A New Whitney Houston Album in 2009: Release Date Announced

By Patricia

There will be a new Whitney Houston album in 2009. It is a topic of rumor and speculation, but now more facts including an official release date have emerged. Find out more and see recent photos and video here of the legendary singer's 2009 comeback performance.

UPDATE: A release date has been set. The New Whitney Houston album, will be released on September 1, 2009, according to an official statement from Sony.

The new Whitney Houston album in 2009, as yet untitled, may well be one of the most anticipated albums in recent years. The long awaited album will be her seventh studio album.

Known as The Voice, the Grammy Award winning pop icon, Whitney Houston, now 45, released her self-titled debut album 1985, which went on to become the best-selling debut album in history by a female artist. Throughout her career Whitney Houston has sold over 140 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide. She is on the Rolling Stone magazine list of The 100 Greatest Singers. She is also known for film roles in iconic movies of the 1990s, particularly 'The Bodyguard' (with Kevin Costner) and 'The Preacher's Wife' (with Denzel Washington).

Her last album was the 2002 Just Whitney which, though certified platinum like all of her previous albums was the lowest in sales and, as is well known, the singer's turbulent personal life had made headlines for years.

Recording industry mogul Clive Davis, himself a legend, who has been the guiding force and mentor of Whitney Houston throughout her career, holds a lavish annual pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills. It was the setting of the most recent public performance of the iconic singer. The performance which you can see in the video below, was a medley of some of her greatest hits; "I Will Always Love You", "I Believe In You And Me", "It's Not Right But It's Okay" and "I'm Every Woman".

The performance led to a rise in talk of her comeback album. Would there be a new Whitney Houston album in 2009?

Clive Davis spoke in an interview in February 2009 about the much rumored Whitney Houston comeback album.

"You wait for the great songs to be written," Davis said about the long-awaited comeback album from one of his most prized prodigies. "The great hits Whitney has given to the public for so many years - you keep encouraging and setting the bar. R. Kelly and Whitney just went into the studio with a great song called 'I Look to You.'

"The same way her debut album took a while to put together, you just don't do it by going into a computer. You wait for the material to justify a new album," he added. "Pretty much, it's come in."

In the interview, Clive Davis also confirmed that for the new

Whitney Houston album in 2009 she is working with famed producer and hit-maker David Foster.

Recently, VIBE magazine interviewed celebrated songwriter Diane Warren, who has written numerous hit singles for a variety of top artists, notably Celine Dion ("Because You Loved Me"") and Toni Braxton ("Unbreak My Heart"). Warren penned what is intended to be the Whitney Houston comeback single, 'I Didn't Know My Own Strength.'

"Whitney's back. Big time." Warren said she wrote the song specifically for Houston. "I tried to get inside her head."

According to Rap-Up.com, celebrated producer Swizz Beatz has written an uptempo song for Whitney Houston entitled "Mill Dollar Bill."

"I got a big comeback record for her," Swizz wrote on his Twitter page last month. "She's comin' back crazy!"

Previously, according to Rap-Up.com, the producer has tweeted about his recording sessions with Houston.

"Whats popping today yall ok today i got Whitney H in the studio and Clive Davis will be there i got a big come back rec 4 her showtime."

The wait is over. The new Whitney Houston Album in 2009 release date is September 1, 2009.

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Whitney Houston Comeback Album Due Sept. 1

Whitney Houston reemerges with a new album set for SEpt. 1 release on Arista. June 04, 2009 09:40 AM ET Mariel Concepcion, N.Y. The wait is over -- Whitney Houston is finally making her comeback on Sept. 1 with an as-yet-untitled album on Arista Records. For her return, the label has set up a countdown on the New Jersey-bred artist's official site, WhitneyHouston.com, which will also preview selected tracks slated to appear on the album in coming weeks. Producers and songwriters said to aid with the set include will.i.am, Sean Garrett and Akon, although there is no confirmation on whether a duet with Akon, "Like I Never Left," which leaked last year, will make the cut. "The voice is there; I don't think anyone could ever take that from her. As long as we apply that voice to hit records, she'll be right back where she left off," Akon told Billboard.com back in 2007. Houston made her first high-profile public appearance at her mentor Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala back in February, where she performed a four-song set that included brief renditions of "I Will Always Love You" and "I Believe in You and Me" plus a tent revival-style take on "I'm Every Woman." Houston has been dogged in recent years by drug and health issues -- including rehab stints in 2004 and 2005 -- a legal dispute with her father, John Houston, rumored financial problems and a troubled marriage to fellow singer Bobby Brown that ended in divorce. Houston's last album was 2002's "Just Whitney," which sold 737,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/whitney-houston-comeback-album-due-sept-1003980275.story

New Whitney Houston Album Due in September

When Whitney Houston released her last studio album of original material, "Just Whitney," in 2002, she was still the happily married spouse of Bobby Brown who had never starred in a reality television series and had never been impersonated by Maya Rudolph on "Saturday Night Live." Needless to say, much has changed since then. Now Ms. Houston, the best-selling R&B and pop star, is planning to put out a new studio album. In a news release, Arista Records said it would release the album, whose title was not given. The label has handled all of Ms. Houston's releases dating to her self-titled 1985 debut, and it said she had sold more than 170 million albums, singles and videos since then. In 2007, Ms. Houston was said to have started work on a new album that would include material from R. Kelly, Diane Warren and other producers. It is not known if any of this material will appear on her new record.

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