( CNN ) -- As a singer and as a person , Whitney Houston had been described as larger than life . The numbers speak to that , adding up to a legendary career . 2 . Years that Houston took to make her first album after iconic music producer Clive Davis discovered her in a New York nightclub in 1983 . 12 million . Copies of her debut album , titled `` Whitney Houston , '' sold in the United States . 11.8 million . Number of `` The Bodyguard '' soundtrack units sold , making it the best-selling soundtrack in more than 20 years . 14 weeks . The period `` I Will Always Love You '' topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992 , the second-longest reign in the chart 's history . 4.5 million . The number of physical singles Whitney Houston 's song , `` I Will Always Love You , has sold since its release in 1992 . 7 . Consecutive No . 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits that she had in the 1980s -- from `` Saving All My Love for You '' and `` Where Do Broken Hearts Go '' -- breaking a record earlier held by The Beatles and the Bee Gees . 79.6 million . Estimated number of those who watched Super Bowl XXV on January 27 , 1991 , where Houston 's rendition of `` The Star Spangled Banner '' became the gold standard for performing the national anthem , according to music critics . $ 410,945,720 . Gross domestic and international sales from the 1992 movie `` The Bodyguard , '' starring Houston and Kevin Costner . 1 . Number of children -- Bobbi Kristina , born in 1993 after her marriage to New Edition singer Bobby Brown . 60 million . TV viewers who watched Houston star as the Fairy Godmother in an ABC reworking of Cinderella in 1997 . 6 . Grammy awards that Houston won over the course of her career , the last coming in 2000 for best female R & B performance for `` It 's Not Right But It 's Okay '' 411 . Awards total that she 'd garnered as of 2006 . 170 million . Albums , singles and videos that she sold over the course of her career . 48 . Age on Saturday , when she was pronounced dead in her fourth-floor room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills . Sources : Whitney Houston 's official website ; Nielsen ; Boxofficemojo.com ; Recording Industry Association of America .
Whitney Houston sold more than 100 million albums , singles and videos . She won at least 30 awards , including 6 Grammy honors . The mother of one daughter , she was 48 when she died .