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Awards and achievements
Whitney Houston has been honored with several awards and accolades recognizing her worldwide success through the music and movie industries. In 2009, According to the Guinness World Records, she is the most-awarded female act of all-time, with a total of 415 career awards including 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 22 American Music Awards and 30 Billboard Music Awards. Among her six Grammy wins from 26 nominations were Album of the Year for The Bodyguard Soundtrack and Record of the Year for "I Will Always Love You" at the 36th ceremony in 1994. In the American Music Awards history, Houston got 37 nominations and won 22 awards, including two special awards: Award of Merit (1994) and International Artist Award (2010). She holds the all-time record for the most AMAs of any female artist, and shares the record with Michael Jackson for the most AMAs ever won in a single year with 8 wins at its 21st ceremony of 1994. Houston has 30 Billboard Music Awards including 10 awards during the pre-ceremony era ― the awards ceremony was first held in 1990. In 1986, Houston became the first black female artist to earn "Top Pop Artist of the Year"(later renamed to "Artist of the Year") and her debut album was the first album by a female artist to achieve "Top Pop Album of the Year" (later "#1 Album of the Year" or "Billboard 200 Album of the Year") in Billboard year-end charts history. She swept 11 Billboard Music Awards in 1993, setting a record for the most wins in one ceremony. In addition, she is the first and only artist to win "#1 Album of the Year" two times, and "#1 R&B/Hip-Hop Album of the Year" three times: Whitney Houston (1986), I'm Your Baby Tonight (1991), and The Bodyguard (1993). Houston shares the record for the most WMAs won in a single year with Michael Jackson, 50 Cent and Lady Gaga, winning five awards at the 6th World Music Awards in 1994. Houston received a total of 7 Soul Train Music Awards including three special awards: "Sammy Davis, Jr. Award as Entertainer of the Year" (1994), "The Quincy Jones Award" (1998), and "The Artist of Decade, Female" (2000).

During her career, Houston set remarkable chart and sales records with her album and single releases. Her 1985 debut album Whitney Houston was the first album by a female artist to achieve 'top pop album of the year' (1986) on the Billboard year-end charts and earn the-10-time-platinum-mark(later called as Diamond) by the RIAA. In June 1987, Houston's sophomore album Whitney debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200 chart and became the first album by a female artist. In 1992, The Bodyguard Soundtrack became the first album to sell over one million copies (1,061,000) in one week since Nielsen Soundscan introduced a computerized sales monitoring system in 1991, which was considered as one of 29 black music milestones by Billboard in 2012.

In May 2003, Houston placed at number three on VH1's list of "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era," behind Madonna and Janet Jackson. She was also ranked at number 116 on their list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time." In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, ranking Houston at number nine. Similarly, she is ranked as one of the Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by VH1 in September 2010. In November 2010, Billboard released its "Top 50 R&B / Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years" list and ranked Houston at number three whom not only went on to earn eight No. 1 singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but also landed five No. 1s on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Houston's debut is currently listed as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine and is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list. In 2004, Billboard picked the success of her first release on the charts as one of 110 Musical Milestones in its history. Houston's entrance into the music industry is considered one of the 25 musical milestones of the last 25 years, according to USA Today in 2007. It stated that she paved the way for Mariah Carey’s chart-topping vocal gymnastics. In 1997, the Franklin School in East Orange, New Jersey was renamed to The Whitney E. Houston Academy School of Creative and Performing Arts. In 2001, Houston was the first artist ever to be given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award.

Houston is also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums and singles worldwide. Although she has released relatively few albums, she is ranked as the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 55 million certified albums sold in the US alone.

She holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University, Louisiana.