Losing California

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"Losing California"
Sloan Losing California.jpg
Single by Sloan
from the album Between the Bridges
Released1999
Genre Rock
Length2:56
Label murderecords
Songwriter(s) Patrick Pentland, Sloan
Sloan singles chronology
"Keep on Thinkin"
(1998)
"Losing California"
(1999)
"Friendship"
(1999)
Music video
"Losing California" on YouTube

"Losing California" is a song by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was the first single released from the band's 1999 album, Between the Bridges . The song peaked at #18 on Canada's Rock chart. [1] Sloan performed the song on a 1999 episode of the NBC television program Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

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Charts

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Chart (1996)Peak
position
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM)18

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References

  1. "Rock/Alternative - Volume 69, No. 26, October 18, 1999". RPM . Retrieved 2010-05-18.