Robbed hit of the week 10/1/18 - Sound Factory's "Understand This Groove"...
from the CD/vinyl single release (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #58
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Swedish dance act Sound Factory, who came together in the early nineties with DJ/producers Emil Hellman and "St. James" Gicho. Their breakout hit was the house music club banger "Understand This Groove", written by Rob Goten and Jones Wynne, which was one of the few underground club hits that mainstream radio picked up on. It was a remix of another underground club jam from UTI which featured singer Frankë that nicked the British singles chart at #97.
While "Understand This Groove" climbed to #13 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart, the single only made it to #58 on their pop Hot 100 chart in February of 1993, although it was on the list for 17 weeks. The act's next single "2 The Rhythm" missed both the dance chart and the pop Hot 100, "bubbling under" the latter list at #111, but it was their first minor hit in the UK at #72. The following year, Sound Factory released their first and only album, Product, but because of licensing issues from the original record, "Understand This Groove" wasn't on the set. But instead was songs like "Good Time", which became the duo's biggest club hit, topping Billboard's Dance Club Play chart for a week, and "bubbling under" the Hot 100 yet again at #112 , and reaching #77 in Britain. Their final charting hit, "Come Take Control" went to #12 on the dance chart.
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And here's the record "Understand This Groove" was devised from, of the same name, from UTI featuring Franke...
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