Maroon 5

Maroon 5's origins started when Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, and Ryan Dusick formed a band in high school called Kara's Flowers. They played shows locally and were briefly signed to a record label around the release of their first professional album The Fourth World in 1997. However, the album bombed, causing the young band to toy with breaking up as they all graduated high school and went to college. The quartet did take a break, though, before rejoining in 2000 to try to push for a record deal. Signed to Octone Records, the band added a fifth member in James Valentine and started to record a new album. In the process, they changed their name to Maroon 5, completing a radical brand image change. Their first album as Maroon 5, Songs About Jane debuted in 2002 with the lead single "Harder to Breathe." Over the next few years, Maroon 5 toured constantly and Songs About Jane slowly but surely sold more than 10 million copies across the world. Their success was capped off by a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005, along with more successful singles, namely "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved." In 2006, Dusick left the band due to health complications from the constant touring. He was replaced by Matt Flynn and the group recorded and released their second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long, capped off by the smash hit single "Makes Me Wonder." They continued their non-stop touring, and returned to the recording studio for the 2011 release Hands All Over, which featured the single "Moves Like Jagger." They followed that successful album with two more, 2013's Overexposed and 2014's V.