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I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston is a posthumous greatest hits album by American recording artist Whitney Houston. The album was released on November 13, 2012 via RCA Records.

I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston

Greatest hits album by

Whitney Houston

Released

November 13, 2012

Recorded

1984–2009

Genre

Pop
soul
dance
R&B

Length

79:38 (North American Version / International Version - Disc 1)
67:47 (International Version - Disc 2)
24:40 (HSN bonus disc)

Label

RCA

Producer

Clive Davis (album producer)
Various

Whitney Houston chronology

The Collection
(2010)

I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
(2012)

Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances
(2014)

Singles from I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston

"I Look to You"
Released: September 25, 2012

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Slant	[2]

Content and release

I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston is Houston's second greatest hits collection to receive a worldwide release (her two prior compilations, Love, Whitney and The Ultimate Collection were only given limited releases in certain European territories). The album features remastered versions of hits from all of Houston's studio and soundtrack albums, with the exception of her fifth studio album, Just Whitney (2002). The tracks featured on I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston appear either as their original album versions or as radio edits, in contrast with Whitney: The Greatest Hits, which featured many of Houston's hits in remixed form, a decision which drew some controversy among fans and critics. Internationally, the compilation was released in both standard[3] and deluxe[4] versions. In North America, the album was issued as a single-disc release, which contains the same track listing as disc one of the international deluxe edition. An alternate two-disc edition of the album was released in North America, available only through HSN. This version contains the standard 18-track version of the album, with the second disc comprising five duets Houston recorded with other artists. The album also includes new liner notes written by Clive Davis.

Among the tracks are two previously unreleased songs, a new composition titled "Never Give Up" and a new version of "I Look to You", recorded as a duet with R. Kelly, who wrote the song for Houston in 2009 and performed it at her funeral service earlier in 2012. "I Look to You" was released on September 25, 2012 as the first single from the album.[5] On November 6, 2012, "Never Give Up" was released as a lyric video on Whitney Houston's official YouTube (Vevo) channel.[6]

At the 2013 44th NAACP Image Awards, the album won two awards in the 'Outstanding Album' and 'Outstanding Song' categories, the latter of which was for "I Look To You".

In 2021, Houston's official website announced that the album would be released on vinyl on October 29. The double vinyl includes an additional track, a remix of "Higher Love", a collaboration between Houston and Norwegian DJ Kygo, which was released in 2019 to moderate worldwide success.[7] The original version of "Higher Love" first appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Houston's third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990).

Commercial performance

The week of its release, the album peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. On March 3, 2020, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for selling over 500,000 copies.[8] The album has spent 123 weeks on the Billboard 200, making it Houston's third longest-charting album of her career, one of the longest-charting albums by a woman, the fifth-longest charting compilation album by a woman and one of the longest charting compilations ever on the Billboard 200. Peaking at number eight on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart, the album has spent 187 weeks on that chart. In the UK, it peaked at number 27 in 2022 and has been certified Gold and has spent 73 weeks on the chart, making it her fifth longest charting album in that country.

Track listing

North American and International edition – Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"You Give Good Love"	LaLa	Whitney Houston	4:36
2.	"Saving All My Love for You"	Gerry Goffin Michael Masser	Whitney Houston	3:57
3.	"How Will I Know"	George Merrill Shannon Rubicam Narada Michael Walden	Whitney Houston	4:33
4.	"Greatest Love of All"	Linda Creed Masser	Whitney Houston	4:48
5.	"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Merrill Rubicam	Whitney	4:50
6.	"Didn't We Almost Have It All"	Masser Will Jennings	Whitney	5:05
7.	"So Emotional"	Billy Steinberg Tom Kelly	Whitney	4:36
8.	"Where Do Broken Hearts Go"	Frank Wildhorn Chuck Jackson	Whitney	4:36
9.	"I'm Your Baby Tonight"	L.A. Reid Babyface	I'm Your Baby Tonight	5:00
10.	"All the Man That I Need"	Dean Pitchford Michael Gore	I'm Your Baby Tonight	4:09
11.	"I Will Always Love You"	Dolly Parton	The Bodyguard	4:30
12.	"I'm Every Woman"	Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson	The Bodyguard	4:45
13.	"I Have Nothing"	David Foster Linda Thompson	The Bodyguard	4:50
14.	"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"	Babyface	Waiting to Exhale	3:21
15.	"I Believe in You and Me" (Single version)	David Wolfert Sandy Linzer	The Preacher's Wife	3:52
16.	"My Love Is Your Love" (Radio edit)	Wyclef Jean Jerry Duplessis	My Love Is Your Love	4:03
17.	"I Look to You" (with R. Kelly^[a])	R. Kelly	Previously unreleased	3:39
18.	"Never Give Up"	Jermaine Dupri Bryan-Michael Cox Johntá Austin	Previously unreleased	4:01
19.	"Higher Love" (with Kygo) (Vinyl bonus track)	Steve Winwood Will Jennings	Golden Hour	3:49
Total length:				79:38

