By this time next month, maybe a few days into June (the 35th anniversary of its release), the "Whitney" album will be the first album by a black female artist who released music in the 20th century to be streamed a billion times on Spotify (third black female artist overall behind Beyonce and Rihanna, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong - I think Mariah's Christmas album is a billion streamer too so she'd be the fourth artist of African-American origin to do so). It would also be the first album by a black female artist released in the 1980s to be streamed a billion times. 


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