Whitney Houston performs in Central Park
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Whitney Houston may have disappeared for a while, but her fans sure didn’t. Thousands gathered in Central Park to watch Whitney Houston on “Good Morning America.”
Whitney Houston went on “Good Morning America” to promote her new album, “I Look to You.” It has been seven years since she released an album, and the audience at Whitney Houston’s performance on “Good Morning America” showed fans were willing to wait.
Another platinum album for Whitney?
To hear ABC tell it, her fans would have taken out a no fax cash advance in Kansas to go see Whitney Houston on “Good Morning America,” but I think ABC News’ report on Whitney Houston on “Good Morning America” might be slightly exaggerated, especially considering that it says she is 44, but she is really 46.
The pressure is on for “I Look to You,” Whitney Houston’s sixth studio album. Every single Whitney Houston album has gone multi-platinum, including her greatest hits album and the two movie soundtracks that she contributed to heavily. “I Look to You” came out a couple of days ago, and I am curious to see whether the advances in digital music over the past seven years will make a difference in Whitney Houston’s album sales.
Diamonds are Whitney’s best friends
Long before Whitney Houston was on “Good Morning America,” she released her very first album, “Whitney Houston.” To be precise, this was 24 years before Whitney Houston performed on “Good Morning America.”
“Whitney Houston” went gold, then platinum, then diamond in the U.S. That means it sold more than 10 million copies. In fact, it sold 13 million copies nationwide. Worldwide, “Whitney Houston” sold 25 million copies.
What’s in a name?
Apparently selling 25 million copies of an album is hard or something because it has all been downhill since then. After “Whitney Houston,” Whitney Houston released “Whitney,” not to be confused with her 2002 album “Just Whitney.”
Though she didn’t achieve diamond status with the four albums that followed “Whitney Houston,” she didn’t do too badly. “Whitney” sold 9 million copies in the U.S., and both “I’m Your Baby Tonight” and “My Love is Your Love” sold 4 million.
Making movies
Of course, all of Whitney’s paychecks don’t come from her record company. She has also been in a few movies, including “The Bodyguard” and “The Preacher’s Wife.”
Her singing greatly contributed to both soundtracks. “The Bodyguard” soundtrack, featuring “I Will Always Love You,” sold 42 million copies worldwide and 17 million in the U.S. Sheesh. “The Preacher’s Wife” soundtrack was no small potatoes, either. That album sold 6 million copies worldwide and 3 million in the U.S.
After these messages, she’ll be right back
So, is Whitney Houston on the path to a career comeback? Yes, definitely. People don’t just put out nothing but multi-platinum albums and then go away. I think “I Look to You” will make her buckets of money, and she’ll make more albums after this.
Even though many sources report that Whitney Houston on “Good Morning America” had a raspy voice, I think she will keep singing and people will keep buying concert tickets and albums until she has no voice at all.
