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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Family name hatnote Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox musical artist Шаблон:Abbr is an American indie pop band founded by brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met, collectively a trio of vocalists, multi-instrumentalists, and songwriters.

The three brothers have been writing and performing music together since 2005. They grew up in New York City, the band was primarily focussed on busking and singing covers until 2013. Since 2015, AJR has produced and released five studio albums under independent label AJR Productions to various record labels.Шаблон:Efn

AJR stepped into the music industry with a song called "I'm Ready". The song yielded their first Platinum in Australia and also served as a lead single to their debut album, Living Room (2015). Their second album, The Click (2017), achieved one million album sales in America, making it AJR's first and only Platinum album; its singles "Weak", "Burn the House Down", and "Sober Up" (featuring Rivers Cuomo) were certified 3×, 2×, and 1× RIAA Platinum, respectively. AJR continued to build audience with their third album, Neotheater (2019), along with a world tour. Two years later, a Billboard Music Award was granted to "Bang!", a top rock song at the award and a double Platinum single from their fourth album OK Orchestra (2021). Prior to The Maybe Man (2023), AJR had over eleven million US digital single sales, which accounted for five of the aforementioned songs, "100 Bad Days", and "Way Less Sad".

Life and career

2005–2012: Street performing and early life

Шаблон:Quote box AJR, originally known as TB³,Шаблон:Efn began street performing in the parks of New York City on July 9, 2005. Prior to releasing original music, they posted covers of popular songs onto YouTube, under the username of AJRbrothers. Their cover of "Ho Hey" by the Lumineers inspired pop singer Shawn Mendes, as Jack revealed on the Zach Sang Show in 2017.

AJR self-released several limited edition of music projects mainly in CD format before 2013, including Born & Bred, Venture, and an eponymous EP.

2012–2013: Breakthrough with "I'm Ready"

Шаблон:Main In November 2012, Ryan tweeted a link to a video of their debut single, "I'm Ready", to about 80 celebrities, including Australian singer Sia. Sia told her manager about the song, and he contacted Steve Greenberg, former president of Columbia Records and current CEO and founder of S-Curve Records, who now acts as their manager. "I'm Ready", which features a sample of SpongeBob SquarePants repeatedly singing his catchphrase "I'm ready" from the eponymous animated series' premiere episode, was commercially released on August 22, 2013. The song was placed in regular rotation on Sirius XM Radio's Top 20 on 20 and Hits 1 stations, and they performed the song on Good Day New York and VH1's Big Morning Buzz. The official music video for "I'm Ready" premiered on VEVO on October 15, 2013.

2013–2016: Living Room and EPs

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AJR on Border Crossings in 2015

AJR released their EP, 6foot1, on December 20, 2013, later being re-released as I'm Ready - EP via Warner Music Group on March 25, 2014. They were named Clear Channel's "Artist on the Rise" for the month of October 2013. By 2014, the band was named iHeartRadio's Artist of the Month for Top 40 in January, and a Myspace "One to Watch" in February, while "I'm Ready" impacted pop radio in April. As of December 2023, the music video for "I'm Ready" has over 41 million views on YouTube. The band later performed the song on Today on July 29, 2014. "I'm Ready" has been certified Platinum in the U.S. and Australia.

The band's EP, Infinity, was released on September 23, 2014. It contains 5 tracks, including the lead single "Infinity". A lyric video directed and produced primarily by AJR was released for the single. The EP was released instead of their debut album, Living Room, which was pushed back to a release date of March 3, 2015. The band expressed the delay in their debut album was because they wanted to add some of their newer music to the project. On October 23, 2015, they released the bonus track "Let the Games Begin".

The brothers released their EP, titled What Everyone's Thinking, on September 16, 2016, which features the singles "I'm Not Famous" and "Weak". The latter was written by the band within a few hours, without any idea of the future success the single would have. "Weak" has been certified Platinum in the U.S., Canada, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Germany, amassing over 500 million streams on Spotify as of January 2021.

2017–2018: The Click

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AJR performing "Turning Out" at the White House in 2017

Their second studio album, The Click, was released on June 9, 2017, including the singles "Weak", "Drama", and "Sober Up" (featuring Rivers Cuomo). The featured single was both AJR and his first chart-topping song co-written by them; atop BillboardШаблон:'s Alternative Airplay chart for two weeks in 2018, apart from his band Weezer. The album, on the AJR Productions label, was released by BMG in the US, Ultra Records in Canada, Liberator Records in Australia/New Zealand, and Black Butter Records in the rest of the world, as were AJR's next two albums. The band's 2018 tour in support of the album, The Click Tour, featured Hundred Handed, Grizfolk, Ocean Park Standoff, and MAX as openers.

