Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances
2014 live album by Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances is a posthumous live album by American recording artist Whitney Houston. It was released on November 10, 2014 by Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
Content and release
Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances sold 22,000 copies in the week ending November 16. It entered at the top on the Top R&B Albums chart, second place on the R&B/Hip Hop chart, and number 19 on the Billboard 200. This made Houston the first female artist to have a number one R&B album in four decades, later joined by Janet Jackson's Unbreakable a year later. 30% of the album sales were digital, the first time Houston has achieved that.
Critical reception
Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances received generally positive reviews from music critics. Giving it 5 stars, Jim Farber of the New York Daily News, praised the album saying, 'The recordings here—with their odd echoes, imperfect playing, and wavering ambiences—show that Houston performed even better without a net than with one. The performances also work wonders in disproving the image of her, in her shiniest years, as a too-perfect wax figure of a star.' He further added, 'Only in concert did Houston, who died in 2012, show the full range of her talent. Shorn of the studio’s confining arrangements and gauzy production, the Newark native had the freedom to display those hairpin turns of phrase, last-second switches in key and playful improvisations that rank her among the greatest singers of all time.' Glenn Gamboa of Newsday gave it Grade A and wrote, 'Houston was an extraordinary singer, an artist who rarely delivered a song the same way twice.
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