Second album Clumsy released

Our Lady Peace’s second album, Clumsy , was released in January 1997. The album cover is based on an abandoned song called “Trapeze”, which was initially intended to be the title of the album. The albums’s lead single, the guitar-driven ” Superman’s Dead “, quickly rose to No. 2 for five weeks on Canada’s Alternative Rock Songs chart pushing the album to debut at No. 1 on the Canadian Album Chart. The second single, ” Clumsy “, was just as successful, topping the Canadian RPM Singles chart while also reaching No. 2 on the Alternative Rock Chart. Subsequent singles ” Automatic Flowers ” and ” 4 AM “, the band’s first ballad released as a single, also made the Top 10 on the Alternative Rock chart establishing Our Lady Peace as a leading band in the Canadian rock scene. The most-listened to alternative rock station in Canada, Toronto’s CFNY, listed Clumsy as the No. 1 album for 1997, based on sales, listener requests for songs, and listener votes for the year’s top album. In February 2001, Clumsy was certified Diamond (1 million copies) in sales in Canada. Between 1996 and 2017, Clumsy was the best-selling album by a Canadian band in Canada and the eight best-selling album by a Canadian artist overall in Canada. In the US, both “Superman’s Dead” and “Clumsy” made the Top 15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, while peaking at No. 11 and No. 5, respectively, on the Alternative Rock Tracks Chart. Clumsy reached the Top 80 on the Billboard Album Chart and was certified Platinum for sales of 1 million units in the US.