Heartbreak Hotel (Whitney Houston song)
"Heartbreak Hotel" | ||||
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Single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price | ||||
from the album My Love Is Your Love | ||||
B-side | "It's Not Right but It's Okay" | |||
Released | December 15, 1998 | |||
Recorded | September 1998[1] | |||
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Label | Arista | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Soulshock & Karlin | ||||
Whitney Houston singles chronology | ||||
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Faith Evans singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Heartbreak Hotel" on YouTube |
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song by American singer
The song reached number two on the US
Composition
"Heartbreak Hotel" is written in the key of E♭ minor with a tempo of 67 beats per minute in common time. The chords in the song alternate between E♭m7 and A♭m7, and the vocals in the song span from G♭3 to A♭5.[5]
Release
It is the second single released from Houston's My Love Is Your Love album. It holds the distinction as being one of only three songs to be on both discs for Houston's 2000 Greatest Hits collection, in its original and remixed formats. It is absent on both 2007's The Ultimate Collection, and the standard edition of 2012's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, though some regions were given a deluxe edition of the latter album, in which the song is included.
Reception
Critical reception
Billboard magazine reviewed the song very favorably saying, "[It's] a highly effective setting for Houston, who wears her emotions on her sleeve and serves up one of the most effective performances on the album. Price and Evans sell themselves grandly as empathetic sisters alongside their pained friend, soaring with emotion and helping keep the timeless artist identifiable to a new generation of R&B fans. Of course, R&B radio will give this a hug in an instant."[6] NME also reviewed the song positively: "Although the appeal of this oddly-paced mid-tempo relies heavily on the 'girls united in rejection' ethos, it works because the guest vocalists appearing with Houston – Faith Evans and Kelly Price – are two enormously talented singers who have carved out careers specializing in soulful balladry. Their respective abilities to wring emotion out of the written word means that anything they sing is seen as sincere. [...] But the risk of having three individually successful singers collaborate on one track is that the song could drown in the weight of competitive vocal acrobatics. But Houston, Evans and Price are secure in their gifts[.] Confident without being cocky, emotive without being melodramatic, they've made a tidy meal of this track[.]"[7]
Commercial performance
"Heartbreak Hotel" entered the US
Awards and nominations
"Heartbreak Hotel" was nominated for
Live performances
Houston first performed an edited version of "Heartbreak Hotel" live on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on November 23, 1998, appearing with Faith Evans and Kelly Price to promote My Love Is Your Love.[28][29] The three women performed the song together at the 9th Billboard Music Awards on December 7, 1998.[30][31] During her European promotion in February 1999, the song was performed live by Houston alone on the French television show, Les Annees Tube. On June 27 that year, Houston made a surprise appearance at the 13th Annual New York City Lesbian & Gay Pride Dance and performed a remixed version of the song along with "It's Not Right but It's Okay".[32][33] Video of the performance premiered on MTV All Access on July 21, 1999.[34]
During her My Love Is Your Love World Tour in 1999, the song was second on the tour's setlist. Houston added elements from the Jackson Five hit "This Place Hotel" to end the song. One performance on the tour was broadcast live on Polish TV channel, TVP1, on August 22, 1999.[35] "Heartbreak Hotel" was included in the setlist of Soul Divas Tour in 2004 and performed at Live & Loud Music Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 1, 2007.[36]
Track listings
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA)[19] | Platinum | 1,300,000[20] |
Release history
Region | Version | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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United States | "Heartbreak Hotel" | December 15, 1998 | Radio | Arista | [75] |
Japan | "Heartbreak Hotel" / "It's Not Right but It's Okay" | February 24, 1999 | CD | [76] | |
United Kingdom | "Heartbreak Hotel" | December 18, 2000 |
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See also
- R&B number-one hits of 1999 (USA)
- Number-one dance hits of 1999 (USA)
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