Whitney (album)
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Whitney is the second studio album
by American
pop
/R&B
singer Whitney Houston
, released in the United States on June 2, 1987 by Arista Records
as the follow-up to her best selling debut album, Whitney Houston
. The album met the expectations of many people and was sensationally popular after its release. With this album, Houston set historic records on the charts. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200
chart the issue of June 27, 1987, becoming the first album by a female artist, and only the fifth album by a solo artist. The album remained at the top for eleven consecutive weeks, creating a record; the most cumulative weeks (twenty-five weeks) at number one on the albums chart by a female artist during 1980s. Its first four singles—"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
", "Didn't We Almost Have It All
", "So Emotional
" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go
"—all peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, making her the first female artist to achieve that feat. In addition, along with three straight number one singles from the debut album, those of which that established an unprecedented seven consecutive number one hits by a performer, surpassing the Beatles
and the Bee Gees
. As well as in United States, the album and the first single, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", were enormous hits worldwide, topping the charts in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and mainland Europe. She became an international star with this album, which made her the era's top female star. Whitney was certified 9× Platinum by the RIAA
on November 29, 1995.
At the 30th Grammy Awards of 1988, the album received three nominations including Album of the Year, winning her second Grammy, "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".
who produced the infectious "How Will I Know
", on the first album produced seven of the Whitney album's eleven tracks, three of which became Number 1's on Billboard
Hot 100 Singles chart in 1987 and 1988. Kashif
, the producer of "You Give Good Love
" contributed "Where You Are". Michael Masser
who was responsible for several hits from Whitney's debut album, contributed number 1 hit single "Didn't We Almost Have It All
" and "You're Still My Man". "You're Still My Man" was originally recorded for the first album but was left off because Clive Davis
felt it would be too much pop. Finally, Jellybean Benitez
contributed "Love Will Save the Day
".
chart (formerly the "Top Pop Albums" chart). It made her the fourth artist to achieve that feat overall, behind Elton John
with Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
and Rock of the Westies
, Stevie Wonder
with Songs in the Key of Life
and Bruce Springsteen
& the E Street Band
with Live/1975–85. On June 27, 1987 the album topped the chart and remained there for eleven consecutive weeks, the longest run among the releases that reached peak position of the year. It also debuted at number fourteen on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
chart (formerly the "Top Black Albums" chart) and peaked at the number two, staying on the chart for a total of seventy-five weeks. The album was Houston's fastest-selling album in the United States at that time, with four million copies shipped within the first three months of its release. It was certified 9× Platinum for shipping 9 million copies in the United States alone by the Recording Industry Association of America
on November 29, 1995.
Whitney was a smash hit worldwide. In the United Kingdom
, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart
on June 13, 1987 and remained there for six weeks. There·through,
Whitney became the first album to debut at number one in the U.S. and in the UK both. It was 1987's third best-selling album in the UK, behind Michael Jackson
's Bad
and U2
's The Joshua Tree
, and was ranked number six on list of "The Best-Selling Albums of the 1980s in UK". With 1.2 million copies sold there, it would become the biggest selling album by a female artist in the UK, a record that has since been broken. With her debut also selling over a million copies, this would make Houston the first female artist to have two albums sell over a million copies in the UK. With current sales of over 2.2 million, the album was the first album by an African-American woman to sell over 2 million in the UK. In Canada
, the album topped the albums chart for eleven weeks, being the third best-selling album in 1987, behind U2's The Joshua Tree and Bon Jovi
's Slippery When Wet
. In addition, it peaked at number one in Germany
for eleven weeks, Italy
for five weeks, Norway
for eleven weeks, Netherlands
for six weeks, Switzerland
for eleven weeks, Austria
for two weeks, Sweden
for four weeks, Australia
for three weeks, New Zealand
for two weeks, Spain
, Finland
, Taiwan
, and so on. As a result of massive popularity across Europe, the album topped the European Hot 100 Albums
chart for eight weeks in 1987. In Japan
, with sales of 384,000 copies combined of LP
, CD
and Compact Cassette
, the album became the third best-selling album of 1987, behind Top Gun Soundtrack Album
and Michael Jackson's Bad. In 1988, Whitney was certified 6× Platinum[A]by the British Phonographic Industry
(BPI) and 7× Platinum for shipments of 700,000 copies of the album by the Canadian Recording Industry Association
(CRIA), respectively. It was also certified Platinum in Germany, Netherlands and Finland, respectively, 2× Platinum in Switzerland, Austria and Sweden, respectively. In November 2006, Whitney was ranked number forty-seven for sales of 2.2 million, making it her biggest-selling album in the UK, on list of "100 Best Selling Albums of All Time in the UK" announced by The Official UK Charts Company.
Note:
and the Bee Gees
with six each.
The first single released from the album, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
," made its debut at number thirty-eight, her highest debut at the time, on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, the issue dated May 16, 1987, and reached the top position in six weeks later, becoming her fourth number one hit. It also topped the Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks. The single was a massive success globally, becoming one of her signature song. In the United Kingdom, it entered the UK Singles Chart
at number ten on May 23, 1987 and reached the number one in two weeks later, staying there for two weeks. According to the Official Charts Company, it sold 760,000 copies and became her best-selling single in the country at the point. The single also peaked at number one of the singles charts in Australia for five weeks, Belgium for three weeks, Canada for a week, Germany for five weeks, Italy for one week, the Netherlands for four weeks, New Zealand for four weeks, Norway for seven weeks, Sweden for six weeks, and Switzerland for six weeks. Thanks to its strong sales and airplay across Europe, it went to top position of European Hot 100 Singles chart and remained at the summit for eight weeks. The single was certified Gold^
by the RIAA
on July 28, 1987, for sales of one million more in the United States―the requirement for a Gold single prior to 1989, and re-certified Platinum for the same sales on February 13, 1989. In addition, it was certified Gold in UK, Canada, and Sweden. At the time, it was her biggest hit single, selling 4.2 million copies worldwide.
The power ballad, "Didn't We Almost Have It All
," was released as the album's second single in August 1987. It peaked at number one on the Hot 100 chart on September 26, 1987 and stayed on the top for two weeks. It also topped the Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks, becoming her fifth chart-topper. The single peaked at number two in Canada.
