''Sugar Ray'' is the fourth studio album by the band Sugar Ray. The album was released on June 12, 2001, and debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart, and went gold. The album's first single, "When It's Over (Sugar Ray song), When It's Over", also performed well on pop and rock chartsming .

Release and promotion

The track "Words to Me" was featured on the ''Scooby-Doo (soundtrack), Scooby-Doo'' film soundtrack in 2002. The movie was shot in Queensland, Australia, with the band themselves appearing in it. While in Australia, they performed a beach concert that would be later released on a DVD called ''Music in High Places: Live from Australia''. The track "Sorry Now" was also featured in the 2001 film ''Scary Movie 2''.

Reception and sales

''Sugar Ray'' received generally positive reviews. Aggregator Metacritic gave the album a 71 out of 100 rating based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The album sold one million copies, less than the multi-platinum albums ''Floored'' and ''14:59'', but far more than their next album, 2003's ''In the Pursuit of Leisure'', which sold less than 150,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

* Mark McGrath – lead vocals, rhythm guitar * Rodney Sheppard – lead guitar, backing vocals * Murphy Karges – Bass guitar, bass, guitar, backing vocals * Stan Frazier (musician), Stan Frazier – Drum kit, drums, percussion instrument, percussion, guitar, programming, backing vocals * DJ Homicide, Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock – turntables, sampling (music), samples, programming (music), programming, keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

* Emanuel Dean - Keyboards on "Ours" * Dave Holdredge - Guitar on "Ours" * Nick Hexum - Vocals on "Stay On" * Greg Kurstin - Keyboards on "Words To Me" * JayDee Maness - Pedal steel guitar on "Just a Little" * William Francis - Guitar on "Disasterpiece" * John "Juke" Logan - Harmonica on "Disasterpiece"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* * * * {{Authority control 2001 albums Sugar Ray albums Atlantic Records albums Albums produced by David Kahne