Candy Everybody Wants

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"Candy Everybody Wants"
Single by 10,000 Maniacs
from the album Our Time in Eden
ReleasedMarch 29, 1993 (1993-03-29) [1]
Studio Bearsville (Bearsville, New York)
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s) Dennis Drew, Natalie Merchant
Producer(s) Paul Fox
10,000 Maniacs singles chronology
"These Are Days"
(1992)
"Candy Everybody Wants"
(1993)
"Few and Far Between"
(1993)
Music video
"Candy Everybody Wants" on YouTube

"Candy Everybody Wants" is the second single by American alternative rock group 10,000 Maniacs from their fifth album, Our Time in Eden (1992). The song was released in March 1993 by Elektra Records. It was written by Dennis Drew and Natalie Merchant, the band's keyboardist and lead singer respectively. Rolling Stone wrote that the song is about "the American appetite for televised sex and violence – and big business's willingness to satisfy that craving." [2]

Charts

Chart (1993)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)47
UK Airplay ( Music Week ) [3] 42
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 67
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [5] 5

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