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Whitney Houston Songs, Yeah Sony Music.

March 4, 2012 by  
Filed under Ent., Music, News, Opinion, Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.com) The death of pop music icon Whitney Houston has executives at Sony huddling up with marketing reps in its music and film division for a windfall of revenue from movie and DVD sales over the next year and many decades to come.

Houston was found Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California where she was scheduled to perform at her mentor Clive Davis’ popular annual Grammy eve black-tie party.

Reports have surfaced that drugs and pills were in the room with an autopsy report due in two months, but nothing official has been released.

Despite this downward spiral of the R&B diva, it is unquestionable that her music catalogue will now shoot to the top of every music chart, i.e., Billboard, iTunes and Amazon.

And for music industry player Sony, it could not happen at a better time.  Record sales have dropped significantly since Houston’s debut in 1985 as the “girl-next-door” with a squeaky-clean image who backed up singer Chaka Khan.  Her sad, untimely death could reap $1 billion in box office and album related revenue.

Three of her movies have grossed over half-billion dollars and broken all types of records.

Houston’s hit with Kevin Costner, “The Bodyguard”, did a whopping $400 million plus worldwide; “The Preacher’s Wife” with Denzel Washington did about $50 million worldwide and “Waiting to Exhale” (based on the popular Terry McMillian book) with Angela Bassett did over $80 million at the box office.

Her final upcoming film is “Sparkle” featuring Houston, American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and comedian Mike Epps and loosely based on a group of singers trying to become stars but facing issues of family strife, drugs and mobsters.   She sings the gospel classic “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” on the soundtrack.

Loosely based on the lives of the Supremes, the movie is a remake of the 1976 classic with Irene Cara (Fame movie) and Phillip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice television series).   It was estimated to do $100 million at the box-office, but should double or triple that number with the outpouring of support in the wake of Houston’s death and the muscle of the T.D. Jakes empire that is Sony’s partner.

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