Robbed hit of the week 1/27/20 - Melissa Etheridge's "Your Little Secret"...
from the album Your Little Secret (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #47
This week's "robbed hit" comes from rock singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who followed her coming out of the closet with the most successful album of her career, Yes I Am. That record spawned off three top-40 hits in "Come To My Window", "If I Wanted To", and the top ten "I'm The Only One". In 1995, she returned with her next studio album, Your Little Secret, obviously a play on her coming out. And the lead single from the set was the title track, written by Melissa who co-produced it with Hugh Padgham. The music video features Melissa along with a horde of model bodies crawling over each other Walking Dead style. And with her clout, MTV did play it, to a point...
"You're Little Secret" wasn't released as a commercial single, so it was banned from Billboard's official Hot 100 pop chart. However the song got enough radio live to almost make the top-40 on the Airplay component of the chart in October of 1995. The song did much better on rock radio, peaking at #4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and even crossing over to #32 on the Alternative Rock list. Internationally, the song went all the way to #6 in Canada, and made the top-40 in the Netherlands (#25) and Australia (#40). But don't sweat it, Melissa made the top-40 on the next two tries from the record.
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Here's Melissa performing live on Letterman...
And along with INXS (without Michael Hutchence) at the ARIA Awards in Australia that same year..
Next up, an intimate performance in Canada in 1996...
And finally, from her Live and Alone show in 2001...
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