Blige, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams.īetween 20, the band worked with a different producer - veteran rock/country architect Robert John "Mutt" Lange - on a third studio album, Hands All Over, which was released in September 2010. Released in late 2008, Call and Response: The Remix Album reinterpreted the band's catalog with remixes by influential producers like Mary J.
alone), but it still enjoyed double-platinum certification while spinning off the chart-topping single "Makes Me Wonder." Maroon 5 had cemented their status as pop/rock heavyweights, and they now had the connections to prove it. It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be less popular than its predecessor (which had sold more than four million copies in the U.S. By fall 2006, Dusick had been officially replaced by Matt Flynn (the former drummer for Gavin DeGraw), and the revised band released its sophomore effort in May 2007. Their schedule was especially trying on percussionist Dusick, who sustained wrist and shoulder injuries and was often unable to play. Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in support of Jane's slow-burning success, issuing two stopgap recordings - 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the 13th - while traveling the world alongside the likes of the Rolling Stones and John Mayer. Songs About Jane finally entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than two years after the album's release, and follow-up singles like "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 million copies by year's end. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio staple 17 months later and was soon followed by the omnipresent "This Love," whose steamy video (featuring frontman Levine and a barely clothed girlfriend) wooed the TV-watching crowds at MTV.
Octone Records had signed the newly christened Maroon 5 in 2001, and the debut album Jane received a lukewarm response upon its release in June 2002. Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, but the album was not an immediate hit. Several years later, the quintet had officially risen to the forefront of pop music with Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long, both of which went multi-platinum.
After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped as Maroon 5, adding former Square guitarist James Valentine to the lineup and embracing a more R&B-influenced sound. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers found themselves dropped from Reprise's roster. Prior to Maroon 5, bandmates Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (bass), and Ryan Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in Kara's Flowers, even releasing a debut album for Reprise Records while still attending high school. The band followed this blueprint by enlisting Megan Thee Stallion for "Beautiful Mistakes," a lead single from 2021's Jordi. "Girls Like You" featured an appearance by Cardi B, a sign of how Maroon 5 kept current by embracing modern R&B and hip-hop. That year, their Christina Aguilera duet "Moves Like Jagger" gave Maroon 5 their second number one-"Makes Me Wonder" went to the top in 2007-and kicked off a string of Top Ten hits highlighted by the number ones "One More Night" and "Girls Like You," a run that helped secure the band a headlining Super Bowl gig in 2019. From that point forward, the group was a fixture at the top of the charts, their popularity receiving a considerable and enduring boost when Levine was cast as a judge on NBC's televised talent competition The Voice in 2011. The band took the long way to the top, evolving from the straight-ahead 1990s rock band Kara's Flowers into the sleek, soulful Maroon 5 with 2002's Songs About Jane, an album that languished for two years until "This Love" climbed to number five on Billboard's Hot 100 in 2004. Maroon 5-and, specifically, its frontman Adam Levine-became the face of blue-eyed soul in the 21st Century, managing to navigate shifting trends in music and fashion to be one of the biggest pop bands of their generation.
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