Congratulations Clive Davis – Whitney tops the Billboard 200
In: music Industry| news
11 Sep 2009
We’ve always been proud as an NYU department to bear the name of our principal patron and Sony Music Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis.
This week we’re exponentially proud as Whitney Houston’s brand new I Look to You album – which Mr. Davis co-executive produced – hit the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums chart, selling 305,000 copies.
Whitney’s albums, taken as a whole, have spent forty-six weeks at #1 on the same chart: an all-time record for any female artist.
Congrats also goes out to I Look to You’s co-executive-producer Larry Jackson, Senior VP A&R at RCA Music Group – Larry’s been a terrific guest lecturer in our department; most recently he came by to drop some wisdom on Professor Jonathan Fine’s students in our A&R class.
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1 Response to Congratulations Clive Davis – Whitney tops the Billboard 200
Justin
September 15th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I watched the interview on my break in the Bobst Library today, I only saw part 2 but it was great. There’s something very captivating about Whitney’s speaking voice. I also spotted our departments name sake in the audience and Oprah gave him a big shout out! “Million Dollar Bill” is stuck in my head at the moment as well!