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''I Look to You'' is the seventh and final studio album by American recording artist Whitney Houston before her death on February 11, 2012. It was first released on August 28, 2009 through Sony Music in Europe, then August 31, 2009 with Arista Records in the United States before being released by RCA Records in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2009. The album was Houston's first studio album since 2003's ''One Wish'', and the follow-up to 2002's ''Just Whitney...''. It received favorable reviews from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 66/100 from Metacritic and debuted on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 at number one with sales of 305,000, beating her previous career best first-week sale of 205,137 units with ''Just Whitney...'' (2002), and it was her first album to reach number one in the US since 1992's ''The Bodyguard''. Additionally it became her fourth chart-topping album, thus extending her as the female artist with the most cumulative weeks at the number one position. It has spawned two official singles: The title song, which became a top 20 U.S. R&B chart single, and the international single "Million Dollar Bill", which hit the top ten in several countries worldwide and also becoming a US top 20 R&B hit. Since its release, ''I Look to You'' has gone on to sell over 3 million units worldwide, earning platinum certification in seven countries and gold certification in eight. A promotional single, "Nothin' But Love", taken from the album, was only released to UK radio stations to promote the accompanying Nothing but Love World Tour. ==Background== ''I Look to You'' had first been conceived in 2007 with recording and production taking place in 2008, as said Houston during her Los Angeles album listening party in 2009.〔 Rumor of Houston's return to music were first circulated at the start of 2007 and were then substantiated when record label boss and close mentor Clive Davis confirmed that he would personally be involved in the project whilst speaking on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''. In February 2009, Houston appeared on stage at Davis's "Pre-Grammy Gala" where she performed a four-song set comprising ''I Will Always Love You'', ''I Believe in You and Me'', ''It's Not Right but It's Okay,'' and a rousing version of ''I'm Every Woman''. Onlookers included her mother Cissy Houston, musicians Paul McCartney, Jamie Foxx and Barry Manilow as well as actors Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone. She told press in London that her latest album will reflect her emotional state and chronicle events in her personal life since her last musical release in 2002. She said "That makes it real. The changes that we go through, the transitions that we go through, the tests that we go through, being a mother, becoming a single mother. It all had its ups and its downs, but for the most part, I kept my faith and I kept my head up... I took my time. All the triumphs and the ups and downs and stuff, it's all incorporated on the album, and hopefully not only does it inspire me, but inspires a whole lot of other people." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Look to You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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