Although Turner had already scored a late-1983 Top 30 hit with her rendition of "Let's Stay Together", "What's Love Got to Do with It" gave Turner her first and only "Billboard" Hot 100 No. 1 single, selling over a million copies worldwide. At the time, aged 44, she became the oldest solo female artist to top the Hot 100 chart. It was the second-biggest single of 1984 in the U.S. and the 17th-biggest in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number three. It ranked second on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1984. The song received three awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 1993, the song's title was used as the title for the biographical film about Turner's life.