Īlthough official music recording sales certifications were not introduced in the United Kingdom until the British Phonographic Industry was formed in 1973, Disc introduced an initiative in 1959 to present a gold record to singles that had sold over one million units. On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal, Quebec. The single also spent eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and peaked at #1 on the South African Singles Chart. It ranked #81 on Billboard's "Hot 100 60th Anniversary" chart. The song was classified by the RIAA as a gold record in August 1969, meaning it had sold one million units (the gold threshold was later lowered to 500,000). It spent a total of 22 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 and was the 1969 US number-one single of the year. Billboard Hot 100 from September 20 through October 11. Reception Īfter topping the RPM 100 national singles chart in Canada on Septem(where it spent three weeks), the single went on to spend four weeks at the top of the U.S. "Sugar, Sugar" is written in the key of D major. In an article published in The Washington Times, lead vocalist Ron Dante recounts that the label was removed from the record, taken to a top radio station (KYA) in San Francisco, where the Program Director was told: "Just play it! It's a mystery group". Upon the song's initial release Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station personnel without revealing the group's name, as the Archies' previous single, " Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y-D.O.O)", had only reached No. The song was also made available, (along with two other Archies singles), on the back of boxes of Super Sugar Crisp cereal. When the song was re-released in mid-July 1969 on the Kirshner label, it attained enormous success nationwide by the late summer/early fall. The song was initially released in late May 1969 on the Calendar label (the same label as with the two previous Archies singles), achieving moderate chart success in the early summer in some radio markets. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine and songwriter Andy Kim. The album was the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. Produced by Jeff Barry, the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. It's an amazing piece of comic book adjacent history.The Archies version Background The song hit #1 and was the most popular song of 1969 in the United States. The song's "video" occurred in the second season of The Archie Show, which had changed its name to The Archie Comedy Hour. The incident with Kirshner and Nesmith happened in 1967 and the song was written in 1969. It was all part of Kirshner's retroactive history of his experiences with the Monkees where he was the smart producer and they were morons who passed on great songs like "Sugar, Sugar." What happened is that while Kirshner kept feuding with the Monkees (especially Nesmith), until they outright fired him, he had offered them a song called "Sugar Man" and that evolved over the years into him offering "Sugar, Sugar" and Nesmith freaking out on him and punching a wall. Barry also noted that it was specifically written with very little kids in mind, as that was the target of the song.
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