In 2012 due to royalty conflicts with their record company regarding profits from online sales, the band re-recorded the song, along with ' Rock of Ages', under the title 'Pour Some Sugar on Me 2012' and released both digitally in June 2012 (similarly, a re-recorded version of the single ' Hysteria' entitled 'Hysteria (2013 Re-Recorded Version)' was also released online the following year). In 2006, VH1 ranked the song number 2 on its list of the '100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.' AVN ranked the song as the '#1 song used by strippers during their set' of all time. MTV ranked 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' number 1 in its 'Top 300 Videos of All Time' countdown in May 1991. The song reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (denied the top spot by ' Hold On to the Nights' by Richard Marx), number 18 in the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the ARIA charts (Australia). It reached number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, and sold four million copies during the single's run. The somewhat delayed success of 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' (due to the new promo release) sent sales of Hysteria higher than the band ever imagined. Lange, in return, asked Elliott if he wanted one lump or two and Elliott said, 'I don't care, just pour some sugar on me' and the name stuck. He asked Mutt Lange for some sugar to put in his tea. Joe Elliott got the name of the song when he was sitting in the basement of his London flat. Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' and finally released it as the third single in North America. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.īy the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time). Although already behind schedule, Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, during a production break, lead singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar.

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