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This is a list of chart records and achievements by American singer and entertainer Whitney Houston. Nicknamed "The Voice", during her career, Houston set numerous charts and sales records, and furthermore received many outstanding awards. The US sales records are certified by the RIAA and can be considered accurate. The US chart positions are official through the Billboard. However, world sales are a close estimate, as no process exists that certifies global sales.

Whitney Houston was the best selling album by a female artist in Canada in the 1980s, beating the previous best seller, Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, which sold more than 900,000 copies in the country. Houston's debut became the first album by a female artist to earn the 10 times platinum mark—diamond level—for sales of 1,000,000 units by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) on March 31, 1987. Houston's first release, Whitney Houston, is the best selling album by a female and a new artist in the 1980s in the United States, certified 9× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 6, 1988. The album was later certified 14× platinum (or Diamond) by RIAA. This record was surpassed by Adele's "Hello", which sold over one million copies on the Billboard week ending November 14, 2015. "I Will Always Love You" was certified 4× platinum for shipments of over 4 million copies by the RIAA on January 12, 1993, making Houston the only and first female artist with a physical single to reach that level in the RIAA history. According to Nielsen SoundScan, as of 2009, the single sold 4,591,000 copies in the United States, and became the best selling single by a female artist, and overall the second, only behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight." The single was certified Diamond by the RIAA on January 12, 2022, making Houston's first Diamond single and the third female artist who had a Diamond single, behind Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey. In the United Kingdom, "I Will Always Love You" was the best selling single of all time by a female solo artist, selling 1.361 million copies in 1992/93, a sales record that was later broken by Cher's "Believe", which sold 1.673 million units in 1998/99. In Japan, the single was also the best selling single of all time by a foreign female artist at the time, selling 810,000 copies in 1992 93. Worldwide, It sold over 20 million copies and became the best selling single of all time by a female artist. The Bodyguard Original Soundtrack Album set a record for the most albums sold in a single week since the Nielsen SoundScan introduced a computerized sales monitoring system in May 1991, with sales of 1,061,000 copies during Christmas week of 1992, becoming the first album sold over 1 million in one week. The Bodyguard Soundtrack received the largest initial certification of any album for 6× platinum by the RIAA on January 18, 1993. The record was broken by 'N SYNC's No Strings Attached, certified 7× platinum initially in April 2000. Whitney Houston hit the 10 million mark by the RIAA on January 25, 1994, and made it the first album and the first debut album by a female artist to attain the certification. In 1994, Houston received an award from the World Music Awards, for the "Best selling Female Artist". Besides Houston and Carey, as of today, Madonna, Céline Dion, Britney Spears, Shania Twain, Adele and the Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple diamond albums. In November 1999, Houston and The Bodyguard Soundtrack, were named the "Top selling Female R&B Artist of the Century" and "Top selling Soundtrack Album of the Century" by the RIAA, respectively. The Bodyguard Soundtrack is the best selling soundtrack album of all time in the United States with 18× platinum certifiaction by the RIAA and sales of 13,125,000 copies, combined 11,815,000 units from SoundScan with additional 1,310,000 sold at the BMG Music Clubs. The album also holds the title for the world's biggest selling soundtrack album of all time with over 45 million units sold. The Bodyguard Soundtrack is the first pop album to sell over one million copies by a foreign artist in South Korea. To date, its sales exceeded 1.2 million in that country. In Japan, it was certified 2× million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in 1994, for the first time to achieve that feat by a foreign artist in Japanese music history, and became the best selling foreign album with 2.8 million copies sold. The record was later broken by Mariah Carey's #1's, certified 3× million in 1998. Houston's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," performed by her at Super Bowl XXV in 1991, a charity single, became certified platinum in October 2001, it raised money for soldiers of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the victims of 9/11; in its re release in 2001.

Whitney Houston was one of the biggest selling solo female artists of the past three decades, indeed she is considered one of the most successful artists of all time. Houston's debut album, Whitney Houston, is the first album by a female artist and new artist to yield three No. 1 singles—"Saving All My Love for You" (October 1985), "How Will I Know" (February 1986) and "Greatest Love of All" (May 1986). When the fourth single "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" from her second album, Whitney, reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart on April 23, 1988, Houston became the first female artist to achieve four No. 1 singles from one album, and also the first and only artist in pop history to have seven consecutive No. 1 hits, with three from her first release and four from her second album; "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (June 1987), "Didn't We Almost Have It All" (September 1987), "So Emotional" (January 1988), and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go". With seven consecutive number one songs, Houston holds the title for the most number one hits by a female artist in the 1980s, shared only by Madonna. Houston's recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" reached the number twenty on the Hot 100 Singles chart in March 1991, making her the only act to turn the national anthem into a pop hit. The single was re released in September 2001 and peaked at number six on the chart, becoming the first and the only version of the national anthem to achieve that feat in music history. "I Will Always Love You" topped the Hot 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks from November 28, 1992 to February 27, 1993, making it the longest running number one single ever by a female solo artist and from a soundtrack album. As of today; Houston, Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica, Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé, Toni Braxton, Rihanna, Destiny's Child, Debby Boone, Olivia Newton John, Ashanti and Adele are the only female artists to have at least one double digit run at number one on the chart. The fourteen week domination of "I Will Always Love You" kept Houston in the pole position of the chart for all of January and February, marking the first time in history where Billboard didn't receive a new number one song until March. Since 1991, when the Hot 100 using Broadcast Data System and SoundScan data, Houston has become the first female artist to place three songs inside the top 11 in the same week with "I Will Always Love You", "I'm Every Woman", and "I Have Nothing" for three weeks in March 1993. "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" was the third single ever to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (and the second single by a female artist, the first being Mariah Carey). After spending one week at the top, it spent eleven consecutive weeks at number two from December 2, 1995 to February 10, 1996, behind Carey's One Sweet Day, setting the record for the longest stay in the runner up position and tying Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U in 2021.

"I Will Always Love You" topped the Hot 100 Single Sales chart for fourteen weeks, a record by a female artist as a solo, which she also shares with Mariah Carey.

In the 1980s, Houston had seven number one hits on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, setting a record for the most number one singles by a female artist in the decade—"Saving All My Love for You" for three weeks (October 1985), "How Will I Know" for one week (February 1986), "Greatest Love of All" for five weeks (May 1986), "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" for three weeks (July 1987), "Didn't We Almost Have It All" for three weeks (September 1987), "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" for three weeks (April 1988), and "One Moment in Time" for two weeks (October 1988).

Houston was ranked the thirteenth most successful dance club act in the chart's history.