I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston is a posthumous greatest hits album by American recording artist Whitney Houston. The album was released on November 13, 2012 via RCA Records.
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Released | November 13, 2012 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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Singles from I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston | ||||
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Content and release
The album features a selection of Houston's greatest hits including remastered versions of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", "How Will I Know", "So Emotional", "I Have Nothing" and "One Moment in Time". The album was released in both standard[3] and deluxe[4] versions. It was also released with an accompanying 5 track bonus CD with the duets sung by Houston and other artist. The album includes new liner notes written by Clive Davis.
Also included is a previously unreleased song titled "Never Give Up" and a re-recorded version of the "I Look to You" as a duet with R. Kelly, who is also the writer. "I Look to You" was released on September 25, 2012 as the first single from the album.[5]
"Never Give Up" was released as a lyric video on Whitney Houston's official YouTube (Vevo) channel on November 6, 2012.[6]
At the 2013 NAACP Image awards, the album won two awards in the 'Outstanding Album' and 'Outstanding Song' categories. The latter was for the song 'I Look To You', a duet version with R Kelly featured on the album.
The week of its release, the album peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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1. | "You Give Good Love" | LaLa | Whitney Houston | 4:36 |
2. | "Saving All My Love for You" | Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser | Whitney Houston | 3:57 |
3. | "How Will I Know" | George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam, Narada Michael Walden | Whitney Houston | 4:33 |
4. | "Greatest Love of All" | Linda Creed, Masser | Whitney Houston | 4:48 |
5. | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | Merrill, Rubicam | Whitney | 4:50 |
6. | "Didn't We Almost Have It All" | Masser, Will Jennings | Whitney | 5:05 |
7. | "So Emotional" | Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | Whitney | 4:36 |
8. | "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" | Frank Wildhorn, Chuck Jackson | Whitney | 4:36 |
9. | "I'm Your Baby Tonight" (U.S. album version) | L.A. Reid, Babyface | I'm Your Baby Tonight | 5:00 |
10. | "All the Man That I Need" | Dean Pitchford, Michael Gore | I'm Your Baby Tonight | 4:09 |
11. | "I Will Always Love You" | Dolly Parton | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:30 |
12. | "I'm Every Woman" | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:45 |
13. | "I Have Nothing" | David Foster, Linda Thompson | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:50 |
14. | "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" | Babyface | Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album | 3:21 |
15. | "I Believe in You and Me" (Single version) | David Wolfert, Sandy Linzer | The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album | 3:52 |
16. | "My Love Is Your Love" (Radio edit) | Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis | My Love Is Your Love | 4:03 |
17. | "I Look to You" (with R. Kelly) | Robert Kelly | Previously unreleased | 3:39 |
18. | "Never Give Up" | Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Johntá Austin | Previously unreleased | 4:01 |
Total length: | 79:38 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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19. | "Love Will Save the Day" | Toni C. | Whitney | 5:21 |
20. | "One Moment in Time" | Albert Hammond, John Bettis | 1988 Summer Olympics Album | 4:45 |
21. | "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (with Aretha Franklin) | Hammond, Diane Warren | Through the Storm | 4:50 |
22. | "My Name Is Not Susan" | Eric Foster White | I'm Your Baby Tonight | 4:37 |
23. | "I Belong to You" | Franne Golde, Derek Bramble | I'm Your Baby Tonight | 5:29 |
24. | "Run to You" | Allan Rich, Jud Friedman | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:24 |
25. | "Queen of the Night" | Whitney Houston, Reid, Babyface, Daryl Simmons | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | 3:07 |
26. | "Count On Me" (with CeCe Winans) | Babyface, W. Houston, Michael Houston | Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:26 |
27. | "Step by Step" | Annie Lennox | The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:12 |
28. | "It's Not Right but It's Okay" | Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels, Isaac Phillips, Tony Estes | My Love Is Your Love | 4:51 |
29. | "I Learned from the Best" (Radio edit) | Warren | My Love Is Your Love | 3:56 |
30. | "If I Told You That" | R. Jerkins, F. Jerkins, Daniels, Estes | My Love Is Your Love | 4:38 |
31. | "Heartbreak Hotel" (featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price) | Carsten Schack, Kenneth Karlin, Tamara Savage | My Love Is Your Love | 4:42 |
32. | "Million Dollar Bill" | Alicia Keys, Kasseem Dean, Norman Harris | I Look to You | 3:24 |
33. | "All at Once" (Japanese bonus track) | Michael Masser, Jeffrey Osborne | Whitney Houston | 4:32 |
Total length: | 67:47 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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19. | "Hold Me" (with Teddy Pendergrass) | Michael Masser, Linda Creed | Whitney Houston | 5:59 |
20. | "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful" (with Jermaine Jackson) | Elliot Willensky | Precious Moments | 4:48 |
21. | "I Know Him So Well" (with Cissy Houston) | Tim Rice, Benny Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus | Whitney | 4:29 |
22. | "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (with Aretha Franklin) | Hammond, Diane Warren | Through the Storm | 4:52 |
23. | "Count On Me" (with Cece Winans) | Babyface, Whitney Houston, Michael Houston | Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album | 4:26 |
Total length: | 24:40 |
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Poland (ZPAV)[27] | Platinum | 20,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[28] | Silver | 60,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[29] | Gold | 500,000 |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
Release history
Country | Date | Label(s) | Format | Edition |
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Finland | November 16, 2012 | RCA Records | CD, digital download | Deluxe[30] |
United States | November 13, 2012 | RCA Records | CD, digital download | Standard,[31] HSN[32] |
United Kingdom[33] | November 19, 2012 | Standard,[3] deluxe[4] | ||
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