If the movie was a success, the soundtrack was an absolute smash. It topped the Billboard album chart, as well as 20 international album charts. It was the #1 album on the 1993 Year End Billboard album chart, #2 on the Decade End Billboard album chart, and #23 on the all-time Billboard album chart. It has been certified 18x platinum in the U.S., and it has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling soundtrack of all-time and the third-highest-selling album of all-time worldwide, behind only Michael Jackson's Thriller and AC/DC's Back in Black.
Of course, the signature song from the album and movie is Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's 1982 country hit "I Will Always Love You." Houston transformed the song into a majestic pop soul classic, which spent a then-record 14 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is still the longest-running #1 hit from a soundtrack. In addition, the song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Year End chart for 1993, #7 on the Billboard Decade-End chart for the '90s, #54 on the Billboard all-time singles chart, and #1 on the pop charts in 24 other countries and the Eurochart. After Houston's death in 2012, the song reentered many of those charts, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 10 on 15 other international charts. It won dozens of music awards, including the Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Female.
The video is a classic too, featuring Houston sitting alone and singing, while scenes from the film mixed in, climaxing when she belts out "And Iiiiiiiiii will always love yooouuuuu" while sitting in a chair in the snow. In October 2020, it became the 7th video from the 20th Century to reach one billion views on YouTube, and the first video by a solo artist to hit that mark.
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