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[8] [9] Houston's first number-one hit on the chart was "Saving All My Love for You". [10] She would go on to become the first female artist to produce three number one singles off a single album with her debut album, Whitney Houston, following the releases of "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love of All". [11]
You Give Good Love" was released as the lead single, written for Houston by La La and produced by Kashif, becoming Houston's first top ten single. The final three singles to be released from the album, " Saving All My Love for You ", " How Will I Know " and " Greatest Love of All ", all topped the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Houston's first release, Whitney Houston, is the best-selling album by a female and a new artist in the 1980s in the United States, certified 9× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 6, 1988. [4] [5] [6] The album was later certified 14× platinum (or Diamond) by RIAA. [4]
New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston sang in the choir as a child. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9, 1963, at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, to Emily "Cissy" (née Drinkard) and John Russell Houston Jr. [12] Cissy was a Grammy-winning gospel and soul singer who was a member of The Drinkard Singers and the founder of The Sweet Inspirations before becoming a solo ...
In 1991, Whitney Houston was already a world-wide pop culture icon. She already was the first artist in history to have seven consecutive singles go to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart.It's ...
It was Houston's first single on the chart and her first number one. The song also remained at number one for five weeks on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, and for 11 weeks on the Hot R&B Singles chart becoming the longest running number one on the R&B charts at the time; it remained in the top 40 for 24 weeks.
Biography.com notes that Whitney Houston's first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies.
Whitney Houston was the first album by a female artist to be number 1 on the Billboard Year End Albums Charts of 1986. [20] According to Consequence of Sound, the album reached a massive level of cross-over that was unprecedented at the time for a black female music artist. [20]