Whitney Houston albums discography

Whitney Houston albums discography
Houston performing at Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston in 1991
Studio albums7
Live albums1
Compilation albums8
EPs7
Soundtrack albums3
Reissues1
Box sets5

The albums discography of American singer, actress and producer Whitney Houston, who is known as "The Voice", consists of seven studio albums, eight compilations, three soundtracks, five box sets and six extended plays. In 1985, Houston released her self-titled debut album. The album would go on to spend fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, earned three number one singles in a row on the Billboard Hot 100 including "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love of All" and ended the chart year of 1986 as the top album of the year, according to the chart, earning Houston a distinction as the first female artist in history to earn that honor.[1] The album would become the first studio album by a female artist to be certified over ten-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in January 1994, later earning a Diamond certification and would go on to be certified fourteen-times platinum, tying with Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time, as the highest-certified debut album by a female artist in history. It would go on to sell 25 million copies worldwide and earn a Guinness World Record as the best-selling R&B studio album by a female artist in the United States.[2][3] Houston's second album, Whitney, was released in 1987 and became the first album in history by a female artist to debut at the top of the Billboard 200. It also became the first female album to spend its first ten weeks at number one, eventually staying there for eleven consecutive weeks. The album earned four number one singles in a row including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", which helped Houston become the only artist to produce a record seven consecutive number-one hits.[4] The album would go on to be certified Diamond by the RIAA for sales of ten million equivalent album sales and would top the charts in numerous other countries, eventually selling in excess of 20 million copies worldwide.[5] Houston earned a third consecutive top ten album on the Billboard 200 with the release of I'm Your Baby Tonight in 1990. The album would help Houston become the first female artist to earn multiple number one singles off three or more albums.[6]

In 1992, Houston released her first soundtrack album, The Bodyguard, from the film of the same name. Recognized as a Houston album despite the addition of several other artists, the album made Houston the first female artist to have three albums accumulate ten or more weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. It also became the first album by a female artist to accumulate 20 or more cumulative weeks at number one, including 13 consecutive weeks atop the chart.[7] In November 1993, the album made Houston the first female artist in history to earn a RIAA certification of ten-times platinum, for selling ten million copies alone in the United States, and earned a third Diamond award, later selling 18 million copies alone in the United States. It would sell 45 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female artist, the best-selling soundtrack album of all time, and one of the best-selling albums of all time.[8] The soundtrack produced the international number one hit, "I Will Always Love You", which later went Diamond for selling over ten million equivalent song sales in the United States, hit number one in almost every country it charted, and eventually sold 24 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling single by a female act and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[9][10] After contributing three songs to the multi-artist soundtrack, Waiting to Exhale, from the 1995 film of the same name, including the number one hit, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)", Houston released her second soundtrack album for the 1996 film, The Preacher's Wife, which debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums chart, staying there for a then-record 26 consecutive weeks. The album would be certified three-times platinum by the RIAA and would be certified platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), selling over a million copies in Europe, and would go on to sell six million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling gospel album of all time.[11]

In 1998, Houston released her fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love, which would go on to produce three top ten singles including the title track, and sell over ten million copies, including four million alone in Europe and four million in the United States, earning a sixth consecutive multi-platinum album in the latter country.[12] In 2000, she released her first greatest hits compilation, Whitney: The Greatest Hits. The album would go on to sell five million copies alone in the United States, going five times platinum, while topping the UK Albums Chart where it eventually sold 1.66 million albums in that region, going on to sell ten million copies globally.[12] After renewing her contract with Arista Records for a historic $100 million deal[13], Houston released three more albums in her lifetime, including 2002's Just Whitney, which earned certifications in five countries, including the United States, France and Japan, and sold around two million copies globally, following that up with her only Christmas album, One Wish: The Holiday Album, in 2003, which later earned a gold certification from the RIAA for sales of 500,000 units, and, in 2009, her seventh and final studio album, I Look to You, which earned certifications in fourteen countries including the United States and becoming her fourth career number one on the Billboard 200, selling around three million copies globally.

