Saving All My Love for You Kelley L. Carter of MTV also listed the track on their "Whitney Houston's Top 10 Songs", complimenting the singer for taking an already-recorded song and giving it new life." 'On "The New York Daily News"'s "The 100 Greatest Love Songs", "Saving All My Love for You" was placed at number 79. The song was also on "The Telegraph",s "The 50 Best Love Songs of the 80's", with the authors wrote that, "The song that launched Whitney, invented a newly minted variety of globe-storming soul diva", picking the line, "Though I try to resist, being last on your list/But no other
Saving All My Love for You who picked it as one of the album's highlights and praised her vocals on the song. Whitney also earned her first Grammy Award with the song, on the category Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Commercially, the song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100, being her first number one on the charts; it also went to number one in both the UK and Ireland, and was her first major hit in the British Isles. In the United States, it was awarded a Gold certification from the RIAA in 1995. "Saving All My Love for You" was written by Michael