"Curly Sue" is a song by the Swedish rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Takida

Takida

Takida is a band from Ånge, Sweden, formed in 1999. The band consists of Robert Petterson , Tomas Wallin , Mattias Larsson , Fredrik Pålsson and Kristoffer Söderström ....

 and was the second single released from their sophomore

Sophomore

Sophomore is a term used in the United States to describe a student in the second year of study at high school or university.The word is also used as a synonym for "second", for the second album or EP released by a musician or group, the second movie of a director, or the second season of a...

 effort Bury the Lies

Bury the Lies

Bury the Lies is the second album by the Swedish rock band Takida. The album debuted at number one on the Swedish charts and has sold platinum there, 40 000 copies...

. The song was released as a singe on 10 October 2007. The song was co-produced by Takida

Takida

Takida is a band from Ånge, Sweden, formed in 1999. The band consists of Robert Petterson , Tomas Wallin , Mattias Larsson , Fredrik Pålsson and Kristoffer Söderström ....

 and Patrik Frisk at Sidelake Studios in Sundsvall

Sundsvall

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, Sweden

Sweden

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Reception

The track received varied reviews from the press. Örnsköldsviks Allehanda called the song "one of the albums low water marks" and "plain".

Chart performance

According to IFPI

IFPI

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...

 it went gold in Sweden in May 2009.

The song entered the Swedish Top 60 at fifty-two on 4 October 2007 and peaked at number one on 24 July 2008. All and all it spent a total of 63 weeks on the chart which makes it the longest-running single ever on the chart.

The band also had a huge success with the song on the Tracks chart. The song entered the chart at spot twenty on 20 October 2007 and had climbed to number one ten weeks later, a spot that it held for ten weeks. It spent 50 weeks and over a year on the chart and was the most successful song of 2008. As of 21 June 2009 it holds the longevity record on the chart as well.

The song had a huge success on Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen is a record chart at Sveriges Radio. Until January 2003, the songs had to be in the Swedish language. Svensktoppen has aired since 1962, except for the years 1982-1985. Svensktoppen airs once a week...

 where it entered the chart on the second of February 2008, later on peaking at number two and spending a total of 54 weeks on the chart. Making it the ninth longest-running single there.

Chart (2009)	Peak Position	Certification	Sales/Shipments
Sweden Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	1	Gold	10,000+