Whitney Houston

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Country: US
Birth: 1963-08-09
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Genre: Pop Music, Rhythm And Blues, Soul, Gospel Music, Urban Contemporary

On-demand audio streams B+

Monthly listeners 46.7m 17

Lead streams 11.8b 15

Feat streams 40.3m 1

Monthly revenue $521.5k 15

Sales data A

CSPC units 161.4m 18

Pure albums 130.8m 18

Physical singles 49.5m 17

Digital singles 34.3m 14

Spotify statistics B

Lead streams 7.4b 15

Feat streams 25.4m 1

Monthly listeners 28.7m 16

Followers 11.2m 13

100m+ tracks 14 11

Popularity 78 14

Followers / Listeners 0.4 6

Replay value 3.3 10

Trends & Indicators B-

Daily streams 3.0m 13

Daily listeners +/- 13.1k 10

Daily followers +/- 2.4k 13

Monthly streams 93.7m 13

Monthly listeners +/- -1.4k 10

Weekly followers +/- 16.5k 13

Trend 0.4 7

Globalness 39.5 14

Monthly listeners map

Below map represents the 50 cities where the artist has the most Spotify monthly listeners.

Album sales map

This second map is based on pure album sales by country.

Artist career totals

All-Time Rank	Studio albums (EAS)	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Total EAS
25	113,600,000	17,175,000	49,520,000	34,250,000	10,676,000 (05/15/25)	161,446,000

Albums statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	1	Whitney Houston	21,900,000	04.05.17	3,569,000	2,148,000 (7,160,000)	885,000 (5,900,000)	1,167,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 350 LD: 790	29,669,000	20,250,517	1,167,000	1,277
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	2	Whitney	19,800,000	04.05.17	3,551,000	2,274,000 (7,580,000)	765,000 (5,100,000)	2,172,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 680 LD: 1,150	28,562,000	20,250,517	2,172,000	1,278
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	3	I'm Your Baby Tonight	9,900,000	04.05.17	472,000	1,152,000 (3,840,000)	195,000 (1,300,000)	287,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 90 LD: 120	12,006,000	20,250,517	287,000	1,279
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	4	The Bodyguard	41,100,000	04.05.17	6,727,000	4,074,000 (13,580,000)	1,538,000 (10,250,000)	2,571,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 770 LD: 1,320	56,010,000	20,250,517	2,571,000	1,280
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	5	The Preacher's Wife	5,300,000	04.05.17	197,000	741,000 (2,470,000)	210,000 (1,400,000)	151,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 40 LD: 40	6,599,000	20,250,517	151,000	1,281
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	6	My Love Is Your Love	10,400,000	04.05.17	1,529,000	2,232,000 (7,440,000)	480,000 (3,200,000)	980,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 300 LD: 50	15,621,000	20,250,517	980,000	1,282
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	7	Just Whitney	1,900,000	04.05.17	75,000	87,000 (290,000)	75,000 (500,000)	65,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 20 LD: 30	2,202,000	20,250,517	65,000	1,283
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	8	One Wish: The Holiday Album	900,000	04.05.17	0	8,000 (27,000)	120,000 (800,000)	83,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 20 LD: 0	1,111,000	20,250,517	83,000	1,284
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	9	I Look To You	2,400,000	04.05.17	38,000	23,000 (77,000)	300,000 (2,000,000)	278,000 (05/17/25)	Av.: 70 LD: 90	3,039,000	20,250,517	278,000	1,285
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	10	Orphan	0	04.05.17	1,017,000	2,118,000 (7,060,000)	570,000 (3,800,000)	65,000 (05/04/17)	N/A	3,770,000	20,250,517	65,000	1,752

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

Studio Album: sales of the original album
Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Songs statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales generated through all formats.

#	Single	EAS
1	I Will Always Love You [The Bodyguard]	35,005,000
2	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) [Whitney]	21,179,000
3	I Have Nothing [The Bodyguard]	12,078,000
4	How Will I Know [Whitney Houston]	11,772,000
5	Greatest Love of All [Whitney Houston]	8,016,000
6	Saving All My Love for You [Whitney Houston]	5,496,000
7	My Love Is Your Love [My Love Is Your Love]	5,218,000
8	All the Man That I Need [I'm Your Baby Tonight]	5,041,000
9	I'm Your Baby Tonight [I'm Your Baby Tonight]	4,519,000
10	When You Believe [My Love Is Your Love]	4,291,000

Studio album sales

Year	Title	Sales
1985	Whitney Houston	21,900,000
1987	Whitney	19,800,000
1990	I'm Your Baby Tonight	9,900,000
1992	The Bodyguard	41,100,000
1996	The Preacher's Wife	5,300,000
1998	My Love Is Your Love	10,400,000
2002	Just Whitney...	1,900,000
2003	One Wish: The Holiday Album	900,000
2009	I Look To You	2,400,000

Compilation album sales

Physical singles sales

Year	Album	Single	Sales
1992	The Bodyguard	I Will Always Love You	10,560,000
1987	Whitney	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)	2,920,000
1998	My Love Is Your Love	My Love Is Your Love	2,640,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Saving All My Love for You	2,600,000
1988	Orphan	One Moment in Time	1,820,000
1995	Waiting to Exhale	Exhale (Shoop Shoop)	1,750,000
1990	I'm Your Baby Tonight	I'm Your Baby Tonight	1,740,000
1985	Whitney Houston	How Will I Know	1,650,000
1998	My Love Is Your Love	Heartbreak Hotel	1,600,000
1987	Whitney	So Emotional	1,500,000

Downloads and ringtones sales

Year	Album	Track	Sales
1985	Whitney Houston	Thinking About You	70,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Someone for Me	55,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Nobody Loves Me Like You Do	90,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Take Good Care of My Heart	62,500
1984	Whitney Houston	Hold Me	120,000
1985	Whitney Houston	You Give Good Love	600,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Saving All My Love for You	1,250,000
1985	Whitney Houston	How Will I Know	1,350,000
1985	Whitney Houston	All at Once	600,000
1985	Whitney Houston	Greatest Love of All	1,700,000

Most streamed songs (Top 20)

#	Seq.	Album	Song	Spotify total	Spotify daily	AOD total	EAS
1	22	Whitney	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,440,958,779	797,778	2,375,172,702	1,583,448
2	206	I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston	Higher Love	1,085,685,292	409,123	1,712,720,661	1,141,813
3	42	The Bodyguard	I Will Always Love You	814,149,632	333,724	1,341,985,634	894,657
4	41	The Bodyguard	I Have Nothing	529,751,875	373,720	873,204,848	582,136
5	5	Whitney Houston	How Will I Know	362,534,426	290,865	597,575,645	398,383
6	2	Whitney Houston	Greatest Love of All	232,027,218	114,766	382,456,960	254,971
7	69	My Love Is Your Love	My Love Is Your Love	219,184,539	75,978	361,288,012	240,858
8	9	Whitney Houston	Saving All My Love for You	216,562,377	173,677	356,965,829	237,977
9	72	My Love Is Your Love	When You Believe - from The Prince of Egypt	180,617,118	70,945	297,716,252	198,477
10	27	Whitney	Where Do Broken Hearts Go	148,067,592	69,385	244,063,957	162,709
11	215	I Wanna Dance With Somebody	How Will I Know	147,915,183	55,221	243,812,737	162,541
12	68	My Love Is Your Love	It's Not Right But It's Okay	137,802,781	65,319	227,144,182	151,429
13	181	Whitney The Greatest Hits	One Moment in Time	120,494,100	60,962	198,613,798	132,409
14	46	The Bodyguard	Run to You	107,384,102	57,090	177,004,222	118,002
15	43	The Bodyguard	I'm Every Woman	86,638,961	37,384	142,809,425	95,206
16	19	Whitney	Didn't We Almost Have It All	84,346,329	38,292	139,030,415	92,686
17	164	Whitney The Greatest Hits	Could I Have This Kiss Forever - Metro Mix	78,369,456	44,658	129,178,568	86,119
18	26	Whitney	So Emotional	66,887,784	19,823	110,253,007	73,502
19	101	I Look To You	I Look to You	57,537,595	18,560	94,840,828	63,227
20	241	Exhale	Do You Hear What I Hear?	55,365,520	922	91,260,536	60,840
		Album	Song
				∑ = 6,172,280,659	∑ = 3,108,192	∑ = 10,097,098,229	∑ = 6,731,398

