To Love a Woman

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"To Love A Woman"
Enrique Iglesias and Lionel Richie - To Love A Woman - EP.jpg
Single by Lionel Richie featuring Enrique Iglesias
from the album Encore and Escape
ReleasedApril 7, 2003
Length3:55
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Lionel Richie singles chronology
"The One"
(2001)
"To Love a Woman"
(2003)
"Just for You"
(2004)

"To Love a Woman" is a song by American singer Lionel Richie, featuring vocals from Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. It was written by Richie, Iglesias and Paul Barry for Richie's live album Encore (2002), while production was helmed by Mark Taylor along with co-producers Ric Wake and Richie Jones. The song was released as the album's first and only single in Europe where it became a top ten hit in Belgium and entered the top 20 in Switzerland and United Kingdom. "To Love a Woman" was later also included on the 2002 re-issue of Iglesias' fifth studio album, Escape (2001).

Contents

Track listings

CD maxi single
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."To Love a Woman" (Radio Edit)
3:53
2."Just to Be Close to You" (Live)Richie 3:53
3."Cinderella" (Live)
  • Richie
  • Joe Wolfe
 4:03
4."To Love a Woman" (Video)  3:53

Notes

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [1] 50
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [2] 2
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [3] 8
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [4] 32
Germany (Official German Charts) [5] 52
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [6] 14
UK Singles (OCC) [7] 19

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