Robbed hit of the week 9/24/18 - Annie Lennox's "Little Bird"...

"Little Bird" - Annie Lennox
from the album Diva (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49

This week's "robbed hit" comes from Scottish singer Annie Lennox, whose first solo album after putting the Eurythmics on hold, Diva, had scored a pair of top-40 pop hits in America with "Why" and "Walking On Broken Glass". The third single put out in the States (and the fifth in her native UK) was the bouncy uptempo "Little Bird". Written by Lennox and produced by Stephen Lipson, the lyrics belie the agony the protagonist is feeling, but in the end decides to "spread her wings and fly". The video is iconic, predating many other attempts of the recreation of Annie's personas from her old videos performing on stage by impersonators (men and women), as she was very pregnant at the time...

While "Little Bird" scaled to #3 on the British singles chart - coupled with soundtrack cut "Love Song For A Vampire", her best solo showing to date at that time, the single stopped short at the halfway mark on the American pop Hot 100 in March of 1993. The remixes of the track helped Annie top Billboard's Dance Club Play for a week as well. Along with her success in the UK, the single reached the top ten in Ireland (#3), Spain (#4), Portugal (#6), Canada (#7), Italy (#7), and France (#10).

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The "B-side" of the single, "Love Song For A Vampire", rose to #24 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart...