Robbed hit of the week 6/8/20 - The Dave Matthews Band's "So Much To Say"...

"So Much To Say" - Dave Matthews Band
from the album Crash (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Dave Matthews Band, whose second studio album Crash was released in the spring of 1996, preceded by the radio single "Too Much", which without having a commercial release made the top-40 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart in Billboard magazine in the summer of that year. The second song from the record promoted to radio would be the uptempo and eclectic "So Much To Say". Written by Matthews with bandmates Boyd Tinsley and Peter Griesar, the white-boy funk of the song that winds around the idea of identity...

Since "So Much To Say" also wasn't released as a physical single, it was kept from appearing on Billboard's official Hot 100 pop chart in America. However, it got enough radio love to almost make the top 40 on the Airplay component of the chart, peaking at #48 in September of 1996. The song made both of the rock radio charts, Mainstream (#20) and Alternative (#19), and popped on to their Adult Top-40 format list at #38. It did best at "Triple-A" radio (Adult Album Alternative), topping out at #3. Internationally, the single went to #26 in Canada. At the Grammy Awards in 1997, the band won their sole trophy to date with the song for Best Rock Duo/Group Vocal Performance.

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Here's the band appearing on Letterman to perform the song on the album release in 1996...

Next up in concert in 1997...

And lastly, from their Central Park concert in 2003...