Unfairly Forgotten Song #13: Two of Hearts by Stacey Q

Just after Regina's one big hit, "Baby Love", made its way up both the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Disco charts in 1986, Stacey Swain, better known as Stacey Q, followed with her one big hit, "Two of Hearts", the debut single from her first album for Atlantic Records, Better Than Heaven.

(Better Than Heaven peaked at #59 on the Billboard 200.  Album ©1986 Atlantic Records.  Photo courtesy Amazon.com.)

"Two of Hearts" entered the Top 40 (at #40) the week of August 16, 1986 and peaked at #3 the week of October 11.  It lasted on the Top 40 charts about another month before falling out the week of November 15.  It also peaked at #4 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart and was ranked the #51 best-selling single of 1986 by Billboard, and it even got Stacey Q a gig singing the song on The Facts of Life as some character named "Cinnamon".  (Yeah, I didn't watch it either.)  Overall, it spent a fairly impressive 22 weeks on the Hot 100.

Stacey Q followed "Two of Hearts" up with "We Connect", which also hit the Top 40, before she disappeared from the Top 40 entirely (though two other singles did hit the Hot 100 later in the 80s).