“Believe”
Single by Cher from the album Believe
Released	October 18, 1998 (UK) October 19, 1998 (France) November 3, 1998 (U.S) April 20, 1999 (Canada) May 25, 1999 (Japan)
Format	CD single CD maxi-single 12" single 7" single
Recorded	1998
Genre	Electronica/Dance
Length	3:59
Label	Warner Bros. Records / Wea
Writer(s)	Brian Higgins Stuart McLennen Paul Barry Steven Torch Matthew Gray Timothy Powell
Producer	Mark Taylor Brian Rawling

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Song information

"Believe" was written by a number of writers which include Paul Barry, Matt Gray, Brian Higgins, Stuart McLellan, Timothy Powell, and Steven Torch. The song, released and recorded in 1998, peaked at number one in 23 countries worldwide ^[1]. On the week ending March 13, 1999, it reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100, making Cher the oldest female artist (at the age of 52)^[2] to perform this feat. It also was ranked as the number-one song of 1999 by Billboard, and became the biggest single in her entire career. "Believe" also spent seven weeks at number one ^[3] in the UK singles chart and is still the best selling single by a female artist in the UK. ^[4] Brian Higgins is a British music producer who has written and produced albums and tracks for several pop music singers and groups (most notably Girls Aloud) through his Xenomania production group. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ...

In March 2007, the United World Chart ranked "Believe" as the sixteenth most successful song in music history. Referring to that same list, "Believe" is also third the most successful song released by a solo female musician behind Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On; ^[5], the biggest selling single ever for Warner Bros. Records and the biggest selling dance song ever having sold over 10 million copies worldwide. ^[6] It was also the song with most weeks in the top ten, it stayed in the top ten for 28 weeks. The United World Chart is a worldwide chart issued every week by Media Traffic, using both sales (digital and physical) and airplay to determine the most popular albums and singles worldwide. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is a six-time Grammy award winning, American R&B singer, soprano, pianist, actress, film producer, and former model. ... I Will Always Love You is a song written and originally performed by American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton (first released as a single in 1974) and then most famously recorded by American singer Whitney Houston. ... This article is about the musician. ... My Heart Will Go On is the theme song of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic. ... Warner Bros. ...

The success of the song not only expanded through each country's singles chart, but also most country's dance charts. In the United States "Believe" spent 23 weeks on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and 22 weeks on the European Hot Dance Charts. "Believe" also set a record in 1999 after spending 21 weeks in the top spot of the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it was still in the top ten even one year after its entry on the chart. ^[7]. Billboards Hot Dance Club Play chart (also known as Club Play Singles, and formerly known as Hot Dance Music/Club Play and Hot Dance/Disco) is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs. ... Hot Dance Singles Sales (formerly known as Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales) is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. ...

"Believe" was given the featured closing number spot for over 100 performances on Cher's 1999-2000 Do You Believe? Tour and then again the closing spot for over 300 performances on Cher's epic 2002-2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. The song ranked #74 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. The Do You Believe? Tour, sometimes also known as The Believe Tour, was Cher’s third solo concert tour. ...

Production

An interesting note about the recording of the song revolved around the highly-recognizable Auto-tune effect utilized in the verses and chorus. Producer Mark Taylor added the effect to Cher's vocal simply as a lark, and in interviews at the time, he claimed to be testing out his recently purchased the 'DigiTech Talker'. However, it later emerged that the effect was not created by a vocoder, but by utilizing extreme (and then unheard) settings on auto-tune. When Cher heard the results, she demanded that the effect remain in the song, and her original vocal be erased, much to the chagrin of her record company, who wanted it removed; upon their suggestion, Cher's response to the record label was "over my dead body!" The vocal effect is caused by a pitch correction speed that is "set too fast for the audio that it is processing." ^[8] A vocoder (name derived from voice encoder, formerly also called voder) is a speech analyzer and synthesizer. ...

