Editing Whitney Houston (section)

=== 1987–1989: ''Whitney'' ===
[[File:Whitney Houston - The Star-Ledger (1987).jpg|thumb|upright|Houston performing during the 1987-88 [[Moment of Truth World Tour]]]]
In June 1987, Houston's second album, ''[[Whitney (album)|Whitney]]'', was released. Mostly produced by [[Narada Michael Walden]], critics complained that the material was too similar to her previous album. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' said, "the narrow channel through which this talent has been directed is frustrating".<ref>{{cite magazine | first = Vince | last = Aletti | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/whitney-19870813 | title = Review: ''Whitney'' | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | date = August 13, 1987 | access-date = March 16, 2011 | archive-date = June 28, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628230956/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/whitney-19870813 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Regardless of mixed reviews, the album  enjoyed commercial success. On June 27, Houston became the first woman in music history to debut at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 with the album.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/102427-first-album-by-a-solo-female-to-debut-at-no-1-us |title=First solo female to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart |work=[[Guinness World Records]] |date=June 27, 1987 |accessdate=June 10, 2023}}</ref> Houston was also the first artist ever to enter number one in the US and UK simultaneously, while also reaching number one in every country it charted.<ref name="Company1988a"/><ref name="Inc.2000"/> The album stayed at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 for its first eleven weeks and is one of five albums to spend their first ten weeks or more at number one on the chart.<ref name="TaylorWhitney">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/06/29/taylor-swift-matches-one-of-whitney-houstons-most-impressive-feats/ |title=Taylor Swift Matches One of Whitney Houston's Impressive Feats |work=[[Forbes]] |first=Hugh |last=McIntyre |date=June 29, 2024 |accessdate=August 2, 2024}}</ref> 

The album's first single, "[[I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)]]", was a massive hit worldwide, peaking at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and topping the charts in 17 countries, including Australia, West Germany and the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/08/06/perfect-planning-makes-whitney-no-1-again/ |title=PERFECT PLANNING MAKES WHITNEY NO. 1 AGAIN |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=August 6, 1987 |accessdate=February 11, 2024}}</ref> Three more singles from the album — "[[Didn't We Almost Have It All]]", "[[So Emotional]]" and "[[Where Do Broken Hearts Go]]" — reached number one on the Hot 100 within a six-month stretch. Following the latter's peak on April 23, 1988, Houston became the first artist to produce seven consecutive number one hits on the Hot 100, breaking a record of six, held by [[The Beatles]] and the [[Bee Gees]].<ref name="Company1988a">{{cite magazine|title=Whitney Breaks Record For Consecutive No. 1 Tunes |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54 |date=May 2, 1988 |page=54 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref> Houston remains the only artist to ever accomplish this feat as of 2025.<ref name="Inc.2000">{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104|date=May 13, 2000|page=104|issn=0006-2510}}</ref> Houston also broke an all-time record for most number ones recorded by a solo female artist at the time and broke her own record by producing four number one singles off the same album. When the fifth single, "[[Love Will Save the Day]]", peaked at number nine on the chart, Houston joined a small list of artists to have more than five top ten singles off an album.<ref name="MostTopTens">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/photos/albums-five-top-10-hot-100-hits-6738611/10-whitney-houston-whitney-1987-billboard-1240/ |title=Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' & More: Albums With the Most Top 10 Hits |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=December 19, 2024 |first=Trevor|last=Anderson |accessdate=December 29, 2024}}</ref> ''Whitney'' has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide,<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 3, 2016 |title=Whitney Houston's Second Studio Album Turned 29 Yesterday |url=https://www.whitneyhouston.com/it/news/whitney-houstons-second-studio-album-turned-29-yesterday/#:~:text=Yesterday%20was%20the%2029th%20anniversary,selling%20debut%20album%2C%20Whitney%20Houston. |access-date=March 31, 2025 |newspaper=WhitneyHouston.com}}</ref> with ten million sold in the United States alone, where it has been certified Diamond.<ref name="whitneycert"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bet.com/article/a687d9/this-day-in-black-history-june-27-1987|title=This Day in Black History: June 27, 1987|website=BET.com|access-date=December 7, 2019|archive-date=December 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207063817/https://www.bet.com/news/national/2013/06/27/this-day-in-black-history-june-27-1987.html?cid=facebook|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Whitney'' earned Houston a second Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, while "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won her a second Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.<ref name="Company1988c">{{cite magazine |title=Battle and Jackson Top Grammy Award Nominees |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56 |date=February 1, 1988 |page=56 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Company1988d">{{cite magazine |title=Blacks Turn Grammys Into A Show Biz Extravaganza |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |date=March 21, 1988 |page=52 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref> Houston went on to win four American Music Awards, six ''Billboard'' awards and her first [[Soul Train Music Award]] for the album.<ref name="Company1988e">{{cite magazine |title=Anita Baker, Whitney Houston Top Black Winners At Recent American Music Awards Show |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fbsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60 |date=February 15, 1988 |page=60 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Company1989a">{{cite magazine |title=Houston, D. J. Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, Jackson Top American Music Awards |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ib0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55 |date=February 20, 1989 |page=55 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref><ref name="soultrain1">{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WHwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4413,1111334&dq=1988+soul+train+music+awards&hl=en | title = Showtime: Jackson is top winner at Soul Train Awards | work = [[The Washington Afro American]]| publisher = African-American News & Information Consortium | date = April 5, 1988 | access-date =June 28, 2010 | page = 6C}}</ref>

