"Sunday" is the lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 off Lo-Pro

Lo-Pro

Lo-Pro is an American five-piece hard rock band. They released a self-titled album in 2003. However, after touring in support of the album, they were dropped from the Geffen record label. The band then spent years working on new material, and streaming many new songs on their Myspace...

's first studio album

Studio album

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 Lo-Pro

Lo-Pro (album)

Lo-Pro is the self-titled debut album of Lo-Pro, released on September 30, 2003. It had one single in "Sunday" which garnered considerable radio play upon release...

, which was released on September 30, 2003. They released a video for it the following year. It would be the band's first and only single from the album, and the only single the band would produce until almost seven years later, when they released "Alive

Alive (Lo-Pro song)

"Alive" is the lead single off Lo-Pro's second studio album The Beautiful Sounds of Revenge, which was released on June 8, 2010. The official single itself was released ahead of time on May 4, 2010...

" in May 2010.

History

"Sunday" was available as free download at the band website on August 21, 2003, and it made its radio debut at the end of August.

The song did relatively well for a debut single for a new band. It reached the top 30 in both the Billboard

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Mainstream Rock Tracks

Mainstream Rock Tracks

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 and the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Modern Rock Tracks

Modern Rock Tracks

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. Despite this, the band was soon dropped from their record label, and a second single never surfaced.

Pete Murray said of the single:

"It's definitely not about watching football or going to church. It's really about how I've never had anything to look forward to on Sunday. I never liked going to school or going to a job, and when Sunday comes, you just know things are gonna hit the ringer the following day."

Single charts

Song	Chart	Peak position	Year
"Sunday"	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...	20	2004
"Sunday"	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Modern Rock Tracks Modern Rock Tracks Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...	27	2004