Robbed hit of the week 3/28/22 - Martina McBride's "Love's The Only House"...

 

 

"Love's The Only House" - Martina McBride

from the album Emotion (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from country singer Martina McBride, whose Emotion album had already scored a top-40 crossover hit with the sickly sweet song from the Runaway Bride movie, "I Love You", in the fall of 1999. The second release from the record returned the singer to the dramatic belters that let her shine, "Love's The Only House". Written by Tom Douglas and Buzz Cason, the song has the energy of her past winners like "Independence Day" and "Whatever You Say", although it may come off a little more preachy with a litany of problems with no thoughts on how to solve them, although there's a tag at the end of helping a woman again at the supermarket (as Martina a cashier in the music video)...

 

 While "Love's The Only House" spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard magazine's Country Singles chart, the song stopped a couple notches short of the top-40 on the crossover pop Hot 100 in April of 2000. Internationally, the single went to #2 on the Canadian Singles chart.

The third radio track from Emotion, the ballad "There You Are", topped out at #10 on the Country Singles chart and #60 on the Hot 100, while the fourth, final, and honestly the best single from the set, "It's My Time", just missed the country top ten at #11, while "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #102. 

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Here's Martina performing the song on an awards show, with a harmonica even...

and lastly, for a gig on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2014...