Whitney (album)

Whitney
Whitney Houston studio album
Publication (s)	June 1, 1987
Label (s)	Arista Records
Format (s)	CD, record
Genre (s)	Pop , R&B
Title (number)	11
running time	53:09
production	Narada Michael Walden Michael Masser Kashif Jellybean
chronology Whitney Houston (1985) Whitney I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990)

Whitney is the second studio album by Whitney Houston from 1987. It sold around 20 million copies and was thus able to build on the success of their first album Whitney Houston .

history

Compared to the first album, Whitney Houston , this one contains more pop elements. Narada Michael Walden produced seven of eleven tracks on the album, with some songs such as I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) he was based on the hit How Will I Know . Also producers of the first album like Kashif and Michael Masser worked on this album. Jellybean, who mostly collaborated with Madonna , produced the song Love Will Save the Day . Michael Masser wrote and produced Didn't We Almost Have It All for Whitney . You're Still My Man , his second song on the album, was originally intended for Houston's debut album Whitney Houston , but was postponed because Clive Davis found the song too "poppy". For the Love of You is a cover version of the Isley Brothers song from 1975. The song I Know Him So Well , a duet between Houston and her mother Cissy Houston , comes from the musical Chess and was originally written in 1984 by Elaine Paige and sung by Barbara Dickson . The cover was only released in Germany, Spain and Australia.

In a short time, the album reached the top positions in the charts in many countries and was awarded several platinum records . Over 20 million copies have been sold worldwide.

Track list

1. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) (George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam) - 4:52
2. Just the Lonely Talking Again (Sam Dees) - 5:34
3. Love Will Save the Day (Toni C.) - 5:25
4. Didn't We Almost Have It All ( Will Jennings , Michael Masser ) - 5:07
5. So Emotional ( Tom Kelly , Billy Steinberg ) - 4:37
6. Where You Are (James Calabrese, LeMel Humes, Dyan Humes) - 4:11
7. Love Is a Contact Sport (Preston Glass) - 4:19
8. You're Still My Man ( Gerry Goffin , Michael Masser ) - 4:18
9. For the Love of You (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper) - 5:33
10. Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Chuck Jackson, Frank Wildhorn ) - 4:38
11. I Know Him so Well ( Benny Andersson , Tim Rice , Björn Ulvaeus ) - 4:30

Charts

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1987	Whitney	DE1 platinum (33 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (12 months)AT	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)CH	UK1 × 7 Seven times platinum (102 weeks)UK	US1 × 9 Nine-fold platinum (88 weeks)US	R&B2 (75 weeks) R&B	First published: June 1, 1987 Sales: 28,000,000

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks / months, awards, comments)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1987	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)	DE1 (21 weeks) DE	AT3 (4½ months) AT	CH1 (19 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (18 weeks)UK	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	R&B2 (15 weeks) R&B	First published: May 2, 1987 Sales: + 11,300,000
	Didn't We Almost Have It All	DE20 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH18 (4 weeks) CH	UK14 (9 weeks) UK	US1 (17 weeks) US	R&B2 (16 weeks) R&B	First published: Aug 13, 1987 Sales: + 1,200,000
	So emotional	-	-	CH30 (1 week) CH	UK5 (11 weeks) UK	US1 gold (19 weeks)US	R&B5 (14 weeks) R&B	First published: November 12, 1987 Sales: + 1,700,000
1988	Where Do Broken Hearts Go	-	-	-	UK14 (9 weeks) UK	US1 (18 weeks) US	R&B2 (15 weeks) R&B	First published: February 25, 1988
	Love Will Save the Day	DE37 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH18 (6 weeks) CH	UK10 (7 weeks) UK	US9 (16 weeks) US	R&B5 (14 weeks) R&B	First published: July 5, 1988
	I know him so well	DE46 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 30, 1988

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	3 × platinum	210,000
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	500,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	59,053
France (SNEP)	platinum	300,000
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	platinum	20,000
Italy (FIMI)	5 × platinum	500,000
Canada (MC)	7 × platinum	700,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	platinum	100,000
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	100,000
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × platinum	200,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × platinum	100,000
Spain (Promusicae)	2 × platinum	200,000
United States (RIAA)	9 × platinum	9,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	7 × platinum	2,100,000
All in all	45 × platinum	13,804,053

Main article: Whitney Houston / Music Sales Awards

swell

1. ↑ Sales on allwhitney.com
2. ↑ References to the album in Allmusic.com
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US US R&B
4. ^ Alison Boshoff: Doomed to self-destruct: No one could save Whitney Houston as she blew £ 100m and sought oblivion in crack cocaine. In: Daily Mail . February 13, 2012, accessed October 22, 2014 .