Whitney Houston 2006—present
 After spending much of the early and mid 1990s working on films, with their adjacent soundtrack albums as an outlet for new music, Houston's fourth studio album in eight years My Love Is Your Love was released in November 1998. Though originally slated to be a greatest hits album with a handful of new songs, recording sessions produced enough new material for a full-length studio album. Recorded and mixed in only six weeks, it featured production from Rodney Jerkins, Wyclef Jean and Missy Elliott. The album had a more funkier and edgier sound than past releases and saw Houston handling urban dance, hip hop, reggae, mid-tempo R&B, torch songs, and ballads all with great dexterity. The album's first single, the Academy Award-winning When You Believe (duetted with Mariah Carey for 1998s The Prince of Egypt soundtrack) became a Top 10 hit in the UK, Germany, and France, and reached the Top 20 of the U.S. Hot 100. The next three singles, Heartbreak Hotel”, which featured Faith Evans and Kelly Price; “It's Not Right but It's Okay”, which won Houston her sixth Grammy Award, and “My Love Is Your Love” all reached the US Top 5 and became international hits. The album's fifth single, I Learned from the Best, peaked inside the US top forty, at number twenty-seven. All singles, except When You Believe, also became number one hits on the U.S. Dance/Clubplay Chart. The album went on to be certified four times platinum in the U.S., with worldwide sales of ten million. In 1999, Houston participated in VH-1’s Divas’ Live ‘99, alongside Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner, Cher, Brandy and Chaka Khan. The same year, Houston hit the road with her worldwide My Love Is Your Love tour.
Screen shot from the “Could I Have This Kiss Forever” music video (2000).In April 2000, Whitney: The Greatest Hits was released. The double disc set peaked at number five on the Billboard Top 200, and reached number one on the UK chart. While the ballads were left unchanged, the album is notable for featuring house/club remixes of many of Houston’s past up-tempo songs, in place of their original version. Also included on the album were four new songs: “Could I Have This Kiss Forever” (a duet with Enrique Iglesias), “Same Script, Different Cast” (a duet with Deborah Cox), “If I Told You That” (a duet with George Michael), and “Fine”, all of which failed to crack the Billboard Top 40. Along with the album, an accompanying DVD was also released of the music videos to Houston’s greatest hits. The greatest hits album was certified triple platinum in the US, with worldwide sales of ten million. The same year, Houston performed on the televised special commemorating Arista Records twenty-fifth anniversary.
In August 2001, Houston signed the biggest record deal in music history with Arista/BMG. She renewed her contract (worth $100 million) to deliver six new albums on which she would also earn royalties. Within weeks Houston's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner would be re-released after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Houston would donate her portion of the proceeds.
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