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| - %22If I Could Turn Back Time%22 is a song by American recording artist Cher. Written by Diane Warren and co-produced along with Guy Roche, the pop rock track was included on Cher's nineteenth album, Heart of Stone (1989). The song was released on June 1, 1989 as the second North American and first European single release from the album. The song also appears on the greatest hits compilations The Greatest Hits (1999) and The Very Best of Cher (2003). It was certified Gold by the RIAA for the sales of 500,000 copies. In November 2011, Billboard reported the digital sales of %22If I Could Turn Back Time%22 to be 394,000 in the US.Highly successful around the globe, %22If I Could Turn Back Time%22 was seen as a major comeback for Cher in the late 1980s. It charted at number one in Australia and Norway, and reached number three in the United States and number six in the United Kingdom, respectively. It also became Cher's second consecutive solo number one hit on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary chart. Gary Hill of Allmusic said that the song %22has a crunchy texture to it, albeit in a poppy, '80s Starship sort of arrangement.%22
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