The album is most notable for Houston's version of I Will Always Love You. The song received huge airplay, appealing to the pop, R&B, Adult Contemporary, and Soul radio markets. The single spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] The album stood atop at the number-one spot on the Billboard 200 for 20 weeks. With the next two Top 5 singles[5] I'm Every Woman (a Chaka Khan cover), and I Have Nothing
following on the heels of "I Will Always Love You", Houston became the
first female act to have three songs in the Top 20 simultaneously.
Two songs, "Run To You" and "I Have Nothing", were each nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song[6], but lost out to A Whole New World from the animated film Aladdin. The same two songs were nominated for Grammy Awards
in the "Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for
Television" category. Other songs garnering significant radio airplay
included "Jesus Loves Me" on gospel stations, and "Queen Of The Night" on pop and dance stations.
