What is Bette Midler's best-selling studio album?

While the "Beaches" soundtrack remains Midler's biggest seller overall, that's a soundtrack album featuring music from a movie rather than a collection of new studio recordings. When it comes to actual studio albums, "Some People's Lives" takes the crown as her most commercially successful effort. Released in September 1990, the album hit number 6 on the Billboard 200 and eventually went double platinum in the United States. The album's biggest hit, "From a Distance," reached number 2 on the Hot 100 and won songwriter Julie Gold a Grammy for Song of the Year. Midler had spent the late 1980s making bank with movie soundtracks, but "Some People's Lives" proved she didn't need a tearjerker movie to sell records. The album mixed jazz standards with contemporary pop songs, giving fans both the sophisticated Midler they loved and the radio-friendly hits they craved.