The Broadway Album
by Barbra Streisand
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The Broadway Album is ranked as the best album by Barbra Streisand.
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The Broadway Album track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/20/2026 11:29 | Leginlists | 3,708 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/16/2025 02:21 |  zags7000 | 20,488 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2025 21:04 |  Tamthebam | 23,163 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/03/2024 14:00 | cicadelic | 13,304 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2023 07:57 | fabm0 | 7,010 | 58/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.9/100, a mean average of 66.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.1.
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 1987. The winner was Graceland by Paul Simon.
Tamthebam 01/22/2017 20:32 | #183910 | TOP COMMENT
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This is the best Streisand album out there. After making a whole bunch of pop albums in the 70's, she decided to revisit Broadway songs which was how her recording career began & Broadway songs were basically all she released up to 1968. The orchestration and her choice of songs is impeccable the album flows from one track to another until the climax ,the final track "Somewhere". A wonderful album and her voice is amazing.
A great record from one of the most important and gifted vocalists of her or anyone's generation.
Great voice, at her best here. A set of musical theatre tunes that are perfectly chosen for her talents. Now sounds a tad overproduced in the 'eighties style, but she just cuts through the crap and sniffs out the mustard. Phenomenal. "Putting It Together" and "Pretty Women/Ladies Who Lunch" - the Sondheim stuff - have never been bettered.
ffudnebbuh 08/09/2013 11:39 | #83590 | TOP COMMENT
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This was the second best selling album that year after Police "Synchronicity"....It sold 4 million in the US.
Not normally a fan of this kind of music, but Barbra has a gift for showtunes and you can tell this album was dear to her heart and every song here she makes her own.
ffudnebbuh 07/29/2012 14:41 | #47409
Forgot about this album, her best, and best selling album.
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