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Whitney Houston's career is getting a post-mortem boost, but it isn't likely to be as big as the one that enriched the King of Pop's estate after his death. Like the late Michael Jackson, Houston was in the midst of an attempted career revival. She was found dead at age 48 on Saturday in her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammys, a stage she once ruled. It could be weeks before the coroner's office completes toxicology tests that could establish the cause of death. In an outpouring of grief - and a desire to remember her soaring voice and upbeat personality - Houston's fans have propelled her decades-old recordings to the top of sales charts on iTunes and Amazon.com. Twitter recorded more than 2.5 million Tweets about her within two hours of her death. In the day and a half after she died, US sales of Houston's albums skyrocketed. Weekly sales through Sunday jumped nearly 60 times the previous week's level to 101,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Radio airplay soared and her best-selling single, I Will Always Love You, jumped to 195,000 downloads in the week through Sunday, up from just 3,000 the week before. Online music service Spotify said Houston's songs were streamed 2.4 million times between Saturday and Sunday alone. Not unlike Jackson's posthumous star turn in the movie This Is It, Houston will star in a film that is set for release later this year. In addition, dozens of the six-time Grammy-winner's unreleased recordings may someday be released to a public grieving her loss. | 
