"his record as the oldest artist to achieve a number-one album on the chart. The album also reached the top ten in Australia, Canada, Greece, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In 2011, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga first met after she had performed a rendition of Nat King Cole's ""Orange Colored Sky"" at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City. Bennett then asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his album ""Duets II"", and the pair recorded ""The Lady Is a Tramp"" for the album. In September 2012, Bennett confirmed to ""Rolling Stone"" that Gaga"
"2011 with ""Duets II""—as the oldest living act to earn a number one album in the US. The debut also made Gaga the first female artist in the 2010 decade to have three number-one albums. Along with the ""Billboard"" 200 and Jazz Albums, ""Cheek to Cheek"" also entered at number four on the Top Digital Albums chart. As of February 2018, the album has sold more than 760,000 copies in the country, becoming Bennett's seventh half-million album since Nielsen began tracking data in 1991, and Gaga's fifth. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for"
"2011, Bennett released ""Duets II"", a follow-up to his first collaboration album, in conjunction with his 85th birthday. He sings duets with seventeen prominent singers of varying techniques, including Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Queen Latifah, and Lady Gaga. Bennett appeared on the season 2 premiere of the television procedural ""Blue Bloods"" performing ""It Had To Be You"" with Carrie Underwood. His duet with Amy Winehouse on ""Body and Soul""—reportedly the last recording she made before her death—charted on the lower reaches of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to appear there, as well as the artist"
"Neil Reid, whose debut album topped the chart in 1972 when he was only 12 years old. The oldest living artist to top the charts is Vera Lynn at the age of 92 with """", released in 2009 (though the album only contains material she recorded between 1936 and 1959). Lynn also holds the record for the oldest living artist to have a chart album, with the 2017 release of ""Vera Lynn 100"", released to mark her 100th birthday (though again, this only contains material she recorded decades earlier). The album peaked at number 3. The album which has spent"
"entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at #22, thus becoming the oldest living performer to ever enter the music charts, at 91 years and 6 months. The record was previously held (among living artists) by Tony Bennett, who was 85 when he recorded ""Body and Soul"" with Amy Winehouse in March 2011 (Louis Armstrong's ""What a Wonderful World"" charted when Armstrong would have been 86 years old in 1987, but Armstrong had recorded the song 20 years prior, and was already dead by the time the song became a hit). After media attention, the song rose to #18. Lee released"
"(BNP) for using ""The White Cliffs of Dover"" on an anti-immigration album without her permission. Her lawyer claimed the album seemed to link Lynn, who does not align with any political party, to the party's views by association. In September 2009, at the age of 92, Lynn became the oldest living artist to make it to number 1 in the British album chart. Her compilation album """" entered the chart at number 20 on 30 August, and then climbed to number 2 the following week before reaching the top position, outselling both the Arctic Monkeys and the Beatles. With this"
"Duets (Barbra Streisand album) Duets (retitled Star Collection in some countries) is a compilation album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on November 26, 2002, by Columbia Records. The collection features nineteen duets from Streisand's career, including two newly-recorded ones: ""I Won't Be the One to Let Go"" with Barry Manilow and ""All I Know of Love"" with Josh Groban. The former song was released as the album's lead single on November 4, 2002, as a streaming-only exclusive for AOL Music website members. ""Duets"" was reissued in South American countries in 2013 under the title ""Star Collection"" with new artwork."
"age 85, the oldest living artist ever to chart on the Hot 100, surpassing the previous record of George Burns. This record was then surpassed by Christopher Lee in 2013. It also gave Bennett the longest overall span of appearances on the Hot 100; his version of ""Young and Warm and Wonderful"" appeared on the very first Hot 100 chart for the week of August 4, 1958. The song received a Grammy Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category on February 12, 2012. Proceeds from ""Body and Soul"" go to benefit ""The Amy Winehouse"
"duet with American singer Tony Bennett for his latest album, ""Duets II"", released on 20 September 2011. Their single from the album, ""Body and Soul,"" was released on 14 September 2011 on MTV and VH1 to commemorate what would have been her 28th birthday. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, launched the Amy Winehouse Foundation with the goal of raising awareness and support for organisations that help vulnerable, young adults with problems such as addiction. Proceeds from ""Body and Soul"" benefit the Amy Winehouse Foundation. The song received the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards on 12"
"a Gold certification by PROMUSICAE for shipments of 50,000 copies. Its lowest peak positions were achieved in France, Germany, and Switzerland, where the compilation peaked at numbers 44, 53, and 88, respectively. The album has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Notes Duets (Barbra Streisand album) Duets (retitled Star Collection in some countries) is a compilation album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on November 26, 2002, by Columbia Records. The collection features nineteen duets from Streisand's career, including two newly-recorded ones: ""I Won't Be the One to Let Go"" with Barry Manilow and ""All I Know of Love"" with"
