Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)

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 fifth album with the label, it was largely written by the Barry Gibb, and produced by Barry, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson; Gibb and Galuten also served as musicians on the album. Warwick recorded the songs on Heartbreaker during the spring of 1982.

Heartbreaker was released two years after the Bee Gees had written and co-produced the hugely successful album Guilty for Barbra Streisand. While their own careers as a band was now in decline (following the poorly received Living Eyes album in 1981), the Gibb Brothers employed the same tactics that had made Streisand's album such a phenomenal success but this time for Dionne Warwick. They would later go on to further successful collaborations with Kenny Rogers in 1983 and Diana Ross in 1985, before the Bee Gees experienced renewed success as a band themselves in the late 1980s.

The Heartbreaker album sold an estimated three million copies worldwide and ranks as Warwick's highest-charting album in most international territories. It hit number one on 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.

The title track, the album's lead single, reached the top of charts around the world and stands as one of Warwick's biggest career hits, reaching number one in Poland, Portugal, Sweden and on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The following two singles were "Take the Short Way Home" and "All the Love in the World", the latter of which reached the top ten on the UK Singles Chart. The Heartbreaker Demos, a collection of Barry Gibb's demos, was released in 2006.