Robbed hit of the week 10/18/21 - Total's "Sitting Home"...

 

"Sitting Home" - Total

from the album Kima, Keisha, & Pam (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the female R&B vocal trio Total, who landed their biggest hit as a lead artist in the beginning of 1999 with "Trippin'", the lead single from their second album Kima, Keisha, & Pam. The follow-up to that success would be "Sitting Home", written and produced  by Deric Angelettie and Jack Knight over a sample of "Forget I Was A G" by the Whitehead Brothers giving Kenny Whitehead and Errol Johnson writing credit. The track has the group singing to a neglectful lover, with the title being about them waiting for them to come spend time. There's no cheating implied, but clearly the threat is there if things don't change. It's not exactly a memorable track, and the music video is kind of cringy, with Pam selling all his stuff at her house party before clearing out. The end is a little weird...

While "Sitting Home" became Total's sixth top ten hit on Billboard magazine's R&B chart at #10, the song stalled right under the pop Hot 100 Top-40 in May of 1999. It would be their final appearance on either chart, and the trio would break up soon after that.

(4/10)