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Style: Pop, Teen Pop, Punk-Pop, Power Pop, New Wave

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In the US, 5 Seconds of Summer became the first Australian act to achieve
three number one albums on the Billboard 200 album chart. They also became the
first band (not vocal group) to have their first three full-length albums debut
at the top in the US.

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All singles from the band’s four studio albums, as well as all four albums, have
charted in multiple countries, received multiple official sale certifications,
and have been featured in numerous weekly and year-end charts, as well as making
an appearance on decade-end charts.

5 Seconds of Summer‘s musical style has been described as pop rock, pop,
pop punk, power pop, and new wave. In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine called them
"emo-gone-pop" and John Feldmann of Goldfinger stated that, "[5 Seconds of
Summer] is the best pop-punk band I’ve ever heard". In 2017, Matt Collar of
AllMusic described the band as having a reminiscent of "’90s punk-pop" and
"2000s boy band pop" in their sound. Through the release of Youngblood
and Calm, the band has evolved from their pop-punk roots to explore
musical depth within pop, new wave, rock and pop rock. The band’s quintessential
developing sound has now been described as "classic pop-rock sentiments setting
up the layering for the catchy hook."

5 Seconds of Summer have received numerous accolades and awards over the
course of the band’s active career, including ten MTV European Music Awards,
five ARIA Awards, three APRA Awards, three BMI Awards and two MTV Video Music
Awards. In 2019, the band was awarded the prestigious APRA Music Awards’
Outstanding International Achievement Award for their excellence and outstanding
worldwide success in sales and airplay performance.

In 2020, 5 Seconds of Summer were awarded and honored in the APRA AMCOS’
The 1,000,000,000 List, which recognizes excellence among Australian songwriting
artists who have achieved massive international success. The band was awarded
for their single, "Youngblood", reaching over a billion streams. As of this
writing, there are only 16 artists in history who have been awarded a position
on the list.

For their first studio album, the band heavily cited
Blink-182,
Green Day,
All Time Low,
Good Charlotte,
Nirvana, Mayday Parade,
Busted, McFly,
A Day to Remember,
Boys Like Girls,
and My
Chemical Romance as their influences. In one of their first interviews
as a band, 5 Seconds of Summer cited American rock band
All Time Low as one
of their biggest inspirations and dream collaboration.

For their second album, Sounds Good Feels Good, they cited
All Time Low,
The Used, Yellowcard, State
Champs, Good
Charlotte, INXS, Sugarcult,
Green Day, and
Mayday Parade as
influences.

The band’s third studio album, Youngblood, cited inspiration from the
likes of Gorillaz, The
Beatles, and Queen.

For their fourth studio album, Calm, the band stated that there was an
intentionally "darker sound" and that they were "inspired by dark, synth-heavy
groups of the Eighties and Nineties" including
Depeche Mode,
Tears for Fears,
and Nine Inch Nails‘
song "Closer".

They also stated that the direction of the album had been influenced by their
listening to Gesaffelstein, Health,
St. Vincent,
Disclosure and Bob
Moses. The band’s lead single for their fourth album, "Easier", was inspired by
Nine Inch Nails‘
song "Closer" with the band citing inspiration to the "derivative of the driving
drum groove". The second single off the fourth album, "Teeth", featured Tom
Morello of
Rage Against the Machine.

Their discography includes five studio albums, two live albums, seven extended
plays, 26 singles, four promotional singles, and 25 music videos.

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