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Chemical City by Sam Roberts
Chemical City is an album by Sam Roberts, released in 2006. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Gate”, on 2 lists with a best position of #12.
Chemical City, Sam Roberts' second album, came out in Canada on April 11, 2006, about a month before it reached American shops, and it finds the Canadian rocker following up We Were Born in a Flame with a looser, trippier, more swaggering record. Joseph Donovan produced, the sessions took Roberts all the way to New South Wales, and the songs sound sun-baked: fuzzed-up guitars, rolling grooves and hazy, psychedelic jams stretched out a little past where a radio edit would stop.
"The Gate", "Bridge To Nowhere" and "With a Bullet" were the singles, Roberts' easygoing croon riding big riffs and bigger choruses. It debuted at number three on the Canadian albums chart, moving 10,000 copies in its first week, and was finally certified platinum at home in 2018.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Chemical City on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gate | 2 | #12 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Bridge To Nowhere | 3 | #26 | – | 2006–2010 | |
| 3 | With a Bullet | 1 | #16 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.