This Day in History: Whitney Houston Earns Her First #1 Hit
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This Day in History:
Whitney Houston Earns Her First #1 Hit October 26, 1985 Houston shot to stardom when her first chart-topping hit, “Saving All My Love For You,” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Written by the team of Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, the ballad was the second single from Houston's debut album, 'Whitney Houston.' “Saving All My Love” eventually earned Whitney Houston a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "How Will I Know” and “Greatest Love Of All”—also topped the pop charts in early 1986. Whitney Houston
ranks among the 40
biggest sellers of all time. Over the course of the next decade, Whitney Houston would
sell tens of millions of albums and earn eight more #1 hits.
Whitney Houston Earns Her First #1 Hit October 26, 1985 Houston shot to stardom when her first chart-topping hit, “Saving All My Love For You,” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Written by the team of Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, the ballad was the second single from Houston's debut album, 'Whitney Houston.' “Saving All My Love” eventually earned Whitney Houston a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "How Will I Know” and “Greatest Love Of All”—also topped the pop charts in early 1986. Whitney Houston
ranks among the 40
biggest sellers of all time. Over the course of the next decade, Whitney Houston would
sell tens of millions of albums and earn eight more #1 hits.