"by copying the artwork ""HYBYCOZO"" without permission, a three-dimensional LED-lit laser cut steel polygon sculpture created for Burning Man by Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu. ! Refs ! R ! R David Guetta Pierre David Guetta (; ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ, record producer and songwriter who has sold over nine million albums and thirty million singles worldwide. In 2011, Guetta was voted as the number one DJ in the ""DJ Mag"" Top 100 DJs poll. In 2013, ""Billboard"" crowned ""When Love Takes Over"" as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time. Born and raised"
"Home Before Dark Home Before Dark is the twenty-seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. Released on May 5, 2008; it was the artist's second album for American Recordings. ""Home Before Dark"" received generally positive reviews from critics upon its release and topped the national albums charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. It has since been accredited with album certifications in several regions. In May 2008, at the age of 67, Neil Diamond was the oldest performer to have a number one record. This mark was previously held by Bob Dylan in 2006 with"
"Duets II (Frank Sinatra album) Duets II is the 59th and last studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra. It was released in 1994, and was the sequel to the previous year's ""Duets"". Phil Ramone produced the album and guest artists from various genres contributed their duet parts to Sinatra's already recorded vocals. Though not as commercially successful as ""Duets"", it still rose to #9 on the Billboard albums chart and sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. It also peaked at #29 in the UK. Critical notices were again mixed at best, although some viewed it as an"
"by Melcher. My Heart (Doris Day album) My Heart is the 29th studio album by Doris Day, released on September 5, 2011. On September 11, 2011 the album entered the UK chart at number nine, making Doris Day, at age 89, the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material. Eight of the songs are new releases, with three of them written by Day's son Terry Melcher, and Bruce Johnston. Many of the songs on this collection were recorded in the mid-1980s for her ""Doris Day's Best Friends"" television show. The songs were meant"
"she had turned 100 four days prior to the album's release). She supplanted her own previous record set in June 2014 when, at 97, she was the oldest living artist to make the top 20, with ""National Treasure"". The album was blocked from the top spot by Ed Sheeran's ""÷"" (the album's third week at the top) and Drake's ""More Life"". Vera Lynn 100 Vera Lynn 100 is a compilation album by English singer Vera Lynn. The album was released on 17 March 2017, by Decca Records, to celebrate Lynn's 100th birthday. Some of her best-known songs have been re-orchestrated"
"of the ""early tremors of bebop"". In 2004, the Library of Congress entered it into the National Recording Registry. ""Body and Soul"" was recorded as a duet by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse on March 23, 2011. It was the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. The single was released worldwide on September 14, 2011, what would have been her 28th birthday, on iTunes, MTV and VH1. When the song reached number 87 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for the week of October 1, 2011, it made Bennett, at"
"David Guetta Pierre David Guetta (; ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ, record producer and songwriter who has sold over nine million albums and thirty million singles worldwide. In 2011, Guetta was voted as the number one DJ in the ""DJ Mag"" Top 100 DJs poll. In 2013, ""Billboard"" crowned ""When Love Takes Over"" as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time. Born and raised in Paris, he released his first album, ""Just a Little More Love"", in 2002. Later, he released ""Guetta Blaster"" (2004) and ""Pop Life"" (2007). Guetta achieved mainstream success with his 2009"
"at No. 3 on The Billboard 200, selling around 202,000 copies in its first week. It spent five consecutive weeks in the Top 10 and was certified Gold in less than four weeks. It also reached No. 1 in Canada. The sequel album, ""Duets II"", was released in 2011 in conjunction with Bennett's 85th birthday. The Album Won The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at 2007 Grammy Awards Beating Out ""Timeless Love"" by Smokey Robinson. Duets: An American Classic Duets: An American Classic is a studio album by Tony Bennett, released in 2006 via Columbia label. The"
"My Heart (Doris Day album) My Heart is the 29th studio album by Doris Day, released on September 5, 2011. On September 11, 2011 the album entered the UK chart at number nine, making Doris Day, at age 89, the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material. Eight of the songs are new releases, with three of them written by Day's son Terry Melcher, and Bruce Johnston. Many of the songs on this collection were recorded in the mid-1980s for her ""Doris Day's Best Friends"" television show. The songs were meant to be"
"Donna Summer LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States ""Billboard"" 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. She"
"LeAnn Rimes is the youngest individual winner. She was 14 years old when she won her first two awards in 1997. She was also the first Country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy. Taylor Swift is the youngest solo artist to win Album of the Year. She was 20 years old when she won in 2010 for her album ""Fearless"". Pinetop Perkins is the oldest person to win a Grammy. In 2011 he was awarded Best Traditional Blues Album for ""Joined At The Hip"" at 97 years of age. Santana's ""Supernatural"" and U2's ""How to Dismantle an Atomic"
"legendary American singer of traditional pop standards Tony Bennett in a duet for the song The Way You Look Tonight. Viva Duets is the studio album by Tony Bennett, released in October 2012. Thalias first English-language album Thalia, shares a title with Thalía's 1990 and 2002 Spanish-language albums. ""I Want You"" was the album's most popular song, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seven in the Mainstream chart. It is her only song to date that has charted within the Billboard Hot 100. In Greece, the song peaked number twenty-six in Top 50 singles sales."
