Sweet Southern Sugaris the eleventh studio album by American recording artistKid Rock.It was released on November 3, 2017, byBroken Bow Records,[2]Top Dog Records andBMG Rights Management.[4][5]The album spawned four singles: "Po-Dunk", "Greatest Show on Earth", "Tennessee Mountain Top", and "American Rock 'n Roll", along with their music videos.[6]Its lead single, "Po-Dunk", peaked at number 27 on theHot Country Songs.[7]"Greatest Show on Earth" peaked at number 16 on theMainstream Rockchart[8]and it was used as the main theme forWWEpay-per-viewSurvivor Series (2017)."Tennessee Mountain Top" peaked at number 36 on the Hot Country Songs.[9]Sweet Southern Sugaris Kid Rock's first album since hisself-titled 2003 albumnot to feature a title track, though the album's name comes from a lyric in "Tennessee Mountain Top". The album also features a cover of theFour Topssong "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)",titled" Sugar Pie Honey Bunch ". The songs" Back to the Otherside "and" Grandpa's Jam "feature a return to the rapping vocals of Rock's earlier work.
Sweet Southern Sugardebuted at number eight on the USBillboard200and number four on the USBillboardTop Country Albumswith 43,000album-equivalent units,with almost all of that figure (41,000) coming from pure album sales.[10]It has sold 184,600 copies in the United States as of April 2019.[11]
