"Take the Short Way Home (US)" Released: January 1983
"Yours" Released: February 1983
Heartbreaker is a
studio album by American singer
Dionne Warwick. It was released by
Arista Records on September 28, 1982, in the United States. Her fourth album with the label, it was largely written by the
Bee Gees, and produced by band member
Barry Gibb along with Karl Richardson and
Albhy Galuten; Gibb and Galuten also served as musicians on the album. Warwick recorded the songs on Heartbreaker during the spring of 1982.
The album sold an estimated three million copies worldwide and ranks as Warwick's highest-charting album in most international territories. It hit #1 in the
Norwegian Albums Chart and reached the top five in Sweden, the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands, also entering the top 20 in Austria, Germany, and on the US
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In the US, Heartbreaker was
certified gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of 500,000 copies.
AllMusic editor Rob Theakston found that "while it lacks the genius and soulful grit of Dionne Warwick's earlier classic work, the album was polished and painstakingly produced perfectly for adult pop stations [...] Starting off with a bang courtesy of the title track, Warwick and Gibb go through all of the motions [...] This is not the most definitive album of Warwick's career, but is definitely one of the few highlights that a pop-heavy '80s afforded her."[1]
"Take the Short Way Home (US)" Released: January 1983
"Yours" Released: February 1983
Heartbreaker is a
studio album by American singer
Dionne Warwick. It was released by
Arista Records on September 28, 1982, in the United States. Her fourth album with the label, it was largely written by the
Bee Gees, and produced by band member
Barry Gibb along with Karl Richardson and
Albhy Galuten; Gibb and Galuten also served as musicians on the album. Warwick recorded the songs on Heartbreaker during the spring of 1982.
The album sold an estimated three million copies worldwide and ranks as Warwick's highest-charting album in most international territories. It hit #1 in the
Norwegian Albums Chart and reached the top five in Sweden, the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands, also entering the top 20 in Austria, Germany, and on the US
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In the US, Heartbreaker was
certified gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of 500,000 copies.
AllMusic editor Rob Theakston found that "while it lacks the genius and soulful grit of Dionne Warwick's earlier classic work, the album was polished and painstakingly produced perfectly for adult pop stations [...] Starting off with a bang courtesy of the title track, Warwick and Gibb go through all of the motions [...] This is not the most definitive album of Warwick's career, but is definitely one of the few highlights that a pop-heavy '80s afforded her."[1]