over Save Up All Your Tears and The Way Of Love for a start. I love All Or Nothing too but I can understand not overloading the main CD with Believe tracks.

 

I also picked up the CD today and three songs from what I can hear are different mixes between the CD and download version: Save Up All Your Tears is slower/in a lower key on the CD (it's the same version used on 'If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits), and Gimme Gimme Gimme and Take Me Home are the radio edits on the CD while the longer versions are on the download version.

 

I will say though that I massively enjoyed the full album, despite it not being chronological. It shows the sheer amount of classics that people overlook from Cher's career, all from very different and widely spread apart eras, which is no mean feat. And the remasters sound fantastic, especially of the 60s and 70s songs.

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Number 31 in todays mids, I half thought this might go top 10.

Very disappointing although I haven’t seen any promo for it.

 

I feel like the Christmas album she was everywhere promoting it.

Number 31 in todays mids, I half thought this might go top 10.

 

I did think it’d start a bit better than #31 too.

Number 31 in todays mids, I half thought this might go top 10.

 

 

Omg that is poor :blink: I thought she would be an easy top 10 then drop like a stone. Guess she hasn't done any promo for it really, should have done the rounds.

OMG at that position.

 

She would have been more wise with a short set of her classics.

 

This album has been mentioned throughout this thread is abysmal and does not make any sense!

Its likely it wont be top 40 on Friday so hopefully it can manage to stay top 50.

Song For The Lonely instead of The Music's No Good Without You, the actual hit of the album, is definitely a choice...

Song For The Lonely instead of The Music's No Good Without You, the actual hit of the album, is definitely a choice...

 

'Song For The Lonely' is better known and regarded these days (and also has over double the stream count), so it makes sense to me.

Debuts at 44 in the UK and misses the To p100 here in Ireland :cry:

Misses the top 50 in Australia also.

I’ll be getting the vinyl because I’ve been dying for a Cher greatest hits on vinyl for ages and I think the tracks on there are more than worth having, but listening to the deluxe on Spotify, I do have to say that I wish Love and Understand, Just Like Jessy James and All or Nothing were there, probably instead of the ABBA songs, which I do really like but aren’t as essential to her discography. I do get that these songs were personally picked by Cher and she has a lot of love for the ABBA songs compared to Just Like Jessy James which I think she has said she didn’t like. Would love Music’s No Good Without You on the main album too but understand Song for the Lonely is more loved and remembered on the album.

 

There are songs on there that I love that I think could easily have been left off, like Saving All My Tears and You’ve Not Seen the Last of Me, so there are positives that balance out the more negatives.