Soap operas have spurred on several chart hits, both on the national charts and on my own charts, over the past couple of decades. Probably the best known is "Baby, Come to Me," the Patti Austin/James Ingram duet from 1983 that went to No. 1 in Billboard and on my charts after becoming popular on ABC's "General Hospital."
This week's highest debut comes from another ABC soap, "One Life to Live." "My Confession," by Rie Sinclair & Friends at No. 29, was the background music for a key scene a couple of weeks back between the characters of Oliver Fish and Kyle Lewis (or, as they're known in the soap fan world, "Kish"). It became available this week on iTunes.
It's not the first chart hit linked to "OLTL." Back in 1994, the show released a soundtrack of cover songs and original compositions, and three songs from that CD -- "Teach Me How to Dream" by Chris Walker, "Here We Are, My Friend" by Billy Dean, and "All I Know" by Michael McDonald and Amy Holland -- performed well enough to make the year-end Top 100. Most recently, Mary J. Blige earned a Top 10 hit in spring '08 with "Hurt Again," a track from her "Growing Pains" album that she performed on "OLTL."
Speaking of Ms. Mary ... the most popular artist of this decade on my decade-end top 1000 is back with not one, but two, tracks from her new CD, "Stronger With Each Tear." "I Am" enters at No. 35, while "Each Tear" debuts at No. 37. The concurrent chart action echoes her chart heat with "Growing Pains," when the tracks "Work That" and "Just Fine" moved up at the same time.
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