The
videography of American pop/R&B recording artist
Whitney Houston consists of fifty-five
music videos, four
music video compilations, a
concert tour video and three
music video singles. In 1983, Houston signed a recording contract with
Arista Records and two years later released her
eponymous debut album. Houston's first music video was for the single "
You Give Good Love", which was selected to establish her in the black marketplace first.
[1] Houston then released the video of her worldwide hit "
Saving All My Love for You". The following video, for the song "
How Will I Know", helped introduce the singer to a wider audience when it became one of the first videos by a black female singer to earn heavy rotation on
MTV,
[2][3][4] and it won
MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video at its
3rd ceremony of 1986. "
Greatest Love of All", the final single released from Houston's debut album, helped cement the
M.O. for the classic Whitney video.
[3] In June 1986, Houston released her first video compilation
The No. 1 Video Hits, containing her four music videos off the
Whitney Houston album. It reached number-one on the
Billboard Top Music Videocassettes chart and stayed there for 22 weeks, which remains the all-time record for a video collection by a female artist, it was also certified Platinum for shipments of 100,000 units by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 15, 1986. In 1987, Houston released the music video for "
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", the first single from her second album
Whitney (1987), which depicts Houston in one of her iconic looks, the clip―towering curly wig, colorful dangly earrings and a series of going-to-the-club outfits. In 1988, the music video for the song "
One Moment in Time", the title track off the
1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time, was released.