Whitney
by Whitney Houston
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Whitney Houston bestography
Whitney is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by Whitney Houston on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Whitney Houston is Whitney Houston which is ranked number 3763 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 394.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Whitney track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Whitney rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 70 Music Albums of 1987 | 43/70 | 2 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 39/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 2 | 41/100 | - |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | My Album Club Picks | 6/65 | - |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | dance | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 34/40 | 16 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 45 Music Albums of 1987 | 14/45 | 4 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 26 Music Albums of 1987 | 3/26 | 5 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 70/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 106 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 292 | |||
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Whitney ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/22/2026 12:07 | cicadelic | 13,903 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:41 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 11:57 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,615 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.3/100, a mean average of 64.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.7.
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Forum mentions
albummaster 04/15/2026 17:38 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
CharlieBarley 07/27/2019 19:01 in What album are you listening to right now?Whitney comments
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Whitney was, or at least for me, an artist who excelled on her singles, rather than the albums. That is why this album, which produced so many of her best singles is so good. Track A1 , never my own favourite, was the song that went to to Nº1 number 1 all over the world and helped establish her as a top act. Tracks A3, A4, A5 and B5 are four of my favourite ever Houston singles.
Her cover of I Know Him So Well is a long way from being my favourite version of the song, but the other tracks are good enough to complete a pretty worthy example of her musical output.
The marriage to Bobby Brown, the downward spiral of her life and work, and the tragic attempt to re-launch her career were all recorded, almost daily, in the pages of the musical press, so I will merely, as a fan of her music, stay with this and its predecessor Whitney Houston as a memorial to what was a very promising career as a very talented female pop-soul singer. Despite the tragedies, these two albums, and most, if not all, of those early singles were extremely popular, much loved, and really pretty good by almost any standards. She was really more of a pop, than a soul, singer, but she stamped herself in the memories of all of us who liked her records in the mid to late 80s, and we will ´always´remember her for that. (Edited)
This one has the same problem that her first album does. The hits are great but the rest is just OK. There is still a lot to appreciate here, and I think this is a little better than the first album, but as an average score it's just alright. (Edited)
VictorVale 03/31/2019 16:38 | #234242
Quantos clássicos em apenas um álbum. A consolidou como grande voz de sua época.
Goliath 12/26/2018 11:25 | #227934
So Emotional and I Wanna Dance are worth listening to, tracks 3, 4 and 10, not too bad, the rest not so much. (Edited)
Best Whitney album, didn't realise how many favourites I had on here although alot of hits were released, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' clearly the best track, 'Just the Lonely talking' a personal favourite of mine. (Edited)
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