Whitney is nominated for 2 awards: Favorite Female Musical Performer (also nominated were Aaliyah for her album "One In A Million", and Natalie Cole for her album "Stardust.") Whitney was nominated for "The Preacher's Wife" soundtrack.

1. "Beavis and Butt-head Do America," $20.5 million
2. "Jerry Maguire," $13.4 million.
3. "101 Dalmatians," $6.8 million.
4. "Scream," $6.3 million.
5. "One Fine Day," $6.1 million.
6. "The Preacher's Wife," $5.3 million.
7. "Mars Attacks!" $4.7 million.
8. "Jingle All the Way," $3 million.
9. "My Fellow Americans," $2.8 million.
10. "Daylight," $2.3 million.

Whitney Houston made her first and last UK Television interview on "The O Zone" of 1996.
In the show, Whitney talked about "The Preacher's Wife" movie and about the songs from the album. There was footage of Babyface working on the final mix of "My Heart Is Calling" and interview clips with 'Face, Denzel Washington, Lionel Richie and Penny Marshall.
Whitney talked about the new single "Step By Step" and how she felt that God had made it so that she would record this special song from the pen of Annie Lennox.
When asked about a future tour, Whitney replied that she had toured for the most part of ten years and would now take some time and think about it after next year. (submitted by: Manish C.) Check out his Whitney homepage!

Whitney's video for "Step By Step" was recently released in Europe. The video shows Whitney is wearing a brown rain coat and dances to the song standing on a center stage while other dancers join her as the song develops...Whitney also hold an opened umbrella while rain is pouring down. Whitney's hair is curly and she looks great. The video also features Bobby Brown in the end... It seems as if Whitney is trying to hide her growing stomach, wearing big clothes and they focus mainly on her face. (submitted by: Isaac S.)

Sweet Whitney, had a miscarriage yesterday !!! I really wish her the BEST. (submitted by: Don)

I just received word from the offices of Whitney Houston, Nippy Inc. that Whitney is not in good health and has cancelled for now all her Tokyo tour dates... (they were scheduled for January 1997) (submitted by: Jay H.)

On Taiwan IFPI International Chart, Whitney's new OST "The Preacher's Wife" debut on 10th spot. (submitted by: Mike C.)

Over here in Europe the new Whitney single is "Step by step". I just bought the single CD and it contains the following tracks:

1. Album Version     4:12
2. Teddy Riley Remix     4:32
3. Junior Vasquez Remix     11:50
4. Soul solution Diva Vocal Mix     9:02

Here are Billboard magazine updates for the week ending December 28, 1996:

• Hot 100 Singles: "I Believe In You And Me" is the Hot Shot Debut at No. 7
• The Billboard 200 Albums: "The Preacher's Wife" soundtrack moves from No. 4 to No. 3
• Top R&B Albums: "The Preacher's Wife" soundtrack moves from No. 4 to No. 2
• Adult Contemporary chart: "I Believe In You and Me" went up from No. 9 to Nom 8

Dance Trax, Billboard Magazine, reports that Arista will soon unleash the hotly anticipated Junior Vasquez and Soul Solution reconstructions of "Step by Step" by Whitney Houston. Here's the complete article. (submitted by: Ralph M.)

This is where Whitney places on some of Billboard's Year End charts:

• #14 Hot 100 Single for "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"
• #4 Album for "Waiting To Exhale"
• #2 R&B Album for "Waiting To Exhale"
• #1 Soundtrack for "Waiting To Exhale"

The Mr. Showbiz website is featuring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Penny Marshall: (read the article). The stars and director of "The Preacher's Wife" talk about working with each other and the making of their feel-good holiday remake. (submitted by: Alexandra D.-- my little sister)

Here are the final stats for this weekends "The Preacher's Wife" box office tally: "The Preacher's Wife," Buena Vista, $7.6 million, 1,783 locations, $4,290 average, $7.6 million, one week.
Interesting statistic: if "The Preacher's Wife" was on as many screens as "Jerry Maguire," it would have grossed almost $11 million, good enough for 2nd place. Just an interesting piece of info. (submitted by: Ralph M.)

In today's L.A. Times, it said that "The Preacher's Wife" was shown in over 1700 screens, much less than the other films. Disney/Touchstone expects to expand the film to more screen this week as the good word-of-mouth talk about the film spreads this week. (submitted by: Ralph M.)... No wonder it debuted out of the top 3!

From Billboard Magazine (12/21/96)... here are the stats so for on the song and on the album submitted by Ralph M.

• AC Chart: 5th
• Urban: 11th
• Urban AC: 8th

There is an interview of Whitney in Newsweek magazine. With a Song in Her Heart and a Lot on Her Mind, 'Preacher's Wife' star Whitney Houston talks about Bobby, Denzel, Tupac, Santa and Toys "R" Us... Read all about it! (submitted by: Ralph M.)

Here are other chart notes:

	On the R&B Albums chart, "The Preacher's Wife"
	soundtrack leaps from No. 8 to No. 4 in its second week
	on the chart.

	On the Hot Adult Contemporary chart "I Believe In You
	And Me" vaults from No. 19 to No. 9 ... a huge leap on 
	a chart where chart movement is usually very small.

Billboard Magazine reports that ... Whitney is the "Greatest Gainer" this week. Read the entire news release.
Her album jumped to # 4 this week. (submitted by: JRW)

The nominees for The American Music Awards are selected on the basis of sales and airplay. The winners are chosen by a national sampling of about 20,000 listeners.

The nominations: ADULT CONTEMPORARY
ARTIST: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston.
"Waiting To Exhale" soundtrack is also nominated for BEST SOUNDTRACK.

Things are heating up for Whitney ( according to this LA Times news article) and we all hope the soundtrack to soar this week!(submitted by: Tom C.)

On December 9th, the premiere of The Preacher's Wife took place in New York City. The premiere was held as a benefit for The Whitney Houston Foundation For Children, The Boys Club of America (Denzel Washington is its official spokesperson) and The Lymphoma Foundation. (from The Platinum Club)

There are some songs in The Preacher's Wife feature film that are NOT on the soundtrack! Here they are...

	"Love Divine All Loves Excelling"
         Arranged by John Wilberforce and Michael Arthur 

        "Nyn Hae Dynameis"
         Arranged by Demetrios Lekkas and Thanassis Moraitis 

        "Somebody Bigger Than You and I"
        Performed by Whitney Houston 

        "Lay Aside Every Weight"
        Performed by Whitney Houston and the Georgia Mass Choir 

        "He's All Over Me"
        Performed by Loretta Devine 

        "Christmas Is a Whispering Time of Year"
        Written by Jerry Abbott 

        "Good News"
        Performed by the Nativity Choir 

        "Big Alice"
	Written by Don Pullen 

        "The Lord's Prayer"
        Performed by Soul Tempo  
from the PW Official Website

And I just learned that "I Believe In You And Me" is an old classic song of The Four Tops. Then, I went to buy their album and lucky enough, I found the album that included this song --- and it's also awesome, too! (submitted by: Tom C.)

Three stores in Atlanta that [Sam] just happened to be in are sold out of the PW CD. I have to tell you that Arista might have been wise to release "Joy To the World" or "Step By Step" first. A couple of the radio stations here are playing it in Atlanta. (submitted by: Sam H.)

Whitney is on the cover of Premiere magazine for January 1997. Article and great pictures with her in the studio while recording "My Heart Is Calling" The article is called "Leave it to diva" Clever, huh... (submitted by: Pat R.)