The album's third and fourth singles, "So Emotional
" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go
," both reached the number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in 1988, becoming her sixth and seventh number one hits, respectively. The former became her second number one hit on Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart and was certified Gold for shipments of 500,000 copies by the RIAA on December 6, 1995. The latter peaked at number one Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks.
The fifth and final single to be released off the album, "Love Will Save the Day
," peaked at number nine on the Hot 100 Singles chart. All five singles were top 5 Hot Black Singles
hits, though none of them reached number one. "I Know Him So Well
" was released as a single in Australia, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain.
Note:
^
It was a certification according to old criteria. In 1989, the sales thresholds for singles were reduced to 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum, reflecting a decrease in sales of singles.
of TIME
criticized for something as formulaic on the album, stating that: "Whitney plays everything safe. It uses three of the debut album's producers. [...] There are bouncy, tinkly songs aimed at teen-agers, [...] and slow tunes aimed at sentimental adults, as before. Even the album title fits in with an Arista Records custom of separating female singers—Dionne, Aretha, Carly—from their last names." He was not positive of her vocals on it, commenting "What's more unsettling is that in the two years since Whitney Houston was released, the singer hasn't gotten much more expressive. For too many songs, she takes the patched-together style of the debut album further [...] as if she were singing in a second language." He added that "For all the passionate avowals of the lyrics, Ms. Houston and her producers keep emotion at bay." Vince Aletti
from Rolling Stone
also gave an unfavorable review, stating "the formula is more rigorously locked in than before, and the range so tightly circumscribed that Houston's potential seems to have shrunk rather than expanded" and the record is "smug, repressive and ridiculously safe." Also, he made some sarcastic comments about the first single, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
", calling it "How Will I Know II", spoken at Hollywood's blockbuster sequels. Robert Hilburn
, in his review for Los Angeles Times
, regarded the album as "another commercial blockbuster", writing that the record is "a series of highly accessible selections that will work on a variety of radio formats." However, he expressed his considerable disappointment that Whitney did precious little to define the singer's vision, adding that she had a sensational voice but didn't assert much vocal character on it. Dolores Barclay of The Associated Press
complimented Houston on her excellent vocal ability: "Whitney Houston has a fine instrument and uses it well. Her voice takes us to places we know and to places we might want to forget and to places we dream about." But she, like other critics, was critical of the song material on the record, commenting "There is no depth, and not much excitement. Nor does this extremely talented song stylist and Grammy winner take risks and try something just a little daring." St. Petersburg Times
showed a favorable attitude toward her new album at large, stating "[Whitney] is, first and foremost, a product. It has been carefully designed, manufactured and packaged. As such, it's easy to be cynical about. But as products go, this is a pretty good one." They also praised her vocal sounds as follows: "Houston's voice sounds good, real good. [...] She's firmer, more confident. [...] Along with crystalline belting, Houston growls and scats and varies her timbre and phrasing."
| width="35" align="center"|1987 || Whitney Houston (herself) || The Music Award (shared with Luther Vandross
) ||
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| align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || The Music Award ||
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| rowspan="3" align="center"|1988
|| Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
" || Favorite Pop/Rock Single ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist ||
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| rowspan="2" align="center"|1989
|| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist ||
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|Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist ||
|-
s, based on Billboard
magazine's year-end charts, was not held before 1990. Nominated categories were those of which were ranked in Top 5 on the year-end charts. This is based on general numbers of nomination at the Billboard Music Awards.
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| width="35" rowspan="9" align="center"|1987 || rowspan="3"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Pop Artist of the Year ||
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|Top Pop Albums Artist ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Top Pop Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Pop Album Artist - Female ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist - Female ||
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| "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Top Hot Crossover Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Hot Crossover Artist ||
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|Top Adult Contemporary Artist ||
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| align="center" rowspan="11"|1988 || rowspan="4"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Black Artist of the Year ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist ||
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|Top Pop Album Artist - Female ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist - Female ||
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|Whitney || Top Black Album ||
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||Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Black Album Artist ||
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|"So Emotional
" (Remix) || Top Dance Club Play Single ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Dance Club Play Artist ||
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|"Where Do Broken Hearts Go
" || Top Adult Contemporary Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Adult Contemporary Artist ||
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|Top Hot Crossover Artist ||
|-
is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. Since 1957, the magazine has distributed its "Bravo Otto" awards based on the readers' vote in different categories each year.
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|width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Female Singer - Silver Otto Award ||
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| width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best International Solo Artist ||
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| align="center"|1989 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best International Female Artist ||
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|width="35" align="center" rowspan="7"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best Female Vocalist, Rock/Pop ||
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|Whitney || Best Album, Rock/Pop ||
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|"So Emotional" || Best Single, Rock/Pop ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Best Female Vocalist, R&B/Dance ||
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|Whitney || Best Album, R&B/Dance ||
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|"So Emotional" || Best Single, R&B/Dance ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Music Video ||
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|width="35" align="center" rowspan="4"|1988 || Whitney || Alum of the Year
||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
||
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|"For the Love of You" || Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female ||
|-
|"Didn't We Almost Have It All
" || Song of the Year (the songwriters: Michael Masser
, Will Jennings
) ||
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| width="35" align="center"|1987 || Whitney || Outstanding Female Recording Artist
||
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| width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Female Musical Performer ||
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| align="center"|1989 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Female Musical Performer ||
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|width="35" align="center" rowspan="2"|1988 || Whitney || Album of the Year, Female
||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Music Video ||
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|align="center"|1989 || "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" || Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single, Female
||
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Just the Lonely Talking Again1
Love Will Save the Day2
Didn't We Almost Have It All3
So Emotional1
Where You Are4
Love Is A Contact Sport1
You're Still My Man3
For the Love of You1
Where Do Broken Hearts Go1
I Know Him So Well1
1 Produced and Arranged by Narada Michael Walden
2 Produced by Jellybean Benitez
3 Produced by Michael Masser
4 Produced by Kashif
Vocal Arrangements by Whitney Houston
Executive Producer - Clive Davis
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
singer Whitney Houston
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...
, released in the United States on June 2, 1987 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...
as the follow-up to her best selling debut album, Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston (album)
Whitney Houston is the debut album of American R&B and pop singer Whitney Houston, released March 14, 1985 on Arista Records. The album initially had a slow commercial response but began getting more popular since the summer of 1985...
