Cher’s “Women’s World” #1 on Billboard Dance Chart: See some of her terrific new radio interviews

I’ve just watched some of these recent radio interviews (WCBS-FM 101.1 and Z100) that Cher has done and she is so relaxed, animated and cool that it shows you why she is such a beloved superstar for 50 years or so.

These are great interviews that are a lot about music like the first time she heard herself on the radio (it was KFWB and the song was Baby Don’t Go w/Sonny Bono). Before that, she was a background singer who sang on such hits as Be My Baby and You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.

We learn that Cher will probably tour next year, that one of her big career regrets was not being well enough to take the role that eventually went to Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise.

There’s a lot of heat around Cher even more than a month before the release of her new album because her single Woman’s World is number one on the Billboard Dance Chart.

This marks the eighth time Cher has topped this particular Billboard chart. The first time was with Believe in 1998 followed the next year with two singles from the Believe album: Strong Enough and All or Nothing.

In 2002, she topped the dance chart again with Song for the Lonely and A Different Kind of Love Song then again the next year with When The Money’s Gone. Then after a eight-year hiatus from recording, Cher’s single You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me from her movie Burlesque brought her back to the top of the chart in 2012.

Her latest success is the continuation of a legendary career that dates back 48 years ago to her first number one single, I Got You Babe, with then-husband Sonny Bono. While she and Bono had other hits such as The Beat Goes On, most of her recording successes have been solo and have been spread across six different decades.

They include Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Half Breed, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves, Dark Lady, Take Me Home, I Found Someone, If I Could Turn Back Time, Just Like Jesse James, among many others.

Woman’s World is the lead single off of Cher’s forthcoming album Closer to the Truth to be released 24 September. It’s her first full album of new material in 11 years.