CRAPAPDEIA -- Barbra Streisand version

Remember, kids, it's CRAPAPEDIA.

At WIKIPEDIA, you will find the following lies in the Barbra Streisand entry:


She has achieved five No. 1 singles in the US, the most for a female singer in the 1970s, and sang lead on a No. 1 hit single at least once every year from 1977 to 1980 in the US, a period of 4 consecutive years and the first female performer to achieve it. Streisand also was one of the elite acts with top 10s in four different decades. In 1974, "The Way We Were" became the first original single by a female artist to achieve the No. 1 song of the year in US.^[10]



So many lies.

First off, five number one singles in the 1970s?

1980 is not the 1970s.

So it's four number one singles in the 1970s that Barbra had plus "Woman In Love" in 1980.

Females?

Diana Ross also achieved four number ones in the seventies -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Do You Know Where You're Going To?," "Touch Me In the Morning" and "Love Hangover."

If you want to include the lie that 1980 is the 1970s?

Then you have to include Diana Ross' number one hit "Upside Down."

However you count it -- with 1980 being part of the 1970s or not -- Diana Ross had the same number of number ones as Barbra Streisand in the seventies or 'seventies.'

If we're counting the actual 70s?  Along with Diana having four number ones to Barbra's four number ones, there's also Donna Summer ("McArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and the duet with Barbra "Enough Is Enough").

So Barbra does not have "the most for a female singer in the 1970s."

If you count the actual 70s, she, Diana Ross and Donna Summer have four number ones on the US pop charts.  If you include 1980 as part of the '70s,' she and Diana Ross both have five number ones on the US pop charts.


As for "The Way We Were" being the first original single by a female artist to achieve the No. 1 song of the year in the US"?


What is it about Babs that creates fans who refuse to give African-American women their due?

Roberta Flack?

In 1972, the number one song of the year was Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

And, in 1967, the number one song for the year was Lulu's "To Sir With Love."

Oh, and 1954's number one song?  Kitty Kallen's "Little Things Mean A Lot."


So she was not the first female artist to have the number one song of the year in the US -- before her there was Kitty Kallen, Lulu and Roberta Flack.


Crap from CRAPAPEDIA, remember that, kids.