' Love for Sale 's title winks at the notoriety that singers like Bennett used to have. In an article at The Wall Street Journal, Marc Myers wrote that 'Bennett appears a bit detached when he isn’t singing' in behind-the-scenes videos of the album, but Gaga explained, 'as soon as the music started, Tony knew exactly where he was'. In 2016, Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which resulted in him being a 'considerably more muted presence during the recording of the new album', which was later announced to be his final one. I'm always honored to sing with my friend Tony, so of course I accepted the invitation. The day we released Cheek To Cheek in 2014, Tony Bennett called me and asked me if I wanted to record another album with him, this time celebrating the songs of Cole Porter. We'll have to try and do that as soon as possible, just as a follow-up for a second album.' Upon the announcement of Love for Sale, on August 3, 2021, Gaga commented on Twitter:

He also said: 'we're gonna do two albums in a row with her (Gaga). Bennett told Billboard that they were inspired by Porter's 1936 musical, Red, Hot and Blue, for a possible sequel to Cheek to Cheek. It received generally positive reviews, winning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Cheek to Cheek was released in September 2014 and debuted atop on the US Billboard 200, with 131,000 copies sold in its first week. The recording happened between June 2013 and early 2014. The next year, he confirmed to Rolling Stone that Gaga wanted to record a jazz album with him. After that, Bennett asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his album Duets II, so they recorded the song ' The Lady Is a Tramp'. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga first met in 2011 at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City. Love for Sale is a Cole Porter tribute album. The album's promotion also include the duo's appearance on MTV Unplugged, and solo performances by Gaga, such as her Jazz & Piano residency show and at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The special received four nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. The duo gave a recorded performance at Radio City Music Hall on August 3 and 5, 2021, called One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, before Bennett retired from performing live.

The album was preceded by the release of two singles: 'I Get a Kick Out of You' and the title track. The album won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, while the track ' I Get a Kick Out of You' was nominated for Record of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Music Video. Bennett also broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material, at the age of 95 years and 60 days. On the US Billboard 200, it debuted at number 8 as the duo's second top-10 entry, and garnered Bennett the individual record for the longest span of top-10 albums for any living artist his first top-10 record was I Left My Heart in San Francisco in 1962. The album charted inside the top 10 of albums charts in various countries. Upon release, Love for Sale received generally favorable reviews from music critics, most of whom highlighted the vocal chemistry between Bennett and Gaga. Following Cheek to Cheek (2014), the duo's first collaborative album, Love for Sale was recorded between 2018 and early 2020, consisting of their renditions of various jazz standards by American composer Cole Porter, to whom the record is a tribute. It is the sixty-first and final studio album of Bennett's career, and Gaga's seventh. Love for Sale is the second and final collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, released on October 1, 2021, by Columbia and Interscope Records.

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