I Have Nothing
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"I Have Nothing" is a song by American singer Whitney Houston
and released as the third single from The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album on February 20, 1993 by Arista Records
. The song was written by David Foster
and Linda Thompson, and produced by Foster. The song is a richly orchestrated power ballad about deep love and commitment to one's lover.
After the back-to-back successes of Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and "I'm Every Woman," "I Have Nothing" became yet another hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100
and being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
. The song also became a hit with a number four peak on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles
and a number one peak on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Houston established another historic milestone in Billboard chart history with the two previous singles off the soundtrack and this song, becoming the first artist to have three songs inside top 11 of the Hot 100 chart in the same week, since the chart used Broadcast Data System and SoundScan data in 1991. Internationally, the song reached the number one in Canada, the top five in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and peaked within top forty in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. It received nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song
at the 65th Academy Awards
of 1993, for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
at the 36th Grammy Awards of 1994, and for a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B Single, Female at the 1994 Soul Train Music Awards.
The song was promoted by Houston with live performances on her worldwide concert tour, The Bodyguard World Tour (1993–94) only, and also in various awards ceremonies and concerts such as the 4th Billboard Music Awards
in 1993, the 21st American Music Awards
in 1994, Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
in 1994, and the 1st BET Awards
in 2001. "I Have Nothing" is also featured on Whitney: The Greatest Hits
(2000), Love, Whitney (2001), The Ultimate Collection
(2007), and The Essential Whitney Houston (2011).
As of most of Houston's material, the song has been an extremely popular choice on the reality television series around the world, in particular, American Idol
, where it became one of the most performed songs with six times since 2003.
commented that "[the song] and 'Run to You' are thrilling ballads, powered by an operatic coloratura alto." Similarly, Stephen Holden
of The New York Times
wrote that the song and "Run to You" are "booming generic ballads to which Houston applies her typical stentorian delivery." Stephen Thomas Erlewine
from Allmusic, in a review for The Bodyguard Soundtrack, called the song "[a] first-rate urban pop song that skillfully captures Houston at her best." Chuck Taylor of Billboard
, in his writing about Britney Spears
on October 24, 1998 issue, described the song as "bombastic and ultra-challenging." James Montgomery of MTV
wrote that the song was "untouchable." Jan DeKnock of Chicago Tribune
said that the song is "yet another scorcher of a ballad" from the soundtrack.
chart, the issue date of February 27, 1993 when her two songs, "I Will Always Love You" and "I'm Every Woman," still placed within the top ten. Remarkably, for the weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ending March 13 and March 20, Houston had three songs inside the top 11. That makes her the first artist to achieve the trifecta in the same week, since 1991, when the Hot 100 using Broadcast Data System and SoundScan data. On the Hot 100 Airplay chart, Houston equaled the feat with the aforementioned tracks in the February 27 and March 6, issues. The song peaked at number four on the Hot 100 in the April 3 issue, becoming Houston's fourteenth top five hit, and spent twenty weeks on the chart. The single entered the Billboard Hot R&B Singles
chart at number thirty-seven in the February 27 issue and peaked at number four on the chart in April 10 issue. The song reached the number one on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, the issue dated May 1, 1993 and remained there for two weeks, becoming her tenth number-one song of the chart. It placed at number thirty and thirty-two on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 and Hot R&B Singles chart, respectively. The single was certified Gold for shipments of 500,000 copies or more by the Recording Industry Association of America
on June 1. 1993.
In Canada, the song debuted at number fifty on the RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks
chart on March 13, 1993, and four weeks later reached the top ten of the chart. On its eighth week of release, May 1, 1993, the single topped the chart and spent three weeks on the summit, staying on the chart for eighteen weeks. The song entered RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart at number twenty in the same week of Top 100 debut. Within five weeks, it hit the pole position of the chart on April 17, 1993 and stayed on the top for six weeks.
