If You Leave (song)

"If You Leave"
Single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
from the album Pretty in Pink soundtrack
B-side	"La Femme Accident"
Released	21 April 1986[1]
Recorded	1986
Genre	Synth-pop new wave
Length	4:25
Label	Virgin (UK) A&M (US)
Songwriter(s)	Andy McCluskey Paul Humphreys Martin Cooper
Producer(s)	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Tom Lord-Alge
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singles chronology
"La Femme Accident" (1985) "If You Leave" (1986) "(Forever) Live and Die" (1986)
Music video
"If You Leave" on YouTube

"If You Leave" is a 1986 song by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). It was recorded for the soundtrack to the film Pretty in Pink (1986), in which it is played prominently during the final scene. Along with 1980's "Enola Gay", the track has been described as OMD's signature song.

"If You Leave" is the group's highest-charting single on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number 4 in May 1986. The song was also a Top 5 entry in Canada and New Zealand, and charted at number 15 in Australia. A defining track of the 1980s, it was described by Interview as "one of the most influential, zeitgeist-capturing songs ever to be written".