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Following the recent reissue of Cher's It's a Man's World, the superstar is once again revisiting her back catalogue - this time, with a deluxe edition of 1998's Believe. A 25th anniversary of the quadruple platinum seller arrives November 3 from Warner Records on 2 CDs, 3 LPs, or digitally. That's just a couple of weeks after her very first yuletide album, Christmas, hits stores on October 20.
Cher professed to have no interest in a dance-oriented album when the Warner brass approached her about recording the album that became Believe. She was won over, though, and began work in London with producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling in the spring of 1998. Taylor and co-writer Paul Barry supplied a number of the songs for the project including contributions to the title track, an eventual Grammy winner. Ultimately, seven writers (including Cher) were credited with "Believe," but seven was a lucky number, indeed, as the song became one of the best-selling singles ever - not to mention anchoring what became Cher's best-selling album of all time.
A chart-topper in over 20 countries including the U.S. and the U.K. (where it was recognized as the biggest-selling single ever by a female artist), "Believe" immediately grabbed attention with its then-novel use of AutoTune and irresistible chorus. The second single off Believe, Taylor and Barry's "Strong Enough," reached the top of the U.S. Dance chart and has since become another Cher signature anthem. "All or Nothing" and "Dov'è l'amore" fared well internationally, solidifying Believe as one of the high watermarks of Cher's extraordinary career. Featuring other highlights including Diane Warren's "Takin' Back My Heart" and a remix of Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora's "We All Sleep Alone," Believe went platinum or multi-platinum in eighteen countries, and launched the successful Do You Believe tour - which, in turn, set the stage for the record-breaking Living Proof: The Farewell Tour.
Typical for a dance album, Believe yielded numerous remixes. The Deluxe Edition includes the original album plus 13 of those remixes, all newly remastered. The leopard-printed vinyl package includes LPs pressed on sea blue, light blue, and clear vinyl, along with an exclusive numbered lithograph of Cher. All versions include two commercially unreleased remixes of "Dov'e L'amore": Tee's Radio One Instrumental and Ray Roc's Latin Soul Instrumental.
Look for Believe in all formats on November 3. You'll find the track listing and pre-order links below!
Cher, Believe: Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros. 9 47121-2, 1998 - reissued Warner Records, 2023)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
- Believe
- The Power
- Runaway
- All Or Nothing
- Strong Enough
- Dov'e l'amore
- Takin' Back My Heart
- Taxi Taxi
- Love Is The Groove
- We All Sleep Alone
- Believe (Almighty Definitive Mix) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44576-2, 1998)
- Believe (Club 69 Future Anthem Mix) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44576-2, 1998)
- Believe (Phat 'n' Phunky Club Mix) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44576-2, 1998)
- Strong Enough (Club 69 Phunk Mix) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44644-2, 1999)
- Strong Enough (Male Version) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44644-2, 1999)
- Strong Enough (Pumpin' Dolls Radio Edit) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44644-2, 1999)
- All Or Nothing (Almighty Radio Edit) (included on Warner Bros. (Germany) maxi-single 3984 28127 2, 1999)
- All Or Nothing (Austrian Version Metro Mix) (possibly included on WEA single 3984 28120 2, 1999)
- All Or Nothing (Danny Tenaglia Inchermental Mix) (included on Warner Bros. promo single, no cat. no., 1999)
- Dov'e L'amore (Emilio Estefan Jr. Extended Mix) (included on WEA promotional 12-inch single SAM 00194, 1999)
- Dov'e L'amore (Tony Moran's Anthem 7" Mix) (included on Warner Bros. maxi-single 9 44774-2, 1999)
- Dov'e L'amore (Tee's Radio One Instrumental) (*)
- Dov'e L'amore (Ray Roc's Latin Soul Instrumental) (*)
(*) previously unreleased in commercial format
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Why didn't they include the Xenomania mix that's on the original CD? Rather have that than instrumental tracks.
Would have been cool...I collect Xenomania stuff...like Girls Aloud...
It looks like several of the complete extended dance mixes of the songs were left off of this. Dance music fans like me want all the long mixes not the edited radio versions — and this IS a dance album!
This is interesting, got "It's a Man's World", now they are doing "Believe"...next will be "Living Proof"...what would be REALLY good is if they just face the elephant in the room & do reissues of Cher's Warner albums from 1975 to 1978!! Even just a simple 2CD set via Wounded Bird or Collectors Choice for a limited time numbered to 2000 copies, they've never been reissued, just buried, but people want them, BIG time...c'mon Cher & Warners, just do em!!
Definitely agree with Larry's post. Hard to "Believe" an artist of Cher's status and success doesn't have ALL of her releases out on CD by now. Heck even Sonny's "Inner Views" LP was released on CD....... (and respectfully that was no chart topper...... At times it has appeared Cher doesn't much interest in her back catalog. Remember she has said she is not a "Cher fan" musically. Hopefully that will change. Would hope for some unreleased songs, demos, out-takes as they move forward if any exist. While we are at it how about a vinyl box set of Sonny and Cher's Lp's? Cher's foreign language songs? Oh well I could go on and on...... Psyched for her Christmas CD. Next up..... CONCERTS (I'm hoping).
I would guess that anyone interested in a deluxe edition of this album has already collected every remix associated with this album, barring the 2 unreleased instrumentals attached to the end, which I don't have any desire to hear much less own. The incentive for this purchase might be to have them accumulated on one neat package, but I can quickly assemble this tracklist using my own library of the original album, US & import singles, and promo bits I've collected over the years. But cheers to the effort, let's hope more Cher deluxe issues follow...particularly of Love Hurts and backwards.
The Austrian Version Metro Mix of 'All Or Nothing' (track 18) is not a correct tag. This is the regular Metro Mix (3:58). Apart from an edited Metro Mix (3:30), only available on US promo CD singles, there's no other Metro Mix version, and certainly not an Austrian one.
The label "Austrian Version Metro Mix" came directly from Warner Records' press release. I haven't seen the physical release yet, but I do see that the track is simply labeled as "Metro Mix" on the streaming version.