Saving All My Love for You Vocal Performance in 1986. She also won the American Music Award for Favorite R&B/Soul Video for "Saving All My Love for You". The song also entered the list of her best songs. While listing her "25 Best Songs", editors from "Entertainment Weekly" placed the song at number 21, writing that, "The stuff that's been piped into thousands of dentist offices, it was also her first No. 1 hit." BET placed the song at number 7 on their "40 Best Whitney Houston Songs", writing that, "The song has it all: her breathy come-ons, her trademark epic high notes, her delicate runs."
If You Had My Love of the summer of 1999, adding: "This song was the jam you and your gal pals practiced your back up dancer routines with. Admit it." "Rolling Stone" included the song on a list of the "20 Biggest Songs of the Summer" from the 1990s. In 2012, Lewis Corner of "Digital Spy" described "If You Had My Love" as an "R&B classic", which serves as "a firm reminder of her fiercely independent but hopeless romantic nature, which seems to reflect her colourful personal life." Rapper T-Pain stated that it was the Darkchild remix of "If You Had My Love", which he