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 Had My Love" one of the year's most "infectious" singles. Amy Sciarretto of PopCrush praised it as a "silky-smooth", "confident" song that "established her as more than just an actress who was 'dabbling' in music [...] Her voice may be thin, but she chose a song that worked with her vocal limitations. It's [a] semi-synthy, mid-tempo, contempo R&B pop that's flawlessly executed." A reporter from the "International Business Times" called the song "radio-friendly". In a review of Lopez's remix album "J to tha L–O! The Remixes" (2002), Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" praised the Dark Child remix of "If You