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"Push It" - Salt-N-Pepa
from the album Hot, Cool & Vicious (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the Day comes from the rap act Salt-N-Pepa, named for its leader Cheryl James ("Salt") and Sandra Denton ("Pepa"). Along with DJ Spinderella (Deidra Roper), they released their first indie single "Showstopper" in 1985, which climbed to #46 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine. That success led them and their producer Herby "Luv Bug" Azor to Next Plateau Records, where they recorded their debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious. The third single from the set, "Tramp", landed the trio into the top-40 on the soul chart at #21, but it was the "B-side" that brought the women their true breakthrough. "Push It", written by Azor with a dash of the Kinks' 60's hit "You Really Got Me" added, was undeniably dance-club gold, and the "glass ceiling" of hip-hop was finally broken...

"Push It" became Salt-N-Pepa's first pop hit, reaching the top-20 on the Hot 100 in February of 1988. The single also went to #28 on Billboard's R&B chart, while the 12" single peaked at #18 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the single went all the way to #2 in the UK, topped the charts in Belgium and the Netherlands, and top-10 in Sweden (#2), Australia (#3), New Zealand (#4), Norway (#4), Spain (#6), Switzerland (#6), Ireland (#6), Canada (#7), Germany (#9), and Austria (#9).

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Here's Salt-N-Pepa performing "Push It" at the Woodstock '94 festival...

In 2002, Destiny's Child incorporated "Push It" into their international single "Nasty Girl", which went to #10 in Australia...

Glee used "Push It" in its first season in 2009, and the cast's version of the song made it to #35 in Ireland, #96 in the UK....

Up tomorrow:  Goth Brits travel up to the skies, they think.