Whitney Houston 2006—present
 In December 2002, Houston released her fifth studio album, Just Whitney. The album featured collaborations with then-husband Bobby Brown, as well as Missy Elliott, and received poor reviews upon its release. Rolling Stone said the album only shows an artist vainly trying to reach for what her future once could have been. . The album debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the highest opening week sales of any album she had ever released, but all of the singles, “Whatchulookinat,” “One of Those Days,” and “Try It on My Own” failed to reach the top forty on the Hot 100 singles chart and the album quickly fell of the Billboard Top 200 after a disastrous Prime Time interview with Diane Sawyer to promote the album. Just Whitney would be certified platinum in the U.S. with cumulative worldwide sales of over three million, Houston's lowest sales of any album.
In late 2003, Houston released One Wish: The Holiday Album, a specialty album of traditional Christmas songs. The single One Wish reached the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary Chart as the album sold approximately 400,000 copies in the U.S. It eventually became Houston's lowest selling album and the first not to achieve gold status in the US.
In 2004, Houston embarked on an international tour, the Soul Divas tour with Natalie Cole and cousin Dionne Warwick in Europe, before embarking on solo dates in the Middle East, Russia, and Asia. In September 2004, she gave a surprise performance at the World Music Awards, in tribute to long time friend Clive Davis. Houston received a thunderous standing ovation for her performance. After the show, Davis and Houston announced plans to go into studio to work on a new album. However, no further updates would surface and no album was released due to Houston's drug problems.
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