Whitney (album) also praised her vocals as follows: "Houston's voice sounds good, real good. [...] She's firmer, more confident." With the highly anticipated release of her second album "Whitney", Houston became the first female artist to debut at number one in the history of "Billboard" 200 chart (formerly the "Top Pop Albums" chart). It made her the fourth artist to achieve that feat overall, behind Elton John with "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" and "Rock of the Westies", Stevie Wonder with "Songs in the Key of Life" and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band with "Live/1975–85". On June 27,
Cowboy (album) Cowboy (album) Cowboy is the eighth studio album by Erasure, released in 1997 by Mute Records in the UK. In the U.S., it was released by Madonna's former label Maverick Records. "Cowboy" was produced by Gareth Jones and Neil McLellan and marked the band's return to more simplistic three-minute synthpop music. After disappointing sales and chart placing of their last studio album "Erasure", "Cowboy" returned the duo to the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart and it contains three singles (two of which hit the UK Top 30). In the U.S., "Cowboy" greatly improved Erasure's "Billboard" 200 peak over