. The album met the expectations of many people and was sensationally popular after its release. With this album, Houston set historic records on the charts. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart the issue of June 27, 1987, becoming the first album by a female artist, and only the fifth album by a solo artist. The album remained at the top for eleven consecutive weeks, creating a record; the most cumulative weeks (twenty-five weeks) at number one on the albums chart by a female artist during 1980s. Its first four singles—"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I...
", "Didn't We Almost Have It All
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987...
", "So Emotional
So Emotional
"So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987....
" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston...
"—all peaked at number one 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...
chart, making her the first female artist to achieve that feat. In addition, along with three straight number one singles from the debut album, those of which that established an unprecedented seven consecutive number one hits by a performer, surpassing the Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
and the Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
. As well as in United States, the album and the first single, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", were enormous hits worldwide, topping the charts in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and mainland Europe. She became an international star with this album, which made her the era's top female star. Whitney was certified 9× Platinum by the 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...
on November 29, 1995.
At the 30th Grammy Awards of 1988, the album received three nominations including Album of the Year, winning her second Grammy, "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".
Production
The album had a more pop feel than the first album. Narada Michael WaldenNarada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
who produced the infectious "How Will I Know
How Will I Know
"How Will I Know" is a song recorded by American recording artist Whitney Houston for her debut album, entitled Whitney Houston, which was released in February 1985. It was released by Arista Records in November that year, as the album's third single. Composed by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam,...
", on the first album produced seven of the Whitney album's eleven tracks, three of which became Number 1's on 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...
Hot 100 Singles chart in 1987 and 1988. Kashif
Kashif (musician)
Kashif Saleem is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer.-Career:Kashif became well-known from playing keyboards in the renowned funk band B.T. Express. He played synthesizer bass using the miniMoog while touring with the group...
, the producer of "You Give Good Love
You Give Good Love
"You Give Good Love" is a song by American recording artist Whitney Houston, released as the lead single from her self-titled debut album, entitled Whitney Houston in the United States in February 1985 by Arista Records, and the second single from the album in the United Kingdom. The song was...
" contributed "Where You Are". Michael Masser
Michael Masser
Michael Masser , a former stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He attended the University of Illinois College of Law, but left to pursue his interest in music...
who was responsible for several hits from Whitney's debut album, contributed number 1 hit single "Didn't We Almost Have It All
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987...
" and "You're Still My Man". "You're Still My Man" was originally recorded for the first album but was left off because Clive Davis
Clive Davis
Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...
felt it would be too much pop. Finally, Jellybean Benitez
John Benitez
John Benitez, better known as "Jellybean Benitez" is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent...
contributed "Love Will Save the Day
Love Will Save the Day
"Love Will Save the Day" was the fifth single by American singer-songwriter Whitney Houston from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records....
".
Commercial performance
With the highly anticipated release of her second album Whitney, Houston became the first female artist to debut at number one in the history of Billboard 200Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart (formerly the "Top Pop Albums" chart). It made her the fourth artist to achieve that feat overall, behind Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
with Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1975. It debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart, the first album ever to do so, and stayed there for seven weeks. It was certified Gold on 5/21/1975 and was...
and Rock of the Westies
Rock of the Westies
Rock of the Westies is the tenth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1975 .Like Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Rock of the Westies also debuted on the United States Billboard charts at # 1, the only two albums at that time to have done so...
, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
with Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is the 13th album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released September 28, 1976, on Motown Records. It was the culmination of his "classic period" albums. An ambitious double LP with a 4-song bonus EP, Songs in the Key of Life became among the best-selling and...
and Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
& the E Street Band
E Street Band
The E Street Band has been rock musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.The band has also recorded with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks, Tom Morello, Sting, Ian...
with Live/1975–85. On June 27, 1987 the album topped the chart and remained there for eleven consecutive weeks, the longest run among the releases that reached peak position of the year. It also debuted at number fourteen on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
chart (formerly the "Top Black Albums" chart) and peaked at the number two, staying on the chart for a total of seventy-five weeks. The album was Houston's fastest-selling album in the United States at that time, with four million copies shipped within the first three months of its release. It was certified 9× Platinum for shipping 9 million copies in the United States alone 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 November 29, 1995.
Whitney was a smash hit worldwide. In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
on June 13, 1987 and remained there for six weeks. There·through,
Whitney became the first album to debut at number one in the U.S. and in the UK both. It was 1987's third best-selling album in the UK, behind Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's Bad
Bad (album)
Bad is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic/CBS Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, Thriller, which went on to become the world's best-selling album...
and U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
's The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 on Island Records. In contrast to the ambient experimentation of their 1984 release The Unforgettable Fire, U2 aimed for a harder-hitting sound on The Joshua...
, and was ranked number six on list of "The Best-Selling Albums of the 1980s in UK". With 1.2 million copies sold there, it would become the biggest selling album by a female artist in the UK, a record that has since been broken. With her debut also selling over a million copies, this would make Houston the first female artist to have two albums sell over a million copies in the UK. With current sales of over 2.2 million, the album was the first album by an African-American woman to sell over 2 million in the UK. In Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the album topped the albums chart for eleven weeks, being the third best-selling album in 1987, behind U2's The Joshua Tree and Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
's Slippery When Wet
Slippery When Wet
Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by Bon Jovi, released in August 1986 by Vertigo Records. Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success. The album features songs that are today considered as Bon Jovi's most well-known tracks such as "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer"...
. In addition, it peaked at number one in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
for eleven weeks, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
for five weeks, Norway
Norway
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for eleven weeks, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
for six weeks, Switzerland
Switzerland
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for eleven weeks, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
for two weeks, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
for four weeks, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
for three weeks, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
for two weeks, Spain
Spain
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, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, and so on. As a result of massive popularity across Europe, the album topped the European Hot 100 Albums
European Top 100 Albums
The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100...
chart for eight weeks in 1987. In Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, with sales of 384,000 copies combined of LP
LP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
, CD
Compact Disc
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and Compact Cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
, the album became the third best-selling album of 1987, behind Top Gun Soundtrack Album
Top Gun (soundtrack)
Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. In 2006, it was reissued again in a Deluxe Edition with more additional songs...
and Michael Jackson's Bad. In 1988, Whitney was certified 6× Platinum[A]by the British Phonographic Industry
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
(BPI) and 7× Platinum for shipments of 700,000 copies of the album by the Canadian Recording Industry Association
Canadian Recording Industry Association
Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...