Worldwide, the song was a success but not as big as two previous singles from the soundtrack. In the United Kingdom, the single debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart
on April 24, 1993, and the following week peaked at number three on the chart, making it Houston's ninth UK top five hit. According to The Official Charts Company, the single sold 220,000 copies in the country. It peaked at number four in Ireland, eleven in Belgium, twenty in New Zealand. The song also reached a peak of number twenty-eight in Australia, fifty in France, thirty-nine in Germany, twenty-three in the Netherlands, and thirty-nine in Switzerland.
and shows Houston performing the song to an audience in a dining room hall. The video is intercut with scenes from the movie The Bodyguard
.
comment on the performance, saying "Houston's physically stationary, vocally mobile approach to the ballad―backlit behind the mike in a she-got-back-her-figure-flattering gown―effectively heightened the tune's diva dramaturgy, making it an easy highlight in a night otherwise short on compelling performances." She also performed a rousing 10-minute-medley of show tunes that ended with the song―"I Loves You, Porgy
" from Porgy and Bess
, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
" from Dreamgirls
, and "I Have Nothing"―at the 21st Annual American Music Awards
, where she won the record eight awards, on February 7, 1994. Jet
magazine wrote about the AMA performance that "she[Houston] brought the house down with her soulful, stirring medley renditions." On November 12, 1994, Houston sang the song during the concert in Johannesburg
, South Africa
, entitled Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
, telecast live via satellite on HBO. The performance is found in VHS and DVD with the same title of the concert, originally released in December 1994, and later re-released on June 24, 2010. The song was also performed on the concert to celebrate the wedding of Brunei
royalty, at the Jerudong Park Garden on August 24, 1996. Houston sang the short-edited version of the song along with "I Will Always Love You," which were followed by a standing ovation, at the 1st BET Awards
on June 19, 2001, becoming the first artist ever to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Though "I Have Nothing" is one of Houston's notable hits during her career, the song was performed solely on The Bodyguard World Tour (1993–94) among her ten tours, to date. Houston performed the song as final part of a medley which included the aforementioned songs from Broadway shows on first North American leg of the tour in 1993, but since the European leg in 1993, the song solely without two show tunes on almost all of the rest of the tour dates. Four performances of the song on the South American leg of the tour (1994) were broadcast on each country's TV channel: Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil
on January 23, Santiago
, Chile
on April 14, Buenos Aires
, Argentina
on April 16, and Caracas
, Venezuela
on April 21.
and Linda Thompson were nominated for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for the song at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards on March 1, 1994. The song was also nominated for Best R&B Single, Female but lost to Toni Braxton
's "Breathe Again
" at the 8th Annual Soul Train Music Awards on March 15, 1994. Foster and Thompson received the award for Most-performed Song from a Film for the song at the 10th BMI Film & Television Awards on May 17, 1994.
recorded a version of the song on her debut album, Charice (EP), released in May 2008. Korean singer SunMin
has a cover of the song on her mini album Cover Girl, released in Japan, August 2008. The Italian variety TV show, Ti Lascio Una Canzone
alumna Sonia Mosca covered the song on the compilation album Ti Lascio Una Canzone - La Compilation, released in May 2009. Soul and R&B Singer The 465 CT Transit driver made an original version of the film, The Bodyguard
. It was featured in the album, Rain.
recorded a version of the song as a demo at teen age, it is so far only available on YouTube
for people to hear it. (can listen to the demo here) Britney Spears revealed on VH1
's Behind the Music
, originally aired on November 9, 2003, that she recorded a demo of the song before she was signed to Jive Records
. Later Spears also sang the song at the Jive's audition at age of fifteen.
