but nonetheless Run To You still managed to become a moderate hit, spending five weeks stuck at #31 on the Hot 100 but never cracking the top 30. You could argue that by this point the soundtrack didn't actually need any more singles. System and the UK top 10 hit Someday (I'm Coming Back) by Lisa Stansfield and had received an octuple platinum certification by the RIAA in May 1993 for shipments of eight million copies. In addition to Whitney's Hot 100 #1 smash I Will Always Love You and the Hot 100 #4 hits I'm Every Woman and I Have Nothing, the album had already by this point produced the US top 40 hit It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day by The S.O.U.L. Run To You was released as the sixth single from the soundtrack to The Bodyguard in June 1993, seven months after the album's release. Rank in the first Whitney singles rate: #17 of 49 (average: 7.862)Ĭreeping past One Moment In Time by a tiny margin (an extra 0.2 from one voter for One Moment In Time would have tied it for #17) is Run To You, our fourth elimination from The Bodyguard - which leaves only I Will Always Love You, I'm Every Woman and I Have Nothing left in the running. Highest scores: 11 x 4 ( of Life, 10 x 15 ( Chocolat, scores: 3.5 x 1 ( Blonde), 4 x 1 ( score: 11Ĭhart positions: US #31, US R&B #31, US AC #10, UK #15 The 11s on the remaining songs in the rate are pretty evenly distributed, with only three songs in the whole rate getting more than three 11s. Maybe that's why I've been putting it off for so long? I've been dreading having to write this elimination. (In the film, the attempt is made when Rachel walks onto the stage to accept an award.) The song plays a central role in the musical version of The Bodyguard, where it is the song that Whitney's character Rachel Marron performs at the Oscars in the climactic scene where an attempt on her life is made.
However, in the UK, One Moment In Time became the third of Whitney's four #1 singles (following Saving All My Love For You and I Wanna Dance With Somebody and preceding I Will Always Love You) and also was the third-most successful of the singles that re-entered the chart following Whitney's death, charting at #40 (behind I Will Always Love You at #14 and I Wanna Dance With Somebody at #20). It also became her first single to miss the top 10 of the Hot Black Singles chart, peaking at #22 (which would be her lowest peak on that chart until Run To You stalled at #31 in 1993). She performed the song again at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the 1997 US Open Tennis Championships and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.Īfter Love Will Save The Day had ended Whitney's record-breaking streak of US #1s, One Moment In Time returned her to the top five but, with a peak of #5, also achieved Whitney's second-lowest Hot 100 peak up to that point of all her solo singles. The song was specifically written for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and Albert Hammond has said that he wrote it "thinking of Elvis Presley", who had died in 1977. and a prolific singer in his own right, most notably scoring the 1972 US #5 hit It Never Rains In Southern California). One Moment In Time was written by John Bettis (originally part of the band Spectrum alongside Richard and Karen Carpenter and later a songwriter for the Carpenters as well as for Madonna, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters and Michael Jackson, among others) and Albert Hammond (father of the Strokes' guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. This was always the highest-rated track in the extras section and initially looked like it was on track for a top 10 placement, but a barrage of middling scores, capped off by that 3.5, put paid to that dream. We're back to eliminating my 10s, as One Moment In Time becomes my first 10 to vacate since My Name Is Not Susan back at #26. Rank in the first Whitney singles rate: #16 of 49 (average: 7.931) Highest scores: 11 x 1 ( 10 x 21 ( of Life, Grandson, Something, scores: 3.5 x 1 ( 4 x 1 ( Blonde)Ĭhart positions: US #5, US R&B #22, US AC #1, UK #1 Still, this song's section managed to hang on for ages and it'll be a shame to enter the top 15 without it. I mean, with only three songs left in the running without any 11s, this is hardly a surprise. We now return from our brief intermission to bring you.
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