The Sweet (album)

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The Sweet
Compilation album by Sweet
Released	July 1973
Recorded	1971–1973
Genre	Glam rock,[1] power pop[2]
Length	30:28
Label	Bell
Producer	Phil Wainman
Sweet chronology
The Sweet's Biggest Hits (1972) The Sweet (1973) Sweet Fanny Adams (1974)
Singles from The Sweet
"Little Willy" Released: January 1973 "Block Buster!" Released: June 1973 "Wig-Wam Bam" Released: December 1973[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[4]

The Sweet is a compilation album released as Sweet's debut album in the US and Canada, substituting for the 1971 UK album Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be. (The band's second album, Sweet Fanny Adams was also not given a US release, but tracks from that and the band's third album Desolation Boulevard were combined on the US version of that album to compensate for this.)^{[citation needed]}

The album consisted primarily of singles and B-sides released in the UK and Europe in 1972 and 1973. One of the singles, "Little Willy", was Sweet's first and biggest hit single in the US. The singles "Wig-Wam Bam", "Hell Raiser" and "Block Buster!" were also on the album. Commercially it did not do well, only reaching No. 191 in the Billboard 200.