Robbed hit of the week 11/5/18 - "Buddy X" from Neneh Cherry...
from the album Homebrew (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43
This week's "robbed hit" comes from Swedish singer/songwriter Neneh Cherry, whose debut album Raw Like Sushi had landed her a pair of top ten hits in 1989 with "Buffalo Stance" and "Kisses On The Wind". She reached the British top-40 with her cover of "I've Got You Under My Skin" from the Cole Porter tribute slash AIDS benefit album Red Hot & Blue (UK #25) in 1990. But it took three years for her sophomore effort Homebrew to arrive, a long time in terms of a new artist trying to establish themselves. Lead single "Money Love" was moderately successful internationally, reaching the top-40 in Sweden (#17), the UK (#23), the Netherlands (#27), and New Zealand (#31), but it never nicked any American chart. But shortly after that, album track "Trout", featuring Michael Stipe from the American alternative rock band R.E.M., was serviced to rock radio, and spent a week at #2 on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock format chart (her sole rock radio chart appearance). In the spring of 1993, the third release from Homebrew, "Buddy X", was released. Written with musical partner Cameron McVey along with Jerry and Katreese Barnes, it got a better reception...
While "Buddy X" reached the top-40 in the UK (#35) and the Netherlands (#23), the single stalled a few notches under the American pop top-40 in May of 1993. The remixes of the track, however, proved to be a huge success, letting the song climb to #4 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list.
Cherry would appear on the American pop chart once more, as the featured singer on African musician Youssou N'Dour's "7 Seconds", which got to #98 here, but was a top ten hit all over the world.
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Here's the remix from house music legends Masters At Work that helped the track reach the top 5 on the American dance chart...
In 1999, new remixes of the song done by British DJ Dreem Team caused the song to re-enter the British singles chart and eclipse the original, peaking at #15...
And finally, Neneh on Arsenio Hall performing both "Buddy X" and her groundbreaking "Buffalo Stance"...
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