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Big Sugar
Band Toronto Canada Formed 1991
Big Sugar formed in 1991 in Toronto, Canada. Big Sugar has 8 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2010. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Diggin' A Hole”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #91. The station that charted Big Sugar most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Gordie Johnson built Big Sugar in Toronto and has been its engine ever since: he sings lead, plays lead guitar and writes most of the songs, and everything about the band bends toward his thick, heavy-footed take on the blues. Players have come and gone around him, with Al Cross and Gavin Brown in the current lineup and Paul Brennan passing through between 1994 and 1997.
Hemi-Vision, in 1996, brought "Diggin' A Hole", a swampy, stomping blues grind that sounds like it was dragged out of the ground with a tow chain. Heated followed in 1998 and kept the amps hot with "Turn the Lights On", "Better Get Used To It" and "The Scene".
The records sold, too: between 1996 and 2016 Big Sugar ranked among the 25 best-selling Canadian bands in their own country. They have never really stopped, still putting out new music, reissuing old records on vinyl and working the road.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Big Sugar on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diggin' A Hole | 4 | #91 | – | – | |
| 2 | I Want You Now | 1 | #85 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Turn the Lights On | 1 | #160 | – | – | |
| 4 | Better Get Used To It | 1 | #184 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Scene | 1 | #994 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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