It is coming, Billboard announced it last month. No details yet.

 

The first authoritative greatest hits album from the late singer Whitney Houston is due out this fall in the U.S. on RCA Records.

 

While a tracklist, title and release date has not been announced, sources have suggested it will be the first compilation to span her entire career and include the familiar hit versions of her Billboard chart-topping singles.

 

That would stand in contrast with Houston's first, and only other American hits set, "Whitney: The Greatest Hits," which was released in 2000.

 

While that 36-track Arista Records album offers most of her best-known ballads, it substituted remixes of her uptempo singles instead of the well-known original versions. For example, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is represented by a Junior Vasquez club mix, while "So Emotional" was reworked by Dave Morales.

 

To date, the album has sold 2.6 million copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. This year, it has moved 836,000 -- most in the wake of Houston's death on Feb. 11. It is currently the fourth biggest-selling album of 2012.

 

In her lifetime, Houston notched 39 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 23 of those reaching the top 10. Of those, a whopping 11 went to No. 1, including "How Will I Know," "I Will Always Love You" and "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)." Her most recent Hot 100 hit was 2009's "Million Dollar Bill," which peaked at No. 100. (Though it climbed to No. 1 on the Dance Club/Play Songs chart, in part thanks to the popularity of a remix by the Freemasons.)

 

Unlike Houston's superstar peers of the '80s and '90s (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Celine Dion and so on), Houston is one of the few to only have one greatest hits album in their U.S. catalog. Previous to his death, Jackson had five sets dedicated to his Epic Records material. Meanwhile, Madonna's Warner Bros. catalog is represented by three best-ofs (not including a ballads compilation).

 

Outside of America, Houston issued "The Ultimate Collection" in 2007, which is a more traditional hits album and features 18 songs (the bulk of which were not remixed). On the Official U.K. Albums chart, it peaked at No. 3.

 

http://www.billboard.com/news/new-whitney-...007791762.story

 

Since there has not been a proper worldwide single disc compilation, wonder if they will go that way, that would ensure huge sales during Xmas etc. But it would be missing many songs, I'd prefer a double disc but thematically different from the 2000 compilation (the George Michael slow/fast distinction).

 

And of course unfortunately it'll contain some usual suspects that I'm not a big fan of, like "So Emotional", I hope they include some lesser known singles like "Why Does It Hurt So Bad" or "My Heart Is Calling".

This was bound to happen, not overly sure what it can offer as her greatest hits and ultimate colelction covered most of her career. That said, i will keep an eye on this release and i could potentially purchase it.

Ching Ching. It's like MJ all over again.

Will not do well in the busy album market in the UK I'm afraid. Will do well in US though.

Will not do well in the busy album market in the UK I'm afraid. Will do well in US though.

It's not that long ago we had a grestest hits so can't see it doing well unless it's crammed with a disc of new material.

Her 2000 GH had pretty much all her best songs, won't be bothering with this one.

It's not that long ago we had a grestest hits so can't see it doing well unless it's crammed with a disc of new material.

 

It's been 5 years since The Ultimate Collection and that wasn't a worldwide release and her death put attention on her classics again so I don't see how this wouldn't do well during Xmas. Surely it'll be one of those albums people will be giving as gifts.

 

Tracklist (it's called 'I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston'):

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01 You Give Good Love

02 Saving All My Love For You

03 How Will I Know? (Remastered)

04 Greatest Love Of All

05 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Remastered)

06 Didn't We Almost Have It All?

07 So Emotional (Remastered)

08 Where Do Broken Hearts Go?

09 I'm Your Baby Tonight

10 All The Man That I Need

11 I Will Always Love You

12 I'm Every Woman

13 I Have Nothing (Remastered)

14 Exhale (Shoop Shoop)

15 I Believe In You And Me (Film Version)

16 My Love Is Your Love

17 I Look To You (with R Kelly)

18 Never Give Up

 

So ONE new song, a new version of I Look To You and no One Moment In Time, It's Not Right But It's Okay or Million Dollar Bill? AWFUL tracklist!

Disapointing track list, as we knew it doesnt offer much as she has an ultimate collection and a good greatest hits package already released, that said i do like the naming of the album andi like the cover, this really is for her dedicated hardcore fans.

Sony strike again with a rubbish Greatest Hits.

The tracklisting is better than The Ultimate Collection since it's chronological and this is her first worldwide single disc compilation so it's probably going to do decently.

 

There's a deluxe edition that has some more hits (kinda like Madonna's Celebration or Celine Dion's My Love), but for some reason they snubbed "Miracle" in favor of "I Belong To You" and once again the Mariah duet "When You Believe" is ignored. It seems the deluxe edition is released outside the US (or is digital only, I'm not sure).

 

19 Love Will Save The Day

20 One Moment in Time (Remastered)

21 It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be

22 My Name Is Not Susan

23 I Belong to You

24 Run to You

25 Queen of the Night (Radio Edit)

26 Count On Me

27 Step By Step

28 It’s Not Right But It’s Okay

29 I Learned from the Best

30 If I Told You That

31 Heartbreak Hotel

32 Million Dollar Bill

Really disappointing tracklist. Doubt many people will buy the album for one new track. They could have made this so much better with a couple of new tracks.