(CRIA), respectively. It was also certified Platinum in Germany, Netherlands and Finland, respectively, 2× Platinum in Switzerland, Austria and Sweden, respectively. In November 2006, Whitney was ranked number forty-seven for sales of 2.2 million, making it her biggest-selling album in the UK, on list of "100 Best Selling Albums of All Time in the UK" announced by The Official UK Charts Company.
Note:
- A^ It should be certified 7× Platinum. According to The Official UK Charts Company, Whitney sold 2,237,603 copies in United Kingdom, until 2006.
Singles
Whitney produced a then-record-equalling four number one singles from one album, making it the first album by a female artist, and overall only the second album by a solo artist, behind Michael Jackson's Bad, yielded five number ones. The album is one of only seven albums in music history to generate at least four number one Hot 100 hits from the same album. This feat, with the three number ones from her debut album, also gave Houston seven consecutive number one songs; a record for the most consecutive number ones by any musical act. The most consecutive #1's title was previously held by both The BeatlesThe Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
and the Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
with six each.
The first single released from the album, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I...
," made its debut at number thirty-eight, her highest debut at the time, 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...
chart, the issue dated May 16, 1987, and reached the top position in six weeks later, becoming her fourth number one hit. It also topped the Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks. The single was a massive success globally, becoming one of her signature song. In the United Kingdom, it entered 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 ...
at number ten on May 23, 1987 and reached the number one in two weeks later, staying there for two weeks. According to the Official Charts Company, it sold 760,000 copies and became her best-selling single in the country at the point. The single also peaked at number one of the singles charts in Australia for five weeks, Belgium for three weeks, Canada for a week, Germany for five weeks, Italy for one week, the Netherlands for four weeks, New Zealand for four weeks, Norway for seven weeks, Sweden for six weeks, and Switzerland for six weeks. Thanks to its strong sales and airplay across Europe, it went to top position of European Hot 100 Singles chart and remained at the summit for eight weeks. The single was certified Gold^
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by the 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...
on July 28, 1987, for sales of one million more in the United States―the requirement for a Gold single prior to 1989, and re-certified Platinum for the same sales on February 13, 1989. In addition, it was certified Gold in UK, Canada, and Sweden. At the time, it was her biggest hit single, selling 4.2 million copies worldwide.
The power ballad, "Didn't We Almost Have It All
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987...
," was released as the album's second single in August 1987. It peaked at number one on the Hot 100 chart on September 26, 1987 and stayed on the top for two weeks. It also topped the Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks, becoming her fifth chart-topper. The single peaked at number two in Canada.
The album's third and fourth singles, "So Emotional
So Emotional
"So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987....
" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston...
," both reached the number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in 1988, becoming her sixth and seventh number one hits, respectively. The former became her second number one hit on Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart and was certified Gold for shipments of 500,000 copies by the RIAA on December 6, 1995. The latter peaked at number one Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks.
The fifth and final single to be released off the album, "Love Will Save the Day
Love Will Save the Day
"Love Will Save the Day" was the fifth single by American singer-songwriter Whitney Houston from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records....
," peaked at number nine on the Hot 100 Singles chart. All five singles were top 5 Hot Black 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,...
hits, though none of them reached number one. "I Know Him So Well
I Know Him So Well
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" was released as a single in Australia, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain.
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It was a certification according to old criteria. In 1989, the sales thresholds for singles were reduced to 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum, reflecting a decrease in sales of singles.
Critical response
Upon the album's debut, the critical receptions of Whitney were mixed. Most of critics admitted the commercial value of the album, but were critical of its standard pattern followed the predecessor's winning formula and the materials failed to reveal Houston's individuality. Jon ParelesJon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate...
of TIME
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
criticized for something as formulaic on the album, stating that: "Whitney plays everything safe. It uses three of the debut album's producers. [...] There are bouncy, tinkly songs aimed at teen-agers, [...] and slow tunes aimed at sentimental adults, as before. Even the album title fits in with an Arista Records custom of separating female singers—Dionne, Aretha, Carly—from their last names." He was not positive of her vocals on it, commenting "What's more unsettling is that in the two years since Whitney Houston was released, the singer hasn't gotten much more expressive. For too many songs, she takes the patched-together style of the debut album further [...] as if she were singing in a second language." He added that "For all the passionate avowals of the lyrics, Ms. Houston and her producers keep emotion at bay." Vince Aletti
Vince Aletti
Vince Aletti is an American music journalist and photography critic.Vince Aletti was the first person to write about disco , writing a weekly column about disco for the music trade magazine Record World and reporting about early clubs like David Mancuso's Loft for The Village Voice in the late...
from Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
also gave an unfavorable review, stating "the formula is more rigorously locked in than before, and the range so tightly circumscribed that Houston's potential seems to have shrunk rather than expanded" and the record is "smug, repressive and ridiculously safe." Also, he made some sarcastic comments about the first single, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I...
", calling it "How Will I Know II", spoken at Hollywood's blockbuster sequels. Robert Hilburn
Robert Hilburn
Robert Hilburn is a pop music critic and author. As critic and music editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1970 to 2005, his reviews, essays and profiles have appeared in hundreds of publications around the world...
, in his review for Los Angeles Times
Los 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....
, regarded the album as "another commercial blockbuster", writing that the record is "a series of highly accessible selections that will work on a variety of radio formats." However, he expressed his considerable disappointment that Whitney did precious little to define the singer's vision, adding that she had a sensational voice but didn't assert much vocal character on it. Dolores Barclay of The Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
complimented Houston on her excellent vocal ability: "Whitney Houston has a fine instrument and uses it well. Her voice takes us to places we know and to places we might want to forget and to places we dream about." But she, like other critics, was critical of the song material on the record, commenting "There is no depth, and not much excitement. Nor does this extremely talented song stylist and Grammy winner take risks and try something just a little daring." St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is a United States newspaper. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times tops in both circulation and readership. Based in St...
showed a favorable attitude toward her new album at large, stating "[Whitney] is, first and foremost, a product. It has been carefully designed, manufactured and packaged. As such, it's easy to be cynical about. But as products go, this is a pretty good one." They also praised her vocal sounds as follows: "Houston's voice sounds good, real good. [...] She's firmer, more confident. [...] Along with crystalline belting, Houston growls and scats and varies her timbre and phrasing."