Houston launched her second world tour, the ''[[Moment of Truth World Tour]]'', in July 1987. The North American leg of the tour grossed more than $20 million, becoming of the top ten tours in the continent, as well as the top female tour.<ref>MacDonald, Patrick. "U2, Bon Jovi were top concert acts of 1987". [[The Seattle Times]]. January 15, 1988. Page 5. Retrieved May 16, 2008.</ref><ref name="1987Tours">{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-23-ca-9654-story.html |title=U2's $35-Million Gross Is Highest for '87 Tour |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 23, 1988 |author-link=Robert Hilburn|first=Robert|last=Hilburn |access-date=December 6, 2022}}</ref> An expansive tour, the singer toured 155 dates in four continents, including nine sold-out dates at London's [[Wembley Arena]]. During that period, Houston recorded one of the main [[Olympic theme song|theme songs]] for the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in [[Seoul]], "[[One Moment in Time]]", which later became a top five US hit and hit number one in the UK, Germany and Europe and won Houston a [[Sports Emmy Award]].<ref name="Company1988h">{{cite magazine |title=Whitney, Aretha On Summer Olympics Album |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LL0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59 |date=September 12, 1988 |page=59 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.number-ones.co.uk/1988-number-ones.html|title=1988 UK Number Ones|publisher=number-ones.co.uk|access-date=January 12, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.de/charts.asp?cat=s&country=de&year=1988&date=19881024&x=38&y=11|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140707100451/http://www.officialcharts.de/charts.asp?cat=s&country=de&year=1988&date=19881024&x=38&y=11|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 7, 2014|title=October 24, 1988 Single Top 100|publisher=charts.de|date=October 24, 1988|access-date=January 12, 2010}}</ref><ref name="omit1">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/anatomy-olympics-anthem-487188 |title=Whitney Houston's 'One Moment in Time': The Anatomy of an Olympic Anthem |date=August 5, 2016 |last=Tufayel|first=Ahmed |work=[[Newsweek]] |accessdate=June 19, 2023}}</ref> 

Houston participated in the [[Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute]] at London's [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] in support of the then-imprisoned [[civil rights]] activist and the anti-apartheid movement. Houston had refused work in South Africa due to the country's then strict [[South Africa under apartheid|apartheid]] laws.<ref name="Company1988t">{{cite magazine |title=Whitney Houston Uses Fame To Help Good Causes |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mq4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59 |date=June 20, 1988 |page=59 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Jim |last=Gilchrist|url=http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Diva--will-always-love.5579673.jp|title=Diva Will Always Love Limelight|work=The Scotsman |date=August 23, 2009|access-date=January 12, 2010|location=Edinburgh, UK}}</ref> The concert aired on June 11 of the year, was watched by half a billion viewers and raised $1 million in charities, raising awareness to apartheid.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/arts/pop-music-s-homage-to-mandela.html|title=Pop Music's Homage to Mandela |last=Watrous|first=Peter|date=June 13, 1988|work=The New York Times}}</ref> That August, Houston held a benefit concert at [[Madison Square Garden]] to raise money to fund [[historically black colleges and universities|HBCUs]], raising a quarter of a million dollars.<ref name="Company1988g">{{cite magazine |title=Whitney Houston's Concert Raises $250,000 For UNCF |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lr0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54 |date=September 19, 1988 |page=54 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref> Houston's [[philanthropy]] continued in 1989 when she founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a nonprofit organization that has raised funds for the needs of children around the world. The organization cares for homelessness, children with cancer or AIDS and other issues of self-empowerment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitneyhoustonfoundation.org/about/#:~:text=In%201989%2C%20Whitney%20formed%20her,playgrounds%20and%20provided%20college%20scholarships. |title=Abou |accessdate=May 18, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whfoundation.com/ |title=Whitney Houston Foundation for Children |access-date=April 22, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007082548/http://www.whfoundation.com/ |archive-date=October 7, 2014 }}</ref> 

Houston's unprecedented success during this era caused ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine to take notice. In 1987, she ranked 8th place among the highest-paid entertainers in show business, earning $43 million, only trailing [[Bill Cosby]] and [[Eddie Murphy]].<ref name="Company1987g">{{cite magazine |title=Cosby's $84 Million Makes Him Richest Entertainer |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1q8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |date=September 28, 1987 |pages=52–53 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref> She ranked 17th place in 1988.<ref>"Forbes Names Jackson as the Best-Paid Star 5 Women, 3 Boxers on List of 40 Celebrities". ''Los Angeles Times''. September 19, 1988. Page 2.</ref><ref name="Company1988i">{{cite magazine |title=Michael Jackson Earns $97 Million To Become Highest Paid Entertainer |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=za8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |date=October 3, 1988 |page=12 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref>