 "New York Times" reviewer Stephen Holden, once himself with "Rolling Stone", had no such reservations, declaring shortly after the album's release that Streisand had "just released what may be the album of a lifetime".The album was ranked #37 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the '100 100 GREATEST CDS ', the fourth highest album by a female artist to appear on the list.The album reached #1 on the US "Billboard" 200 chart in 1986, selling 218,000 copies in that week and earned Streisand a Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance".