Woman in Love

For other uses, see Woman in Love (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Women in Love.

"Woman in Love"
Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album Guilty
B-side"Run Wild"
ReleasedAugust 16, 1980
RecordedFebruary 1980
StudioMiddle Ear (Miami)[1]
Genre
Length3:49
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Barbra Streisand singles chronology
"Kiss Me in the Rain"
(1980) 		"Woman in Love"
(1980) 		"Guilty"
(1980)
Audio
"Barbra Streisand - Woman in Love (Audio)" on YouTube

"Woman in Love" is a song performed by Barbra Streisand and taken from her 1980 album Guilty. The song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who received the 1980 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[3] It is her fourth of four Platinum records, and is considered her greatest international hit.[4]

After the success enjoyed by the Bee Gees in the late 1970s, the band was asked to participate in musical endeavors for other artists, and Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her.[5] This album ultimately became Guilty. "Woman in Love", as the lead single, became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career. It reached the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Streisand's fifth (and last to date) number-one hit on that chart. It replaced Queen's big-selling hit "Another One Bites the Dust", spent three weeks at number one, and was itself replaced by "Lady" by country singer Kenny Rogers. It also spent five weeks atop the adult contemporary chart, her sixth number one on that tally.[6] The song also proved very popular internationally, reaching number one in many countries, including on the UK Singles Chart. The song sold more than 2.5 million copies up to December 1981, according to Billboard.[7] In 2023, American Songwriter and The Guardian ranked the song number one and number seven, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Barbra Streisand songs.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Gibb Songs: 1980". Columbia.edu. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Smith, Troy L. (May 13, 2021). "Every No. 1 song of the 1980s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  3. ^ Lister, David, "Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion", The Independent, 28 May 1994
  4. ^ "Song artist 143 - Barbra Streisand". Tsort.info. October 8, 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  5. ^ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, 9023009444 [book in Dutch]
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  7. ^ "Streisand Disks Dominate Global Charts". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media Inc. December 6, 1980. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  8. ^ Patton, Alli (January 28, 2023). "Top 10 Barbra Streisand Songs". American Songwriter. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
  9. ^ Petridis, Alexis (October 27, 2023). "Barbra Streisand's 20 greatest songs – ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved December 31, 2023.