Queen of the Night (song)

Not to be confused with Queen of the Night aria.
"Queen of the Night"
Single by Whitney Houston
from the album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album
ReleasedOctober 13, 1993
RecordedNovember 9, 1991[1]
StudioLarrabee Sound Studios, West Hollywood, California
Genre
Length
  • 3:06 (album version)
  • 3:21 (CJ's single edit)
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • L.A. Reid
  • Babyface
Whitney Houston singles chronology
"Run to You"
(1993) 		"Queen of the Night"
(1993) 		"Something in Common"
(1993)
Music video
"Queen of the Night" on YouTube

"Queen of the Night" is a song co-written by American singer and actress Whitney Houston along with L.A. Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons. Produced by Reid and Babyface and performed by Houston, it was released on October 13, 1993 by Arista Records as the fifth and final single from the soundtrack album The Bodyguard (1992), and is played during the closing credits of the film of the same name.

An uptempo hard rock number in which Houston expresses how she "rules the club scene" as the self-proclaimed "queen of the night", it was released to US radio in November 1993 and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart, number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, and number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, becoming Houston's fifth number one dance single. Due to Billboard's charting requirements at that time, singles without a commercial release were ineligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was released in several other countries. In the UK, it peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, and numbers nine and four on the Music Week Dance Singles and Airplay charts.

  1. ^ "Queen of the Night (Film Version) * Whitney Houston Official Site".
  2. ^ L.A. Times review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone Staff (September 24, 2024). "The 101 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 4, 2024. ...hard-rocking ("Queen of the Night")...
  4. ^ Cohen, Howard (November 24, 1992). "Houston hits overdrive on sound track". p. 7E. The Miami Herald.
  5. ^ Flick, Larry (December 18, 1993). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 99. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Piccioni, Dave (October 23, 1993). "Hot Vinyl" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). p. 7. Retrieved April 4, 2021.