Houston is one of the twenty highest-certified albums artists of all time in the United States with sales of 61 million albums alone in that country with two of her albums: Whitney Houston and The Bodyguard being among the top 100 certified albums according to the RIAA.[14] In October 2020, Houston became the first black artist ever to have three diamond-certified albums in the country after the Whitney album joined Whitney Houston and The Bodyguard in earning a diamond certification.[15] Houston has sold over 220 million records worldwide,[16][17], including 104 million records alone in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications Sales
US
[18]
US R&B
[19]
AUS
[20]
AUT
[21]
CAN
[22]
FRA
[23]
GER
[24]
NLD
[25]
SWE
[26]
UK
[27]
Whitney Houston 1 1 1 9 1 13 2 5 1 2
  • World: 25,000,000[37]
Whitney
  • Released: June 2, 1987
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
1 2 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1
  • World: 20,000,000[5]
I'm Your Baby Tonight
  • Released: November 4, 1990
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
3 1 10 2 12 9 3 4 3 4
  • World: 10,000,000[38]
My Love Is Your Love
  • Released: November 17, 1998
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
13 7 42 1 13 2 2 1 7 4
  • World: 10,000,000[39]
Just Whitney
  • Released: December 10, 2002
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital
    download
9 3 114 33 85 25 16 70 76
  • World: 2,000,000[40]
One Wish: The Holiday Album
  • Released: November 18, 2003
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, digital download
49 14 [A]
I Look to You
  • Released: August 31, 2009
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital
    download
1 1 16 3 1 3 1 1 2 3
  • World: 2,500,000[42]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Soundtracks

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications Sales
US
[18]
US R&B
[19]
AUS
[20]
AUT
[21]
CAN
[22]
FRA
[23]
GER
[24]
NLD
[25]
SWE
[26]
UK
[27]
The Bodyguard
  • Released: November 17, 1992
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  • US: 18× Platinum (Diamond)[28]
  • AUS: 5× Platinum[29]
  • AUT: 4× Platinum[30]
  • CAN: Diamond[31]
  • FRA: Diamond[32]
  • GER: 3× Platinum[33]
  • NLD: Platinum[34]
  • SWE: Platinum[35]
  • UK: 7× Platinum[36]
The Preacher's Wife
  • Released: November 27, 1996
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
3 1 34 8 33 2 9 1 1 35
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined)
  • Released: December 16, 2022
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
83 [B]

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications Sales
US
[18]
US R&B
[19]
AUS
[51]
AUT
[21]
CAN
[22]
[52]
FRA
[23]
[53]
GER
[24]
NLD
[25]
SWE
[26]
UK
[27]
Whitney: The Greatest Hits
  • Released: May 16, 2000
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, cassette
2 3 3 3 4 9 2 2 4 1
Love, Whitney
  • Released: November 20, 2001
  • Label: Arista
  • Format: CD
42 167 24 12 22
Artist Collection: Whitney
Houston
  • Released: October 4, 2004
  • Label: Sony BMG Europe / Arista
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD
The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: October 29, 2007
  • Label: Sony Music / Arista
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital
    download
3 1 15 52 3 10 3
  • World: 5,000,000
The Essential Whitney Houston
  • Released: January 10, 2011
  • Label: Sony Music / Arista
  • Formats: CD, digital download
7 26 3 51 20 7
All Time Best - Reclam Musik Edition
  • Released: August 28, 2011[56]
  • Label: Arista / Sony
  • Formats: CD
76
I Will Always Love You: The
Best of Whitney Houston
  • Released: November 13, 2012
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital
    download
14 2 74 94 99 61 13
Japanese Singles Collection - Greatest Hits- [jp]
  • Released: December 21, 2022[58]
  • Label: Sony Music Japan International
  • Formats: CD+DVD
I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston
  • Released: March 24, 2023
  • Label: Arista / Legacy
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital
    download, streaming
[C] [D]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[18]
US R&B
[19]
AUS
[20]
FRA
[23]
NLD
[25]
UK
[27]
VH1 Divas 1999
  • Released: November 2, 1999[61]
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
90 78 42 41
Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances 19 2 119 123 63 66

Reissues

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[18]
US R&B
[19]
I Wish You Love: More from The Bodyguard
  • Released: November 17, 2017
  • Label: Legacy Recordings
  • Formats: CD, digital download, 2× limited vinyl
165 22

