Robbed hit of the week 4/16/18 - Simply Red's "Stars"...
from the album Stars (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the British pop/soul group Simply Red, who would land what would be their last top-40 hit in America in the fall of 1991 with "Something Got Me Started". The second single from the record would be the lush adult-pop of the title track "Stars", written by lead singer Mick Hucknall. Even though its fortunes in the U.S. should've been better, it was compensated by the song (and album) having massive success internationally, with the Stars album being the top-selling record in the UK for two years...
Although "Stars" climbed all the way to #8 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, the single stalled a few notches short of the pop top-40 in March of 1992. Internationally, the song landed in the top ten in the UK (#8) and Denmark (#9), and reached the top 20 in Italy (#11), Switzerland (#11), Ireland (#13), the Netherlands (#15), Belgium (#16), Canada (#17), Austria (#18), and Germany (#19).
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Here's the band on tour behind the Stars album in 1992...
And again in 2005 in Cuba live in concert with a more delicate, orchestral arrangement...
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