crooned Houston's two nominated songs including "I Have Nothing" at the 65th Annual Academy Awards
on March 29, 1993. Christina Aguilera
sang the song on The All New Mickey Mouse Club, where she appeared as a Mouseketeer in 1993. Aguilera's performance can be found on DVD, The Mickey Mouse Club - The Best of Britney, Justin & Christina, released in July 2005. The song was performed by Anastasia Horne
on Kids Incorporated
episode 1, broadcast on Disney Channel
, September 7, 1993. Patti LaBelle
performed the song as a tribute to Whitney Houston, the first ever recipient of the Triumphant Spirit Award at the 10th annual Essence Awards, taped on April 4, 1997 and broadcast later on Fox TV, May 22, 1997. American Idol
alumna Katharine McPhee
performed the song at the 17th Annual Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills on October 28, 2006. McPhee originally was set to sing her American Idol favorite, "Over the Rainbow
," but she reportedly decided to sing the song as a tribute to Houston. Charice Pempengco has covered the song in many concerts and TV shows around the world since she was known as singing sensation. Pempengco sang the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show
s 'World’s Smartest Kids' episode, originally aired in the United States on May 12, 2008, as the first part of a "The Bodyguard medley" on Good Morning America
on November 18, 2008 and during the Hitman: David Foster & Friends Tour in 2008-09, the season premiere of the Italian musical variety show, Ti Lascio Una Canzone
, with two Italian teenage girls (Sonia Mosca and Sara Pischedda) on April 4, 2009, Singapore Idol (season 3) grand finale on December 27, 2009, the Italian TV talent show Io Canto on January 23, 2010, and the 41st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Award
and Induction ceremony on June 17, 2010. One of Pempengco's tour performances is found in CD and DVD with the same name of the tour, recorded at the Mandalay Bay
in Las Vegas on May 23, 2008. In June 2010, "I Have Nothing" was sung by Korean boy band JYJ
(known as Junsu/Jejung/Yuchun in Japan) on their four-day-concert tour in Japan, Thanksgiving Live in Dome. Their performance for the song is found in the same titled DVD, taped at Tokyo Dome
on June 13, 2010 and released on September 8, 2010.
I Have Nothing
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...
and released as the third single from The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album on February 20, 1993 by Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
. The song was written by David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
and Linda Thompson, and produced by Foster. The song is a richly orchestrated power ballad about deep love and commitment to one's lover.
After the back-to-back successes of Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and "I'm Every Woman," "I Have Nothing" became yet another hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
and being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
. The song also became a hit with a number four peak on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
and a number one peak on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Houston established another historic milestone in Billboard chart history with the two previous singles off the soundtrack and this song, becoming the first artist to have three songs inside top 11 of the Hot 100 chart in the same week, since the chart used Broadcast Data System and SoundScan data in 1991. Internationally, the song reached the number one in Canada, the top five in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and peaked within top forty in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. It received nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
at the 65th Academy Awards
65th Academy Awards
The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. This was the fourth consecutive show hosted by Billy Crystal.Unforgiven won four Oscars out of nine nominations including Best Picture.-Awards:...
of 1993, for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media has been awarded since 1988 and is awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media...
at the 36th Grammy Awards of 1994, and for a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B Single, Female at the 1994 Soul Train Music Awards.
The song was promoted by Houston with live performances on her worldwide concert tour, The Bodyguard World Tour (1993–94) only, and also in various awards ceremonies and concerts such as the 4th Billboard Music Awards
Billboard Music Award
The Billboard Music Award is an honor given by Billboard magazine, the preeminent publication covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually in December until it went dormant in 2007, but it returned in May 2011...
in 1993, the 21st American Music Awards
American Music Awards of 1994
The 21st Annual American Music Awards were held on February 7, 1994.-Pop/Rock Category:-Soul/R&B Category:-Country Category:-Adult Contemporary Category:-Rap/Hip-Hop Category:-Heavy Metal Category:...
in 1994, Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
The Whitney - The Concert for a New South Africa was the title of three concerts which American singer Whitney Houston performed in South Africa to honor President Nelson Mandela and to celebrate a newly unified South Africa in November 1994. Her first performance in Durban, Nov. 8 and final one in...
in 1994, and the 1st BET Awards
BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
in 2001. "I Have Nothing" is also featured on Whitney: The Greatest Hits
Whitney: The Greatest Hits
-International edition:-Whitney: The Unreleased Mixes:Whitney: The Unreleased Mixes is a limited-edition four-record vinyl set, containing eight full club versions of selected remixes found on the American release...
(2000), Love, Whitney (2001), The Ultimate Collection
The Ultimate Collection (Whitney Houston album)
The Ultimate Collection is a Whitney Houston greatest hits collection, released on October 29, 2007. For the first time, a single CD of Houston's hit singles is released. It debuted at number five in the UK, with sales of 37,228. It climbed to number three in its second week on the chart...
