Whitney Houston: Official Topic

[celinesounds]

The Live performance on Oprah was amazing, I love when she is improving.

 

the new video is not bad

[Stardust]

Million Dollar Bill video in HQ

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9QMSLNV

 

http://i27.tinypic.com/2z4xt03.gif

[Prince Whiskers]

The Oprah performance was ok.

 

But Manuel wants more powahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Stardust]

its official from Whitney herself, Whitney will go on tour next year and she has plans for new movie

 

 

Listen Whitney on The Tom Joyner Morning Show

 

http://www.whitneyhoustonlive.com/media/WhitneyTomJoyner.mp3

[smw]

New movie. Great idea. It won't cause her to sing - other than a soundtrack.

 

Tour. Bad idea. She ain't got the voice.

[Black Kitten]

after listening to the entire album a lot of times already, i'm convinced that she sounded a lot better in her One Wish album (2003).

 

she sounded good on O Come, O Come Emmanuel, which actually rings a mid-90's Whitney.

[Stardust]

O Come, O Come Emmanue really amazing peprformance by her, love this cut from One Wish album. also i adore Little Drummer Boy and in low voice Holy Night very impressive.

[Stardust]

New movie. Great idea. It won't cause her to sing - other than a soundtrack.

 

Tour. Bad idea. She ain't got the voice.

she will improve her voice even more by touring, Def she needs a global tour like MLIYL was, i hope so

[GoldenLeaf]

Hits Daily Double

Final:

 

-- 1 JAY-Z roc nation 465,448 --

blueprint 3

2 2 miley cyrus hollywood 109,899 -32%

time of our lives

-- 3 beatles apple/capitol 97,433 --

abbey road

1 4 whitney houston arista/RMG 83,241 -72%

i look to you

-- 5 raekwon ICEH20 65,312 --

only built 4 cuban linx 2

-- 6 beatles apple/capitol 63,220 --

SGT. Pepper's lonely hearts club

-- 7 beatles apple/capitol 55,962 --

beatles (white album)

-- 8 brooks & dunn arista NASHVILLE 52,571 --

#1S & then some

-- 9 beatles apple/capitol 49,805 --

rubber soul

4 10 michael jackson EPIC 45,338 -29%

number ones

-- 11 boys like girls columbia 44,739 --

love drunk

11 12 black eyed peas interscope 44,724 +34%

E.N.D. (energy never dies)

3 13 trey songz atlantic 43,216 -68%

ready

6 14 kings of leon RCA/RMG 39,587 -10%

only by the night

-- 15 beatles apple/capitol 37,074 --

revolver

-- 16 beatles apple/capitol 35,829 --

HELP!

10 17 taylor swift big machine 33,529 -4%

fearless

-- 18 phish JEMP 33,484 --

JOY

5 19 colbie caillat universal republic 29,979 -35%

breakthrough

12 20 zac brown band atlantic 28,718 -10%

foundation

Canada :

#8 (-7)

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html

 

France :

#10 (-7)

Edited September 19, 2009 at 01:15 AM by Calypso

[amsingapore]

Well I've read this too and seen the supposed cover.....and I ROFLMAO!!!!

That cover is just....just.....I have no words! LOL

 

Yes, I also think the cover is “just so so"!

But I like lyric of the single" I don't know my own strength" !

[Stardust]

Hits predicts 150k for Whitney at #2 in BB200 in US, calling it Oprah Effect

 

 

 

WEAKEND TOP 13 (OR SO) PREVIEW: A number of newcomers will penetrate the top of the HITS Album Sales chart next Tuesday but, after all is said and done, Jay-Z will continue to be on top, with Whitney Houston feeling the Oprah Effect at #2. Top 10 bows for Reprise's Muse, Universal Motown's Kid Cudi, Cash Money/ Universal Motown's Drake and Asylum's Lil Boosie will fill in the gaps between old standbys The Beatles and Michael Jackson. Here's a peak at the leader board as we head into the weakend:

1. Jay-Z (Roc Nation) 240-260k

2. Whitney Houston (Arista/RMG) 140-150k

3. ** Muse (Reprise) 110-120k

4. ** Kid Cudi (Universal Motown) 100-110k

5. Miley Cyrus (Hollywood) 80-85k

6. The Beatles, Abbey Road (Apple/Capitol) 60-65k

7. ** Drake (Cash Money/Universal Motown) 60-65k

8. Michael Jackson, Number Ones (Epic) 45-50k

9. ** Lil Boosie (Asylum) 40-45k

10. Black Eyed Peas (Interscope) 40-45k

11. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper (Apple/Capitol) 40-45k

12. ** Megadeth (Roadrunner) 40-45k

13. Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 40-45k

** Denotes debut

You may now return to defriending everyone you know on Facebook. (9/18a)

 

 

 

 

 

it means Whitney will make 600k in US just for 3 weeks, awesome

[Céline's Blues]

Whitney showing everybody how a real singer sounds!!!

