Robbed hit of the week 11/15/21 - SHeDAISY's "Little Good-Byes"...

 

 

"Little Good-Byes" - SHeDAISY

from the album The Whole SHeBANG (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the female vocal trio SHeDAISY, who are sisters that grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah. Lead singer Kassidy, songwriter Kristyn, and Kelsi Osborn moved to Nashville to start a music career. Signed to Disney's Lyric Street Records, Kristyn joined up with fellow Mormon Jason Deere and Kenny Greenberg to write their debut single "Little Good-byes". Produced by Dann Huff, its obvious they were aiming to be the label's version of the Dixie Chicks, with a tight three-part harmony and female-strong lyrics. The song reads like a goodbye note to an ex detailing what they took with them, it sounds kind of like a Wilson Phillips or Sheryl Crow track from the early 1990s.The music video, though, oddly sets them up as all looks, with it all about a fashion shoot for what I'm not sure...

While "Little Good-Byes" spent a week at #3 on Billboard magazine's Country Singles chart, the song just missed the crossover Hot 100 top-40 by a few notches in August of 1999. Internationally, the single climbed to #7 on the Canadian Country chart. Their debut album The Whole SHeBANG, released in May of that year, peaked at #70 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, but stayed on the list for almost two years (102 weeks), selling over a million copies. It also went to #6 on the Country Albums chart. At the Grammy Awards in 1999, "Little Good-Byes" was nominated for Best Duo/Group Country Vocal Performance, losing to....of course the Dixie Chicks for their "Ready To Run". 

Their next single, the waltz "This Woman Needs", reached the top ten on the Country radio chart at #9, and peaked at #57 on the Hot 100. At the close of the millennium, the trio released a holiday single that would be on their Christmas album Brand New Year the following year, "Deck The Halls", that went to #40 on the Country Singles chart and #61 on the Hot 100. (Seriously, it's one of my favorite holiday albums of all time.)

The trio returned with the third single from The Whole SheBANG, "I Will...But", which was their biggest country radio hit, spending three weeks at #2, but again just missed the crossover Hot 100 top-40 at #43 as well. That was followed by "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)", which veers into Shania Twain territory. The song just missed the country radio top ten at #11, and stopped at #79 on the Hot 100. A fifth and final single, the album's big ballad "Still Holding Out For You", made it to #27 on the Country Singles chart. 

After their Brand New Year album made the Billboard 200 at #92, the trio returned with their third studio album Knock On The Sky in 2002. Despite the good start, becoming their first to reach the top-40 on the Billboard 200 at #23, and #3 at Country Albums, both singles from the record got a cooler reception at radio, with "Get Over Yourself" doing the best at #27. 

The sisters regrouped in 2004 for their fourth effort Sweet Right Here, which ended up being their highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 at #16 (as well as their best on the Country Albums list at #2), going on to sell a half million copies. The third single from the record, "Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing", returned the trio to the Country Singles top ten for a fourth and so-far last time at #7, while making it to #59 on the Hot 100. 

SHeDAISY's most recent album Fortuneteller's Melody came out in 2006. Lead single "I'm Taking The Wheel" went to #21 on the Country Singles chart, followed by "In Terms Of Love" which peaked at #32, their most recent radio hit. Even though the album made the top-40 on the Billboard 200 at #22, and #6 on the Country Albums list, the trio was let go by Lyric Street after a greatest hits set even though a sixth album had already been recorded. They've continued as a trio, but we are still waiting for new music from the group, who had definitely carved themselves a needed niche in the genre. 

(6/10)

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In 2001, Lyric Street released a "remix" album of their debut called The Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up, which went to #30 on the Country Albums chart. Here's the rework of "Little Good-Byes"...