Woman in Love
| "Woman in Love" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| from the album Guilty | ||||
| B-side | "Run Wild" | |||
| Released | August 16, 1980 | |||
| Studio | Middle Ear (Miami) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:49 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Gibb-Galuten-Richardson | |||
| Barbra Streisand singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Audio | ||||
| "Woman in Love" 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. It is her fourth of four Platinum records, and is considered her greatest international hit. 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. 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 as of 2026) number-one hit on that chart. It also spent five weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart, her sixth number one on that tally. The song experienced success internationally, reaching number one in many countries. The song sold more than 2.5 million copies up to December 1981 according to Billboard. 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.