[Stardust]

wow, Oprah performance in super HQ quality sounds and looks even better , i really love this performance, really , u can hear the power

 

 

http://sharebee.com/4ddc40dd

 

 

[Black Kitten]

CHART DATE: 09/21/2009

LAST UPDATE: 09/22/2009 12:21:27

NOW IN: FINAL

 

LW TW artist / album label power index % change

1 1 JAY-Z ROC NATION 300,998 -35%

BLUEPRINT 3

4 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 165,880 +99%

I LOOK TO YOU

-- 3 MUSE WARNER BROS 125,322 --

RESISTANCE

-- 4 KID CUDI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 104,419 --

MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY

2 5 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 74,235 -32%

TIME OF OUR LIVES

-- 6 DRAKE YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 72,104 --

SO FAR GONE

3 7 BEATLES APPLE/CAPITOL 50,675 -48%

ABBEY ROAD

10 8 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 49,067 +8%

NUMBER ONES

-- 9 LIL BOOSIE ASYLUM 46,253 --

SUPERBAD: THE RETURN OF BOOSIE

17 10 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 45,441 +36%

FEARLESS

 

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the Oprah effect.

[whineupemily]

CHART DATE: 09/21/2009

LAST UPDATE: 09/22/2009 12:21:27

NOW IN: FINAL

 

LW TW artist / album label power index % change

1 1 JAY-Z ROC NATION 300,998 -35%

BLUEPRINT 3

4 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 165,880 +99%

I LOOK TO YOU

-- 3 MUSE WARNER BROS 125,322 --

RESISTANCE

-- 4 KID CUDI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 104,419 --

MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY

2 5 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 74,235 -32%

TIME OF OUR LIVES

-- 6 DRAKE YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 72,104 --

SO FAR GONE

3 7 BEATLES APPLE/CAPITOL 50,675 -48%

ABBEY ROAD

10 8 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 49,067 +8%

NUMBER ONES

-- 9 LIL BOOSIE ASYLUM 46,253 --

SUPERBAD: THE RETURN OF BOOSIE

17 10 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 45,441 +36%

FEARLESS

 

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the Oprah effect.

 

:o :o :clap: :clap:

[Nikosn17]

wow

[Black Kitten]

where's Stardust by the way? :hmmm:

 

anyway...

 

Whitney Houston: Return of the Troubled Diva

 

With her tempestuous marriage to Bobby Brown behind her, the American singer has come back stronger, with her new album topping the US charts.

 

Oliver Marre The Observer, Sunday 20 September 2009

 

On the release of her first album in 1985, Whitney Houston was hailed by the New York Times as "an exceptional vocal talent". Last month, her latest album was welcomed more cautiously by the same newspaper: "She's tentatively climbing back into the pop machinery, no longer invincible but showing a diva's determination."

 

In the intervening 24 years, Houston has achieved the heights of extraordinary fame – according to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the fourth-biggest-selling female star of all time – and the depths of tabloid infamy.

 

She has spent evenings on the world's biggest stages and months in drug rehabilitation centres. She has starred in blockbuster movies and in a reality television show described by the Hollywood Reporter as "undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way on to television". And last week, she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's chatshow and is once again making headlines all over the world.

 

It is not hard to see why she remains a subject of such fascination. Her early talent was widely proclaimed, she is a genuine Hollywood star and her most celebrated songs – such as I Will Always Love You – are instantly recognisable.

 

And yet she has a knack for public confessions of the type more usually seen in the Big Brother diary room. Her terrible reality TV show – Being Bobby Brown – was supposed to relaunch her then husband's musical career, but became more famous for providing shocking details of his aggression towards her and the squalor, albeit opulent squalor, of the way they lived.

 

In 2002, she gave an interview to American TV journalist Diane Sawyer in which she denied taking crack cocaine by explaining: "I make too much money to ever smoke crack." And in 2007, when she owed a storage company £100,000, she dealt with the bill by putting hundreds of items of clothing and furniture up for public auction.

 

This time, Houston has spoken about how her mother forced her into rehab, by storming into her house with "these sheriffs", threatening Brown and marching her out of the door. She added that for a full seven months, while she was using drugs heavily, she wore her pyjamas and did not get dressed.

 

Those dark years were a long way from her clean-cut childhood. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised a Baptist, but educated at the best local school, the Roman Catholic single-sex Mount Saint Dominic Academy. Her father, John, who would later become her manager, worked initially as a truck driver and later entered local politics as an aide to the first black mayor of Newark, Kenneth Gibson. Her mother is singer Cissy Houston, her cousins include Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, and her godmother was Aretha Franklin.

