We Didn't Know

"We Didn't Know"
"We Didn't Know"
Single by Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder
from the album I'm Your Baby Tonight
B-side	"Lover for Life"
Released	April 14, 1992
Recorded	November 1989
Genre	R&B; soul; funk; new jack swing;
Length	5:32 (album version); 4:26 (album edit);
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)	Stevie Wonder; Vincent Herbert, Kiyamma Griffin (remix);
Whitney Houston singles chronology
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
Licensed audio
	"We Didn't Know" on YouTube

"We Didn't Know" is a mid-tempo duet by American recording artists Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder, and was released as the sixth and final single from Houston's third album I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990). The single was released on April 14, 1992 by Arista Records. Wonder wrote and produced the song. The single peaked at number 20 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart. There was no music video made for the song. This is the first and only single from the album that was issued without a music video.

The song is about two good friends that realize they have romantic feelings for each other and are more than just friends — they love each other, and they "didn't know." Houston and Wonder performed the song on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show in December 1990.

Arista Records stopped working the album's singles to top 40 after "My Name Is Not Susan" became her first solo single to not reach the top ten. The duet was thus never sent to pop radio. "We Didn't Know" and the prior release, "I Belong to You", were both R&B-only releases. The song managed a decent placing despite no video and being a nearly two-year-old track by the time of its release.