Promotions and appearances
| Date | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 1987 (Air Date) |
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| August 2, 1987 | The Special Olympics Summer Games Opening Ceremonies Special Olympics Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries.... |
Love Will Save the Day "Love Will Save the Day" was the fifth single by American singer-songwriter Whitney Houston from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records.... ", "Didn't We Almost Have It All Didn't We Almost Have It All "Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987... " and also joined "Winners All", which was dedicated to the Special Olympics, held at the University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States... in Notre Dame, Indiana Notre Dame, Indiana Notre Dame is a census-designated place north of South Bend in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States; it includes the campuses of three colleges: the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College. Notre Dame is split between Clay and Portage Townships... , with Barbara Mandrell Barbara Mandrell Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s... , Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He is one of only thirteen people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony . He is also one of only two people to EGOT and also win a Pulitzer Prize... , John Denver John Denver Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success... at finale. |
| September 11, 1987 | The 4th MTV Video Music Awards 1987 MTV Video Music Awards The 1987 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 11, 1987, honoring the best music videos from May 2, 1986, to May 1, 1987. The show was hosted by MTV VJs Downtown Julie Brown, Carolyne Heldman, Kevin Seal, Michael Tomioka, and Dweezil Zappa, and it took place at the Universal Amphitheatre... |
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| January 25, 1988 | The 15th American Music Awards American Music Awards of 1988 The 15th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 25, 1988.-Pop/Rock Category:-Soul/R&B Category:-Country Category:-References:* http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1988/amas.htm... |
Barbara Mandrell Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s... , Mick Fleetwood Mick Fleetwood Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac... , The Bee Gees Bee Gees The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a... , and Smokey Robinson Smokey Robinson William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy... . Where Do Broken Hearts Go "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston... " performance, mentioning about her show-stopping "All at Once Whitney Houston (album) Whitney Houston is the debut album of American R&B and pop singer Whitney Houston, released March 14, 1985 on Arista Records. The album initially had a slow commercial response but began getting more popular since the summer of 1985... " performance in the previous year. Later, Houston returned on stage and performed a gospel song, "Wonderful Counselor" with her mother, Cissy Houston Cissy Houston Emily "Cissy" Houston is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a very successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist... , and brother, Gary Houston, receiving audience's enthusiastic clap in time to the music. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I... ". |
| March 2, 1988 | The 30th Grammy Awards |
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I... ", opening the show. |
Track listing
Chart positions
| Chart(s) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998... |
1 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 1 |
| Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
1 |
| French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
6 |
| Japanese Oricon Albums Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... |
2 |
| German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
1 |
| Italian Albums Chart Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.... |
1 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
1 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by... |
1 |
| Spanish Albums Chart | 4 |
| Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
1 |
| Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75... |
1 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
2 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1987) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart | 9 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 6 |
| Italian Albums Chart | 2 |
| Japanese Albums Chart | 13 |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 5 |
| UK Albums Chart | 3 |
| Chart (1988) | Position |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 26 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Pop Albums | 12 |
Decade-end charts
| Chart (1980–1989) | Position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Albums Chart | 22 |
Certifications
| Region | Provider | Certification Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
3× Platinum |
| Austria | IFPI | 2× Platinum |
| Canada | CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
7× Platinum |
| France | SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
Platinum |
| Finland | IFPI | Platinum |
| Germany | BVMI Bundesverband Musikindustrie The Bundesverband Musikindustrie or simply BVMI represents the music industry in Germany. The association represents the interests of nearly 350 labels and music industry related enterprises.... |
Platinum |
| Italy | FIMI | 5x Platinum |
| Netherlands | NVPI NVPI The NVPI is the Dutch tradeassociation of the entertainment industry... |
Platinum |
| Spain | AFYVE | Platinum |
| Sweden | IFPI | 2× Platinum |
| Switzerland | 2× Platinum | |
| United Kingdom | BPI British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
7× Platinum |
| 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... |
9× Platinum |
Singles chart positions
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||||
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| US 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... |
US R&B 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,... |
US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
US Dance |
CAN Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
UK 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 ... |
AUS Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998... |
BEL 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.... |
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NED MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
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| 1987 | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I... " |
1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| "Didn't We Almost Have It All Didn't We Almost Have It All "Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987... " |
1 | 2 | 1 | ― | 2 | 14 | 27 | 14 | ― | 20 | 4 | 34 | 17 | 49 | ― | 18 | |
| "So Emotional So Emotional "So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987.... " |
1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 26 | 17 | 21 | ― | 3 | 28 | 18 | 47 | ― | 30 | |
| 1988 | "Where Do Broken Hearts Go Where Do Broken Hearts Go "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston... " |
1 | 2 | 1 | ― | 6 | 14 | 48 | ― | ― | ― | 2 | 24 | 47 | 23 | ― | ― |
| "Love Will Save the Day Love Will Save the Day "Love Will Save the Day" was the fifth single by American singer-songwriter Whitney Houston from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records.... " |
9 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 77 | 8 | 48 | 37 | 8 | ― | 6 | ― | ― | 18 | |
| "I Know Him So Well I Know Him So Well "I Know Him So Well" is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. In this duet, two women – Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress – express their bittersweet feelings for him and at seeing... " |
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Chart procession and succession
See also
- List of best-selling albums worldwide
- List of Top 25 albums for 1987 in Australia
- List of number-one albums of 1987 (Finland) (in Finnish)
American Black Achievement Awards
|-| width="35" align="center"|1987 || Whitney Houston (herself) || The Music Award (shared with Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
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| align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || The Music Award ||
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American Music Awards
|-| rowspan="3" align="center"|1988
American Music Awards of 1988
The 15th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 25, 1988.-Pop/Rock Category:-Soul/R&B Category:-Country Category:-References:* http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1988/amas.htm...
|| Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I...
" || Favorite Pop/Rock Single ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist ||
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| rowspan="2" align="center"|1989
American Music Awards of 1989
The 16th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 30, 1989.-Pop/Rock Category:***-Soul/R&B Category:-Country Category:-Rap/Hip-Hop Category:-Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Category:...
|| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist ||
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|Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist ||
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Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music AwardBillboard 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...
s, based on 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...
magazine's year-end charts, was not held before 1990. Nominated categories were those of which were ranked in Top 5 on the year-end charts. This is based on general numbers of nomination at the Billboard Music Awards.
