2 on the Canadian one hundred Hit Tracks chart. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at quantity 2 on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, number eight on the US Billboard Hot a hundred and number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, staying there for a then-report-setting 15 weeks. The Marcy Playground album drew little discover till a radio station in San Diego started playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the track was chosen by filmmaker Morgan J. Freeman for the soundtrack of his movie Hurricane Streets. Per week after the tune reached the highest position on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, he bought three gives for these quantities and bought the rights. Worldwide, the one reached the highest 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit track. The music is included in "Polka Power!", a polka medley from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Running with Scissors (1999). Will Hines of Vulture deemed Yankovic's rendition of "Sex and Candy" the comedic spotlight of the medley.
