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Billboard Chart Update...

The Billboard update for the week ending 9 January 2010:

I LOOK TO YOU:
The Billboard 200 - Up to No.58 (from No.63) - 17 weeks on chart;
Top Current Albums - Up to No.54 (from No.57) - 17 weeks on chart;
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - Down  to No.14 (from No.12) - with Bullet - 17 weeks on chart.

ONE WISH: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM:
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums - Down to No.21 (from No.16) - 42 weeks on chart.

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Up to No.24 (from No.27) - with Bullet - 21 weeks on chart;
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay - Up to No.23 (from No.26) - with Bullet - 21 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Down to No.4 (from No.3) - 15 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Up to No.28 (from No.29) - 23 weeks on chart;
Hot Gospel Songs - Up to No.23 (from No.24) - 18 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Down to No.36 (from No.35) - 5 weeks on chart.

NEWSFILE: 31 DECEMBER 2009
 

UK Chart Update...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 2 January 2010:

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
UK Singles Chart - Up to No.62 (from No.64) - 12 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
UK Album Chart - Up to No.48 (from No.51) - 10 weeks on chart.

THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION:
UK Album Chart - Up to No.46 (from No.57) - 35 weeks on chart.

Comeback of the Year...

Mirror: Whitney Houston's was best comeback of the year
By Dean Piper on December 27, 2009 12:39 AM in My Sunday Mirror Column

One woman I didn't expect to ever see back on stage again after her "crack is whack" years is WHITNEY HOUSTON.

But she's emerged ­triumphant with her album I Look To You and I loved meeting the lady herself in July at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in London.

She still has a hint of crazy in those eyes... but she hides it well!
 

NEWSFILE: 27 DECEMBER 2009
 

Billboard Chart Update...

The Billboard update for the week ending 2 January 2010:

I LOOK TO YOU:
The Billboard 200 - Up to No.63 (from No.116) - Pace Setter Award - 16 weeks on chart;
Top Current Albums - Up to No.57 (from No.91) - Pace Setter Award - 16 weeks on chart;
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - Up  to No.12 (from No.15) - Pace Setter Award - 16 weeks on chart.

ONE WISH: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM:
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums - Down to No.16 (from No.11) - 41 weeks on chart.

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Down to No.27 (from No.21) - 20 weeks on chart;
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay - Down to No.26 (from No.21) - 20 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Down to No.3 (from No.1) - 14 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Down to No.29 (from No.24) - 22 weeks on chart;
Hot Gospel Songs - Down to No.24 (from No.21) - 17 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Down to No.36 (from No.35) - 4 weeks on chart.

NEWSFILE: 24 DECEMBER 2009
 

UK Chart Update...

WA Today (Western Australia): Whitney Houston Comeback
December 23, 2009

The ultimate diva Whitney Houston is playing two concerts at Member's Equity Stadium on March 6 and 7.

It's the first time Houston has performed in Australia since her Moment of Truth hey day in 1988.

Having made one of the biggest career comebacks in music history, Houston will belt out much loved tunes including I Will Always Love You, Saving All My Love for You, Greatest Love of All, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and How Will I Know.

Australian Idol singer Anthony Callea will join Houston on the Nothing But Love tour.

Tickets for the first show are still available from $95 and are available through Ticketmaster.com.au
 

UK Charts Detailed...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 19 December 2009:

Lyrics Sold...

Little About (Blog): Parton's I Will Always Love You auctioned off for $7,150

Dolly Parton's handwritten lyrics to hit ballad I Will Always Love You fetched 7,150 dollars at a charity auction in Nashville, Tennessee.

NEWSFILE: 21 DECEMBER 2009
 

UK Chart Update...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 26 December 2009:

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
UK Singles Chart - Down to No.64 (from No.44) - 11 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
UK Album Chart - Up to No.51 (from No.52) - 9 weeks on chart.

THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION:
UK Album Chart - Down to No.57 (from No.56) - 34 weeks on chart.

Billboard Chart Update...

