182:. "Sugar Me" was ranked the 14th best selling single of 1972 in the Netherlands, the 40th best seller the same year in Australia, the 80th best selling single of 1972 in the UK, and the 89th best selling single on the 1973 German chart. It entered the Netherlands Digital Top 100 on the 5 October 2014, just after De Paul died. The version on de Paul's debut album,
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Papernut Cambridge, Italian artist, LIM and Karl Jonas on his 2016 album,
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