Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston remains the most awarded female act in history, with 415 career awards dwarfing #6 Sam Cooke’s 0 competitive Grammys for soul pioneers. Her rendition of I Will Always Love You is the best-selling physical single by a female artist, moving over 20 million copies, and outperforming #7 Al Green’s highest-selling 1970s single by a factor of four. With six competitive Grammys and a vocal range spanning five octaves, her technical prowess exceeds the average pop-R&B singer by a significant margin, as demonstrated by her 1985 debut becoming the best-selling debut by a female artist at the time.