One Moment in Time

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"One Moment in Time"
Single by Whitney Houston
from the album One Moment in Time: 1988 Summer Olympics Album
Released	July 3, 1988
Format	CD single Cassette single 7" single
Genre	Soft rock, Ballad, Adult contemporary
Length	4:36
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Albert Hammond, John Bettis
Producer	Narada Michael Walden
Whitney Houston singles chronology
"Love Will Save the Day" (1988) "One Moment in Time" (1988) "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989)

"One Moment in Time" is a song written by Albert Hammond and John Bettis, and recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea.

[edit] History

The song was written for and appears on the album 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time, produced in conjunction with NBC Sports' coverage of the Seoul games and which, in addition to Houston, also featured artists such as: The Four Tops, The Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Taylor Dayne and the film composer John Williams. The track is an anthem for believing in yourself against all odds as Houston asks for "One moment in time/when I'm racing with destiny/Then, in that one moment of time, I will feel eternity".

The video for the song is a basic collage of clips from previous Olympic ceremonies.

[edit] Chart information

"One Moment in Time" became another hit for Houston, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed in the top forty for eleven weeks. The single also reached number three on the Hot 100 Single Sales and number seven on the Hot 100 Airplay. The song did reach number one on the Adult Contemporary charts for two weeks, and number five on the R&B Charts.

Internationally, the song performed even better, topping the charts in United Kingdom (for 2 weeks) and Germany. The song also reached number four in Switzerland, and number eight in France, but only fifty-four in Australia. It was a number-one hit in the Philippines by Kristina Paner.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Single track-listing

1. "One Moment in Time"
2. "One Moment in Time"
3. "Olympic Joy"
4. "Midnight Wind"
5. "Love Will Save the Day" (remix)

[edit] Charts

"One Moment in Time" was ranked eighty-ninth on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end charts (1988), and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for fifteen weeks. It was Houston's seventh number-one single on The Billboard Adult Contemporary, her tenth top ten hit on the Hot 100, her third number-one on the UK Singles Chart, and her second number-one on the Germany Singles Chart.