CSPC: Whitney Houston Popularity Analysis

Whitney Houston Career CSPC Results

So, after checking all the figures, how much album sales equivalent has each overall Whitney Houston album achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	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	2,208,000 (6,800,000)	825,000 (5,500,000)	810,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 300 LD: 550	29,312,000	20,230,526	810,000	1,277
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	2		Whitney	19,800,000	04.05.17	3,551,000	2,340,000 (7,610,000)	699,000 (4,660,000)	1,488,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 600 LD: 980	27,878,000	20,230,526	1,488,000	1,278
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	3		I'm Your Baby Tonight	9,900,000	04.05.17	472,000	1,165,000 (3,820,000)	182,000 (1,220,000)	204,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 80 LD: 140	11,923,000	20,230,526	204,000	1,279
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	4		The Bodyguard	41,100,000	04.05.17	6,727,000	4,120,000 (13,580,000)	1,493,000 (9,950,000)	1,785,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 670 LD: 1,210	55,224,000	20,230,526	1,785,000	1,280
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	5		The Preacher's Wife	5,300,000	04.05.17	197,000	800,000 (2,390,000)	152,000 (1,010,000)	109,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 40 LD: 60	6,557,000	20,230,526	109,000	1,281
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	6		My Love Is Your Love	10,400,000	04.05.17	1,529,000	2,255,000 (7,440,000)	457,000 (3,050,000)	709,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 270 LD: 450	15,350,000	20,230,526	709,000	1,282
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	7		Just Whitney...	1,900,000	04.05.17	75,000	87,000 (290,000)	75,000 (500,000)	47,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 20 LD: 30	2,184,000	20,230,526	47,000	1,283
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	8		One Wish: The Holiday Album	900,000	04.05.17	0	8,000 (27,000)	120,000 (800,000)	60,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 20 LD: 0	1,088,000	20,230,526	60,000	1,284
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	9		I Look To You	2,400,000	04.05.17	38,000	128,000 (75,000)	195,000 (1,300,000)	216,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 70 LD: 110	2,977,000	20,230,526	216,000	1,285
6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP	10		Orphan	0	04.05.17	1,017,000	2,273,000 (5,430,000)	416,000 (2,770,000)	65,000 (05/04/17)	N/A	3,770,000	20,230,526	65,000	1,752

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)

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

I’m sure all eyes directly went to The Bodyguard Total CSPC cell. We write and read these kind of articles with excitement precisely to discover those results. You must consider the total to be 53,350,000 overall, once factoring in other sales from singles which aren’t performed by Whitney Houston. Below is the Top 5 albums out of all previously posted articles:

1 1977 Soundtrack / Bee Gees – Saturday Night Fever – 66,705,000
2 1977 Fleetwood Mac – Rumours – 60,508,000
3 1971 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV – 56,573,000
4 1978 Soundtrack – Grease – 51,899,000
5 1991 Nirvana – Nevermind – 51,570,000

Thus, The Bodyguard shoots directly to the #4 position on this ranking. This may be slightly disappointing considering it leads physical studio album sales, but it generated nowhere near as many compilation sales as Saturday Night Fever, Rumours or Led Zeppelin IV. Still, 53,35 million equivalent albums sold by a single LP is absolutely extraordinary – to put things into perspective, that’s the same tally as Shakira’s complete discography.

Such a beast surely takes some light away from Whitney’s remaining albums, but they are incredible on their own nonetheless. At 28,4 million and 26,3 million respectively, her first two records are true sales monsters as well. My Love Is Your Love is also rather impressive with 14,6 million overall sales. Subsequent records came nowhere near to such totals, but that doesn’t diminish the feats she managed previously.

• In total, Whitney Houston sold a huge 151,7 million equivalent albums. Of course, this is less than Madonna at 241,1 million, Celine Dion at 193,4 million and Mariah Carey at 167,15 million, but one needs to consider Whitney Houston issued much fewer albums than they did. In terms of discography size, it would be more fair to compare her with Britney Spears at 99,8 million or Rihanna at 75,8 million, which shows her outstanding success level.

  The following page lists her most successful songs. Do not forget to check our amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge her position in the history of the music industry.

  As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!

  Sources: IFPI, Spotify, Chartmasters.org.

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