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Synthesizers: Korg TR-Rack, Roland Juno-106, Clavia Nord-Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Moog Prodigy. Korg Triton Classic Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital sampling and sequencing created by Korg. ... The Roland Juno-106 was a hybrid digital/analogue polyphonic synth manufactured by Roland Corporation in 1984. ... Clavia is a Swedish virtual analog synthesizer and digital percussion system manufacturer founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1983 by Hans Nordelius and Mikael Carlsson. ... Oberheim Matrix synthesizers are a historic product line of analog synthesizers from Oberheim featuring a method of synthesis which Oberheim called Matrix Modulation as a method of defining preset and user patches. ... The Moog Prodigy was a synthesizer produced by Moog Music from 1979 to 1984. ...

Guitar: Sessionette amp, AKG C414 microphone, Zoom tremolo, Equalizer. An AKG C414 from the front showing the AKG logo. ... Zoom is a Japanese audio company that is distributed in the U.S. under the Samson family of companies. ... Tremolo is a musical term with two meanings: A rapid repetition of the same note, a rapid variation in the amplitude of a single note, or an alternation between two or more notes. ...

Piano: E-MU Vintage Keys sound, compression, Roland SDE330 delay. E-mu Systems is a synthesizer maker and pioneer in the manufacture of low-cost digital sampling music workstations. ... Roland Corporation ) TYO: 7944 is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. ...

Sampler: Akai S3000. ^[8] An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Playing a Yamaha SU10 Sampler A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. ... Akai () was a Japanese consumer electronics producer founded in 1929. ...

Further details of the production techniques used on the track, including a later update on the auto-tune/vocoder confusion, can be found here ^[9]

World use and popularity

A cover version of this song was used in the Nintendo DS game Elite Beat Agents in the first bonus level. // In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... The Nintendo DS (sometimes abbreviated NDS or more commonly DS) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ... Elite Beat Agents is a rhythm game developed by iNiS for the Nintendo DS. It is a spiritual sequel to Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a Japanese rhythm game released in 2005. ...

Indie rock bands Macha and Bedhead recorded a cover of the song on their 2000 joint EP Macha Loved Bedhead. // Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single but are too short to qualify as albums. ...

Music video

Original

Cher in the music video for "Believe".

The international music video for "Believe", directed by Nigel Dick, features Cher in a nightclub surrounded by many people to whom she is giving advice. The video includes a woman who is broken hearted and feels that she can't go on when she sees her ex-boyfriend with a new spouse. Image File history File links Cher_in_believe. ... Image File history File links Cher_in_believe. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Nigel Andrew Robertson Dick (born at Catterick, North Yorkshire, England on 21 March 1953) is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. ...

Remix videos

Three official remix videos exist for this song. Two of the remix videos were created by Dan-O-Rama in 1999. Both follow different concepts from the original unmixed video. Instead of showing the significance of the lyrics the videos mostly show Cher with different colored backgrounds and people dancing. The two remixes used for these videos were the Almighty Definitive Mix and the Club 69 Phunk Club Mix. The third video entitled Wayne G. Remix was released by Warner Bros. and the concept is similar to the Club 69 Phunk Club Mix video.

Live performances

Cher has performed this song several times between its release and the end of her Farewell Tour. Footage of the majority of the performances has been released. While she would lip-synch the entire song on various television programs, she would only lip-synch the verses when performing on her Believe and Farewell tours and on the 2002 edition of VH1 Divas Live In 1998, VH1 debuted the first annual VH1 Divas concert. ...

Since 1999, the song has been the encore to all of Cher's concerts.

Formats and track listings

Charts

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Certifications

• ARIA: Australia IFPI: Austria IFPI: Germany SNEP: France NVPI: Netherlands Norway IFPI: Sweden IFPI: Switzerland RIAA: U.S. Media Traffic: World

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Achievements

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References

1. ^ "Believe" #1 in 23 countries
2. ^ Record-Breakers and Trivia - everyHit.com
3. ^ Everyhit.com - List of UK Number 1's 1990's
4. ^ Top 100 singles of all time in the UK
5. ^ 19th most successful song in history
6. ^ [1]
7. ^ "Believe" Dance Singles Sales record
8. ^ ^{a b} Sillitoe, Sue & Bell, Matt. Recording Cher's 'Believe'. Sound On Sound. soundonsound.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
9. ^ Production