(2007), and The Essential Whitney Houston (2011).
As of most of Houston's material, the song has been an extremely popular choice on the reality television series around the world, in particular, American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
, where it became one of the most performed songs with six times since 2003.
Critical reception
James T. Jones IV of USA TodayUSA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
commented that "[the song] and 'Run to You' are thrilling ballads, powered by an operatic coloratura alto." Similarly, Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963...
of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
wrote that the song and "Run to You" are "booming generic ballads to which Houston applies her typical stentorian delivery." Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a senior editor for Allmusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for Allmusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes. He is also frontman and guitarist for the Ann Arbor-based band Who Dat?Erlewine is the nephew...
from Allmusic, in a review for The Bodyguard Soundtrack, called the song "[a] first-rate urban pop song that skillfully captures Houston at her best." Chuck Taylor of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
, in his writing about Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
on October 24, 1998 issue, described the song as "bombastic and ultra-challenging." James Montgomery of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
wrote that the song was "untouchable." Jan DeKnock of Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
said that the song is "yet another scorcher of a ballad" from the soundtrack.
Commercial performances
"I Have Nothing" was released as the third single off The Bodyguard Soundtrack in February 1993. The single debuted at number forty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 SinglesBillboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
chart, the issue date of February 27, 1993 when her two songs, "I Will Always Love You" and "I'm Every Woman," still placed within the top ten. Remarkably, for the weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ending March 13 and March 20, Houston had three songs inside the top 11. That makes her the first artist to achieve the trifecta in the same week, since 1991, when the Hot 100 using Broadcast Data System and SoundScan data. On the Hot 100 Airplay chart, Houston equaled the feat with the aforementioned tracks in the February 27 and March 6, issues. The song peaked at number four on the Hot 100 in the April 3 issue, becoming Houston's fourteenth top five hit, and spent twenty weeks on the chart. The single entered the Billboard Hot R&B Singles
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
chart at number thirty-seven in the February 27 issue and peaked at number four on the chart in April 10 issue. The song reached the number one on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, the issue dated May 1, 1993 and remained there for two weeks, becoming her tenth number-one song of the chart. It placed at number thirty and thirty-two on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 and Hot R&B Singles chart, respectively. The single was certified Gold for shipments of 500,000 copies or more by the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
on June 1. 1993.
In Canada, the song debuted at number fifty on the RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
chart on March 13, 1993, and four weeks later reached the top ten of the chart. On its eighth week of release, May 1, 1993, the single topped the chart and spent three weeks on the summit, staying on the chart for eighteen weeks. The song entered RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart at number twenty in the same week of Top 100 debut. Within five weeks, it hit the pole position of the chart on April 17, 1993 and stayed on the top for six weeks.
Worldwide, the song was a success but not as big as two previous singles from the soundtrack. In the United Kingdom, the single debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
on April 24, 1993, and the following week peaked at number three on the chart, making it Houston's ninth UK top five hit. According to The Official Charts Company, the single sold 220,000 copies in the country. It peaked at number four in Ireland, eleven in Belgium, twenty in New Zealand. The song also reached a peak of number twenty-eight in Australia, fifty in France, thirty-nine in Germany, twenty-three in the Netherlands, and thirty-nine in Switzerland.
Music video
The music video was directed by Steve BarronSteve Barron
Steven "Steve" Barron is a director and producer, best known for directing the films Coneheads , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the innovative music videos for a-ha's "Take on Me" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"....
and shows Houston performing the song to an audience in a dining room hall. The video is intercut with scenes from the movie The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film in the 1970s,...
.
Live performances
Houston performed "I Have Nothing" at the 4th Billboard Music Awards on December 9, 1993, receiving a standing ovation. Chris Willman of Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
comment on the performance, saying "Houston's physically stationary, vocally mobile approach to the ballad―backlit behind the mike in a she-got-back-her-figure-flattering gown―effectively heightened the tune's diva dramaturgy, making it an easy highlight in a night otherwise short on compelling performances." She also performed a rousing 10-minute-medley of show tunes that ended with the song―"I Loves You, Porgy
I Loves You Porgy
"I Loves You, Porgy" is a duet from the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was published in 1935....
" from Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger...
" from Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio...
, and "I Have Nothing"―at the 21st Annual American Music Awards
American Music Awards of 1994
The 21st Annual American Music Awards were held on February 7, 1994.-Pop/Rock Category:-Soul/R&B Category:-Country Category:-Adult Contemporary Category:-Rap/Hip-Hop Category:-Heavy Metal Category:...
, where she won the record eight awards, on February 7, 1994. Jet
Jet (magazine)
Jet is an American weekly marketed toward African-American readers, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois...
magazine wrote about the AMA performance that "she[Houston] brought the house down with her soulful, stirring medley renditions." On November 12, 1994, Houston sang the song during the concert in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, entitled Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa
The Whitney - The Concert for a New South Africa was the title of three concerts which American singer Whitney Houston performed in South Africa to honor President Nelson Mandela and to celebrate a newly unified South Africa in November 1994. Her first performance in Durban, Nov. 8 and final one in...
, telecast live via satellite on HBO. The performance is found in VHS and DVD with the same title of the concert, originally released in December 1994, and later re-released on June 24, 2010. The song was also performed on the concert to celebrate the wedding of Brunei
Brunei
Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
royalty, at the Jerudong Park Garden on August 24, 1996. Houston sang the short-edited version of the song along with "I Will Always Love You," which were followed by a standing ovation, at the 1st BET Awards
BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
on June 19, 2001, becoming the first artist ever to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Though "I Have Nothing" is one of Houston's notable hits during her career, the song was performed solely on The Bodyguard World Tour (1993–94) among her ten tours, to date. Houston performed the song as final part of a medley which included the aforementioned songs from Broadway shows on first North American leg of the tour in 1993, but since the European leg in 1993, the song solely without two show tunes on almost all of the rest of the tour dates. Four performances of the song on the South American leg of the tour (1994) were broadcast on each country's TV channel: Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
on January 23, Santiago
Santiago
Santiago is the capital city of Chile. Santiago may also refer to:*Santiago *Santiago , a Spanish given name*Santiago!, a shortened form of the Reconquista battle cry "Santiago y cierra, España"...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
on April 14, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
on April 16, and Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
on April 21.
Awards and accolades
"I Have Nothing" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 65th Annual Academy Awards on March 29, 1993. David FosterDavid Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
and Linda Thompson were nominated for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for the song at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards on March 1, 1994. The song was also nominated for Best R&B Single, Female but lost to Toni Braxton
Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...
's "Breathe Again
Breathe Again
"Breathe Again" is a song by American R&B singer Toni Braxton from her self-titled debut album, Toni Braxton . Written by Babyface and produced by L. A. Reid, Babyface, and Daryl Simmons, the ballad was released as the album's second single, garnering heavy airplay during late 1993 and early 1994,...
" at the 8th Annual Soul Train Music Awards on March 15, 1994. Foster and Thompson received the award for Most-performed Song from a Film for the song at the 10th BMI Film & Television Awards on May 17, 1994.
Official recording versions
Filipino singer Charice PempengcoCharice Pempengco
Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco , popularly known by the mononym Charice, is a Filipino recording artist and actress who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the Most Talented Girl in the World, she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010...
recorded a version of the song on her debut album, Charice (EP), released in May 2008. Korean singer SunMin
SunMin
SunMin is a singer who speaks and sings in Korean, Japanese and English. She debuted in 2006, with the single "Keep Holding You", a collaboration with the Japanese R&B singer Toshinobu Kubota. Her career is currently focused on Japanese market.-Biography:SunMin was born on August 4, 1987 in Daegu,...
has a cover of the song on her mini album Cover Girl, released in Japan, August 2008. The Italian variety TV show, Ti Lascio Una Canzone
Ti lascio una canzone
Ti lascio una canzone is an Italian musical variety show TV show that includes a competition between the most beloved songs in the history of Italian pop music....
alumna Sonia Mosca covered the song on the compilation album Ti Lascio Una Canzone - La Compilation, released in May 2009. Soul and R&B Singer The 465 CT Transit driver made an original version of the film, The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film in the 1970s,...
