Music video description
It's hard not to know this song, isn't it? Despite the passage of years, this song (actually, its version performed by Whitney Houston) is still considered one of the most romantic. No wonder - the delicate, subtle voice of the artist. A calm, but emotional note. An ideal choice for a date or first dance. Before we mention the successes of this piece, it is worth knowing its genesis. In fact, in its original version, it is a country song written and recorded by American singer Dolly Parton. Less than 20 years later, it gained a second life, thanks to Whitney Houston - finding its way onto the soundtrack of the movie hit "Bodyguard." The number became the soundtrack, the film's theme song. All the potential it carried was squeezed out of it. Whitney Houston was at the peak of her career at the time, so it's no surprise that the song only reinforced the wave of success.
The single debuted at number 40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and then skyrocketed. It was featured in a number of different Billboard charts, topping the Hot 100 chart for 14 weeks (the longest for any female singer, later that record was equaled by Mariah Carey with the song "We Belong Together") It also reigned for 11 weeks at number one on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.
"I Will Always Love You" ranked #4 on the chart of best-selling (profitable too, of course) female singles ever (at #3 for female vocalists - just after the hit "My Heart Will Go On"Céline Dion ). Looking globally - it eventually ranked 16th on the list of the world's best-selling singles in the all-time chart (distributed over 12. million copies). The song turned out to be the biggest hit in the history of Arista Records. To this day, many "alternative" videos have been made for this song, with frames from the film. We recall the original teledysk z Whitney Houston in the foreground.