I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston

"I Look to You"
I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
Greatest hits album by Whitney Houston
Released	November 13, 2012
Recorded	1984–2010
Genre	Pop; soul; dance; R&B;
Length	79:38 (Disc 1); 67:47 (Disc 2); 24:40 (HSN bonus disc)
Label	RCA
Producer	Clive Davis (Album producer); Various;
Whitney Houston chronology
Singles from I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
	"I Look to You"; Released: September 25, 2012;

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.

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

Content and release

The album features a selection of Houston's greatest hits including remastered versions of "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All", "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", "So Emotional", "I Have Nothing" and "One Moment in Time". The album was released in both standard[3] and deluxe[4] versions. It was also released with an accompanying 5 track bonus CD with the duets recorded by Houston and other artist. The album includes new liner notes written by Clive Davis.

Also included is a previously unreleased song titled "Never Give Up" and a re-recorded version of the "I Look to You" as a duet with R. Kelly, who is also the writer. "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 was for the song "I Look To You", a duet version with R Kelly featured on the album.

The week of its release, the album peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums.

Track listing

North America 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)	Robert Kelly	Previously unreleased	3:39
18.	"Never Give Up"	Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Johntá Austin	Previously unreleased	4:01
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" (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" (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 America HSN bonus edition – Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Hold Me" (with Teddy Pendergrass)	Masser, Linda Creed	Whitney Houston	5:59
2.	"If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful" (with Jermaine Jackson)	Elliot Willensky	Precious Moments	4:48
3.	"I Know Him So Well" (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" (with Aretha Franklin)	Hammond, Warren	Through the Storm	4:52
5.	"Count On Me" (with Cece Winans)	Babyface, W. Houston, M. Houston	Waiting to Exhale	4:26
Total length:				24:40

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 John – 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

Adapted from album liner notes

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2012–18)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[7]	99
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[8]	109
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9]	61
French Albums (SNEP)[10]	99
Greek Albums Chart[11]	64
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[12]	17
Italian Albums (FIMI)[13]	37
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[14]	29
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[15]	1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[16]	29
South Korean Albums Chart[17]	33
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[18]	44
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19]	87
UK Albums (OCC)[20]	29
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[21]	3
US Billboard 200[22]	14
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[23]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)	Position
US Billboard 200[24]	168
US Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums[25]	30

Chart (2018)	Position
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[26]	24

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[27]	Platinum	20,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[28]	Silver	60,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)[29]	Gold	500,000
^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Country	Date	Label(s)	Format	Edition
United States	November 13, 2012 (2012-11-13)	RCA Records	CD, digital download	Standard,[30] HSN[31]
Finland	November 16, 2012 (2012-11-16)			Deluxe[32]
United Kingdom[33]	November 19, 2012 (2012-11-19)			Standard,[3] deluxe[4]
Japan	December 26, 2012 (2012-12-26)			Standard,[3] deluxe[4]

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[1] I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic

[2] Whitney Houston: I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston | Music Review | Slant Magazine

[iTunes_UK_Standard-3] "iTunes - Music - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston". iTunes. November 19, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

[iTunes_UK_Deluxe-4] "iTunes - Music - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston (Deluxe Version) by Whitney Houston". iTunes. November 19, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

[RyanSeacrest-5] "Sneak Peek: Whitney Houston's New Duet With R. Kelly 'I Look to You' (Audio)". RyanSeacrest.com. September 24, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2012.

[6] Whitney Houston - Never Give Up - YouTube

[ac_Flanders_Whitney_Houston-7] "Ultratop.be – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_Wallonia_Whitney_Houston-8] "Ultratop.be – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_Netherlands_Whitney_Houston-9] "Dutchcharts.nl – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_France_Whitney_Houston-10] "Lescharts.com – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[11] "Greek Albums Charts, week 47". IFPI Greece. IFPI. Archived from the original on December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 3, 2012.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[ac_Hungary_Whitney_Houston-12] "Album Top 40 slágerlista – {{{year}}}. {{{week}}}. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_Italy_Whitney_Houston-13] "Italiancharts.com – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_New_Zealand_Whitney_Houston-14] "Charts.nz – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_Poland_-15] "Oficjalna lista sprzedaży :: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved August 9, 2018.

[ac_Portugal_Whitney_Houston-16] "Portuguesecharts.com – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[17] "South Korea Gaon Albums Chart (Week: November 11, 2012 to November 17, 2012". Gaon Chart. Retrieved January 5, 2013.

[ac_Spain_Whitney_Houston-18] "Spanishcharts.com – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_Switzerland_Whitney_Houston-19] "Swisscharts.com – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_UK_Whitney_Houston-20] "Whitney Houston | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[ac_UKR&B_Whitney_Houston-21] "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

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[24] "Billboard 200 Albums Year-End 2013". Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 13, 2013.

[25] "R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Year-End 2013". Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 13, 2013.

[26] "Najlepiej sprzedające się płyty i najpopularniejsze utwory w radiach – podsumowanie 2018 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved January 27, 2019.

[PolandWhitney_HoustonI_Will_Always_Love_You:_The_Best_of_Whitney_HoustonalbumCertRef-27] "Polish album certifications – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved August 22, 2018.

[United_KingdomWhitney_HoustonI_Will_Always_Love_You:_The_Best_of_Whitney_HoustonalbumCertRef-28] "British album certifications – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.

[United_StatesWhitney_HoustonI_Will_Always_Love_You:_The_Best_of_Whitney_HoustonalbumCertRef-29] "American album certifications – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 5, 2020. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.

[US_Amazon-30] "I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston". November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

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[32] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[UK-33] "I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston". Amazon.co.uk. November 19, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.

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 Whitney: The Unreleased Mixes I Wish You Love: More from The Bodyguard
Music video releases	Whitney Houston: The No.1 Video Hits Whitney: The Greatest Video Hits Artist Collection: Whitney Houston Whitney: The Ultimate Collection
Live releases	Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston: Live in Concert
Tours	US Summer Tour The Greatest Love World Tour Moment of Truth World Tour Feels So Right Tour I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour The Bodyguard World Tour Pacific Rim Tour The European 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
Filmography	The Bodyguard Waiting to Exhale The Preacher's Wife Sparkle
Achievements	Chart records and achievements Grammy Awards history American Music Awards history
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