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Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, Michael Clifford
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5 Seconds of Summer, often shortened to 5SOS (pronounced as ‘5 sos’), are an Australian pop rock band from Sydney, New South Wales, formed in late 2011.
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Originally beginning their career as YouTube celebrities, they rose to international fame while touring with English-Irish boy band One Direction on their Take Me Home Tour.
Since 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer have sold more than 10 million albums, sold more than 2 million concert tickets worldwide, and the band’s songs streams surpass 7 billion, making them one of the most successful Australian musical acts in history.
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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, punk-pop, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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