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Submit your news here!   The Whitney Weekday Request Campaign has been divided by the letters of the alphabet. For example, if your last name begins with the letter "A," you can proceed to the row for "A" and call or e-mail any 3-5 radio stations in that section. The letters will change everyday. The goal is to help ensure that each state gets votes everyday, without all of us voting in huge blocks. Here is Another Option For Anyone With E-mail that Includes a Line For BCC. This method enables you to send a single message to DJs across the country without revealing that other DJs are receiving your message at the same time. DO NOT do this if your e-mail software does not provide a line called BCC!!! Non-AOL users click here. AOL users have to use this different method instead. Note: While the BCC method will be quite effective, it excludes many radio stations that do not provide direct e-mail addresses. Therefore, if you have five minutes, continue to check out the complete request list, because there are many links there that will take you to radio station web sites where you'll be able to send your e-mail message easily. Thanks! 2001/1/30 Soul Train Awards: Whitney and Deborah Cox have been nominated for R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band Or Duo for "Same Script, Different Cast." The other nominees are "Independent Woman Part 1" by Destiny's Child, "Let's Get Married" by Jagged Edge and "Dance Tonight" by Lucy Pearl. Winners will be announced February 28th at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium during a ceremony to be taped for syndicated television. Please vote for Whitney as your favorite Favorite R&B Female Artist nominee at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards! One ballot per e-mail address will be counted per day, which means you can vote for her more than once a day if you use different e-mail addresses. The poll does not require you to vote for every category. "If I Told You That" has been added to New York's WBLS-FM playlist. You can request the song by clicking here. It requires you to choose five songs, so please try not to request other songs that may hurt its chances. (Thanks Marg) Click2Music.com now features video files for "Could I Have This Kiss Forever," "Fine" and "If I Told You That." (Thanks Rashad) VH1's new poll, "VH1 All Access: Body Beautiful," is still going. As reported, Whitney was nominated in two categories -- Best Mouth and Best Diaphragm. If you don't want to see Whitney ranked yet again by VH1 in the lower half of the list, click here to vote for her. The show is due to premiere on March 22nd. VH-1 U.K. broadcasted a Whitney Houston Top 10 today. Here is the complete rundown in order of first to last: I Will Always Love You, Saving All My Love For You, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), One Moment In Time, I'm Every Woman, My Love Is Your Love, It's Not Right But It's Okay, How Will I Know, So Emotional and Where Do Broken Hearts Go. (Thanks Eddy VB) 2001/1/29 Another Review: Read Variety's new review of the recent Wyclef Jean Foundation benefit where Whitney performed two songs. Music Charts Update: News from The Netherlands If you still don't have Whitney's U.K. Preview CD-ROM that was included in the Mail on Sunday newspaper last month, you can buy it along with the Whitney magazine article that was published with it for $15 at online store Southland CD. For more information about the CD, read the December 2000 Nippy News. 2001/1/28 Whitney Stalker Escapes, Is Recaptured On Friday afternoon, one of Whitney's stalkers walked away from a psychiatric hospital and sparked an 11-hour manhunt that caused Whitney's head of security to fly to New York. The stalker has threatened Whitney's daughter in the past. Authorities plan to launch an investigation of security at the facility. Read the complete story... Music Charts Update: News from the U.K. Superbowl Moments: Here's another newspaper article regarding Superbowl XXV and memories of Whitney's definitive rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." "Heartbreak Hotel" is down seventeen places to No. 62 this week on the Dutch Veronica Top 100 after six weeks. In addition, "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" is down eight places to No. 95 after twenty weeks on the chart. (Thanks Eddy VB) Whitney's "Greatest Love Of All" was on MTV's Jackass show today. The show regularly features the hosts making fools of themselves and attempting ridiculous stunts. They had a Promotional Video Countdown today and Whitney's song came in as the No. 1 video. (Thanks Razak, Derric) 2001/1/27 Blockbuster: Whitney has been nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Favorite R&B Female Artist. The other nominees are Toni Braxton and Sade. (Thanks Mike) World Music Charts: News from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland. Both "If I Told You That" and "Fine" have debuted on certain charts. Read the complete statistics... Note to Whitney Collectors: Espirit International is now selling the 2-track U.S. promo CD for "If I Told You That." It's a bit expensive. "Heartbreak Hotel" debuted on Polish radio channel 3 at No. 50. Please vote for the song here. (Thanks Sylwia) On a recent episode of Lifetime's Intimate Portrait, they interviewed Lela Rochon [Waiting to Exhale]. When that portion of her life was