Robbed hit of the week 8/3/20 - Jocelyn Enriquez's "Do You Miss Me?"...

"Do You Miss Me" - Jocelyn Enriquez

from the album Jocelyn (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49

This week's "robbed hit" comes from singer Jocelyn Enriquez, who hails from the San Francisco area. Of Filipino heritage and recording in the Latin freestyle dance music genre (which Filipinos like Stevie B and Jaya were successful), Jocelyn released her debut single "I've Been Thinking About You" (not to be confused with the Fine Young Cannibals hit) from her debut set Lovely in 1994, where it made the American pop Hot 100 chart in Billboard magazine at #80. With her record label, Classified, pairing up with dance music favorite Tommy Boy Records for distribution, Enriquez returned two years later with her second album Jocelyn. The lead single, "Do You Miss Me?" combined freestyle with the electro beats just like previous top-40 successes Planet Soul on their "Set U Free". Radio, especially dance-oriented radio in the cities, picked it up and made it her biggest chart success in America...

"Do You Miss Me?" spent three weeks just over the halfway mark on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart in December of 1996. It hung around the list for almost six months (23 weeks). Internationally, the single climbed to #12 in Canada. The Jocelyn album made it onto the Billboard 200 sales chart at #182, a respectable feat for a dance music album.

The second single from the record, "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy", also lingered on the Hot 100 for 20 weeks, getting as high as #55, while becoming her first to make Billboard's Dance Club Play chart at #15. That was followed by "Get Into The Rhythm", which landed in the top ten on the Dance chart at #9.

In 1998, Jocelyn teamed up with fellow Tommy Boy artist Amber ("This Is Your Night") and club hitmaker Ultra Nate as Stars on 54 for a remake of the disco treatment of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" originally done by Viola Wills for the movie 54 about the legendary nightclub. Even though the single peaked at #52 in the U.S, and #3 on the Dance chart, it by far was her biggest hit internationally, going to #3 on the Canadian and Australia singles charts, and reaching the top-40 in the UK at #23. Two years later, she reemerged with the one-off single "When I Get Close To You" with tribal house music remixers Thunderpuss, that went to #1 on the American dance chart in 2000. Her most recent chart appearance came in 2003, when her track "No Way No How" from her third album All My Life went to #17 on the list.

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Here's Jocelyn making a TV appearance in 1996...

And lastly, singing "Do You Miss Me" for a radio show in the Phillipines in 2019...