Billboard #1 Hits: #647: ‘So Emotional’- Whitney Houston. January 9, 1988. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.

• Single: ‘So Emotional’- Whitney Houston
• Record Company-Arista
• Genre: Dance Rock
• Written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly
• Time: 4:36
• B-side: ‘For The Love Of You’
• Album- Whitney
• Grade: B-
• Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #5 in UK Singles Chart.

The first new #1 hit in 1988- ‘Faith’ by George Michael a hold over from 1987 had held the top spot in the first week of 1988. At this point in time Whitney Houston was a hit machine- this was her sixth straight single to get to #1. She wouldn’t meet Bobby Brown until 1989.