He Ain't No Competition
"He Ain't No Competition" is a 1988 single released by British boyband Brother Beyond. It reached No.2 in the UK charts in September 1988. The song was written by its three producers, the Stock Aitken Waterman trio.[1] The song is considered the followup to the highly commercially successful "The Harder I Try" which had been a summer smash hit in 1988, the group's debut and breakthrough single.
Background
The band had felt they wanted to move away from the poppy sound of "The Harder I Try", so they adopted novel techniques to develop this new sound blending elements of jazz fusion and hip hop, overdubbed with synthesized pop focus. Brother Beyond's album Get Even (from which the track is taken) had by the time of the release of the single already been released in Japan. It was repackaged for its release in the rest of the world, including the two SAW-produced tracks, and omitting two of the band's self-penned songs from the original release. This version was released in November 1988, and the album was also a top 10 hit.