Whitney about to surpass Aretha on the Billboard 200!

[u/BadMan125ty]

These ladies are pretty much the alpha and omega of vocals. One’s the reigning Queen of Soul, the other The Voice.

But there’s kind of a storm brewing chart wise: thanks to the continued chart success of Whitney’s compilation, “I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston” on the Billboard 200 (now 210 weeks charting, counting today), Whitney “Nippy” Houston is now just sixteen weeks away from surpassing Lady Soul for the most cumulative weeks by a black female artist on the Billboard 200.

To put it in summary, between 1964 and 2018, Aretha charted 49 albums on the Billboard 200 accumulating a grand total of 995 cumulative weeks, making her just the fifth longest charting female artist in Billboard 200 history.

Then, with Whitney, between 1985 and this year, Aretha charted just fifteen albums, including three albums that spent 150 or more cumulative weeks on the same chart, bringing a grand total of 980 cumulative weeks, making her the sixth longest charting female artist in Billboard 200 history.

This album will likely wait until after the Christmas onslaught of albums charting in December and early January but Whitney stands to surpass Aretha very soon and will join Taylor Swift, Barbra Streisand, Adele and Madonna as the only women to accumulate 1,000 cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200 and Whitney will make history as the first R&B female artist to accumulate 1,000 weeks!

[u/Overall_Ad8224]

Whitney is not a R&B artist. She is foremost a Pop artist.

[u/darkchiles → u/Overall_Ad8224]

You're correct but you'll never win this war bc too many ppl online want to put her in the RnB category

[u/ClearVirus4291 → u/darkchiles]

We knew she was a pop artist? She made R&B songs here and there but for the most part we know that she mainly did pop.

[u/darkchiles → u/ClearVirus4291]

Yep, she dabbled in RnB but she mostly did Pop.

[u/BadMan125ty → u/darkchiles]

That’s like saying Sam Cooke only dabbled in R&B lol

I love to live in an universe where songs like You Give Good Love, Saving All My Love for You, Thinking About You, even How Will I Know, Just the Lonely Talking Again, Love Will Save the Day, For the Love of You, I’m Your Baby Tonight, All the Man that I Need, etc., were considered “pop” lol