Unlock full updated discography data Table keys

Seq. stands for sequence. It sorts albums in discographic order.
Spotify total reflects release to date (RTD) streams of the track as shown on their software.
Spotify daily is calculated based on streams over the last 1 day(s).
AOD (Audio on-demand) reflects total streams through all AOD platforms, Spotify included. The non-Spotify part is an algorithm based figure which considers the main artist's strength and Spotify shares in each market.
AOD streams divided by 1,500 would provide equivalent album sales (EAS) for the track.
The 'Song' and 'Album' grey fields at the bottom of the table allow filtering on them.

Thresholds - CSPC

Date	Format	Title	Milestone
2025-05-11	Album	My Love Is Your Love	14,000,000
2025-05-09	Album	The Bodyguard	56,000,000
2025-04-15	Album	I Look To You	2,000,000
2025-03-24	Album	I'm Your Baby Tonight	12,000,000

Thresholds - Spotify KPIs

Date	KPI	Milestone
2025-01-02	Listeners	35,000,000
2024-12-26	Listeners	34,000,000
2024-12-25	Listeners	33,000,000
2024-12-21	Listeners	31,000,000
2024-12-14	Listeners	30,000,000
2024-12-07	Listeners	29,000,000
2024-05-07	Followers	10,000,000
2024-01-01	Listeners	28,000,000
2023-12-31	Listeners	27,000,000
2023-03-18	Followers	9,000,000
2023-01-02	Listeners	26,000,000
2023-01-01	Listeners	25,000,000
2022-12-29	Listeners	24,000,000
2022-12-25	Listeners	23,000,000
2022-12-22	Listeners	22,000,000
2022-12-13	Listeners	21,000,000
2022-11-24	Listeners	20,000,000
2022-11-06	Followers	8,000,000
2022-09-23	Listeners	19,000,000
2021-09-10	Followers	7,000,000
2020-11-22	Followers	6,000,000
2020-05-19	Followers	5,000,000

Thresholds - Streams

Date	Format	Title	Milestone
2025-05-02	Album	The Bodyguard	1,600,000,000
2025-04-20	Album	My Love Is Your Love	600,000,000
2025-04-08	Single	I Will Always Love You	800,000,000
2025-03-21	Single	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,400,000,000
2025-03-01	Album	Whitney Houston	900,000,000
2025-01-23	Album	Whitney	1,700,000,000
2025-01-13	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	7,000,000,000
2025-01-04	Artist all credits	Whitney Houston	7,000,000,000
2024-12-10	Album	The Bodyguard	1,500,000,000
2024-10-11	Single	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,300,000,000
2024-09-17	Album	Whitney	1,600,000,000
2024-07-19	Album	The Bodyguard	1,400,000,000
2024-06-18	Single	I Will Always Love You	700,000,000
2024-06-17	Album	Whitney Houston	800,000,000
2024-05-30	Single	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,200,000,000
2024-02-23	Album	The Bodyguard	1,300,000,000
2024-02-23	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	6,000,000,000
2024-02-16	Artist all credits	Whitney Houston	6,000,000,000
2024-02-08	Album	Whitney	1,400,000,000
2024-01-13	Single	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,100,000,000
2023-10-02	Album	Whitney Houston	700,000,000
2023-09-26	Album	The Bodyguard	1,200,000,000
2023-09-12	Album	Whitney	1,300,000,000
2023-07-10	Single	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	1,000,000,000
2023-04-29	Album	The Bodyguard	1,100,000,000
2023-04-19	Album	Whitney	1,200,000,000
2023-03-12	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	5,000,000,000
2023-01-16	Album	Whitney Houston	600,000,000
2022-12-03	Album	The Bodyguard	1,000,000,000
2022-11-14	Album	Whitney	1,100,000,000
2022-05-21	Album	Whitney	1,000,000,000
2022-05-19	Album	The Bodyguard	900,000,000
2022-02-12	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	4,000,000,000
2022-02-07	Artist all credits	Whitney Houston	4,000,000,000
2021-01-28	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	3,000,000,000
2020-12-15	Artist all credits	Whitney Houston	3,000,000,000
2020-05-30	Artist leads	Whitney Houston	2,000,000,000