Box sets

Title Album details Note(s)
Whitney: The Unreleased Mixes
  • Released: April 25, 2000 / June 6, 2006
  • Label: Arista (#07822-14652-1)
  • Formats: 4× vinyl, digital download
  • A limited-edition four 12-inch vinyl box set, containing eight full club versions of selected remixes found on the American release of Whitney: The Greatest Hits.
  • In summer of 2006, it was released digitally, re-titled Dance Vault Mixes: The Unreleased Mixes (Special Collector's Box Set).[63]
Love Whitney
  • Released: December 4, 2001
  • Label: BMG Taiwan / Arista (#74321-91027-
    2)
  • Format: CD
  • Taiwanese limited edition box set for the album Love, Whitney, the 16-track CD plus a 40-page color discography/lyric booklet, packaged in a unique 6" × 5" picture box.
The Collection: Whitney Houston
  • Released: September 29, 2009
  • Label: Sony Legacy / Arista
  • Format: 3× CD
  • Box set including Houston's three studio albums: Whitney Houston, Whitney and My Love Is Your Love.[64]
The Collection
  • Released: April 19, 2010
  • Label: Sony Music / Arista
  • Format: 5× CD
  • UK only 5-CD album set to coincide with her 2010 UK tour, that comprises five of Houston's UK best selling albums including Whitney Houston, Whitney, I'm Your Baby Tonight, The Bodyguard Soundtrack and My Love Is Your Love.
  • Each disc is presented in mini-LP style card picture sleeves, housed in a picture box with a lift-off lid.
  • Later the box set was also released in other European countries and entered the albums charts in the countries in February 2012: Ireland (No. 48),[65] Spain (No. 70),[66] and Sweden (No. 32).[67]
Triple Feature
  • Box set including three original album releases of I'm Your Baby Tonight, My Love Is Your Love and Just Whitney.
  • The box set entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 73, the issue date of March 10, 2012,[68] and peaked at No. 21 on its following week.[69] Also, it debuted at No. 74 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart on the week of March 3, 2012,[70] and peaked at No. 5 on its second week.[71]
Two Original Albums: My Love Is Your Love / I Look to You
  • Released: September 16, 2011
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: 2× CD
  • Box set including two original album releases of My Love Is your Love, and I Look to You.
  • It is the second release of Whitney Houston's albums as part of Sony's "Two Original Albums" series.

Extended plays

Title EP details Note(s)
Whitney Dancin' Special
  • Released: November 1, 1986
  • Label: Arista (CD: #A28D-1 / LP: #20RS-69)
  • Format: CD, LP
  • Japan only 6-track mini-album, that includes "How Will I Know" (Dance Remix), "You Give Good Love" (Extended Version), "Thinking About You" (Extended Dance Version), "Someone for Me" (Remix), "Thinking About You" (Dub Version) and "How Will I Know" (Instrumental Version).[72]
Exhale
  • Released: November 6, 1995
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • A 5 track mini-album, that includes "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)", "Dancin' On the Smooth Edge", "Moment of Truth", "Do You Hear What I Hear", and "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Ever Gonna Be" (Duet With Aretha Franklin). It is also the single release of Exhale (Shoop Shoop).
You Are Loved
  • Released: January 17, 1999
  • Label: Arista (#14540-2)
  • Formats: CD
  • US limited edition 6-track compilation, containing "You Were Loved", "Saving All My Love for You", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Run to You", "All the Man That I Need", and "Why Does It Hurt So Bad", which was available exclusively at Target stores with a big Target logo on the back of the CD.
I Didn't Know My Own Strength:
The Remixes
  • A 5-track digital remix EP, features two versions by Peter Rauhofer and three of Daddy's Groove Magic Island.[73]
The Remixes
  • Includes a total of eight remixes for three songs from the I Look to You album: two remix versions of "Million Dollar Bill", two of "I Didn't Know My Own Strength", and four of "I Look to You".[74]
I Look to You: The Remixes
  • A digital EP containing twelve remix versions of "I Look to You", six of them were mixed by Johnny Vicious, three by Christian Dio and Giuseppe D. each.[75]
Million Dollar Bill: The Remixes
  • A 6-track digital EP, which features "Million Dollar Bill" remix versions, with three by Freemasons and Frankie Knuckles each.[76]

Notes

  1. ^ One Wish: The Holiday Album did not enter the Canadian Albums Chart but peaked at number 29 on the Canadian R&B Albums chart.[41]
  2. ^ I Wanna Dance with Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined) did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 17 on the UK Album Download Chart chart[49] and number 13 on the UK Soundtrack Albums chart.[50]
  3. ^ I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number 37 on the US Top Album Sales chart.[59]
  4. ^ I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 71 on the UK Album Download Chart chart.[60]

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    • Since 2000:
      • My Love Is Your Love, Whitney: The Greatest Hits and "Could I Have This Kiss Forever": "Guld & Platina År 2000" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry – Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
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External links

  • Official website
  • Billboard chart history
  • UK chart database
  • German chart database
  • The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) sales certificate database
  • Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sales certificate database
  • Rock on the net.com
  • Whitney Houston' photos and music
  • Whitney Houston albums discography discography at Discogs
  • Whitney Houston albums discography discography at MusicBrainz
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  • The Bodyguard
  • The Preacher's Wife
  • I Wanna Dance with Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined)
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  • Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances
Compilation albums
  • Whitney: The Greatest Hits
  • Love, Whitney
  • The Ultimate Collection
  • I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
  • I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston
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