 

 

 

With this background, it might appear that Houston's parents simply decided she was going to be a star, but her father always maintained that it was not until he was blown away by her vocal range during a rendition of Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah at the age of 11 that they decided to put her on stage with her mother.

 

By the time she turned 21, she had signed her own deal with Arista records and shortly afterwards came her debut album, Whitney Houston, which had phenomenal success – a year after its release, it reached the top of the US charts, remaining there for 14 consecutive weeks. Houston was nominated for three Grammy awards in 1986 and won one; in the same year, she won an Emmy and seven American Music Awards. Most notable was the apparent universality of her appeal – black, white, rich, poor: everyone loved Whitney Houston (or so ran the marketing pitch).

 

Two years later, she released her second album, Whitney. It was another commercial success and provided four more number one hits, although critics pointed out that musically it was unadventurous. "She was technically brilliant," says music writer James Maycock. "She had extraordinary range and a very polished voice, but it was fairly boring music. She hadn't done enough living to sing like Aretha Franklin. She lacked a soulful quality."

 

Houston, who had been trumpeted as a great "cross-over artist" for her ability to bridge the racial divide, found herself facing criticism for becoming "too white". At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when her name was called out, she was jeered.

 

This had little effect on the Houston machine. In 1992, she starred opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard and released I Will Always Love You from the soundtrack. As well as the apogee of her fame, the film provoked another round of criticism. Was her appeal universal or was she just too bland? Who exactly was she? "People know who I am," she retorted.

 

But did they? The world had met a clean-cut young star. She had been a fervent supporter of Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid campaign, had raised money conscientiously for charity and in 1989 established the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, which continues to care for the sick and impoverished. In 1991, she had recorded The Star Spangled Banner to raise money for the families of American soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf.

 

 

 

However, all this was about to be eclipsed by a very public personal decline and her private life – until now so discreet and wholesome – was set to explode into messy infamy. In 1992, after relationships with Eddie Murphy and American football star Randall Cunningham, she married R&B singer Bobby Brown and a year later, they had a daughter, whom they named Bobbi.

 

In her Oprah Winfrey interview, Houston insisted that Brown was not responsible for her subsequent drug taking and continues to deny that he ever beat her, but she describes her marriage as "emotionally abusive".

 

Anyone who has seen an episode of Being Bobby Brown will know he treated her roughly; it is a matter of public record that during their marriage he was twice in prison – once for drink-driving offences and once for probation violations. He was also arrested for allegedly hitting Houston and a judge ruled he could stand trial for battery, although she refused to press charges.

 

On Oprah, Houston also told how, as she suffered narcotic-induced paranoia, Brown painted images of enormous eyes all over her bedroom walls. The wholesome artist of such wide appeal, so cleverly engineered by a steely combination of her father and Arista records president Clive Davis, who still works with Houston and is behind this autumn's new album, crumbled. She did not produce another studio album until 1998.

 

The intervening years were not, however, fallow. Houston starred in two further films – Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996) – and produced a soundtrack album to accompany each. Waiting to Exhale was notably marketed more directly to a black audience than any of her previous work, but it proved a success, taking more than $80m across the world, and the soundtrack once again hit the number one spot in the charts. She was paid $10m for her role in The Preacher's Wife, in which she appeared with Denzel Washington, but at the box office it was less of a success.

 

When her 1998 album, My Love Is Your Love, was released, she was again honoured at the Grammy awards. In August 2001, she signed a new contract with Clive Davis and Arista worth $100m, which was the biggest deal in recording history. It remains to be seen whether that was a good investment.

 

"When Whitney arrives," reads an article in Jane magazine in 2000, "she was extremely unfocused, had trouble keeping her eyes open and kept singing and playing an imaginary piano." She was due to appear at the Oscars ceremony in the same year, but was sacked. And in 2002, she found herself facing a lawsuit from her father's company for money it claimed it was owed for negotiating her new deal with Arista. In a public appeal from his hospital bed, the dying John Houston told her: "Get your act together, honey."

 

Whitney Houston divorced Bobby Brown in April 2007, which presaged a decline in her profile, something of a blessing, it seems. Those close to her say she has been quietly rebuilding her life – and recording I Look to You, which was released in America three weeks ago, and went straight to number one.

 

It seems hard to believe that Houston is just 46 – no reflection on her handsome looks. Partly, this is because so much has happened, and so publicly, in her relatively short life. But it is also because she peaked early, before hip-hop had hit the mainstream and revolutionised black American music, and seems to belong to a different era.

