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SO HAPPY SHE COULD SING: We've already told you (perhaps more than once, but we're getting on in years, so shut up) that Barbra Streisand's chart victory this week not only marks her 10th #1 album, and her topping of the chart in six successive decades. But it's also worth noting that with 196k sold, Partners (Columbia) hugely surpasses the first-week sales of her last album, 2011's What Matters Most, which bowed with 68k and has moved some 219k RTD; the new set nearly matched the latter figure in its first week. La Streisand posted an exultant note on her Facebook page today celebrating the achievement, in which she thanked not only her fans and collaborators but also "Rob Stringer and my Columbia Records family, my manager Marty Erlichman, my creative team on this project - Kenny Edmonds, Walter Afanasieff, Dave Reitzas, Bill Ross, and Jay Landers…and Ken Sunshine for getting the word out… we did it guys!!" (9/24p)