"The Woman in Me" is the third and final single from Donna Summer

Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

's self-titled 1982 album. This lush slow jam returned Donna to the top forty and became a sizable hit on the adult contemporary (#17), pop (#33) and R&B (#30) charts in the U.S. During the course of the song, Summer alternates between her soft bedroom voice and an amazed cry-out. James Ingram

James Ingram

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 contributed on background vocals. In North America, the single was also released on a 12" blue vinyl picture disc featuring the album cover artwork on an enlarged paper label. Side two featured the song "Livin' in America" from the same album and "The Wanderer

The Wanderer (Donna Summer song)

"The Wanderer" is a song by American singer Donna Summer. Summer made her name as the queen of the disco genre during the 1970s while signed to Casablanca Records. She left the label in 1980 following a dispute and became the first ever artist to be signed to the new Geffen label...

", title track to the 1980 album.

Chart positions

Chart (1982)	Peak position
Dutch GfK GfK The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health... chart	12
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	7

Heart version

Heart

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 covered the song on their 1993 album Desire Walks On

Desire Walks On

Desire Walks On is the eleventh studio album, but thirteenth overall, by rock band Heart. Released in 1993, it yielded four singles: "Will You Be There ", which reached #39 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "Black on Black II", which was a mainstream rock hit, "Back to Avalon" and "The Woman in Me",...

. It was released as a single in 1994 but failed to chart on the Hot 100, peaking on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...

chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart	34
Canadian Singles Chart	13
Japanese Singles Chart (Tokyo)	98
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart	24
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart	105