The Billboard update for the week ending 26 December 2009:

I LOOK TO YOU:
The Billboard 200 - Down to No.116 (from No.99) - 15 weeks on chart;
Top Current Albums - Down to No.91 (from No.77) - 15 weeks on chart;
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - Down to No.15 (from No.12) - with Bullet - 15 weeks on chart.

ONE WISH: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM:
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums - Down to No.11 (from No.8) - 40 weeks on chart.

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Down to No.21 (from No.16) - 19 weeks on chart;
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay - Down to No.21 (from No.16) - 19 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Remains at No.1 (2nd week) - 13 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - remains at No.24 (2nd week) - with Bullet - 21 weeks on chart;
Hot Gospel Songs - Up to No.21 (from No.26) - 16 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Up to No.35 (from No.43) - with Bullet - 3 weeks on chart.

Additional Charts reported in Billboard:

European Top 100 Albums: 'I Look To You' - Down to No.78 (from No.64) - 15 weeks on chart;
Global Dance Tracks: 'Million Dollar Bill' - Down to No.27 (from No.23) - 10 weeks on chart.

NEWSFILE: 17 DECEMBER 2009
 

Whitney Features in Billboard's Best of 2009...

Billboard: Best Of 2009

How long had it been since Whitney Houston presided over the Billboard 200? Until this week (Sept. 19), the superstar had last led when her soundtrack to the "The Bodyguard" spent its 20th and final week at No. 1 on the May 29, 1993, chart. This week, Houston returns to the throne with "I Look to You," her fourth No. 1 album ...

Coming Back In Style...

CNN: Whitney Houston comes back InStyle
December 15, 2009 -- Updated 2049 GMT (0449 HKT)

(InStyle) -- Chanteuse Whitney Houston is back and she is better than ever!

The one-of-a-kind star is happy, healthy and ready for what's next.

The singer spoke with InStyle magazine and shared her comeback secrets in the magazine's January's issue.

The 46-year-old sex symbol even gave some tips on how to be alluring.

"Sexy can be sexual without having to expose a lot of yourself," she said. "Your body can express a lot without your having to take off a lot. I try to splash it in there a little bit, just by body movement. "

The stylish singer said for her, less is more.

"A smile, a little glance, the way you lean back says sexy without being too open or offending anyone," Houston revealed. "Because once they've seen it all, they go, 'Man, I'm bored with that,' instead of 'Hmm, what's she going to do now?'"

Check out more of Houston's exclusive interview in the January issue on newsstands December 18th.

Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved.
 

Count On Me...

People: Whitney Houston Says Her Daughter Can 'Count on Me'
By Suzanne Zuckerman
Tuesday December 15, 2009 07:20 PM EST

It's not easy raising a 16-year-old daughter, says Whitney Houston. But no matter what – even if Bobbi Kristina is borrowing her mother's clothes and not returning them – Houston assures she'll always be by her daughter's side.

"If she's angry, I allow her to say, 'Damn! I'm so frustrated today!' " Houston tells InStyle's January issue in a cover story. "We have our moments when we clash, but we have a good relationship. I want her to count on me to try to understand what she’s going through. No damnation, no condemnation, nothing that's going to make her feel like she can’t come to me."

It's the same unconditional love Bobbi Kristina, or Krissy as her mother calls her, showed Houston during her divorce from Krissy's father, Bobby Brown. Houston says it was Krissy who told her it was "not all right" for Brown to spit on Houston.

With Houston's return to music, mother and daughter may hit the road together to promote Houston's album I Look to You, which has sold 831,000 copies in the U.S. since its August release.

And after so much darkness, the 46-year-old diva is once again embracing the lighter struggles. "[Krissy’s] always, always, always borrowing my clothes,” she says. "I'm cool with it, but she’ll take something and won’t give it back!”
 

UK Charts Detailed...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 19 December 2009:

NEWSFILE: 14 DECEMBER 2009
 

UK Chart Update...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 19 December 2009:

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
UK Singles Chart - Down to No.44 (from No.35) - 10 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
UK Album Chart - Down to No.52 (from No.44) - 8 weeks on chart.

THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION:
UK Album Chart - Up to No.56 (from No.58) - 33 weeks on chart.

Oprah Interview Re-Airing...

whitneyhouston.com: Whitney Houston's Oprah Special Re-Airing Monday Dec.14
DECEMBER 11, 2009, 5:43 pm

If you didn't catch it the first time, Whitney Houston's special interview with Oprah Winfrey will re-air on Monday Dec. 14th! Whitney dishes on the most intimate parts of her life and candidly talks about her break from the recording industry and her amazing determination to return to the music scene. This is an event you won't want to miss! Check local listings to see when the show will re-air in your area.

Whitney Live in Moscow...

Captions - Picture 1: During her performance in Moscow, Whitney Houston dedicated one song from her new album Look To You to those who died in the Lame Horse nightclub fire in Perm. “I want to sing this song in memory of those who died in the Russian city of Perm,” she said.

Captions - Picture 2: Whitney Houston performed on December 9 at Olimpiysky Stadium. The diva has been honored with six Grammys, 21 American Music Awards, 12 NAACP Image Awards, six People's Choice awards, two Emmys, 15 Billboard Music Awards and eight Soul Train Awards including Soul Train Artist of the Decade.

Captions - Picture 3: In spite of being an hour and a half late, Whitney Houston’s fans still think she's “the greatest singer ever.”

Captions - Picture 4: She walked on stage wearing boots, a glittery dress embroidered with tiny mirrors, and a luxurious aquamarine fur coat.

Captions - Picture 5: As is typical, fans mostly enjoyed her older hits. No one can sing I will Always Love You like Ms Houston.

Another Billboard No.1...

Billboard: VETERANS VICTORIOUS: Format favorites celebrate new chart-toppers on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Adult R&B (the latter of which is viewable at billboard.biz), respectively.

R. Kelly earns his 11th No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with the debut of "Untitled." With the exception of his debut album, "Born Into the '90's," which reached No. 3 in 1992, each of Kelly's studio albums have climbed to the top rung.

"Untitled" concurrently begins at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, where it becomes Kelly's 11th top five entry.

On the Adult R&B airplay chart, Whitney Houston reigns for the first time in six years, as "Million Dollar Bill" rises 2-1. The track is Houston's first No. 1 on the list since "One of Those Days" in 2003.

With her latest coronation, Houston enters a four-way tie for second-most No. 1s in the chart's history with Toni Braxton, Brian McKnight and Luther Vandross. Alicia Keys leads with eight career No. 1s.

Perhaps Houston's ascension to the summit will take away some of the sting of her not being nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award.

Whitney Houston Deluxe Anniversary Edition...

whitneyhouston.com: Exciting news about the Deluxe Anniversary Edition of Whitney Houston
DECEMBER 10, 2009, 10:14 am

The release date for the Deluxe Anniversary Edition has now been moved to January 25th 2010. This is because some incredible new content has just become available and is being added to the DVD! The album will now feature two previously unreleased video performances:

You Give Good Love performed at the 1987 Soul Train Awards and I Am Changing (from Dreamgirls) performed at the Arista Records 10th Anniversary party in 1985.

Billboard Chart Update...

The Billboard update for the week ending 19 December 2009:

I LOOK TO YOU:
The Billboard 200 - Down to No.99 (from No.59) - 14 weeks on chart;
Top Current Albums - Down to No.77 (from No.52) - 14 weeks on chart;
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - Down to No.12 (from No.8) - 14 weeks on chart.

ONE WISH: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM:
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums - Up to No.8 (from No.13) - with Bullet - 39 weeks on chart.

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Up to No.16 (from No.18) with Bullet - 18 weeks on chart;
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay - Up to No.16 (from No.18) with Bullet - 18 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Up to No.1 (from No.2) - with Bullet - 12 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Down to No.46 (from No.38) - 12 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Down to No.92 (from No.82) - 20 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Down to No.24 (from No.18) - 20 weeks on chart;
Hot Gospel Songs - Down to No.26 (from No.24) - 15 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Up to No.43 (from No.48) - with Bullet - 2 weeks on chart.