. It was featured in the album, Rain.
Demo versions
Jessica SimpsonJessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
recorded a version of the song as a demo at teen age, it is so far only available on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
for people to hear it. (can listen to the demo here) Britney Spears revealed on VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
's Behind the Music
Behind the Music
Behind the Music is a television series on VH1. It originally ran from 1997 to 2006, before it was stopped and only aired new episodes sporadically. The series places its generality on documentation of musical artists or groups who are interviewed and profiled, and discuss how their careers became...
, originally aired on November 9, 2003, that she recorded a demo of the song before she was signed to Jive Records
Jive Records
Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
. Later Spears also sang the song at the Jive's audition at age of fifteen.
Live cover versions
On behalf of Houston who had given birth to a daughter the three weeks before the ceremony, Natalie ColeNatalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
crooned Houston's two nominated songs including "I Have Nothing" at the 65th Annual Academy Awards
65th Academy Awards
The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. This was the fourth consecutive show hosted by Billy Crystal.Unforgiven won four Oscars out of nine nominations including Best Picture.-Awards:...
on March 29, 1993. Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
sang the song on The All New Mickey Mouse Club, where she appeared as a Mouseketeer in 1993. Aguilera's performance can be found on DVD, The Mickey Mouse Club - The Best of Britney, Justin & Christina, released in July 2005. The song was performed by Anastasia Horne
Anastasia Horne
Anastasia Horne is an American actress/singer who has appeared on television and in the theater. Her last television role was "Lori" on the MTV series Undressed. She also starred as "Lark Madison-Scanlon" on the daytime soap opera Port Charles from 1997 to 1999...
on Kids Incorporated
Kids Incorporated
Kids Incorporated, is an American children's television program that was produced from 1984 to 1993. It was largely a youth-oriented program with musical performances as an integral part of each and every storyline....
episode 1, broadcast on Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
, September 7, 1993. Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...
performed the song as a tribute to Whitney Houston, the first ever recipient of the Triumphant Spirit Award at the 10th annual Essence Awards, taped on April 4, 1997 and broadcast later on Fox TV, May 22, 1997. American Idol
American Idol (season 5)
The fifth season of American Idol began on January 17, 2006 and concluded on May 24, 2006. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell returned to judge, and Ryan Seacrest returned to host. It is the most successful season to date ratings-wise and also with 18 contestants getting record deals -...
alumna Katharine McPhee
Katharine McPhee
Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop singer, songwriter, actress, model, and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records...
performed the song at the 17th Annual Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills on October 28, 2006. McPhee originally was set to sing her American Idol favorite, "Over the Rainbow
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...
," but she reportedly decided to sing the song as a tribute to Houston. Charice Pempengco has covered the song in many concerts and TV shows around the world since she was known as singing sensation. Pempengco sang the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
s 'World’s Smartest Kids' episode, originally aired in the United States on May 12, 2008, as the first part of a "The Bodyguard medley" on Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
on November 18, 2008 and during the Hitman: David Foster & Friends Tour in 2008-09, the season premiere of the Italian musical variety show, Ti Lascio Una Canzone
Ti lascio una canzone
Ti lascio una canzone is an Italian musical variety show TV show that includes a competition between the most beloved songs in the history of Italian pop music....
, with two Italian teenage girls (Sonia Mosca and Sara Pischedda) on April 4, 2009, Singapore Idol (season 3) grand finale on December 27, 2009, the Italian TV talent show Io Canto on January 23, 2010, and the 41st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Award
Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond. The goal is to create a museum but as of April, 2008, the means do not yet exist and so instead it is an online...
and Induction ceremony on June 17, 2010. One of Pempengco's tour performances is found in CD and DVD with the same name of the tour, recorded at the Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay Events Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center is a 12,000 seat indoor arena, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip, in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by MGM Resorts International.It has hosted many music, boxing and mixed martial arts events....
in Las Vegas on May 23, 2008. In June 2010, "I Have Nothing" was sung by Korean boy band JYJ
JYJ
JYJ is a three-member pop group, formed by three members of the South Korean boyband TVXQ: Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu. Their group name is taken from the first letters of each members' names....