 

We have, though, already seen two very different sides of Houston and her future remains unmapped. If the respectful recognition I Look to You has so far received is a sign of things to come, we may just be about to witness Whitney, Act 3.

 

 

The Houston lowdown

 

Born Whitney Elizabeth Houston on 9 August 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Married Bobby Brown in 1992 and divorced him in 2007. They have a daughter called Bobbi. She has sold 140 million albums and 50 million singles.

 

 

Best of times Appeared in The Bodyguard in 1992 alongside Kevin Costner and released I Will Always Love You from its soundtrack. The single was a number one success.

 

 

Worst of times In 2004, a judge ruled there was sufficient evidence for Bobby Brown to stand trial on charges of battery, but she declined to press charges, and their home was later repossessed because they couldn't keep up mortgage payments.

 

What she says "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?"

 

 

What others say "None of us would sound the same if Aretha Franklin had never put out a record, or Whitney Houston hadn't." – Mariah Carey

 

"Because of what Whitney did, there was an opening for me." – Anita Baker

 

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a nice read.

[chadiedls]

I found this @ whitney forum

 

 

1.Hate - Produced By Ryan Tedder

2.Close To You - Produced By Stargate

3.Independent - Produced By Akon

4.Foolish In Love - Produced By Will.I.Am

5.Walk Away - Produced By Jermaine Dupri

6.I Loved You - Produced By Mark Ronson

7.Undefeated - Produced By Timbaland

8.Forever - Produced By Sean Garrett

9.Make Love To You (Featuring The Dream) - Produced By The Dream

10.Like I Never Left (Featuring Akon)- Produced By Akon

11.If - Produced By T-Pain

12.Identity - Produced By Darkchild

13.Strength I Had - Produced By Diane Warren

14.When I Saw You - Produced By Ne-Yo

15.I Look To You- Produced By R.Kelly

16.Hate (Remix) (Featuring Lil Wayne) - Produced By Pollow Da Don

17.Crying For You - Produced By Diane Warren

It seems that ILTY is not a new song definitely.

[chadiedls]

CHART DATE: 09/21/2009

LAST UPDATE: 09/22/2009 12:21:27

NOW IN: FINAL

 

LW TW artist / album label power index % change

1 1 JAY-Z ROC NATION 300,998 -35%

BLUEPRINT 3

4 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 165,880 +99%

I LOOK TO YOU

-- 3 MUSE WARNER BROS 125,322 --

RESISTANCE

-- 4 KID CUDI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 104,419 --

MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY

2 5 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 74,235 -32%

TIME OF OUR LIVES

-- 6 DRAKE YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 72,104 --

SO FAR GONE

3 7 BEATLES APPLE/CAPITOL 50,675 -48%

ABBEY ROAD

10 8 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 49,067 +8%

NUMBER ONES

-- 9 LIL BOOSIE ASYLUM 46,253 --

SUPERBAD: THE RETURN OF BOOSIE

17 10 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 45,441 +36%

FEARLESS

 

---------------------------------------------

 

the Oprah effect.

 

:o :o :clap: :clap:

Yes ,almost twice as last week.

[chadiedls]

Million Dollar Bill video in HQ

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9QMSLNV

 

http://i27.tinypic.com/2z4xt03.gif

Where did you find this video in so good definition? I'm searching for it all over the world and have visited many Whitney forums but still can't find it,can't believe I could download it here! Thank you,darling !

[chadiedls]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

[GoldenLeaf]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

Thanks to the magic of professional hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists.

[Nikosn17]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

Thanks to the magic of professional hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists.

 

Well that's the case with 100% of celebrities so what you just said doesn't make any sense. Whitney looks just beautiful like it or not.

[chadiedls]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

Thanks to the magic of professional hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists.

Stop farting!

[Love,]

The music video for "Million Dollar Bill" is so lovely!

[CSCfan]

Yeah I really like it too

[Bellamy]

Nokia. N900?

[CSCfan]

N97 I have one!

 

Btw, she reminds me a bit of Tina Turner (her moves)/expressions in the clip..

Edited September 27, 2009 at 03:36 PM by CSCfan

[GoldenLeaf]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

Thanks to the magic of professional hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists.

 

Well that's the case with 100% of celebrities

I didn't say the opposite.

[GoldenLeaf]

aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww bless photoshop!!

 

 

Indeed. Thanks to the magic of photoshop.

http://newsitemstoday.today.com/files/2009/01/whitney_houston_2009.jpghttp://www.bite.ca/mtBlog/archives/whitney-ny.jpg

Just have a look at the scenes of her recent apprarences you'll know that she herself is more beautiful the the cover photo!

Thanks to the magic of professional hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists.

Stop farting!

WTH?