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Whitney Houston : Debut album 'Whitney Houston'. She was #1.

25 years on : Whitney's album 'I look to you' ; she is STILL NUMBER 1.


On January 19, 2010, Arista Records/Legacy Recordings will release the 25th Anniversary Edition of Whitney Houston, the astonishing debut album that catapulted a virtually unknown young artist into the upper reaches of pop superstardom in 1985.

Originally released on Valentine's Day 1985, Whitney Houston entered The Billboard 200 at #166 the week of March 30.

A year later, in April 1986, the album began its first seven week run at #1, then spending three weeks at #2 before reclaiming the top slot for a jaw-dropping second seven week stand. Whitney Houston became a fixture on The Billboard 200 for 162 weeks, including a record-breaking 46 weeks in the Top 10 and 14 non-consecutive weeks at #1.

This album was The First album in History to Debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album charts.

It features the first 3* of the Record-7 consecutive #1-hit singles that sealed Whitney's status as the superstar that she is today.

Whitney Houston - 25th Anniversary tracklisting

DISC 1 - CD (Digitally Remastered)

You Give Good Love
Thinking About You
Someone For Me
Saving All My Love For You*
Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
How Will I Know*
All At Once
Take Good Care Of My Heart
Greatest Love Of All*
Hold Me (Duet With Teddy Pendergrass)

BONUS TRACKS
Thinking About You (Remix by Bruce Forest)
Someone For Me (Remix by Alan Coulthard)
How Will I Know (A cappella)
How Will I Know (Remix by Jellybean)
Greatest Love Of All (Live)

DISC 2 - DVD

"Home" - Whitney Houston's premiere performance on the Merv Griffin Show
"You Give Good Love" (promo music video)
"Saving All My Love" (promo music video)
"How Will I Know" (promo music video)
"Greatest Love Of All" (promo music video)
Interviews with Whitney Houston and Clive Davis on Whitney Houston


So remember to jot it down , January 19. 2010. Head to your favourite record store right then.

Q .... this album is a must-have . It chronicles the rise of one of Music's Greatest of all time.

Disciplined to Thrill

Janet's Discipline album cover

The owner of the world's most famous tit-piercing is at her most alluring S&M-brand of music, again.

"Light skin, dark skin ; My Asian Persuasion. Do you like my Style? Yeah I'm Sexy sexy sexy.",

she coos. (And she's not singing about her famous brother, I hope.)

Yeah, I like her style. Sexy. Indeed. And, yes, she's taking in all the Feedback.

While her ultra glossy previous album '20 Y.O' bombed due to dismal promotion and her trying to go mainstream and Mariah-ish, this time round, Miss Janet is having all her Son(s)-of-a-Gun out and going back to her roots of edgy dance pop she learnt so well from brother Michael.

Be enamoured by the top-notch production of the lead single 'Feedback' and ignore the over-ambitious music video and you'll actually find yourself hitting the replay button.

Then there is the whole album of gems (and jams) which you'd be head over heals with in no time at all.

The song to highlight is the ultra-edgy, and certainly, not so subtle in its message and intent, 'So Much Betta'.

In this track, the studio wizardy that transforms Janet into a sexual-hobbit and have her chanting hypnotically 'Tired of being Number two, I can do what she can do. So much betta, I'm for you." Such an immense ear-worm.

Now, try making a wild guess which dog-whistling demi-goddess she's referring to.

(Hint.)<

It really doesn't take much discipline for yourself to sit down and have a spin, it will get you hooked from the word go. It's that good.

Indeed, Kyoko, the apparent femme-bot-cum-music-player-cum-lifestyle whatever, which is oh-so-polite to Miss Janet and hums to her every whim, rounds up what is probably, Miss J's best album in years.

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Also from the Jackson clan, the other famous being, , is celebrating his 25-th Anniversary of his mega-selling album, 'Thriller'.

Any album which has hit the record books as being the World's Biggest Selling Album of All time, selling over 45 million copies, has got to have enough clout for an exclusive relaunch.

(Album or flagging-career, you decide.)

Song's like the #1 hit 'Billy Jean' , 'Thriller' featuring the late and charming Vincent Price as well as a slew of other Top 10 hits such as 'The Girl is Mine' and 'Beat It', that made this album an 8-Grammy Award-winning album, remains here in all its heyday glory.

Then there are the really smoove 2008 updates of some of the hits featuring the likes of current-day big wigs like Will-I-Am, Fergie, Akon and Kanye West.

Will-I-Am is bursting with regae-tivity while his gal-prodige, Fergie, is as big-lunged and manic as ever.

Akon is still depressingly groovy in a Shawn Kingston-soppy kind of way.
Really shining above the rest though is the midas touch of Kanye West for 'Billie Jean' that screams (pun intended) #1 Hit all over again.

Befitting an Anniversary edition, this album comes with a disc 2 DVD that contains the famous-as-hell (pun indended again) videos for Billie Jean, Beat It and of course, Thriller.

Both discs are Gold-plated and all 10+6 tracks are fully digitally remastered, all packed impressivey in a glossy sleeve with a pre-opt Michael up front and a 'Thriller-fied' him at the back. An irony in itself.

As Vincent Price husks in track 10,

'Michael Jackson is The Thriller. Can you dig it? "

You betcha. 45 million others have.


If you love pop and strange noses (seriously, I do mean 'nose' not 'noise'), both Janet's and Michael's latest offerings are Must-gets.

Q