(known as Junsu/Jejung/Yuchun in Japan) on their four-day-concert tour in Japan, Thanksgiving Live in Dome. Their performance for the song is found in the same titled DVD, taped at Tokyo Dome
Tokyo Dome
Tokyo Dome is a 55,000-seat baseball stadium located in Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo, Japan.The stadium opened for business on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of the Velodrome which was next door to the site of the predecessor ballpark, Kōrakuen Stadium...
on June 13, 2010 and released on September 8, 2010.
Notable remakes on the reality television series
| Title | Country | Season | Original airdate | Notes |
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| American Idol American Idol American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment... |
United States | Season 2 | March 18, 2003 | Trenyce Trenyce Lashundra Trenyce Cobbins , known professionally as Trenyce, is an American singer and was a finalist for the second season of American Idol in 2003, finishing in fifth place.- Biography:... performed the song in the top 11 week when the movie hits were given to finalists theme. |
| Season 3 | February 24, 2004 | Leah LaBelle sang the song on the show for the top 32 finalists, the third group of eight performs. | ||
| April 14, 2004 | Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place... covered the song in the cinema-themed week. |
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| Season 4 | March 29, 2005 | Vonzell Solomon Vonzell Solomon Vonzell Monique Solomon , nicknamed Baby V, is an American singer and aspiring actress who finished in third place in the fourth season of the televised singing competition American Idol. She also appeared in the independent movie Still Green.-Biography:Born in Baxley, Georgia, Solomon's family... performed the song on the stage for top 10 finalists that the week's theme was "Songs of the 1990s." Edna Gundersen of USA Today USA Today USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003... praised her performance for the song, saying "Sure, everybody on Idol does Whitney Houston. But at least Vonzell Solomon did justice to 'I Have Nothing'.[...] [Solomon's performance] turned a humdrum song into a snappy performance for the former long shot." |
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| Season 5 | April 25, 2006 | Katharine McPhee Katharine McPhee Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop singer, songwriter, actress, model, and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records... sang the song in the week when the top six finalists worked with Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident.... and David Foster David Foster David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni... to perform their own versions of classic love songs. Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture... criticized McPhee's performance and her song choice, commenting "You[McPhee] shouldn't tackle a Whitney Houston song if you're going to get screechy on the big notes. And what's more, with thousands of love songs to choose from, how about choosing something we didn't already hear during season 2 (Trenyce), season 3 (Jennifer Hudson), and season 4 (Vonzell Solomon)?" |
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| Season 6 | March 7, 2007 | The song was sung by LaKisha Jones LaKisha Jones LaKisha Ann Jones is an American singer. She placed fourth on the sixth season of American Idol.-Personal life:Jones was born at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, to a teacher at the Flint Foundation Academy... in the week, when the top 8 women performed with their personal choice of songs. Michael Slezak from Entertainment Weekly in his review of Jones' performance, extolled her interpretation for the song, stating "this 27-year-old single mother's magic lies in her ability to reimagine even the most conventional song choices. In one gloriously understated closing note, LaKisha rendered irrelevant all the previous female finalists to cover Whitney Houston's 'I Have Nothing.'" |
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| The X Factor | Season 1 | October 25, 2011 | Melanie Amaro delievered a performance of the song on the first week when each of the judges narrowed their number of acts down to three, without a public vote. | |
| The X Factor The X Factor (UK) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date... |
United Kingdom | Season 3 | December 9, 2006 | The winner of the season Leona Lewis Leona Lewis Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor.... chose "I Have Nothing" as one of songs to get her into the final and performed the song on the ninth week of the series. |
| Season 4 | October 27, 2007 | Beverley Trotman, one of the twelve finalists, performed the song on the movie-themed week. | ||
| Season 6 | December 5, 2009 | Danyl Johnson sang the song, his mentor Simon Cowell Simon Cowell Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol... 's choice, in the semi-final of the series. |
