Robbed hit of the week 10/16/17 - INXS' "Bitter Tears"...
from the album X (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #46
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Australian modern rock band INXS, whose seventh album X, commemorating their tenth year in the business, had scored them a pair of top ten pop hits in America with "Suicide Blonde" and "Disappear". (A third single released in the UK, "By My Side", just missed out on the top-40 there.) The third release in the States was the uptempo "Bitter Tears". Written by lead singer Michael Hutchence with the band's Andrew Farris, the song was a big hit on rock radio...
While "Bitter Tears" reached the top ten on both the Mainstream (#4) and Modern (#6) Rock radio charts in Billboard magazine, the track stopped just short of the pop top-40 in May of 1991. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in Canada (#13), Britain (#30), the Netherlands (#34), and Australia (#36).
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Here's the band performing the song live on the Arsenio Hall show in 1991...
...and in concert in London that same year...
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