Additional Charts reported in Billboard:

European Top 100 Albums: 'I Look To You' - Up to No.64 (from No.74) - 14 weeks on chart;
European Hot 100 Singles: 'Million Dollar Bill' - Down to No.83 (from No.71) - 9 weeks on chart.
 

Whitney's Moscow Rider...

Pravda: Whitney Houston Brings Her Old Fur Coat for Moscow Show

Whitney Houston, who will perform at Moscow’s Olympiisky Arena on December 9, arrived in Moscow on Sunday, accompanied by her 16-year old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown. The singer is staying in Ritz Hotel near the Kremlin.

She said she intended to see all attractions in Moscow, including the Bolshoi Theatre.

Unlike her first visit, this time she came prepared with a bunch of winter clothes to protect her from Russian weather. Interestingly enough, she brought the same fur coat she wore in Moscow in 2004. During that visit she caught a bad cold and did not leave her hotel to protect her voice before the concert, which did not help the singer much. This time, she came to Moscow in a good mood, expecting to have a blast.

It seems that her health problems she was dealing with after quitting alcohol and drugs are long gone.

Judging by her rider, she does not drink and is not too concerned with her diet since her menu is filled with sweets and baked goods. She has to have two kettles of boiled water in the room, a liter each of apple, orange, pineapple, and grape juice; liter bottles of Deer Park, Great Bear, Poland Springs and Arrowhead water; assorted herbal teas (berry, chamomile), lemon, honey; Classic Coke, 7-Up, Diet Coke, Root Beer and Canada Dry Ginger Ale; a quart of whole milk, assorted cookies, M&M's; assorted bagels (cinnamon and raisins, salt, plain, whole grains); assorted cheeses and fruits, crackers, peanut butter, Butterfingers and Raisinets; shrimp cocktail, crab legs, chicken or shrimp on sweet and sour sauce, vegetable spring rolls, fried rice with shrimp, turkey breast with cheese, tomato soup, and Welch grape jelly.

 

In Style...

whitneyhouston.com: Whitney Houston Featured in the January Issue of InStyle
DECEMBER 8, 2009, 6:39 pm

Whitney Houston will kick off the 2010 new year with a special feature in InStyle Magazine. Take a look at the beautiful cover below and check out two additional photos from the spread...Whitney is looking amazing! Be sure to pick up the 2010 January issue of InStyle to see the full article!

Russia...

St.Petersburg Times: Double Date Tour of Russia Begins Whitney’s Comeback

MOSCOW — Multiple Grammy award-winner Whitney Houston starts her worldwide comeback in Moscow on Wednesday, followed by a concert at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg on Saturday.

Houston’s Russian concerts will serve as a rehearsal for the pop diva’s World Tour, which starts in Japan in February 2010.

The pop singer has a new album, “I Look to You,” following a long period of drug abuse and a much-publicized divorce from singer Bobby Brown.

“This is my first full tour since the ‘My Love Is Your Love’ tour in 1999, and I am so excited to be performing for my fans around the world after all this time,” Houston said in an official statement.

Houston’s return to the spotlight was marked with an interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and more exotically by her performing a concert in Astana, Kazakhstan in July on President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s birthday, which was broadcast on national television.

At the time, Kazakh bloggers expressed their outrage that the concert was given only to a “select few” and that Houston’s voice was nowhere near her predrug Bodyguard-era mastery.

Houston retains many fans in the former Soviet Union because of the huge popularity of the film The Bodyguard, which was seemingly played on a loop for much of the 1990s.

Members of Whitney’s Moscow fan club said they are planning on occupying major Moscow hotels on Dec. 9 in an effort to catch a glimpse of their idol.

Houston spoke of her drug addiction on “Oprah”: “He [Brown] was my drug. I didn’t do anything without him. I wasn’t getting high by myself. It was me and him together. You know, we were partners. And that’s what my high was. Him. He and I being together.”

“I wanted to stop at that point. I mean, the drugs, the whole thing. I wanted it all just to stop. And he just wanted to continue,” Houston said on the talk show.

