Maroon 5 had two enormous milestones to rejoice this week as two of the Adam Levine-led band’s music movies crossed main YouTube views milestones. First up, the band’s clip for the wistful single “Recollections” from their Jordi album reached the one billion views mark.
The 2019 tune about misplaced pals — impressed by the dying of the band’s longtime supervisor Jordan Feldstein — peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Scorching 100. The spare visible directed by David Dobkin consists of a close-up shot of a mowhawked, bearded Levine in entrance of a black background singing the wistful chorus, “Right here’s to the one’s that we received/ Cheers to the want you have been right here however you’re not/ Cuz the desires deliver again all of the reminiscences of all the pieces we’ve been by means of.”
The digicam slowly pulls again to disclose Levine’s head and shoulders as the sunshine fluctuates round him, finally leaving the singer at nighttime and ending with the phrase “For Jordi.”
As well as, the video for his or her 2014 single “Sugar” hit an excellent greater peak this week when it moved previous 4 billion YouTube views. The tune from the pop group’s fifth album, V — written by Levine together with Mike Posner, Dr. Luke, Jacob Hindlin and Henry Walter — additionally peaked at No. 2 on the Scorching 100.
The playful Marriage ceremony Crashers-inspired video directed by Dobkin was shot in Los Angeles and located the band seemingly crashing a collection of weddings in a single day, tooling round in a classic convertible and complicated bridges and grooms as they present up with their gear to play impromptu reception concert events to the delight of the gathered pals and households. The five-minute clip ends with Levine saying “that is the good factor ever, ever, ever, ever” whereas high-fiving and hugging a contented couple.
“Sugar” is the band’s first video to place up 4 billion views, edging forward of their 2018 single “Ladies Like You” (3.5 billion), one other billion-view visible for “One Extra Evening” and a handful of clips with 800 million-plus views (“Animals,” “Payphone,” “Strikes Like Jagger”).
M5 have been in a lower-power mode since headlining the Tremendous Bowl LIII halftime present in Atlanta in 2019, releasing the one-off singles “Recollections,” “No one’s Love” (2020), the Megan the Stallion-featuring “Lovely Errors” (2021) and final yr’s “Center Floor” whereas kicking off a Las Vegas residency on the Park MGM in March 2023. Although they’ve hinted at new music within the years since, M5 haven’t launched a full-length album since 2021’s Jordi.
Their M5LV The Residency on the Dolby Dwell at Park MGM theater will proceed this summer season/fall, with 16 scheduled gigs in Might, June, September and October.
Watch the “Recollections” and “Sugar” clips under.
