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“Fly” by Sugar Ray with Supercat

From the album Floored (1997) With Supercat

“Fly” by Sugar Ray with Supercat appears on 41 radio countdowns from 23 stations between 1997 and 2024. It was first released in 1997 on the album Floored. Its best result is #1 on the X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #5 alternative song of 1997, #1,404 alternative song of all time and #59 of the '90s.

41countdowns
23stations
#1best position
2#1 finishes
9top 10 finishes
1997–2024years charted

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"Fly" is the song that made Sugar Ray a radio fixture, and it shows up twice on their 1997 album Floored: once with the reggae artist Super Cat and once without. The band and Super Cat share the writing credit, and David Kahne produced, engineered and mixed it.

It floats. It rides a loose, sunny reggae-rock lilt, strummed and breezy, with Super Cat's guest vocal giving it a rougher edge. It sounds like a summer afternoon that doesn't want to end.

It was the band's first hit. After it went out to US radio in May 1997 it spent four straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and eight weeks on top of Modern Rock Tracks, went to No. 1 on Canada's RPM chart and made the top 40 in Australia and Iceland. VH1 later put it at 52 among the 100 greatest songs of the '90s, and a 20th-anniversary 7-inch arrived in 2017.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 2 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 107
1997 2 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1997 91
1997 8 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 105
1997 1 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997 101
1997 5 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997 100
1997 6 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1997 107
1997 1 X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997 104
1997 13 97.1 The Eagle Dallas-Fort Worth, TX KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997 97
1997 17 KNRK Portland, OR KNRK Top 94 Songs of 1997 94
1997 5 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 103
1997 11 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 106
1997 54 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1997 99
1997 5 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997 97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 37 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 108 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 100 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 134 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 150 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 300
1999 122 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 966 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1778 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 362 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 67 Y100 Y100 Top 300 Songs of the '90s (September 2000) 100
2000 69 DC101 DC101 Top 101 Rock Songs of the 90s 101
2000 1779 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1780 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 84 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 1769 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2004 443 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2007 363 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2014 426 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 458 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 492 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 281 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2020 358 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2021 449 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2021 319 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 323 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2023 496 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2023 304 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2024 85 107.7 The End The End Sweet Summer Vibes Countdown (2024) 100

Charting alongside it in 1997

Best songs of 1997 →
  1. 1Song 2Blur
  2. 2Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth
  3. 3TubthumpingChumbawamba
  4. 5The Impression That I GetThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  5. 6Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind
  6. 7EverlongFoo Fighters

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