Where Do Broken Hearts Go

Infobox Single
Name = Where Do Broken Hearts Go


Artist = Whitney Houston
from Album = Whitney
B-side =
Released = March 1988
Format = CD single
Cassette single
7" single
Recorded =
Genre = R&B
Length = 4:38
Label = Arista Records
Writer = Frank Wildhorn
Chuck Jackson
Producer = Narada Michael Walden
Certification =
Last single = "So Emotional"
(1987)
This single = "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"
(1988)
Next single = "Love Will Save the Day"
(1988)

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, "Whitney". The ballad was released in March 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson.

Initially Houston did not want to record the song, feeling it was ordinary and there was no special message to convey. However, Arista Records CEO Clive Davis believed the song would go to number one if she recorded it, so she agreed. The single became Houston's seventh consecutive number-one.

Chart information

Houston was already in a three-way tie with The Beatles and The Bee Gees; all three acts with six consecutive number-one singles in the U.S. "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" gave her a record-breaking seven consecutive #1 singles, holding down the top spot for two weeks from April 23 to May 6 1988.

The song also topped both component charts, the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales and Hot 100 Airplay and remained in the top forty for thirteen weeks.

On other Billboard charts, the song fared well, reaching number one for three weeks on the Adult Contemporary charts and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.

The song also became a hit in the United Kingdom, and on the United World Chart; it fared moderately in Australia, reaching number forty-eight in that country.

Music video

The music video (directed by Peter Israelson) for this song features Houston breaking up with a boyfriend, reflecting on happy memories of the couple, and asking herself the title question.

Covers

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" has been covered by punk rock group Me First & The Gimme Gimmes on their 2003 album Take a Break.

Charts

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" was ranked thirty-third on The Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts (1988), and stayed in the chart for seventeen weeks.

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" was Houston's seventh number-one single on The Billboard Hot 100, her sixth on The Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales, her fifth on The Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, and her sixth on The Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts.