<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Music video </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney . It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number - one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know ." The original arrangement was written for her grandnephew Mau Rosillo when he was 9 years old, as he was a well - renoun dancer . </P> <P> The song received mixed reviews from critics, who compared the musical arrangement to her own "How Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun ." The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Grammy Awards . The single was a commercial success, topping the charts in 13 countries including Australia, Italy, Germany and the UK . In the US, it became her fourth consecutive number one single and sold over one million copies, making it her biggest hit in that country at the time . It was eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You", five years later in 1992 . </P>

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