International and European edition – Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Love Will Save the Day"	Toni C.	Whitney	5:21
2.	"One Moment in Time"	Albert Hammond John Bettis	1988 Summer Olympics Album	4:45
3.	"It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (Duet with Aretha Franklin)	Hammond Diane Warren	Through the Storm	4:50
4.	"My Name Is Not Susan"	Eric Foster White	I'm Your Baby Tonight	4:37
5.	"I Belong to You"	Franne Golde Derek Bramble	I'm Your Baby Tonight	5:29
6.	"Run to You"	Allan Rich Jud Friedman	The Bodyguard	4:24
7.	"Queen of the Night"	Whitney Houston Reid Babyface Daryl Simmons	The Bodyguard	3:07
8.	"Count On Me" (Duet with CeCe Winans)	Babyface W. Houston Michael Houston	Waiting to Exhale	4:26
9.	"Step by Step"	Annie Lennox	The Preacher's Wife	4:12
10.	"It's Not Right but It's Okay"	Rodney Jerkins Fred Jerkins III LaShawn Daniels Isaac Phillips Tony Estes	My Love Is Your Love	4:51
11.	"I Learned from the Best" (Radio edit)	Warren	My Love Is Your Love	3:56
12.	"If I Told You That"	R. Jerkins F. Jerkins Daniels Estes	My Love Is Your Love	4:38
13.	"Heartbreak Hotel" (featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price)	Carsten Schack Kenneth Karlin Tamara Savage	My Love Is Your Love	4:42
14.	"Million Dollar Bill"	Alicia Keys Kasseem Dean Norman Harris	I Look to You	3:24
15.	"All at Once" (Japanese bonus track)	Masser Jeffrey Osborne	Whitney Houston	4:32
Total length:				67:47

North American HSN bonus edition – Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Hold Me" (Duet with Teddy Pendergrass)	Masser Linda Creed	Whitney Houston	5:59
2.	"If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful" (Duet with Jermaine Jackson)	Elliot Willensky	Precious Moments	4:20
3.	"I Know Him So Well" (Duet with Cissy Houston)	Tim Rice Benny Anderson Björn Ulvaeus	Whitney	4:29
4.	"It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (Duet with Aretha Franklin)	Hammond Warren	Through the Storm	4:52
5.	"Count On Me" (Duet with Cece Winans)	Babyface W. Houston M. Houston	Waiting to Exhale	4:26
Total length:				24:40

Notes

^[a] – On the 2021 reissue, the duet version of "I Look to You" was replaced with the album version, likely due to the sexual abuse allegations and subsequent charges raised against R. Kelly in the years following its release.[9]

Personnel

Michael Masser – producer
Narada Michael Walden – producer
David Foster – producer
Kashif – producer
L.A. Reid – producer
Babyface – producer
Rodney Jerkins – producer
David Cole – producer
Robert Clivillés – producer
Louis Biancaniello – producer
Wyclef Jean – producer
Jerry Duplessis – producer

Teddy Riley – producer
John Benitez – producer
Jermaine Jackson – producer
Tom Keane – producer
Mervyn Warren – producer
Brian Michael-Cox – producer
Jermaine Dupri – producer
Carsten Schack – producer
Kenneth Karlin – producer
Alicia Keys – producer
Kaseem Dean – producer
R. Kelly – producer
Chris Gehringer – compilation mastering at Sterling Sound

Adapted from album liner notes

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2012–2022)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[10]	99
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11]	65
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12]	59
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[13]	61
French Albums (SNEP)[14]	99
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[15]	20
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[16]	17
Italian Albums (FIMI)[17]	37
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[18]	29
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[19]	1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[20]	29
South Korean Albums (Circle)[21] Deluxe Edition	33
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[22]	44
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[23]	87
UK Albums (OCC)[24]	27
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[25]	2
US Billboard 200[26]	14
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[27]	14
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[28]	2
US Top R&B Albums (Billboard)[29]	8
US Top Catalog Albums (Billboard)[30]	31
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[31]	14

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)	Position
US Billboard 200[32]	168
US Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums (Billboard)[33]	30
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[34]	161

Chart (2018)	Position
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[35]	24

Chart (2021)	Position
US Billboard 200[36]	185
US Top R&B Albums (Billboard)[37]	18

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[38]	Platinum	20,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[39]	Gold	100,000
United States (RIAA)[40]	Gold	500,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Accolades

NAACP Image Awards


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2013	"I Look to You" (with R. Kelly)	Best Outstanding Song	Won
2013	I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston	Best Outstanding Album	Won

Release history

Country	Date	Label(s)	Format	Edition
United States	November 13, 2012 (2012-11-13)	RCA Records	CD, digital download	Standard,[41] HSN[42]
Finland	November 16, 2012 (2012-11-16)			Deluxe[43] (32 tracks)
United Kingdom[44]	November 19, 2012 (2012-11-19)			Standard,[3] deluxe[4]
Japan	December 26, 2012 (2012-12-26)			Standard,[3] deluxe[4]
United States	October 29, 2021 (2021-10-29)		Vinyl, digital download	Standard,[45] deluxe (19 tracks, vinyl; 33 tracks, digital download)

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External links

I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston at Allmusic
I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston at Discogs

v t e Whitney Houston
Albums Singles Videography Songs Live performances Awards and nominations
Studio albums	Whitney Houston Whitney I'm Your Baby Tonight My Love Is Your Love Just Whitney... One Wish: The Holiday Album I Look to You
Soundtrack albums	The Bodyguard The Preacher's Wife
Live albums	Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances
Compilation albums	Whitney: The Greatest Hits Love, Whitney The Ultimate Collection I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
Other releases	Whitney: Dancin' Special I Wish You Love: More from The Bodyguard
Tours	US Summer Tour The Greatest Love World Tour Moment of Truth World Tour I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour The Bodyguard World Tour Pacific Rim Tour My Love Is Your Love World Tour Soul Divas Tour Nothing but Love World Tour An Evening with Whitney
Concerts and appearances	Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston The Concert for a New South Africa Whitney: Brunei The Royal Wedding Celebration Classic Whitney: Live from Washington, D.C. VH1 Divas Live '99
Achievements	Chart records and achievements
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