Despite the new album’s success in the United States, selling 305,000 copies in the first week and topping the charts, music critics have unanimously spotted a significant drop in Houston’s voice quality that could prevent her from performing the legendary high-pitch notes in “I Will Always Love You.”

The producer of “I Look to You,” Clive Davis, who discovered Houston and introduced her to the American public 25 years ago, said in an interview on “Good Morning America” that Houston “still stands for the best of song writing, the best of singing — and we know the public wants it.”

“You won’t forget it after you hear it,” Davis said. “There is a song on this album which is called ‘I Didn’t Know My Own Strength,’ and it really speaks for Whitney. She tumbled, but she didn’t crumble.”


Whitney Houston plays the Ice Palace, Prospekt Pyatiletok 1, on Saturday. Tel: 718 6620. M: Prospekt Bolshevikov.

UK Chart...

UK Chart Update for the week ending 12 December 2009:

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
UK Singles Chart - Down to No.35 (from No.28) - 9 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
UK Album Chart - Up to No.44 (from No.46) - 7 weeks on chart.

THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION:
UK Album Chart - Remains at No.58 (2 weeks) - 32 weeks on chart.

Grammy Snub...

Billboard: Whitney Houston's Grammy Snub Irks Producers, Friends

Whitney Houston's comeback album, "I Look To You," may have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but it wasn't enough of a feat to garner a single Grammy nod this year. In a surprising omission, Houston received no nominations at this week's Grammy Nominations Concert Live! for the highly-rated album, her fourth No. 1 set which sold 305,000 copies in its first week alone (818,000 so far), according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Producer Danja, who helmed two tracks for "I Look to You" -- "For The Lovers" and "Nothin' But Love" -- feels let down by the Grammy snub. "I'm a little disappointed because she put together a classic album. Her overall comeback is something to be noted but I'm a believer that great people and great music will always show its head," he told Billboard.com.

In spite of the Houston disappointment, Danja, who worked on Pink and Keri Hilson's albums -- both multiple nominees -- is excited about being acknowledged for those projects this year. "It's always a pleasant surprise to receive a nomination. Of course we want to win, but being recognized is plenty after all the hard work we put into producing great music," he says. "Both Keri and Pink are two very special projects to me and I'm excited for them both."

Pink is in the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album categories for her "Sober" single and "Funhouse" album, respectively. Hilson got voted for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Knock You Down" featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo) and Best New Artist alongside Zac Brown Band, MGMT, Silversun Pickups and The Ting Tings.

Previous Grammy nominee Ledisi, who is up for "Best R&B Vocal Performance" for her latest single "Goin' Through Changes" and "Best R&B Album" for her 2009 album "Turn Me Loose," says "after watching the Grammys for years and now being a participant I've learned to always expect the unexpected. Just when you think you know who will be nominated or win, it turns out to be something else. I am just grateful Ms. Houston is back and singing. I have enjoyed her artistry for years."

As for her own nominations, Ledisi says it feels "Extraordinary! I made a lot of changes for 'Turn Me Loose,' my third major label release, and to be nominated for two Grammys is amazing. I am eternally grateful to NARAS for this acknowledgement once again, especially for 'Turn Me loose,' because it validates my choice to stretch out."

"I Look To You" marks Houston's best opening sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991 (her previous best opening week since that year came when 2002's "Just Whitney" bowed at No. 9 in the thick of the Christmas holiday shopping season with 205,000.) Singles "I Look To You" and "Million Dollar Bill" both reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Grammy Shut Out...

Entertainment Weekly: Whitney Houston's Grammy Shut-Out: Was She Robbed?

Of many unexpected admissions and omissions in last night’s Grammy nominee announcement, few are as surprising as the total absence of Whitney Houston on the ballot. Granted, her August release I Look to You was not her finest hour, and it yielded few commercial singles; her often uneven performances to promote it didn’t help.

