Robbed hit of the week 1/28/19 - Prince's "Pink Cashmere"...
from the album The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50
This week's "robbed hit" is from Prince, who had been already begun to feud with his record label, predating his moniker change with the Love Symbol Album in 1992, which still managed to spin off a pair of top-40 pop hits with "My Name Is Prince" and the top ten "7". The following year, Warner Brothers released a 3-CD compilation of Prince's greatest hits, the first in his career. Including a whole disc of B-sides and rarities, it was the most comprehensive collection of his at the time, although it shut out his work on the Batman soundtrack. There were two new songs on the set that were issued as singles. The first, "Pink Cashmere", was a slow jam that sounded like it would fit in on his Diamonds & Pearls album, but was actually recorded in 1988. The song is actually kind of scandalous, written for her then 18-year-old girlfriend Anna Garcia...
While "Pink Cashmere" climbed to #14 on Billboard's R&B chart, the track stopped down at the halfway mark on the pop Hot 100 list. Intenationally, the song went to #29 in Canada, and was a minor hit in Australia at #87. The second single from The Hits/B-Sides box, "Peach", only "bubbled under" the pop Hot 100 at #107, but was a much bigger hit overseas, reaching the Top-40 in Norway (#7) and The Netherlands (#8), and made the top-40 in Belgium (#13), Switzerland (#13), and New Zealand (#15).
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