A star has bombed! Barbra Streisand’s hotly -anticipated $47, 1,000 page memoir is huge FLOP and has sold just 212,000 copies since its November release, despite singer likely being paid gigantic advance

Billed as a 1,000-page love letter ‘to herself,’ Barbra Streisand’s blockbuster $47 memoir has failed to sway the greater public, news sales statistics show.

Published in early November, ‘My Name is Barbra’ has sold just 212,000 copies, numbers posted this week by Publishers Weekly indicate – weeks after the 81-year-old songstress promised it would mark the end to her storied career.

While not exactly in the manner she intended, it appears Streisand’s prophecy is coming to fruition – as the pricey book’s sales fall short of landmarks set by similar memoirs like Prince Harry’s Spare and Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me.  

Initially exceeding 55,000 copies in its first week, overall sales have since sputtered, barely selling 7,200 this week past, the statistics show. Streisand is likely to have earned an eight-figure advance for the tome, although details of any payment have been kept under wraps. 

The new number falls well short of the weekly sales of 12 nonfiction works ranked above it, Spear’s book included. It’s also about 13 percent of the sales recorded in the book’s first week, meaning interest has died down considerably.

Among them was Spears’, which since its October release has secured 908,580 in sales – nearly five times that of Streisand’s.

The book – another music-centered memoir involving a much-shorter career – is also pounding Streisand’s in term of weekly sales, currently at 18,842 despite gracing store shelves a full two months before Barbra’s.

Also beating My Name is Barba in terms of sales last week is a September biography about South Africa’s Elon Musk, and another memoir released just a few weeks ago – penned by a much less influential Liz Cheney, daughter of late VP Dick.

Titled Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, the book was released on December 5 – almost a full month removed from that of Streisand’s.

Still, within that span, the former Wyoming rep’s first try at a tell-all surpassed My Name is Barbra in sales by more than 50,000, unloading 269,794 in just four weeks.

In terms of weekly sales, the book from the 57-year-old who represented Wyoming’s at-large congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023 is also beating back Streisand’s, numbered at 23,826 compared to the singer’s 7,201.

The difference between the two is nearly four-fold. Meanwhile, a book released by outspoken progressive Rachel Maddow in October is still securing more than 9,500 sales per week, statistics show.

Putting an accent on this mediocrity is that all of the books are being bested by a mere cook book – one released in the waning weeks of 2023.

Titled Dinner Tonight: 100 Simple, Healthy Recipes for Every Night of the Week, the book – while not containing anything groundbreaking – is currently selling roughly 35,700 a week, per Publishers Weekly.

To put thing into perspective, Royal biographer Omid Scobie’s Endgame – also deemed a bust – sold just 8,923 copies in the US during its inaugural week of sales this past month.  

Today, the book – billed as an ‘explosive, penetrating’ investigation into the current state of the British Monarchy – remains ranked below kid’s books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Stick Man, as well as bios from Spears and the late Matthew Perry.

Both books, meanwhile have failed to match the record amount of sales achieved by Prince Harry’s own memoir, Spare, since its release January 2023.   

The autobiography – which too had been highly anticipated – sold a whopping 467,183 copies in its first week in the US alone, and more than 2.7 million copies across the rest of the globe.   

The number was reported after it was rumored the 39-year-old ex Royal had received a $20 million advance for the venture, after forfeiting his regal position and moving to the US with his wife, Suits star Megan Markle. 

As of Tuesday, it is unknown whether Streisand – who famously starred opposite country crooner Kris Kristofferson in 1978’s A Star Is Born – received a similar sign-on bonus, though it is usually the case with such high-profile deals.

Meanwhile, the book – currently being billed as a success – is the songstress’s first memoir, and is meant to offer a funny, frank look at her impressive career, more than six decades in. Streisand – famed for her diva behavior – refused to let publishers include an index in a bid to stop readers going straight for the more salacious details the monster memoir containts. 

In it, she details her love-life with several of her famous exes – including Miami Vice’s Don Johnson, celebrity hairstylist–turned–superstar producer Jon Peters and former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau – though in interviews, she recently revealed she’d have rather left those accounts out.

‘Listen, I didn’t want to write about any of them!’ she told CBS Sunday Morning’s Gayle King in November, responding emphatically after King listed some of the star’s biggest conquests. 

‘But you did!’ Gayle retorted – citing the Hello Dolly Star’s other well known relationships, including the ill-fated one with ex-husband Elliott Gould, and one that remains ongoing with her longtime second spouse, James Brolin.

Streisand, fresh off a spot promoting the book on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, instead placed blame for the book’s more salacious material on her editor, recounting: ‘My editor said, “You have to leave some blood on the page”.’

In an excerpt obtained by People, she wrote about how, early on in her career she was urged to undergo surgery to make her famous nose more modest, as well as a dental procedure to ‘cap her teeth’.

The musician recalled of the suggestion offered sometime in the early 60s: ‘I thought, Isn’t my talent enough? A nose job would hurt and be expensive. Besides, how could I trust anyone to do exactly what I wanted and no more?’

Streisand also revealed why she never underwent the recommended nose job – writing that ‘always liked’ the shape of her nose, and publicly pondering ‘who knew what [the surgery] might do to my voice?’ 

The actress also wrote how gambling on the stock market provided her with a preciously unknown thrill, and how ‘From about 1998 to 2000, [she] was trading Monday through Friday, from 6.30am to 1pm. 

‘At 6.25am my eyes would open wide, without an alarm,’ one portion reads.

‘I’d get up, throw on my bathrobe, sit down at my new desk with a cup of hot chocolate, and start trading. That was a whole new learning experience. I like gambling. Whenever I sang in Las Vegas, I would play blackjack,’ she said.

The New York native – who won eight Grammy awards over her 60-year career – went on to rake in $1.8m in five months, but eventually gave the hobby up when it became too stressful. 

‘I’m no longer playing with such big sums,’ she writes, after losing big during the mid-2000s recession.

‘After being burned several times (I lost my shirt, my dress, and my nerve in the 2008 financial meltdown), I decided to stick to bonds.’

The book also covers the years that ensued, and how the aging A-lister recently decided to to leave showbusiness for good, due to her current desire to just ‘live life’.

She spoke about this decision – made in conjunction with the release of her memoir – in an emotional interview with BBC the week of the book’s release, stating how the tome delves into not only her full personal life, but those of her famous boyfriends. 

‘I want to live life,’ she expressed, touting I am Barbra as her final offering before stepping away from the limelight.

‘I want to get in my husband’s truck and just wander, hopefully with the children somewhere near us,’ she continued of her brood, which includes stepson Josh Brolin, grandson Trevor Brolin and son Jason Gould, whom she shares with her first husband.

‘Life is fun for me when they come over,’ Streisand – who lives with her second hubby in a sprawling home on the California coast – added.

‘They love playing with the dogs, and we have fun. I haven’t had much fun in my life, to tell you the truth. And I want to have more fun.’

As statistics show her book flaming out, fans have been left to admire the legacy she’s left behind – as well as the incredible talent that the memoir perhaps fails to encapsulate.

Long and dishy, it clocks in at 992 pages, and ‘[is] not a book you inhale,’ Times critic at large Wesley Morris recently wrote. 

‘The bigness of it makes literal the career it contains,’ he added. ‘Streisand is poring over, pouring out, her life’.

Other characteristics to be cherished as the star’s career comes to a unceremonious close is her resilience and authenticity – traits the book, through its many passages, does manage to convey.

Still, the sales numbers likely come as a disappointment, considering the impressive, career that predated it. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to Streisand’s team for comment.