Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and fourteen of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, and two number-one Billboard 200 solo albums. 1 albums and global sales of over 100 million records.Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, 10 additional Top 10 hits, two No. It was just one of many honors in a nearly-50-year career that included four Grammy wins, five No. In 2020, the singer was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to charity, cancer research and entertainment. In 2017, Newton-John revealed that her breast cancer had returned and metastasized to her lower back, progressing to Stage IV. She was inducted into Australia’s ARIA Hall of Fame in 2002. Newton-John continued to regularly release music throughout the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, as recently as 2016’s Friends for Christmas album. It was not her first foray into advocacy, as the singer’s animal rights activism and environmentalism dated back to the 1970s. She underwent successful treatment and became an advocate for breast cancer research. Newton-John prepared to stage a comeback with the release of 1992’s Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971–1992 and an accompanying tour, but she canceled all publicity after being diagnosed with breast cancer the same year. The singer’s success began to cool with the release of 1985’s Soul Kiss. “I wanted peppy stuff because that’s how I’m feeling." “I just wasn’t in the mood for tender ballads,” Newton-John coyly told People in 1982. The album was lauded for its lush, synthesizer-heavy production and pop-rock arrangements, and its sexual lyrics and videos turned heads. The hot streak continued with 1981’s Physical, which went double platinum (the bestselling album of her career) and spawned yet another No. Nevertheless, its soundtrack went double platinum and gave Newton-John the biggest hit of her career up to that point with “Magic.” She also starred in the 1980 film Xanadu, which bombed at the box office and was panned by critics to the point of inspiring the Golden Raspberry Awards. The following year, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. 6-peaking “Summer Nights.”įollowing the smashing success of Grease, Newton-John revamped her image on her platinum-selling 1978 solo album Totally Hot, which featured her dressed from head to toe in leather on the cover. 2-peaking “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and the No. The Grease soundtrack has sold approximately 28 million copies worldwide and produced the chart-topping duet “You’re the One That I Want,” as well as the No. With her music career firmly established, Newton-John jumped to the silver screen in the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease, starring as Sandy Olsson alongside Travolta’s Danny Zuko. Her career exploded the following year with the release of If You Love Me, Let Me Know, which topped the Billboard 200 and spawned her first of five No. with 1973's “Let Me Be There,” which also earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Newton-John scored her first Top 10 hit in the U.S. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking her first entry on the chart.
The title track, written by Bob Dylan, peaked at No. She recorded her first single, “Till You Say You’ll Be Mine,” for England’s Decca Records in 1966, though her debut solo album, If Not for You, did not arrive until five years later.
26, 1948, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Newton-John began singing in girl groups and acting on local television shows as a teenager.
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