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| Australian Idol Australian Idol Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive... |
Australia | Season 2 | October 3, 2004 | Ricki-Lee Coulter Ricki-Lee Coulter Ricki-Lee Coulter is an Australian recording artist and television and radio presenter. In 2004, Coulter was placed seventh place on the second season of Australian Idol... who was one of the twelve finalists of the season, performed the song on the final 8 contestant's choice week. |
| Season 4 | August 2006 | Jessica Mauboy Jessica Mauboy Jessica Hilda Mauboy , is an Indigenous Australian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol, she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs to pursue a recording career... , later became the runner-up of the season, auditioned for the fourth season of Australian Idol in Alice Springs, singing the song. |
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| Season 5 | August 2007 | The finalist of the season, Tarisai Vushe sang the song at the show's audition in Sydney, New South Wales. | ||
| Io Canto | Italy | Season 1 | March 6, 2010 | 14-year-old boy Cristian Imparato, later becoming the winner of the series, covered the song with David Foster's piano playing. This performance was released on CD, entitled Cristian Imparato E I Finalisti Di Io Canto, on May 4, 2010. |
| Ti Lascio Una Canzone Ti lascio una canzone Ti lascio una canzone is an Italian musical variety show TV show that includes a competition between the most beloved songs in the history of Italian pop music.... |
Season 2 | April 4, 2009 | The show's contestants, Sonia Mosca and Sara Pischedda performed the short-edited version of the song with Charice Pempengco on the first episode of the season. | |
| Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne Idol (Norway) Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show describes itself as a "Search For A SuperStar". The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 24-50 through several... |
Norway | Season 2 | February 18, 2004 | Maria Haukaas Storeng Maria Haukaas Storeng The following article is a discography of albums and singles released by Norwegian artist Maria Mittet.-Albums:2011: , med Oslo Gospel Choir-Singles:-Featured-on albums:*1991 "Annie" - den norske suksessversjonen... who finished 6th in the season, performed the song when she qualified for the final. |
Track listing and formats
- UK 12" Vinyl Single
- A1 "I Have Nothing" ― 4:45
- A2 "All the Man That I NeedAll the Man That I Need"All the Man That I Need" is a song written by American songwriters Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore. The song was first recorded under the name "All the man I need" by singer Linda Clifford, in 1982, for her album I'll Keep on Loving You. Pitchford and Gore had in mind Clifford and her husband...
" ― 3:54 - B1 "Where You Are" ― 4:10
- B2 "Lover for Life" ― 4:48
- EU 7" Vinyl Single / JPN 3" CD Single
- A "I Have Nothing" ― 4:45
- B "Where You Are" ― 4:10
- UK 7" Vinyl Single
- A "I Have Nothing" ― 4:45
- B "All the Man That I Need" ― 3:54
- US Maxi-CD Single / EU Maxi-CD Single / UK Maxi-CD Single
- "I Have Nothing" ― 4:45
- "Where You Are" ― 4:10
- "Lover for Life" ― 4:48
- UK CD Single
- "I Have Nothing" ― 4:45
- "All the Man That I Need" ― 3:54
- "Where You Are" ― 4:10
- "Lover for Life" ― 4:48
Credits and personnel
Adapted from The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album liner notesLiner notes
Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
I Have Nothing
- Whitney Houston ― performer
- David Foster ― producer, arranger
- Jeremy Lubbock and David Foster ― string arrangement
- Dave Reitzas ― recording engineer
- Mick GuzauskiMick GuzauskiMick Guzauski is a multi-platinum Mixing Engineer and sound engineer.Guzauski's work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, and easy listening...
― Mixing engineer
Chart positions
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (VRT Top 30 VRT Top 30 The VRT Top 30 or Radio 2 Top 30 is a Belgian record chart that runs on the VRT, more specifically on Radio 2. The list is the new version of the old BRT Top 30, that changed along with the media group's name in 1992.... ) |
11 |
| Canada (RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... ) |
1 |
| Ireland (IRMA Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:... ) |
4 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1993) | Position |
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| Canadian RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks | 14 |
| Canadian RPM Top 100 Adult Contemporary Tracks | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1993 This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1993.... |
30 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop Singles | 32 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B Singles | 32 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks | 17 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification(s) |
|---|---|
| United States (RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... ) |
Gold |