– Sales: 5,460,000

While Whitney Houston only appears on the first half of “The Bodyguard” soundtrack, the album delivers three of her biggest post-’80s hits. Among them is “I Will Always Love You”—written by Dolly Parton—which won two Grammy Awards, and was on such heavy rotation that MTV might as well have dedicated a separate channel to it. As a result of that song and two others, the album spent 20 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts and sold 45 million copies. The film, which starred Houston and actor Kevin Costner, is basically a footnote.