But she’s also the stuff these shows are made of (26-time Grammy nominee, seven-time winner); her label even moved the release of her album up a day to make sure it was eligible, and Look’s redemption tales seemed calibrated to hit Academy voters right in the solar plexus—and the voting-finger. And yet, not a single nod for the chest-thumping title track or slinky “Million Dollar Bill,” penned by Grammy darling Alicia Keys. So is it the notes Houston hit (or didn’t) that kept her out?

Clearly, what was once one of the greatest natural instruments in pop music is not what it was. But no one ever said that Bob Dylan or Tom Waits sounded like a flock of baby songbirds at sunrise, and artists like Billie Holiday made transcendant art of the quirks and crags inherent in their traditionally “imperfect” voices.

Maybe if Houston had chosen material more like Dylan’s or Holiday’s—something deliberately rougher and more intimate, less reliant on modern R&B polish—Grammy voters would be throwing her a ticker-tape parade today. Or maybe Look’s material just wasn’t good to stand amongst nominees in the R&B fields like Beyonce, Maxwell, or India.Arie (and Pleasure P, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Fiona, Trey Songz…) Give us your theories below.

Odd Exclusion...

LA Times Music Blog: Grammys 2010: The oddities among the nominations

Don't call it a comeback. The Grammys love Whitney Houston. The diva even performed at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala in 2009, which for the first time ever was endorsed by the Recording Academy. Houston has a record of the year win for "I Will Always Love You" in 1993, the same year the soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" took album of the year. Her first non-holiday album since 2002, "I Look to You," was Whitney's return to music after being a tabloid darling. Critics were largely positive, if a little lukewarm, but Houston certainly didn't embarrass herself, and sales were strong.

Since its late August release, the album has sold 818,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Additionally, history shows Grammy voters love a comeback story (see Mariah Carey and "The Emancipation of Mimi," which earned eight nominations for the 2006 awards). So what went wrong? Houston not getting an album of the year nod wasn't unexpected -- with Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Taylor Swift as the year's biggest stars -- but Houston was completely shut out of the R&B fields as well.

Certainly the album's Aug. 30 release didn't help Houston, as the eligibility period ended Aug. 31. Additionally, voters surely picked up on the critics who said Houston's return played it too safe, and though she ventured onto "The Oprah Winfrey Show," her promotional window was relatively short. Votes were collected in early October. So even though Houston did give a triumphant performance at the recent American Music Awards, that came long after votes were tabulated, and Houston came up surprisingly short.

Billboard Chart Update...

The Billboard update for the week ending 5 December 2009:

I LOOK TO YOU:
The Billboard 200 - Up to No.59 (from No.62) with Bullet - 13 weeks on chart;
Top Current Albums - Up to No.52 (from No.66) with Bullet - 13 weeks on chart;
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - Down to No.8 (from No.7) with Bullet - 13 weeks on chart.

ONE WISH: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM:
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums - Down to No. 13 (from No.10) - with Bullet - 38 weeks on chart.

MILLION DOLLAR BILL:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Up to No.18 (from No.19) with Bullet - 17 weeks on chart;
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay - Up to No.18 (from No.19) with Bullet - 17 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Remains at No.2 (2 weeks) - 11 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - Down to No.38 (from No.22) - 11 weeks on chart.

I LOOK TO YOU:
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Down to No.81 (from No.75) - 19 weeks on chart;
Hot Adult R&B Airplay - Up to No.18 (from No.21) - 19 weeks on chart;
Hot Gospel Songs - Up to No.24 (from No.25) - with Bullet - 14 weeks on chart;
Hot Dance Club Play - New Entry at No.48 - with Bullet - 1 week on chart.

Additional Charts reported in Billboard:

European Top 100 Albums: 'I Look To You' - Down to No.74 (from No.55) - 13 weeks on chart;
European Hot 100 Singles: 'Million Dollar Bill' - Down to No.71 (from No.70) - 8 weeks on chart;

Platinum...

whitneyhouston.com: 'I Look To You' Album Certified Platinum
DECEMBER 1, 2009, 7:42 pm

Congratulations to Whitney and all of her fans! 'I Look to You' has been certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 million units in the United States.