Just Whitney

Just Whitney
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 27, 2002 (2002-11-27)[1]
Recorded2001–2002
Genre
Length39:08
Label
Producer
Whitney Houston chronology
Love, Whitney
(2001)
Just Whitney
(2002)
One Wish: The Holiday Album
(2003)
Singles from Just Whitney
  1. "Whatchulookinat"
    Released: September 17, 2002
  2. "One of Those Days"
    Released: October 29, 2002
  3. "Try It on My Own"
    Released: February 11, 2003
  4. "Love That Man"
    Released: May 20, 2003

Just Whitney is the fifth studio album by American singer and actress Whitney Houston, released on November 27, 2002, by Arista Records. It was her first studio album to be released after her greatest hits compilation, Whitney: The Greatest Hits (2000), and the follow-up to her multi-platinum fourth studio album, My Love is Your Love (1998). Just Whitney was also Houston's first to be released after re-signing her contract with Arista in 2001 for $100 million - the largest recording contract for a female artist at the time.

In the United States, Just Whitney debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 and number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with sales of 205,147 copies in the first week. That beat the previous high first-week sales of 177,284 copies with the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack, and also logged her highest debut sales out of her Nielsen SoundScan-era albums at the time of its release.

The album spawned four singles (in order), "Whatchulookinat", "One of Those Days", "Try It on My Own", and "Love That Man", with the first, third and fifth singles peaking at number one on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. "Try It on My Own" also peaked at number ten on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart while "One of Those Days" topped the Adult R&B Songs chart. Just Whitney has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and has also earned Platinum certification in the United States and Switzerland, and Gold in France, Brazil and other countries. In 2003, the album was nominated at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards in the category for Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year.[2]

  1. ^ "Just Whitney..." Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "Lady of Soul nominees announced". United Press International. July 18, 2003. Retrieved July 5, 2010.