Robbed hit of the week 11/12/18 - Prince and the New Power Generation's "The Morning Papers"...
from the album Love Symbol Album (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44
This week's "robbed hit" is from Prince, whose 1992 release Love Symbol Album, which featured a hieroglyph that he would soon adopt as his name, had spun off two top-40 pop hits in America with "My Name Is Prince" and the "7", the latter making the top ten at the start of 1993. Another single, the lush soul ballad "Damn U", was only released in the States, where it got to #32 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart and "bubbled under" their pop Hot 100 at #108. The final single from the record would be another love ballad. But this time "The Morning Papers", written and produced by the artist, narrowed the focus to his wife Mayte Garcia...
While "The Morning Papers" reached the top 20 on the American pop airplay chart, the song just missed the Billboard top-40 by a handful of notches in May of 1993. Most like the fans of the song simply had the album already by that point. The song also got to #68 on the R&B chart as well. Internationally, the song was a big hit in Canada, climbing to #8, and reached the top-40 in Switzerland (#31) and the Netherlands (#39), and was a minor hit in the UK at #52.
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And here is Prince performing the song on the Arsenio Hall show in 1993..
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