mentioned, she said everyone who starred in the movie genuinely liked and got along with each other. A lot of pictures were shown with the cast and Whitney was in all of them. (Thanks Carolyn) 2001/1/25 Whitney has been nominated for a 2001 German Echo Award, the most prestigious music award in Germany. The show will air on March 15th. Whitney was nominated as Best International Singer - Female, the award for which she was nominated last year. The awards are given by the German Phono Academy. (Thanks André) On the Charts: The Greatest Hits DVD slips again on the Music Videos chart In next week's TV Guide (Jan. 27 - Feb. 2), on page four, there is a column called "The Insider List." This week's topic is in honor of Sunday's Superbowl XXXV. They ranked the top five best national anthem performances of all time, and guess who came in at No. 1?! Who else -- THE VOICE -- Whitney Houston of course! Billy Joel, Faith Hill, Wynton Marsalis and Vanessa L. Williams followed on the list respectively. The article states: WHITNEY HOUSTON: Superbowl XXV (1991), New York Giants vs. Buffalo Bills - The gospelicious diva delivers an uplifting performance that gives voice to Americans' patriotism during the Gulf War. So beloved, it closes the CD "Whitney: The Greatest Hits." (Thanks Rashad) According to Italian magazine "TV Sorrisi & Canzoni," the Greatest Hits is at No. 45 on the albums chart by Top of the Music/Nielsen/C.R.A. this week. (Thanks Rosilde) If you use Winamp as your music player software, you can download Whitney "skins" for the program here. The skins can change how the program looks. (Thanks Nadine) 2001/1/23 Additional Reviews: Read three more articles about the Wyclef Jean Foundation benefit, this time from Sonicnet, Rolling Stone and New York Newsday New RealAudio: Listen to the unofficial "Fine" Rob Girellini Club Remix 7:05. It may be the best dance mix of "Fine" in circulation at the moment. (Many thanks Bill) Music Charts Update: Whitney's year-end statistics from Canada 2001/1/22 L.A. Reid Talks: The New York Daily News has been buzzing that L.A. Reid was starting to publicly criticize Arista Records founder Clive Davis in an interview in New York Magazine. The issue has since been made available to the public and you can click on the link above to read it. The article mentions Whitney several times. Among everything that is discussed, Reid apparently lays most or all the blame for the "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" lack of marketing on his predecessors, indicating that he "realized that this thing was headed nowhere" when he stepped in, despite the fact that the album had debuted strongly last May. The article is quite long, but it is definitely worth reading. The sections pertaining to Whitney have been highlighted. The Record Is Not Over Yet: Please continue to request "If I Told You That" in the U.S. and Canada. You can request the music video here, and you can request the song at radio stations by visiting the Whitney Weekday Request Campaign here. As already reported, the video is getting airplay on BET and also debuted on Entertainment Tonight. More Reviews: Read two articles about the Wyclef Jean Foundation benefit concert at Carnegie Hall last Friday. USA Today gives Whitney a glowing review (and notes her greeting to Clive Davis in the audience), and her performance is detailed briefly by The New York Times. Superbowl Flashbacks: Read three articles that look back at Superbowl XXV and Whitney's famous renditon of "The Star-Spangled Banner." The first article, from USA Today, gives interesting background details about the atmosphere at the stadium and how officials actually asked Whitney to re-record the anthem because they felt it was not traditional enough. Whitney's camp refused, and the rest is history. The second and third articles, from The New York Times and St. Petersburg Times respectively, show the impact her performance had on Americans who watched it. Music Charts Update: News from The Netherlands 2001/1/21 Music Charts Update: News from the U.K. According to Radio 1/BBC Ceefax, BMG will reportedly release "Fine" as a new single in early March in the United Kingdom. (Thanks Eddy VB) "Heartbreak Hotel" is up five places this week to No. 45 on the Dutch Veronica Top 100 after five weeks. In addition, "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" is down seven places to No. 87 after nineteen weeks. (Thanks Eddy VB) "Heartbreak Hotel" exits Trevor Nelson's R&B chart as broadcasted by BBC Radio 1. (Thanks Eddy VB) 2001/1/20 Another Review: Read a second review of the Wyclef Jean Foundation benefit concert last night where Whitney performed two songs. Music Charts Update: News from Canada "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" is at No. 1 at the Virgin Megastore in London, in Oxford Circus and Tottengham Court Roads, at the special price of 9.99 pounds. It is the previously reported, repackaged U.K. version, where many of the "Throw Down" CD tracks are not remixed, in a pink box that envelopes the 2CD set. (Thanks Erick) 2001/1/19 Whitney & Wyclef: Read the first review of Wyclef Jean's benefit at Carnegie Hall tonight. As reported, Whitney performed "My Love Is Your Love" and "I Go To The Rock." World Music Charts: Statistics from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland Poland's Radio Zet web site reported that Wyclef Jean is now working "on new projects for Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child and Eric Clapton." It is not possible to tell whether they are referring to the Carnegie Hall benefit concert tonight or new songs. However, keep in mind that all the artists mentioned in the report performed at tonight's benefit. (Thanks Sylwia) Another One Of Those Strange VH1 Polls: The music channel has launched another poll, this time entitled "VH1 All Access: Body Beautiful," due to premiere on March 22nd. Whitney was nominated in two categories -- Best Mouth and Best Diaphragm. If you don't want to see Whitney ranked yet again by VH1 in the lower half of the list, please click here to vote for her. Oddly enough, Whitney is currently in second place behind Britney Spears in the "Best Mouth" category and is in third place for "Best Diaphragm," behind Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. VH1 did not disclose how they determined the nominations. (Thanks Sylwia) 2001/1/18 Whitney Prepares For Wyclef Jean Benefit! Whitney is looking forward to tomorrow evening's benefit concert being held in association with The Wyclef Jean Foundation that will take place at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The concert was organized by Wyclef Jean to help further his foundation's mission of advancing and promoting music education to children all over the world. This unique concert event will celebrate the last century of American music with performances by Whitney, Wyclef, Mary J. Blige, Macey Gray, Destiny's Child and Eric Clapton. Whitney will perform "My Love Is Your Love," written for Whitney by Wyclef and Jerry Wonder Duplessis, and she will also perform "I Go To The Rock" from The Preacher's Wife soundtrack. The event is being taped for a possible television special to air documenting the evening's festivities. (From the Platinum Club) On the Charts: The "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" DVD takes a small dip According to Italian magazine "TV Sorrisi & Canzoni," Whitney's Greatest Hits is at No. 36 on the albums chart by Top of the Music/Nielsen/C.R.A. (Thanks Rosilde) Here's an article that looks back at Superbowl XXV, where Whitney gave her historic rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" ten years ago. 2001/1/17 Another Premiere: Entertainment Tonight premiered the "If I Told You That" music video today, showing excerpts and some familiar behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot last year. They said the video was filmed in New York over a two-day period due to time constraints, and it was filmed at a soundstage that was made to look like a club. They also said that Whitney wanted to have a chance to work with George Michael. ET also played the video during its closing credits. (Thanks Rashad) Please continue to request the video and the song at U.S. and Canadian music channels and radio stations. Thanks! New Documentary: VH1 will present ''Say It Loud: Black Music In America'' this fall, a five-part documentary series chronicling the evolution and impact of African American music, it was announced today. The series will recount the story of black music from its roots in Africa to the present day through firsthand accounts, rare footage and artist interviews to be conducted in February and March. The series, which will cover jazz, blues, gospel and hip hop through to modern R&B and soul, was envisioned by Quincy Jones, who will co-executive produce the project, said VH1's Jeff Gaspin. In addition to co-producing the VH1 special, Rhino Records plans to release a companion box set and home videos simultaneously, he said. The series will chronicle the contributions of African American musicians like Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Tina Turner, Prince, Tupac Shakur, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, Whitney Houston, Sam Cooke, Dr. Dre and Al Green. Fans in Spain: The longer version of the "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" DVD (which includes "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" and "I Believe In You And Me") can be found in El Corte Inglés of Portal de l'Ŕngel (Barcelona). It costs 5100 Pta, and if you buy two DVDs, you get a 15% discount on each DVD. (Thanks Eduardo) 2001/1/16 BET's "106 & Park" show premiered "If I Told You That" as the new joint of the day! The audience members who were interviewed said the video is "hot," and they felt like "getting up and dancing with them." (Thanks Rashad) Please request the video as much as possible at BET and other music channels by clicking here. In addition, you can start requesting the song at U.S. radio stations by using links within the Whitney Weekday Request Campaign. Please try to follow the campaign instructions so we don't overwhelm the radio stations. It's still too early to bombard them! You can say that you saw the video on BET, or that you heard part of it while flipping past another station, or that you read a review for it and wanted to hear the song, or any other suitable reason that you can think of. And if you hear the song on your local station, you can request to hear it again. U.S. fans -- let me know if your station is playing it! Thanks! Yesterday night, the "Fine" music video was released on MTV BASE "Bytesize" at 23:55 in Spain. (Thanks MaJosé) If you missed the earlier Nippy News, use the News Archive or the newslog. Site design by: Dolphin Webpage Designs © 1996-2001