Maroon 5

Maroon 5 (formerly Kara's Flowers) is an American pop rock band consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Adam Levine (born March 18, 1979) who is best known for being a coach on the NBC reality talent show The Voice, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael (born April 2, 1979), bass guitarist Mickey Madden (born May 13, 1979), guitarist James Valentine (born October 5, 1978) and formerly drummer Ryan Dusick (born September 19, 1977) who was a member of the band from 1994 to 2006.

After self-releasing their independent album ...We Like Digging?, the band signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. The album garnered a tepid response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused on college. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, pursuing a different direction and adding guitarist Valentine.^[5] The band signed with Octone Records, an independent record label with a separate joint venture relationship with J Records and released their debut album Songs About Jane in June 2002. Aided by the hit singles "Harder to Breathe", "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved", the album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 chart^[6] and went quadruple platinum in 2005. In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.^[7] In 2006, Dusick left the band after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn.

The band's second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long was released in May 2007.^[8] It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the lead single "Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, the band released the third album Hands All Over, to favorable reviews, re-releasing a year later to include the single "Moves like Jagger", which topped the Billboard Hot 100. In 2012, Carmichael left the group and was replaced by musician PJ Morton, as the band released the fourth album Overexposed, with the song "One More Night", topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks.

In 2014, Carmichael rejoined the band alongside Morton to record the fifth album V (roman numeral pronounced "five"), with the band signed to Interscope Records and Levine's own label 222 Records. Following the release of V, it reached number one on the Billboard 200. In 2016, Maroon 5 recruited their long-time collaborator Sam Farrar, as the band continued for the sixth studio album Red Pill Blues, which was released in November 2017. With the addition of Morton and Farrar, the band's lineup increased to seven members. The successful singles of both albums "Sugar" and "Girls Like You" peaked at numbers two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively. The band's seventh album Jordi, was released in June 2021. Maroon 5 has sold more than 135 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.^[9] In January 2023, it was announced "Moves like Jagger" is the second most downloaded song of all time.^[10]

They appeared on Saturday Night Live as the musical guests 5 times:

February 21, 2004, the thirteenth episode of Season 29, hosted by the pop sensation Christina Aguilera. They performed "This Love" and "Harder to Breathe".
May 19, 2007, which is the Season 32 finale, hosted by actor Scrubs star Zach Braff, as they made their 2nd musical guest appearance. They performed "Makes Me Wonder" and "Won't Go Home Without You".
making their 2nd musical guest appearance.
November 5, 2011, the fifth episode of Season 37, hosted by actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and podcaster Charlie Day, the co-created, executive producer, writer and star of the FX and later FXX's hit sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as they made their 3rd musical guest appearance. They performed their popular hit "Moves Like Jagger" and "Stereo Hearts" (where they were later joined by Travie McCoy). Adam Levine also appeared as Yanni during the "Greek Gods" sketch and as himself in the "The Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Volume 2" sketch.
November 17, 2012, the eighth episode and the Thanksgiving show of Season 38, hosted by actor Jeremy Renner, star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Avengers: Endgame, Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye and Paramount+ crime thriller series Mayor of Kingstown. They performed "One More Night" and "Daylight" and Levine appearing in "The Stand-Off" filmed sketch.
October 4, 2014, the second episode of Season 40, hosted by former short-time cast member Sarah Silverman, as they returned for their 5th musical guest appearance on SNL, thus making a pop rock band a five-time musical guest. They performed "Animals" and "Maps".

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