Barbra Streisand – Woman In Love

“Woman in Love” – Single by Barbra Streisand from the album Guilty, with B-side “Run Wild”.
Released August 16, 1980.

“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.

1980 was the fourth successive year Streisand had a US #1 hit. Her streak started in 1977 with “Evergreen.” In 1978 it was “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” a duet with Neil Diamond. The following year it was “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” a duet with Donna Summer.

The music video for the song included clips from A Star Is Born, starring Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and from other movies she made in the 1970s.

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Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love (Official MV)

In the UK this was Streisand’s first #1. Having made her British chart debut in 1966 with “Second Hand Rose,” the 14-year-279-day interval between her first chart appearance and her first number one was then the fourth-longest wait in UK chart history.

Away from America and Britain, “Woman in Love” was also a number 1 in:

• Spain
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Ireland
• Norway
• Australia
• Canada
• West Germany
• Belgium