“Woman” by Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry released "Woman" in July 1996 on Hut and Virgin, a single from her third album, Man. The Swedish singer wrote it with her husband Cameron McVey and Jonathan Sharp as her own take on James Brown's 1966 hit "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", and where Brown's title hands the world to the men, her lyric looks hard at everything women have to push through.

That turn helped cast her as an empowering figure, and the single did the business across Europe and in Australia, going top ten in the UK, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Israel and Belgium's Wallonia.

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