Description
Landmark Whitney Houston debut by the once-in-a-generation vocalist!
14x platinum-selling album includes "How Will I Know," "Greatest Love Of All," and "Saving All My Love"
Limited to 4,000 numbered copies
PCM digital master to analog console to lathe
Mobile Fidelity's 180-gram Supervinyl 33 1/3 RPM LP presents 1985 blockbuster in audiophile sound!
Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album has few parallels. Viewed solely through the lens of sales numbers, Whitney Houston is a watershed statement on par with the most commercially successful and culturally dominant LPs ever released. Having sold more than 14 million copies in the U.S. and upwards of 25 million units worldwide, the 1985 LP became the equivalent of the television show or blockbuster film that everyone collectively experiences and discusses. Nearly four decades later, it's lost none of its appeal or magnetism — and its artistic significance and historical import have only grown.
Sourced from the original masters, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 4,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's 180-gram SuperVinyl 33 1/3 RPM LP of Whitney Houston presents the breakthrough in audiophile sound for the first time. The signature traits Houston exhibits on every song — her three-octave range, radiant warmth, personal conviction, impossibly controlled register — come across with exceptional clarity, focus, and presence. Free of artificial ceilings and constricted dynamics, this reissue plays with an openness, airiness, and balance that put the singer's once-in-a-lifetime instrument and immortal artistry into proper perspective.
Whitney Houston became the first album by a Black female performer to top the Billboard charts. It remained there for 14 non-consecutive weeks en route to claiming the title of the best-selling LP of 1986. It stands as the first debut and first album by a solo female artist to spawn three No. 1 hits, as well as the first album by a Black female artist to top the year-end charts in Australia and Canada. These are just a handful of the accolades — along with four Grammy nominations — that surround a set that also contains the unforgettable ballad "Saving All My Love," string-accompanied "Greatest Love of All," and sensual "You Give Good Love."