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| width="35" rowspan="9" align="center"|1987 || rowspan="3"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Pop Artist of the Year ||
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|Top Pop Albums Artist ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Top Pop Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Pop Album Artist - Female ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist - Female ||
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| "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Top Hot Crossover Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Hot Crossover Artist ||
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|Top Adult Contemporary Artist ||
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| align="center" rowspan="11"|1988 || rowspan="4"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Black Artist of the Year ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist ||
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|Top Pop Album Artist - Female ||
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|Top Pop Singles Artist - Female ||
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|Whitney || Top Black Album ||
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||Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Black Album Artist ||
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|"So Emotional
So Emotional
"So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987....
" (Remix) || Top Dance Club Play Single ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Dance Club Play Artist ||
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|"Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston...
" || Top Adult Contemporary Single ||
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| rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston (herself) || Top Adult Contemporary Artist ||
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|Top Hot Crossover Artist ||
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BRAVO Magazine's Bravo Otto Awards
BRAVOBravo (magazine)
Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" . Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley.-History:The...
is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. Since 1957, the magazine has distributed its "Bravo Otto" awards based on the readers' vote in different categories each year.
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|width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Female Singer - Silver Otto Award ||
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BRIT Awards (formerly "BPI Awards")
|-| width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best International Solo Artist ||
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| align="center"|1989 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best International Female Artist ||
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The Garden State Music Awards
|-|width="35" align="center" rowspan="7"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Best Female Vocalist, Rock/Pop ||
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|Whitney || Best Album, Rock/Pop ||
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|"So Emotional" || Best Single, Rock/Pop ||
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|Whitney Houston (herself) || Best Female Vocalist, R&B/Dance ||
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|Whitney || Best Album, R&B/Dance ||
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|"So Emotional" || Best Single, R&B/Dance ||
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Music Video ||
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Grammy Awards
|-|width="35" align="center" rowspan="4"|1988 || Whitney || Alum of the Year
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
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|"For the Love of You" || Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female ||
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|"Didn't We Almost Have It All
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987...
" || Song of the Year (the songwriters: Michael Masser
Michael Masser
Michael Masser , a former stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He attended the University of Illinois College of Law, but left to pursue his interest in music...
, Will Jennings
Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...
) ||
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NAACP Image Awards
|-| width="35" align="center"|1987 || Whitney || Outstanding Female Recording Artist
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist
The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Female Artist:-Stats:*As of 2011 ceremony, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys & Whitney Houston holds the records with the most wins at three.*Most Nominations**1. Mary J. Blige- 9 nominations...
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People's Choice Awards
|-| width="35" align="center"|1988 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Female Musical Performer ||
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| align="center"|1989 || Whitney Houston (herself) || Favorite Female Musical Performer ||
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Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Awards
| Year | Date | Title | Format(s) | Award Description(s) | Result(s) |
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| 1987 | July 28 | Whitney | Album | Gold | |
| Whitney | Album | Platinum | |||
| Whitney | Album | 2× Multi-Platinum | |||
| "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | Single | Gold | |||
| August 4 | Whitney | Album | 3× Multi-Platinum | ||
| September 30 | Whitney | Album | 4× Multi-Platinum | ||
| November 20 | Whitney | Album | 5× Multi-Platinum | ||
| 1988 | April 18 | Whitney | Album | 6× Multi-Platinum | |
| 1989 | February 13 | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | Single | Platinum | |
| 1993 | June 23 | Whitney | Album | 7× Multi-Platinum | |
| 1994 | November 29 | Whitney | Album | 8× Multi-Platinum | |
| 1995 | November 29 | Whitney | Album | 9× Multi-Platinum | |
| December 6 | "So Emotional" | Single | Gold | ||
Soul Train Music Awards
|-|width="35" align="center" rowspan="2"|1988 || Whitney || Album of the Year, Female
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Female
The Soul Train Music Award winners for Best R&B/Soul Album - Female...
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|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" || Best Music Video ||
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|align="center"|1989 || "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" || Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single, Female
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female
The Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female was given out every year since the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1987. From 1989-1992 the award was known as the R&B/Urban Contemporary Single - Female....
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Billboard Magazine Year-End Charts
Categories which Houston was ranked #1, were excluded. See above awards list if you want to know her #1-ranked-categories.| Year | Category | Work | Position |
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| 1987 | Top Pop Artists of the Year | total five charted albums & singles | #3 |
| Top Black Artists of the Year | total five charted albums & singles | #9 | |
| Top Pop Albums | Whitney | #23 | |
| Top Pop Albums Artists | two charted albums | #3 | |
| Top Pop Singles | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I... " |
#4 | |
| "Didn't We Almost Have It All Didn't We Almost Have It All "Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards. The song was written by Michael Masser and Will Jennings and was released in August 1987... " |
#22 | ||
| Top Pop Singles Artists - Female | three charted singels | #2 | |
| Top Black Albums | Whitney | #20 | |
| Top Black Album Artists | two charted albums | #10 | |
| Top Black Singles | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) | #24 | |
| "Didn't We Almost Have It All" | #38 | ||
| Top Black Singles Artists | three charted singles | #14 | |
| Top Dance Sales 12-inch Singles | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) (Remix) | #24 | |
| Top Dance Club Play Singles | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) (Remix) | #14 | |
| Top Adult Contemporary Singles | "Didn't We Almost Have It All" | #7 | |
| "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | #9 | ||
| Top Adult Contemporary Artists | three charted singles | #4 | |
| Top Hot Crossover Singles | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | #4 | |
| "Didn't We Almost Have It All" | #16 | ||
| Top Hot Crossover Artists | three charted singles | #3 | |
| Top Pop Compact Disks | Whitney | #7 | |
| 1988 | Top Pop Artists of the Year | total six charted albums & singles | #7 |
| Top Black Artists of the Year | total six charted albums & singles | #5 | |
| Top Pop Albums | Whitney | #12 | |
| Top Pop Album Artists | two charted albums | #11 | |
| Top Pop Album Artists - Female | two charted albums | #3 | |
| Top Pop Singles | "So Emotional So Emotional "So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987.... " |
#6 | |
| "Where Do Broken Hearts Go Where Do Broken Hearts Go "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston... " |
#33 | ||
| "One Moment in Time One Moment in Time "One Moment in Time" is an Emmy Award winning song written by Albert Hammond and John Bettis, and recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Paralympics held in Seoul, South Korea.-History:... " |
#89 | ||
| Top Pop Singles Artists | four charted singles | #4 | |
| Top Black Albums | Whitney | #5 | |
| Top Black Album Artists | two charted albums | #5 | |
| Top Black Singles | "So Emotional" | #46 | |
| "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" | #47 | ||
| "Love Will Save the Day Love Will Save the Day "Love Will Save the Day" was the fifth single by American singer-songwriter Whitney Houston from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records.... " |
#74 | ||
| Top Dance Club Play Singles | "So Emotional" (Remix) | #4 | |
| Top Dance Club Play Artists | two charted singles | #2 | |
| Top Adult Contemporary Singles | "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" | #2 | |
| "One Moment in Time" | #50 | ||
| Top Adult Contemporary Artists | four charted singles | #3 | |
| Top Hot Crossover Artists | four charted singles | #3 |
Credits
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)1- Narada Michael WaldenNarada Michael WaldenNarada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
- DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Walter "Baby Love" AfanasieffWalter AfanasieffWalter Afanasieff is a multiple Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter. He is best known for his long association with Mariah Carey, for whom he was producer and co-writer for several years, beginning in 1990...
- SynthsSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... - Randy JacksonRandy JacksonRandall Darius "Randy" Jackson is an American bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, A&R executive, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew...
- Bass SynthSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... - Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Preston Glass - Percussion Programming
- Marc Russo - Alto SaxAlto saxophoneThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
- Greg "Gigi" Gonaway - SimmonsSimmons (electronic drum company)Simmons was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums that supplied electronic kits from 1980 to 1994. The drums' distinctive, electronic sound can be found on countless albums from the 1980s....
- Sterling - Synth Horns
- Background VocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Jim GilstrapJim GilstrapJim Gilstrap is an American singer best known for his work as a session musician and his 1975 solo hit single "Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series Good Times.-Career:...
, Kitty Beethoven, Kevin Dorsey, Myrna Matthews, Jennifer Hall, Whitney Houston
Just the Lonely Talking Again1
- Narada Michael Walden - Brushes on the Kit of Life
- Frank Martin - DX7 VibesYamaha DX7The Yamaha DX7 is an FM Digital Synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer. Its distinctive sound can be heard on many recordings, especially Pop music from the 1980s...
, SynthsSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... - Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Kenny GKenny GKenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...
- Tenor SaxTenor saxophoneThe tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble... - Background Vocals - Jim Gilstrap, Kitty Beethoven, Niki HarisNiki HarisNiki Haris is an American actress, dancer, and singer of pop, R&B, Dance music and jazz, perhaps best known for having been one of Madonna's backing vocalists from 1987 to 2001.-Early life and family:...
, Jennifer Hall - Strings Arranged and Conducted by Michael Gibbs
Love Will Save the Day2
- JellybeanJohn BenitezJohn Benitez, better known as "Jellybean Benitez" is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent...
- Drum ProgrammingDrum machineA drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music... - Linden Aaron - Simmons Toms
- Jack WaldmanJack WaldmanJack Waldman was a jazz and rock musician, composer, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey....
, Fred ZarrFred ZarrFred Zarr is an American musician, songwriter and song producer based in Brooklyn, NY. CEO of BiZarr Music, Inc., he works alongside numerous singers and songwriters at his Brooklyn studio....
- SynthsSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... - Paul Jackson, Jr.Paul Jackson, Jr.Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...
- GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Roy AyersRoy AyersRoy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...
- VibesVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.... - Paulinho da CostaPaulinho Da CostaPaulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
, Bashiri Johnson, Sammy FigueroaSammy FigueroaSammy Figueroa is an American percussionist born in The Bronx, New York. At 18 he joined the band of bassist Bobby Valentín and also co-led the Brazilian/Latin fusion group Raices....
- PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Background Vocals - Whitney Houston
Didn't We Almost Have It All3
- John Robinson - DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Paul Jackson, Jr.Paul Jackson, Jr.Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...
- GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Nathan EastNathan EastNathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
- BassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles... - Robbie BuchananRobbie BuchananRobbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...
- RbodesRhodes pianoThe Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....
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, Rhythm Arrangement - Lee HoldridgeLee HoldridgeLee Holdridge is a Haitian-born American television composer and orchestrator.-Biography:He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto-Rican mother and an American father, the botanist an climatologist Leslie Holdridge...
- String ArrangementString sectionThe string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
So Emotional1
- Narada Michael Walden - Drums
- Walter "Baby Love" Afanasieff - KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, Synth BassSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... - Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Bongo Bob - Percussion Programming, Drum Sampling
- Background Vocals - Whitney Houston
Where You Are4
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- Keyboard, Synths - Kashif - Programming, Rhythm Arrangement
- Paul Leim - Drums
- Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
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, Ira Siegel, Paul Pesco - Guitar - Vincent Henry - Sax SoloSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
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Love Is A Contact Sport1
- Narada Michael Walden - Drums
- Preston Glass - Keyboards, Syhth Strings, Percussion Programming
- Paul Leim - Drums
- Walter Afanasieff - DX7Yamaha DX7The Yamaha DX7 is an FM Digital Synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer. Its distinctive sound can be heard on many recordings, especially Pop music from the 1980s...
, Prophet 2002, OberheimOberheimOberheim Electronics is an American company, founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim , which manufactured audio synthesizers and a variety of other electronic musical instruments.-Oberheim Electronics:...
, Matrix-12Oberheim Matrix synthesizersOberheim Matrix synthesizers are a historic product line of analog synthesizers from Oberheim featuring a method of synthesis which Oberheim called "Matrix Modulation" as a method of defining preset and user patches... - Cory LeriosCory LeriosCory Lerios is an American pianist and vocalist noted for his fast and flowing style of playing. He is one of the founding members of the platinum-record selling rock and roll band Pablo Cruise, and for the past 30 years has scored music for film and television.-History:Cory Lerios got his first...
- Oberheim ExpanderOberheim XpanderThe Oberheim Xpander was an analog synthesizer launched by Oberheim in 1984 and discontinued in 1988. It is essentially a keyboardless, six-voice version of the Matrix-12... - Randy Jackson - Electric BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Shambhu Neil Vineberg - Acoustic Guitar TakamineTakamine Guitarsis a Japanese guitar manufacturer based in Nakatsugawa, Gifu, Japan. Takamine is known for its steel-string guitars.The company was founded in May 1962; in 1978 they were one of the first companies to introduce acoustic-electric models, where they pioneered the design of the preamp-equalizer...
- Bongo Bob - Percussion Programming
- Greg "Gigi" Gonaway - Simmons, TambourineTambourineThe tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
- Kenny G - Tenor Saxophone
- Raul Rekou - CongaCongaThe conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...
s - Jerry HeyJerry HeyJerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Thriller and the distinctive flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit Longer....
- Horn Arrangements - Horn SectionHorn sectionIn music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a...
- Jerry Hey, Marc Russo, Wanye Wallace, Premik Russell Tubbs - Background Vocals - Jim Gilstrap, Kitty Beethoven, Niki HarisNiki HarisNiki Haris is an American actress, dancer, and singer of pop, R&B, Dance music and jazz, perhaps best known for having been one of Madonna's backing vocalists from 1987 to 2001.-Early life and family:...
, Claytoven RichardsonClaytoven RichardsonClaytoven Richardson is an American singer, instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and author.-Biography:Born Clayton D. Richardson on May 23, 1956...
, Jennifer Hall
You're Still My Man3
- Robbie Buchanan - Rhodes PianoRhodes pianoThe Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....
- Randy KerberRandy KerberRandy Kerber is a composer, orchestrator, keyboard player, born September 25, 1958 in Encino, California, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema...
- Acoustic PianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal... - Nathan East - Bass
- Paul Jackson, Jr. - Guitar
- John Robinson - Drums
- Michael BoddickerMichael BoddickerMichael J. Boddicker , is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. Three times N.A.R.A.S. Most Valuable Player "Synthesizer" and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for Imagination from Flashdance in 1984...
- Synths - Gene PageGene PageEugene Edgar "Gene" Page, Jr. was an influential conductor, composer, arranger and record producer most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s....
- String and Rhythm Arrangements
For the Love of You1
- Narada Michael Walden - Drum Programming
- Randy Jackson - Moog synthesizerMoog synthesizerMoog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...
- Preston Glass - DX7, Oberheim, Matrix-12, Birds
- Kenny G - Alto Sax Lyricon
- Raul Rekou - Congas
- Background Vocals - Whitney Houston
Where Do Broken Hearts Go1
- Narada Michael Walden - Drum Programming
- Frank Martin - Piano, Synths
- Preston Glass - Synth Programming, Bells
- Randy Jackson - Bass Synth
- Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Greg "Gigi" Gonaway - Simmons
- Strings Arranged and Conducted by Michael Gibbs
- Background Vocals - Jim Gilstrap, Kitty Beethoven, Niki Haris, Jennifer Hall
I Know Him So Well1
- Narada Michael Walden - Acoustic Drums
- Walter "Baby Love" Afanasieff - KurzweilKurzweil Music SystemsKurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users. Founded in 1982 by Raymond Kurzweil, a developer of reading machines for the blind, the company made use of many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines and...
, DX7, Super Jupiter - Preston Glass - DX7
- Cory Lerios - Synth
- Randy Jackson - Electric Bass
- Corrado Rustici - Guitar Synth
- Strings Arranged and Conducted by Michael Gibbs
1 Produced and Arranged by Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
- Recorded and Mixed by David Frazer
- Assistant Engineer - Dana Jon Chappelle
- Additional Engineers - Lincoln Clapp, Gordon Lyon, Jay RifkinJay RifkinJay Rifkin is a music and film producer.Rifkin created the company Media Ventures with Hans Zimmer, a childhood friend, whom he partnered with to produce and compose with. Media Ventures is a diverse entertainment group that includes music, new media, film and television...
, Ken Kessie, Maureen Droney - Additional Assistant Engineers - Gordon Lyon, Stuart Hirotsu, Palu "Goatee" Hamingson, Noah Baron, Bill "Sweet William" Miranda, Ross Williams, Rob Beaton
2 Produced by Jellybean Benitez
John Benitez
John Benitez, better known as "Jellybean Benitez" is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent...
- Arranged by Jack WaldmanJack WaldmanJack Waldman was a jazz and rock musician, composer, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey....
and Toni C. - Engineers - Michael Hutchinson, Doc Dougherty
- Additional Engineer - Dennis McKay
- Assistant Engineers - Nick Delre, Toni Greene, Jay Healy, Fernando Kral, Tony MaseratiTony MaseratiTony Maserati is an American record producer and studio audio engineer who has worked with many mainstream artists including Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Jason Mraz, James Brown, Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, R...
, Paul Pesce, Don Peterkofsky, Tim Reppert, Mark Roule, Craig Vogel - Mix Engineer - Michael Hutchinson
3 Produced by Michael Masser
Michael Masser
Michael Masser , a former stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He attended the University of Illinois College of Law, but left to pursue his interest in music...
- Engineers - Michael DeLugg, Dean Burt, Jim Boyer, Mike Mancini, Russ Terrano, Fred Law
- Assistant Engineers - Fernando Kral, Tony Maserati
- Mix Engineer - Russ Torrano
- Productin Cocordinator - Alicia Winfield
4 Produced by Kashif
Kashif (musician)
Kashif Saleem is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer.-Career:Kashif became well-known from playing keyboards in the renowned funk band B.T. Express. He played synthesizer bass using the miniMoog while touring with the group...
- Engineer - Darroll Gustamachio
- Additional Engineers - Russ Terrana, Calvin Harris
- Assistant Engineers - Larry Smith, Dennis Mitchell, Bob Loftus, Steve MacMillian, Mike Ross, Mike Dotson, Amy Ziffer, Milton Chan, John Drankchak
- Mix Engineer - Darroll Gustamachio
- Production Coordinator - Russell Sidelsky
- Mastered at Sterling Sound by George Marino
Vocal Arrangements by Whitney Houston
Executive Producer - Clive Davis
Clive Davis
Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...
Other credits
- Front Cover and Innersleeve Photographs by Richard AvedonRichard AvedonRichard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
- Design by Marl Larson
- Hand Lettering by Bernard Maisner
- Art Production - Milton Sincoff
External links
- Whitney at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...