Overtakings

Date	Ranking	Overtaking
2025-05-16	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney Houston climbs from #90 to #89.
2025-05-16	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney climbs from #99 to #98.
2025-05-12	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney climbs from #100 to #99.
2025-05-12	Top Albums CSPC - Year 1987	Whitney climbs from #7 to #6.
2025-05-09	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney climbs from #100 to #99.
2025-05-09	Top Albums CSPC - Year 1987	Whitney climbs from #7 to #6.
2025-04-10	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney climbs from #100 to #99.
2025-04-10	Top Albums CSPC - Year 1987	Whitney climbs from #7 to #6.
2025-04-09	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1992	I Will Always Love You climbs from #6 to #5.
2025-04-04	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Whitney climbs from #100 to #99.
2025-04-04	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1992	I Have Nothing climbs from #10 to #9.
2025-04-03	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1987	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) climbs from #2 to #1.
2025-04-03	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1992	I Will Always Love You climbs from #6 to #5.
2025-03-25	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1987	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) climbs from #2 to #1.
2025-03-25	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1992	I Will Always Love You climbs from #6 to #5.

Artist rankings

With 161,446,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #25 among the most successful artists of alltime.
With 29,235,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #2 among the most successful artists of 1985.
With 28,622,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #6 among the most successful artists of 1987.
With 12,010,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #6 among the most successful artists of 1990.
With 55,389,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #1 among the most successful artists of 1992.
With 6,537,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #10 among the most successful artists of 1996.
With 15,621,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #6 among the most successful artists of 1998.
With 128,600,000 copies, Whitney Houston ranks #34 among the artists with the most pure album sales of all time.
With 49,523,000 copies, Whitney Houston ranks #16 among the artists with the most physical single sales of all time.

Album rankings

With 29,668,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #89 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 28,561,000 EAS, Whitney ranks #98 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 56,009,000 EAS, The Bodyguard ranks #11 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 29,668,000 EAS, Whitney Houston ranks #3 among the most successful albums of 1985.
With 28,561,000 EAS, Whitney ranks #6 among the most successful albums of 1987.
With 12,006,000 EAS, I'm Your Baby Tonight ranks #6 among the most successful albums of 1990.
With 56,009,000 EAS, The Bodyguard ranks #1 among the most successful albums of 1992.
With 14,749,000 EAS, My Love Is Your Love ranks #5 among the most successful albums of 1998.
With 936,414,327 streams on Spotify, Whitney Houston ranks #8 among the most streamed albums of 1985.
With 1,788,289,410 streams on Spotify, Whitney ranks #5 among the most streamed albums of 1987.
With 1,611,546,873 streams on Spotify, The Bodyguard ranks #2 among the most streamed albums of 1992.

Song rankings

With 21,177,000 EAS, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ranks #38 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 35,004,000 EAS, I Will Always Love You ranks #6 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 11,771,000 EAS, How Will I Know ranks #3 among the most successful songs of 1985.
With 8,015,000 EAS, Greatest Love of All ranks #6 among the most successful songs of 1985.
With 5,496,000 EAS, Saving All My Love for You ranks #10 among the most successful songs of 1985.
With 21,177,000 EAS, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ranks #3 among the most successful songs of 1987.
With 5,041,000 EAS, All the Man That I Need ranks #10 among the most successful songs of 1990.
With 35,004,000 EAS, I Will Always Love You ranks #1 among the most successful songs of 1992.
With 12,077,000 EAS, I Have Nothing ranks #4 among the most successful songs of 1992.
With 5,218,000 EAS, My Love Is Your Love ranks #10 among the most successful songs of 1998.
With 1,440,161,001 streams on Spotify, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) ranks #2 among the most streamed tracks of 1987.
With 813,815,908 streams on Spotify, I Will Always Love You ranks #6 among the most streamed tracks of 1992.

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