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"Sleeping Satellite" - Tasmin Archer
from the album Great Expectations (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's song of the day comes from singer/songwriter Tasmin Archer, who comes from the northeast Yorkshire part of England. She released her debut album Great Expectations in 1992, with the song "Sleeping Satellite" as the first release. Written by Archer with John Beck and John Hughes, the song, with a dreamy quality like Seal's early work, became her first and biggest success...

"Sleeping Satellite" became Archer's first and only charting pop hit in America, reaching the top-40 in June of 1993. The song climbed to #12 on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock radio chart, while also crossing over to #24 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio list. Internationally, the single spent two weeks at #1 in the UK as well as five at the top in Ireland. It also made #1 in Greece, and the top ten in Italy (#3), Sweden (#4), Switzerland (#5), Canada (#6), France (#6), the Netherlands (#8). Her Great Expectations album hit #8 in her native Britain, while peaking at #115 in the U.S. Tasmin won a BRIT Award for Breakthrough Artist for the album.

The second release from Great Expectations, "In Your Care" raised money for children's charity Child Line, and went to #16 in the UK and made the top-40 in New Zealand at #37. That was followed by the country music-inflected "Lords Of The New Church", which got to #26 in Britain and #40 in New Zealand. Lastly, the melodic "Arienne" gave Tasmin a fourth British top-40 hit at #30. Also, album track "Somebody's Daughter" became a minor hit in Germany at #57.

In 1994, Tasmin released an extended-play single (EP), Shipbuilding. The title track, which covered the Falkland War, was written by Elvis Costello. Charting as a single in the UK, it rose to #40. Two years later, Archer released her sophomore effort, Bloom, but the lead single "One More Good Night With The Boys", stopped just short of the Top-40 at #45. Her most recent album On appeared ten years later.

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When the song was released in the UK in 1992, it sported a different music video...