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Whitney Houston's news was the biggest headline to come out of the 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. The event was an eclectic affair that highlighted the serious problems in the music business and with the Hall of Fame Foundation, which is separate from the Cleveland museum it doesn't support.
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Whitney Houston was the first of the modern R&B divas and is graced with the same vocal genes as her mother, Cissy, and her aunt, Dionne Warwick. She started out at the very top of the charts but her throne is currently being challenged by more golden throated vixens than even Homer imagined in the Odyssey and her illustrious career has been sidetracked by scandal since the late 1990s.
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"Whitney Houston cemented her superstar status on her next album, Whitney; despite the unimaginative title, it sold over nine-million copies in the U.S" (Steve Huey, All Music Guide). "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", released in 1987, topped charts around the world, paving the way for Houston to become the first album by a female artist to debut at number 1 on the US album chart, a feat it ... achieved in the UK. The album included a version of "I Know Him So Well", sang as a duet with her mother Cissy, and the ballad "Didn't We Almost Have It All" which became her fifth successive US number 1 shortly afterwards. However, even this was surpassed when "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" continued the sequence, making seven consecutive number one hits, breaking a record previously shared by the Beatles and the Bee Gees. In 1988, she made a controversial appearance at Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Party, where other acts accused her of behaving like a prima donna. By September, "Love Will Save The Day" had finally broken the winning sequence in the USA where it could only manage number 9. Another series of awards followed, including the Best Pop Vocal Performance-Female Grammy for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and Pop Female Vocal and Soul/R&B Female Vocal categories at the American Music Awards.
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Whitney Houston debuted on the Billboard 200 the week of March 20, 1985 at #120. It lingered on the charts for a year until finally reaching number one in March 1986, where it remained for fourteen non-consecutive weeks and became the best-selling album of the year. The album exhibited massive staying power, remaining on the Billboard 200 for 162 weeks. It became the best-selling album of 1986 in the US (and the fifth best-selling album of that year in the UK too). It eventually sold over 13 million copies in America,[1] the best-selling female debut album in the country (this record was broken in 1999 by Britney Spears' debut album, ...Baby One More Time, which sold 14 million).
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Houston's debut album, Whitney Houston, was released in March 1985. Its first single, "Someone for Me," was a flop, but the second try, "You Give Good Love," became Houston's first hit, topping the R&B charts and hitting number three pop. Houston's next three singles -- the Grammy-winning romantic ballad "Saving All My Love for You," the brightly danceable "How Will I Know," and the inspirational "The Greatest Love of All" -- all topped the pop charts, and a year to the month after its release, Whitney Houston hit number one on the album charts. It eventually sold over 13 million copies, making it the best-selling debut ever by a female artist. Houston cemented her superstar status on her next album, Whitney; despite the unimaginative title, it became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one, and sold over nine million copies. Its first four singles -- "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (another Grammy winner), "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" -- all hit number one, an amazing, record-setting run of seven straight (broken by "Love Will Save the Day"). In late 1988, Houston scored a Top Five hit with the non-LP single "One Moment in Time," recorded for an Olympics-themed compilation album.
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Whitney signed with the Arista label and released her debut LP, Whitney Houston. Her first single, "You Give Good Love" went Top 10, and was followed by three #1 hits: "Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know," and "The Greatest Love of All." The LP went on to sell over 12 million copies.
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