New version of Whitney Houston's How Will I Know with Clean Bandit announced

The track will be released later in September.

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A new version of Whitney Houston's How Will I Know produced by Clean Bandit is to be released later this month.

Billed as Whitney Houston x Clean Bandit, the refreshed take on the 1986 hit will be released on Friday September 24. A preview of the song was posted to Whitney's official Facebook account, while the artwork was revealed via the song's pre-save page.

"We were surprised and honoured to be asked to remix the legend Whitney Houston's How Will I Know," Clean Bandit told their followers.

The original version of How Will I Know peaked at Number 5 on the Official Singles Chart in February 1986, while Take Me To The Clouds Above, a 2004 single by dance group LMC vs U2 that sampled the song, reached Number 1.

How Will I Know is not the first Whitney song to be given an updated spin; Higher Love, a Japanese-exclusive album track from her 1990 album I'm Your Baby Tonight was reworked by Kygo and the song reached Number 2 in the UK and is now Whitney's longest-reigning hit on the Official UK Chart Top 100, and her most streamed song surpassing I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

The news comes as another song which interpolates the Top 5 smash is currently in the Official Singles Chart Top 40. If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know) by David Guetta, Mistajam and John Newman is presently at Number 39.

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AUCF

Angry UK Chart Fan

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Ugh, enough of this song. We have David Guetta and MistaJam using this song this year, why is Clean Bandit even doing this...? Clean Bandit really have been less interesting since one of their members left few years ago. And I don't feel it's gonna sound good. Whitney is not the most pleasant to hear. 'Higher Love' with Kygo was annoying too.