Barbra Streisand Beats Mariah Carey

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Barbra Streisand administered a terrible butt kicking to fellow singer, Mariah Carey, on the pop charts, when her CD “Love Is The Answer” debuted at #1, pushing the latter down to #3 with her news release, "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel." Ouch.

First Whitney Houston beat her, now Barbra Streisand. It certainly doesn’t make up for all the records she’s robbed both women of in the Guinness World Book through fraud, but it is a start.

Paramore, Mariah Carey Lose #1 Spot To Barbra Streisand

Oct 7 2009 12:34 PM EDT - Paramore's Brand New Eyes debuts just behind Babs and beats Mimi's latest on the Billboard Albums chart.

Paramore shouldn't feel too bad that they were just barely beat out for a #1 debut by one of pop's all-time classic divas while beating out a mega-selling modern one — and notching their best first week ever in the process.

Though the band's third album, Brand New Eyes, will bow at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week, after selling 175,000 copies, they can rest easy knowing that they were just a nose behind legend Barbra Streisand, whose album of jazz standards, Love Is the Answer, snagged the top spot with sales of 180,000. The feat, Babs' ninth #1 album, gives her at least one top debut in each of the past five decades.

The news was not as good for Mariah Carey, whose Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (168,000) sold considerably less in its first week than her last album, E=MC2 (463,000), according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan...

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