Robbed hit of the week 11/20/17 - Titiyo's "My Body Says Yes"...
from the album Titiyo (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42
This week's "robbed hit" comes from Swedish pop singer Titiyo, the half-sister of Neneh Cherry, who had scored two big hits in America in 1989 with "Buffalo Stance" and "Kisses On The Wind". Her first album was released in 1990, and the single "Man In The Moon" became her first hit in her homeland, reaching #6 on the Swedish pop chart. That was followed by "After The Rain", which made it to #13 there and was her first minor hit in the UK at #60. The lush dance track "Flowers" also hit the British chart at #71. But it was a different song from Titiyo, "My Body Says Yes", that gave the singer her biggest American success. Written by producers Magnus Frykberg and Dan Wahlgren, the energetic club track seemed like a sure shot for dance-oriented radio...
"My Body Says Yes" came within two notches of reaching Billboard's Top 40 in America in July of 1991. Two years later, Titiyo released her sophomore effort This Is Titiyo, and while the U.S. pretty much ignored the record, she returned to the charts in Sweden with "Never Let Me Go", a recycled Aretha Franklin album track, at #25. Another song from the set, "Tell Me (I'm Not Dreaming)", was her highest-charting British hit at #45.
In 1996, Titiyo hooked up with Stakka Bo for "We Vie", which landed her back in the top ten in Sweden at #10. Her own third album Come Along didn't arrive until 2001, but the title track gave the singer her biggest domestic hit at #3, while also reaching the top-40 all over Europe. In 2008, she guested on "Longing For Lullabies", a single from local dance act Kleerup for their self-titled album (which also had their hit with Robyn, "With Every Heartbeat"), and also got to #7. Her most recent success in her native country came in 2013 with "Själen av en vän" ("The Soul Of A Friend") which peaked at #20.
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And here's the "house music" remix, done by giants Yvonne Turner and Mark Saunders, which also criminally was robbed of appearing on the Dance Club chart...
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