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With over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during
her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will quite simply never
be eclipsed in the modern era. She is a singer's singer who has influenced countless other vocalists female and male.
Music historians cite Whitney's record-setting achievements: the only artist
to chart seven consecutive #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits ("Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know," "Greatest Love Of All,"
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts
Go"); the first female artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at #1 (her second album, Whitney, 1987); and the only
artist with seven consecutive multi-platinum albums (Whitney Houston, Whitney, I'm Your Baby Tonight, The Bodyguard, Waiting
To Exhale, and The Preacher's Wife soundtracks, and My Love Is Your Love).
In fact, The Bodyguard soundtrack is one of the top 10 biggest-selling albums
of all-time (at 17x-platinum in the U.S. alone), and Whitney's career-defining version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love
You" is the biggest-selling U.S. single of all-time (at 4x-platinum).
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