Released Nov. 1992, Whitney Houston‘s “The Bodyguard,” the soundtrack from the movie of the same name, was the first album to sell over one million copies — 1,061,000, to be exact — in one week (since Nielsen Soundscan introduced a computerized sales monitoring system in 1991).
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Later, Garth Brooks‘ “Double Live” broke Houston’s record, selling 1,085,000 in the first week of its release Nov. 1998.
To date, only four women, including Houston, have notched million-plus weeks. Britney Spears sold 1.31 million copies of “Oops… I Did It Again” in 2000; Norah Jones‘ “Feels Like Home” moved 1,022,000 in 2004; and Taylor Swift recently sold an impressive 1,047,000 units of her album “Speak Now.”
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On Feb. 11 (Sat.), the legendary Houston died at 48. Houston’s death came at the eve of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, hours before Clive Davis’annual pre-Grammy party. Reports say that Houston was found submerged in her bathtub and paramedics found various prescription medication bottles when they arrived.