"position. Vocals - Vera Lynn; We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn is a compilation album by English singer Vera Lynn. The album is a selection of her recordings made for Decca Records, for whom Lynn recorded between 1936 and 1959. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart on 13 September 2009, making her at age 92 the oldest living artist to achieve this feat with an album. The album entered the chart at number 20 on 30 August, and then climbed to number 2 the following"
"Canada. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2012, while Bennett and Amy Winehouse won the Grammy for Best Pop Duo or Group Performance for ""Body and Soul"". ""Body and Soul"" was one of Winehouse's favorite songs, and the track, recorded in March 2011, would become Winehouse's final recording before her death a few months later. ""Body and Soul"" was Bennett's first entry on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart in nearly 45 years. ""Duets II"" earned arranger Jorge Calandrelli the Grammy for the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for Bennett's duet with Queen"
"naturally enjoyable albums you'll hear all year."" In its first week of release, the album reached number one in the ""Billboard"" 200 chart in the U.S., making Bob Dylan (67 years of age) the oldest artist to ever debut at number one on that chart. It also reached number one on the UK album chart, 39 years after Dylan's previous UK album chart topper ""New Morning"". This meant that Dylan currently holds the record for the longest gap between solo number one albums in the UK chart. On October 13, 2009, Dylan released a Christmas album, ""Christmas in the Heart"","
"one for a duet album. McCartney and Simon are the only artists with nominations in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. The first woman to win the award was Judy Garland in 1962, for ""Judy at Carnegie Hall"". Taylor Swift and Adele are the only women to win the award more than once for their own albums (winning for ""Fearless"" and ""1989"" and "" 21"" and ""25"", respectively; Swift was also nominated for ""Red""). In addition, Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones and Alison Krauss are all tied with Swift and Adele with two wins overall, each winning as lead"
"States, Canada, China, Korea, Japan and Europe until his death in 2011. Interviewed as the farewell concert of the Beaux Arts Trio on August 21, 2008 approached, he said he practiced every day and was considered ""the old man of the cello"", with other aging cellists being surprised that he still performed at the age of 95. Greenhouse also remained the oldest of those who have played in the trio, until at least 2015, Daniel Guilet (who was born about a week short of 17 years earlier) having died at the age of 91, and Isidore Cohen having died at"
"with Alzheimer's disease. Art Todd died on 10 October 2007 of congestive heart failure in Honolulu at the age of 93. Art and Dotty Todd Art and Dotty Todd were an American husband and wife singing duo who reached the Top Ten in the UK and the US with the hits ""Broken Wings"" (1953) and ""Chanson D'Amour"" (1958). Dotty Todd was born Doris Dabb in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 22 June 1913. She studied the piano from an early age, giving a piano recital at Carnegie Hall at the age of 13. She was performing at the Providence Biltmore Hotel"
"and the US and recording such hits as ""Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"" and her UK Number one single ""My Son, My Son"". Her last single, ""I Love This Land"", was released to mark the end of the Falklands War. In 2009, at age 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart, with compilation album """". She released the compilation album ""Vera Lynn 100"" in 2017, to commemorate her centennial year, and it was a number 3 hit, making her the oldest recording artist in the world and first centenarian performer to have an album in the"
"Rosemary Clooney (on her album ""While we're Young""), Bobby Vinton, Tom Waits, Bing Crosby (charting briefly in 1954 at the #24 spot), Barry Manilow (on his album ""The Greatest Songs of the Fifties""), Bob Dylan, Landon Pigg, Mark Vincent and Vonda Shepard, James Darren, Monty Alexander, and Michael Bublé (on his album ""To Be Loved""). The Cure incorporated verses from ""Young At Heart"" during concert performances of ""Why Can't I Be You?"" (widely available on bootlegs). Wild Man Fischer recorded an eccentric version that was included on ""The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records"". In 2016, at 90 years"
"time with him, and wrote some material that was later recorded for the album ""The Fall"". Ravi Shankar died in 2012. In February 2014, Jones had her first child, a son, with her musician husband. They had a second child in 2016. Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won many awards and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. ""Billboard"" named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on ""Billboard"" magazine's artists"
"Duets (Frank Sinatra album) Duets is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1993. Recorded near the end of Sinatra's career, it consists of electronically assembled duets between Sinatra and younger singers from various genres. The album was a commercial success, debuting at No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" albums chart, reaching No. 5 in the UK, and selling over 3 million copies in the US. It is the only Sinatra album to date to achieve triple platinum certification. The album received mixed critical notices, with complaints stemming from Sinatra's specified style of isolated performance wherein he was never"
"In August 2011, the top 5 positions on the album charts were held by both Adele and Amy Winehouse with two albums each, and by American singer Beyoncé holding the other spot. British singer-songwriter Paloma Faith reached No. 2 on the album charts in 2012 with her second album ""Fall to Grace"". In the 2000s bands and artists appeared who functioned as cross-over acts between the indie rock and folk scenes. Their music often utilised traditional instruments, sometimes beside electronic music. London's nu-folk scene included artists like Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale, Mumford & Sons and Johnny Flynn and"