I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston recording)

"I Will Always Love You" is a song recorded by American singer Whitney Houston. It is a cover of the original song written and recorded by Dolly Parton, and was inspired by a version recorded by Linda Ronstadt. It was released on November 2, 1992, by Arista Records as the lead single from the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, Houston's film acting debut. Her version was produced by Canadian musician David Foster. The song was a global success, topping the singles charts in 34 countries. Considered one of the most famous and iconic songs of all time, it has sold over 24 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling single by a female artist of all time as well as one of the best-selling singles of all time. It was also the world's best-selling single of 1992. The music video for "I Will Always Love You" is the first 20th century video by a solo act to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. As of August 2026, it has reached over 1.9 billion views, making it one of the most watched videos of all time.

Houston won Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards for the song. A live performance was included on the 1999 release Divas Live '99, and a 1994 performance of the song at Houston's acclaimed and history-making concert at Johannesburg, South Africa, where she became the first international artist to tour the region following the abolishing of apartheid and the presidency of Nelson Mandela, was included on the 2014 CD/DVD release of Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances.

Houston's version of the song appeared at number eight on NME's Greatest No 1 Singles in History list. It was included in the list of Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2004, Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" placed at number 65 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. It was also ranked at number 22 on The Guardian's list of Britain's favorite 100 songs, published in May 2002. In February 2014, the song placed at number six on Billboard's list of the Top 50 Love Songs of All Time. A year later, in 2015, Rod Couch ranked the song as the number one song of the rock era in his book, The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era: 1955-2015. In addition, the song has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was culturally preserved by the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.

The single is cited as one of Houston's signature songs.