Robbed hit of the week 8/31/20 - Johnny Gill's "It's Your Body"...

 

 

"It's Your Body" - Johnny Gill featuring Roger Troutman

from the album Let's Get The Mood Right (1996)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from R&B singer Johnny Gill, whose third solo album, and first after his success joining New Edition as a replacement for Bobby Brown, was a big success, reaching the top ten on the Billboard 200 albums sales chart and spinning off three top-40 pop hits with "Rub You The Right Way", "My, My, My", and "Fairweather Friend" between 1990 and 1991, as well as a fourth single, "Wrap My Body Tight", that topped the magazine's R&B chart. He also landed top-40 pop hits guesting on singles from Shanice ("Silent Prayer") and Shabba Ranks ("Slow and Sexy"). A year later in 1993, Gill followed up with another solo album, Provocative, which reached the top-20 on the albums sales chart and producing four R&B chart hits including one, "The Floor", that just missed the top ten at #11, but only that one made the pop Hot 100 stalled down at #56 (it was a surprise top ten hit in Australia at #6). In 1996 Gill reunited with the other members of New Edition (including Bobby Brown) for the album Home Again, which scored two top ten pop hits in America with "Hit Me Off" and "I'm Still In Love With You". 

 

Later that same year, Johnny released his own fifth album, Let's Get The Mood Right. The title track written by Babyface was put out as the first single to radio, where it climbed to #17 at R&B and #53 on the pop Hot 100. Gill wrote and produced the follow-up track, "It's Your Body", which featured Roger Troutman of "I Wanna Be Your Man" fame. The booty-call jam proved more popular with radio and his fans...

While "It's Your Body" rose to #19 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, the song stopped just under the pop top-40 in February of 1997. A third offering from the record, "Love In An Elevator", was a minor R&B hit at #59. The Let's Get The Mood Right scored Gill his third top-40 album at #32, while getting to #7 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums genre list.

Later in 1997, Gill joined another "soul supergroup", combining forces with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat for the trio LSG, which landed a top ten pop hit with "My Body". After a couple albums with them, Gill again got back with New Edition in 2004 for an album that was much more poorly received, the ill-thought One Love. 

In 2011, Johnny returned with another solo album, Still Winning, that landed a fourth and so far most recent top-40 album at #17. Lead single "In The Mood" made the R&B top-40 at #33. Three years later, Gill's next set, Game Changer, brought most of his New Edition bandmates for the single "This One's For Me And You", which climbed to #20 on the R&B Airplay list, and topped Billboard's Adult R&B radio chart. His most recent solo effort, Game Changer 2 in 2019, scored two #1 Adult R&B singles, with one of them, "Soul Of A Woman", climbing to #23 at R&B Airplay.