Robbed hit of the week 1/29/24 - Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel"...

 

 

"Concrete Angel" - Martina McBride

from the album Greatest Hits (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #47 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from country music singer Martina McBride, whose first Greatest Hits album had four new songs, with one of them, "Blessed", making the Billboard magazine Hot 100 top-40 in the spring of 2002.  The fourth and final single from the collection was the ballad "Concrete Angel". Written by Stephanie Bentley and Rob Crosby, the song tackles the tough subject of child abuse. The lyrics start out with painting the picture of a young girl battered and bruised in tattered clothes, where heronly respite from her home hell is a school that fails to notice and fellow kids that bully her. The one boy who does befriend her, is there at a neighbor house to witness the girl's final moments. I won't give away the twist at the end, please by all means watch the video. It's a rough topic done vocally beautifully by Martina, and the production by her with Paul Worley is reverently touching....

While "Concrete Angel" climbed to #5 on Billboard's Country Songs airplay chart, it stalled under the top-40 on the Hot 100 in April of 2003. At the Grammy Awards, the powerful music video was nominated, which went to Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt".

(10/10)

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Martina performed the song at the Grammy Awards...

and since I can't get enough of her - at the CMT Music Awards, with a lovely string section...