Robbed hit of the week 5/15/23 - Angie Stone's "Wish I Didn't Miss You"...
"Wish I Didn't Miss You" - Angie Stone
from the album Mahogany Soul (2001)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #79
This week's "robbed hit" comes from R&B singer Angie Stone, who had landed a top-20 R&B hit in the beginning of 2002 with "Brotha", which peaked right under the halfway mark on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart.
The second single from Angie's Mahogany Soul album was "Wish I Didn't Miss You", which was written by producers Andrea Martin and Ivan Matias using a prominent sample from the O'Jay's classic 70's soul hit "Back Stabbers" (giving Leon Huff, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead writers credit). The song finds Stone singing to a cheating lover, hating what he's doing but not able to keep herself away from them. The groove from the sample, along with Angie's deft vocal flow over it, makes the record transcend its parts, and the theme of the song matches the sample perfectly. Add a club remix that ruled the dancefloor, and Angie found herself with a second international hit from the album...
While "Wish I Didn't Miss You" topped Billboard magazine's Dance Club Play chart for a week, and made it to #31 on their R&B singles chart, the single stalled in the lower quarter of the Hot 100 in April of 2002, though it spent a hefty 19 weeks on the chart.
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Next up is the club remix of the track from Hex Hector and Mac Quayle that helped the song top the dance chart...
And lastly, live in concert in Amsterdam in 2004...
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