Answer the Phone

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"Answer the Phone"
Answer the Phone cover.jpg
Single by Sugar Ray
from the album Sugar Ray
ReleasedSeptember 24, 2001 (2001-09-24)
Length3:59
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Don Gilmore
Sugar Ray singles chronology
"When It's Over"
(2001)
"Answer the Phone"
(2001)
"Ours"
(2002)
Music video
"Answer the Phone" on YouTube

"Answer the Phone" is a song by the American rock band Sugar Ray. It was released on September 24, 2001, via Atlantic Records and Lava Records as the second single and as well as the opening track from their fourth studio album, Sugar Ray (2001). It is a pop punk song that was written by Mark McGrath, Stan Frazier, Murphy Karges, and Don Gilmore and produced by the latter.

Contents

Track listing

US CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Answer the Phone" (intro edit)3:45
2."Answer the Phone" (intro bridge edit)3:31
3."Answer the Phone" (album version)3:59
Germany CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Answer the Phone" (album version)3:58
2."Answer the Phone" (edit 1)3:45
3."Answer the Phone" (edit 2)3:31
Australia CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Answer the Phone" (album version)3:58
2."Falls Apart" (live from Spain)4:26
3."Fly" (live from Spain) 

Charts

Chart (2001–2002)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [1] 68
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [2] 40
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [3] 12
US Adult Top 40 ( Billboard ) [4] 33
US Mainstream Top 40 ( Billboard ) [5] 39

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesSeptember 24, 2001 Hot adult contemporary radio [6]
September 25, 2001 Contemporary hit radio [7]
AustraliaDecember 10, 2001CD [8]

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