Whitney is one of the most successful and influential singers of all time, With over 200 million records sold worldwide: 150 million albums and 60 million singles.
At the end of 1999, Whitney was named the top-selling R &B female artist of the century, She also received a plaque for album sales of 110 million. Whitney received an award from the World Music Awards, for being the "best-selling artist of the era". According to the RIAA she is the most successful R&B female artist of all time.
She is well known for her vocal power, control, range and coloratura soprano voice.
11 #1 Hits (U.S.)
04 #1 Hits (U.K.)
12 #1 Dance Hits
09 Multi-platinum Albums
26 Grammy Nominations
06 Grammy Awards
02 Emmy Awards
23 American Music Awards
21 Billboard Music Awards
12 NAACP Image Awards
08 Soul
Train Awards
06 People's Choice Awards
etc..
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS - MOST AWARDED & POPULAR ARTIST OF ALL TIME.
Whitney has fourteen gold singles in the United States, behind only Janet Jackson and Madonna among female artists.
Whitney, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Shania Twain, and The Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple diamond albums.
"I Will Always Love You"
is the best-selling single by a female artist, and the biggest-selling non-charity single of all time, with world sales of ten million copies.
Whitney is one of only two female artists (the other being Mariah Carey) to have three albums sell over nine million copies each in the U.S.
The Preacher's
Wife soundtrack is the best-selling Gospel album of all time, with sales of over six million copies worldwide.
Whitney's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" is the only version to be certified platinum.
Whitney holds the record for highest one week single sales by a female artist as nearly 700,
000 copies of "I Will Always Love You" were sold in the final week of December 1992.
The Bodyguard is the best-selling album by a foreign female artist in Brazil.
Whitney is the only artist to have one song in the UK Year-End Singles Chart for two consecutive years. "I Will Always Love You" ranked
#1 in 1992, and #9 in 1993.
"I Will Always Love You" topped The Billboard Hot 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks in 1992-1993, making the single the longest running #1 of the 1990s for female solo artist's and the longest running #1 single from a soundtrack album.
After spending one week at numbe
r one, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" spent the next eleven weeks at number two, making it the longest number-two run in Hot 100 history.
Whitney is the only artist to claim three Top Ten hits from all of her studio albums (1980s and 1990s).
Whitney was the first female artist to have 4 number one single
s from one album.
The first album by a female to debut at number one was 1987's Whitney.
Whitney is the only artist with three albums to remain on top of the Top 200 for over ten weeks (Whitney Houston (fourteen weeks), Whitney (eleven weeks), and The Bodyguard (twenty weeks)).
Whitney's albums
have spent fifty weeks at number one on the Billboard charts, more than any other female artist.
Whitney has the longest stay at number one on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums Chart, when The Preacher's Wife remained at number one for twenty-six weeks.
The Bodyguard sold a million copies in the f
inal week of 1992. At the time, it set a record for the most albums sold in a single week. The record was broken in 1998 and again in 1999, but this was due to changes in the way the Billboard 200 was compiled, adding extra days' sales for Garth Brooks] and Backstreet Boys. More recently, 'N Sync, B
ritney Spears, and Eminem have followed in the million-plus league.
Whitney has won 23 American Music Awards, more than any other artist or act.
Whitney won a record of eight American Music Awards for The Bodyguard back in 1994.
Whitney won a record eleven Billboard Music Awards at the 1993 cere
mony for The Bodyguard.
Whitney won a record five World Music Awards at the ceremony in 1994.
Whitney is the only artist with at least one Grammy, Emmy, MTV Video Music Award, MTV Movie Award, People's Choice Award, and Billboard Music Award to their name.
Whitney is the first and only female art
ist to concurrently top the US, UK, and Australian charts with a single song ("I Will Always Love You").
And many more...
then we have Mary with her ONE #1 hit in 2001 "Family Affair" and not even a quarter of Whitney's selling and breaking records haha! Could she do any of the above?
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