Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Whitney Houston

Charting Jun 9, 1984 → Nov 16, 2019 · 525 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 525 wk (39 crowns), UK Singles Chart 384 wk (16 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1993

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
39 crowns
Longest reign 16 weeks (Jan–May 1993) · First crown Oct 1985
UK Singles Chart
16 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Nov–Dec 1992) · First crown May 1987
Global Music Power
40 crowns
19842025
Longest reign 19 weeks (Jan–May 1993) · First crown Feb 1986

Billboard Hot 100 · 525 wk UK Singles Chart · 384 wk Global Music Power · 637 wk

Peak Power: 4.94%; week of Apr 17, 1993
Career Power: 937; share-weeks
Crowns: 39; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 151; November 1992 – November 1993
Peak Five Years: 336; January 1984 – December 1988
Top-five weeks: 126; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 525; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 6.29%; week of Mar 6, 1993
Comebacks: 4; Nov 1990 · Dec 1992 · Dec 1995 · Apr 1999

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

40 records · 937 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I Will Always Love YouApple Music	#1November 1992	29	November 1992 – March 2012	72.9	78.2
My Love Is Your LoveApple Music	#4January 2000	28	September 1999 – March 2000	64.3	64.1
Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (From "Waiting To Exhale")Apple Music	#1November 1995	21	November 1995 – April 1996	60.4	59.3
I Have NothingApple Music	#4April 1993	20	February 1993 – July 1993	41.9	44.7
Heartbreak Hotelfeat. Faith Evans, Kelly PriceApple Music	#2March 1999	28	December 1998 – July 1999	40.4	59.6
How Will I KnowApple Music	#1February 1986	24	December 1985 – March 2012	39.3	40.4
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)Apple Music	#1June 1987	20	May 1987 – March 2012	39.2	40.8
I Believe In You And Me (From "The Preacher's Wife")Apple Music	#4February 1997	20	December 1996 – May 1997	38.9	40.3
I'm Your Baby TonightApple Music	#1December 1990	19	October 1990 – February 1991	37.3	38.4
Greatest Love Of AllApple Music	#1May 1986	20	March 1986 – March 2012	37.2	38.2
So EmotionalApple Music	#1January 1988	19	October 1987 – March 1988	37.2	37.0
Saving All My Love For YouApple Music	#1October 1985	22	August 1985 – January 1986	36.6	37.0
It's Not Right But It's OkayApple Music	#4July 1999	20	May 1999 – September 1999	35.9	36.4
All The Man That I NeedApple Music	#1February 1991	23	December 1990 – May 1991	35.1	38.0
Where Do Broken Hearts GoApple Music	#1April 1988	18	February 1988 – June 1988	33.5	33.1
You Give Good LoveApple Music	#3July 1985	21	May 1985 – September 1985	33.0	33.0
Didn't We Almost Have It AllApple Music	#1September 1987	17	August 1987 – November 1987	32.9	33.5
I'm Every Woman (From "The Bodyguard")Apple Music	#4February 1993	23	January 1993 – June 1993	31.4	43.4
One Moment In TimeApple Music	#5November 1988	17	September 1988 – December 1988	24.9	25.0
Love Will Save The DayApple Music	#9August 1988	16	July 1988 – October 1988	21.5	21.5
The Star Spangled BannerApple Music	#6October 2001	27	March 1991 – January 2002	21.0	22.6
MiracleApple Music	#9June 1991	14	April 1991 – July 1991	18.9	19.2
Count On Me (From "Waiting To Exhale")with CeCe WinansApple Music	#8May 1996	20	March 1996 – August 1996	17.0	34.8
Step By Step (From "The Preacher's Wife")Apple Music	#15March 1997	17	March 1997 – July 1997	14.6	15.1
Why Does It Hurt So Bad (From "Waiting To Exhale")Apple Music	#26August 1996	20	August 1996 – December 1996	13.7	13.5
Run To YouApple Music	#31July 1993	20	June 1993 – November 1993	13.1	13.1
My Name Is Not SusanApple Music	#20September 1991	10	July 1991 – September 1991	10.6	10.5
I Learned From The BestApple Music	#27March 2000	11	February 2000 – April 2000	7.8	7.8
When You Believewith Mariah CareyApple Music	#15January 1999	17	December 1998 – March 1999	7.5	17.6
Hold Mewith Teddy PendergrassApple Music	#46July 1984	18	June 1984 – October 1984	3.7	7.2
One Of Those DaysApple Music	#72February 2003	19	November 2002 – March 2003	3.6	3.5
Could I Have This Kiss Foreverwith Enrique IglesiasApple Music	#52August 2000	19	June 2000 – October 2000	3.2	6.4
It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Bewith Aretha FranklinApple Music	#41July 1989	8	July 1989 – August 1989	2.3	4.6
Try It On My OwnApple Music	#84May 2003	12	April 2003 – July 2003	1.8	1.7
I Look To YouApple Music	#70September 2009	6	August 2009 – October 2009	1.3	1.2
Higher Lovewith KygoApple Music	#63July 2019	9	July 2019 – November 2019	0.9	1.6
Same Script, Different Castwith Deborah CoxApple Music	#70July 2000	9	June 2000 – August 2000	0.9	2.4
My Heart Is Calling (From "The Preacher's Wife")Apple Music	#77July 1997	4	July 1997 – July 1997	0.8	0.8
WhatchulookinatApple Music	#96August 2002	3	August 2002 – September 2002	0.4	0.4
Million Dollar BillApple Music	#100September 2009	1	September 2009	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1992 in music →

Whitney Houston's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1992 to November 1993. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1Whitney Houston151
2SWV140
3Shai135
4Janet Jackson103
5Dr. Dre99
6P.M. Dawn94
7Duran Duran89
8Jade84
9Jon Secada80
10Silk79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.