''Walls'' is the thirty-sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter

Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand ( ; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the ...

, released on November 2, 2018, by

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American reco ...

. The lead single " Don't Lie to Me" was written as a criticism of America's political climate amid the presidency of Donald Trump, while the title track alludes to Trump's frequent calls for a wall at the Mexico border. Receiving critical acclaim, the album debuted at number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' 200.

Critical reception

''Walls'' received acclaim from music critics. At

Metacritic Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...

, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Walls'' has an average score of 84 based on 5 reviews. ''Walls'' was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. ''Year-end lists''

Commercial performance

''Walls'' debuted at number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 but then dropped off the charts after a second week. ''Walls'' opened at number six on the

UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the O ...

, selling 15,604 copies and giving Streisand her 36th top-75 album and 15th top-10 entry in the United Kingdom. In Australia ''Walls'' debuted at number seven on the

ARIA Albums Chart The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...

Track listing

Adapted from ''

Playbill ''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the ...

''.

Personnel

Adapted from

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...

. * Walter Afanasieff – arranger, keyboards, orchestral arrangements, producer, synthesizer * Tariqh Akoni – acoustic guitar * Leo Amuedo – acoustic guitar * Annie Bosko – background vocals * Adrian Bradford – engineer * Jorge Calandrelli – orchestral arrangements * David Campbell – string arrangements * Mabvuto Carpenter – background vocals * Desmond Child – keyboards, producer, programming * Steve Churchyard – orchestration recording * Tim Davis – choir director *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass guitarist and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts ...

– bass guitar * Kenneth Edmonds – vocals *

David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s befor ...

– arranger, producer * Ian Fraser – arranger * Dmytro Gordon – engineer * Tyler Gordon – engineer * Mark Graham – music preparation * Keith Gretlein – engineer, programming * Missi Hale – background vocals * Jeri Heiden – design * Russell James – photography * Jay Landers – executive producer, liner notes * Whitney Martin – music contractor * Michael McDonald – vocals * Vlado Meller – mastering * Shawn Murphy – orchestration recording *

Jonas Myrin Jonas Myrin is a Swedish singer, songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, California. His solo career began in 2012 with the gold-certified song, "Day of the Battle" in Germany. Myrin won two Grammy Awards for the song " 10,000 Reasons (Bl ...

– arranger, associate producer, background vocals * Obie O'Brien – orchestration recording * J.C. Monterrosa – orchestration recording * Clay Perry – arranger, keyboards, programming *

Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1958 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and th ...

– electric guitar * Tiffany Plamer – background vocals * William Ross – adaptation, arranger, orchestral arrangements * John Shanks – bass, guitar, keyboards, producer, programming, background vocals * Blake Slatkin – keyboards, programming *

– arranger, art direction, executive producer, primary artist, producer * Shari Sutcliffe – music contractor * Mary Webster – score coordinator * Kris Wilkinson – music contractor *

Lucy Woodward Lucy Woodward is an English-American singer-songwriter. She has released records on Atlantic, Verve, and GroundUP and has sung with many artists including Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Snarky Puppy, Celine Dion, Pink Martini, Gavin DeGraw, ...

– background vocals * Gina Zimmitti – music contractor

Charts

''Walls'' became Streisand's first studio album not to reach the top ten since ''

Emotion Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiology, neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavior, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or suffering, displeasure. There is ...

'' in 1984. As of January 2023, the album is Streisand's fifth studio album not to be certified Gold or Platinum by

RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/o ...

Certifications

References

External links

Barbra Archives: ''Walls'' (2018)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walls (Barbra Streisand album) 2018 albums Barbra Streisand albums Columbia Records albums Albums produced by Walter Afanasieff Albums produced by Desmond Child Albums produced by David Foster Albums produced by John Shanks