Songoftheday 2/13/20 - Sleepless nights and lonely days are all that fill my head all of the time...

"Soon As I Get Home" - Faith Evans
from the album Faith (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from R&B singer Faith Evans, who had already landed her first top-40 pop hit/top-5 R&B hit with her debut single "You Used To Love Me". That song spent half a year (26 weeks) on the R&B chart, during which time some urban radio station were playing another cut from her first album Faith, a cover of Rose Royce's 70s classic ballad "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" which featured an uncredited Mary J. Blige. It received enough airplay to spend nearly four months on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart, peaking at #43. The second "true" single released from Faith would be the downtempo track "Soon As I Get Home". Written by Faith with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, the song promises a night of conciliatory relations...

"Soon As I Get Home" became Faith's second top-40 pop hit, passing the peak of her first in January of 1996. The song also topped her debut on Billboard's R&B chart, landing at #3. For the third release from the set, Faith paired album cut "Ain't Nobody" with "Kissing You", which wasn't from Faith, but rather from the soundtrack to the Whitney Houston film Waiting To Exhale. The "double-A" side single went to #14 on the R&B chart, and #67 on the pop Hot 100. Lastly, the booty-call cooing of "Come Over" crested at #56 on the R&B list, while "bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #109.

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Here's Faith singing "Soon As I Get Home" live on stage...

and appearing on Soul Train in 1996...

and fast forward to 2018, where she performed both "Soon As I Get Home" and "You Used To Love Me"...

Up tomorrow: Eurodance act requests your romance.