| The Woman in Red | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | Stevie Wonder and Dionne Warwick |
| Cover: | womaninred.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | August 28, 1984 |
| Recorded: | 1983–1984 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 41:19 |
| Label: | Motown |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | In Square Circle |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician Stevie Wonder on the Motown label. Also featuring Dionne Warwick, the album was released in 1984 for the film of the same name (starring Gene Wilder). It features Wonder's biggest hit, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", which hit number one internationally and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and also features the follow-up hit, "Love Light in Flight" (a US top-20 hit) and "Don't Drive Drunk", the song and the accompanying music video for which were used in the Ad Council and the US Department of Transportation's Drunk Driving Prevention public service announcement the following year.
All songs written by Stevie Wonder, except "It's More Than You" by Ben Bridges.
Side one
Side two
The album reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, number one on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks) and number two on the UK Albums Chart, where it was kept off the top spot by the albums Now That's What I Call Music 3 and David Bowie's Tonight. Wonder's albums Songs in the Key of Life and Hotter than July also reached number two in the UK and to date he has failed to achieve a number-one album there. However, the single "I Just Called to Say I Love You", taken from The Woman in Red, was a massive hit in the UK, reaching number one and becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there.
| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[1] | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Albums (RPM)[2] | 4 | |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[3] | 5 | |
| Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[4] | 1 | |
| West German Albums (Media Control)[5] | 3 |
| Australian Albums Chart[6] | 51 | |
|---|---|---|
| Austrian Albums Chart[7] | 24 | |
| Canadian Albums Chart[8] | 19 | |
| Dutch Albums Chart[9] | 27 | |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[10] | 48 | |
| Spanish Albums Chart | 6 | |
| UK Albums Chart[11] | 30 | |
| Chart (1985) | Position | |
| Canadian Albums Chart[12] | 83 | |
| Japanese Albums Chart[13] | 49 | |
| Spanish Albums Chart | 5 | |
| US Billboard 200[14] | 53 |
| Award | Category | Song | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Original Song | "I Just Called to Say I Love You" | Stevie Wonder | [15] | |
| British Academy Film Awards | Best Original Song Written for a Film | [16] | |||
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Original Song | [17] | |||
| Grammy Awards | Song of the Year | [18] | |||
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | |||||
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | |||||
| Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male | The Woman in Red |