Breaking up and making up: Maroon 5's studio albums to date
Catchy and super-slick, the Hong Kong-bound band's five studio recordings reveal their growing sophistication
(2002)
Their debut album showed Maroon 5 could produce catchy pop songs and revealed singer Adam Levine as a hot frontman, but its real success lay in the relatable lyrics about breaking up and making up, while Levine's beguiling voice added something a little dark and edgy. While the album wasn't an immediate hit, it went on to achieve great things. It was re-released in 2003 and by the end of the next year it had sold nearly 2.7 million copies and reached the US top 10. , which has a techno feel, is the standout song and was one of five on the album that went on to achieve success as singles.
(2007)
It was five years after the hugely successful, slow-burn success of that the second album was released and the band had clearly put in some hard graft to create a super slick pop-rock album. Difficult second album syndrome wasn't going to affect them. While the first album is filled with songs about one specific relationship - with Jane - and mostly about breaking up with her, the second is more upbeat and confident, the sound satisfyingly big. These are infectious tunes, especially , which went steaming up the charts.