An extended version of The Click was released on September 21, 2018. The Click (Deluxe Edition) included new tracks such as "Role Models", "Normal" and "Burn the House Down", the latter which the band released in March 2018 as a single and reached number two on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. Also included was "Pretender – Acoustic", an acoustic version of "Pretender", which was a collaboration between AJR, EDM artist Steve Aoki and American rapper Lil Yachty.

2019: Neotheater

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AJR performing in Amsterdam in 2019

On January 30, 2019, AJR released the song "100 Bad Days", which would later become the lead single for Neotheater. A music video was released on March 8. The song was included on Taylor Swift's Apple Music playlist, "Playlist by ME!" in May 2019. The lyrics, "maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories, a hundred good stories make me interesting at parties," are used in Taylor's description of this playlist of songs she loves and appreciates. On March 5, the band teased the single, "Birthday Party". On March 10, the band announced their third studio album, Neotheater, which was to be released on April 26. On March 12, the promotional single "Birthday Party" was released and "100 Bad Days" was performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The second single, "Dear Winter", was teased on April 1, and released on April 5 alongside a music video. The third studio album, Neotheater, debuted at number 8 on the US Billboard 200 and hit number one on BillboardШаблон:'s Top Rock Albums chart. A show for the Neotheater World Tour was later sold out at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on October 5, 2019. On October 25, 2019, the group released "Dear Winter 2.0", re-imagining the song by "changing the production and upping the emotion".

2020–2022: OK Orchestra

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AJR performing "Bummerland" at the concert "We the People" in 2021

On February 12, 2020, the single "Bang!" was released, with a music video following the next day. The single was intended to be part of a deluxe version of Neotheater, but was instead the lead single for their fourth album. A follow-up single was released on August 31, 2020, titled "Bummerland". On December 22, 2020, AJR released "My Play". The band announced OK Orchestra on social media on December 20, 2020, releasing "Way Less Sad" as the fourth single on February 17, 2021. To promote the album, AJR released OKO World, an interactive game on AJR's website, on March 21, 2021. OK Orchestra was then released on March 26, 2021, with Blue Man Group featuring on one of the album's 13 tracks. "Bang!" later won a Billboard Music Award for "Top Rock Song" In 2021, charting in the top ten singles of the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at number 8. On August 30, AJR collaborated with Daisy the Great to release a remix of "The Record Player Song" entitled "Record Player", adding additional verses and production. The band released a music video for "Ordinaryish People" on February 9, 2022.

On November 24, 2021, the band released a music video for their song "The Good Part" from their 2017 album The Click after its sudden spike popularity due to being featured on TikTok and YouTube Shorts.

2022–present: The Maybe Man

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AJR on 96.5 TDY's interview in 2022

On April 22, 2022, the band announced that a new song would be released before the OK Orchestra Tour resumed. AJR signed to Mercury Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, in May 2022, and officially released the song "I Won't" through the label on July 29 with an accompanying music video. On November 12, the band released a video teaser announcing their new album, abbreviated as TMM, and released the follow-up single "The DJ Is Crying for Help" on November 18. On January 27, 2023, Quinn XCII released "Too Late", featuring AJR. The song appeared as track 7 on Quinn's fifth studio album, The People's Champ. The single came after the cancellation of 2020's Everything Everywhere Tour, which would have seen both artists performing alongside each other.

On April 21, 2023, the band released the album's third single, "The Dumb Song". The next day, a music video was released detailing the events of the one-and-a-half-year-long process of creating the song. The band surprise released a lyric video for a new song titled "God Is Really Real" on July 3, detailing the brothers' relationship with their father, Gary, who was terminally ill at the time of its release. The band announced later that day that Gary had died. On August 28, AJR announced the album's title, The Maybe Man, with a release date of November 3. The album's tracklist and artwork was revealed on September 12, and the band released the fifth and final single "Yes I'm a Mess" on September 29 with a music video on October 25. On October 11, 2023, AJR announced that the release date of The Maybe Man had been delayed by one week to November 10. On November 8, 2023, AJR announced their first arena tour for the album beginning in 2024.

Artistry

Шаблон:Expand section The Met brothers initially began writing, producing, and mixing their own material in the living room of their Chelsea apartment in Manhattan, New York, focusing on DIY indie pop music.

Band members

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• Adam Met – vocals, bass guitar, programming, sampler, percussion
• Jack Met – lead vocals, guitar, melodica, ukulele, drums, percussion, keyboards, banjo, synthesizers, sampler, programming, cowbell
• Ryan Met – vocals, producing, programming, keyboards, ukulele, sampler

Backing band

• Arnetta Johnson – trumpet, keyboards
• Chris Berry – drums, percussion
• Ginny Luke – violin, strings

Former touring musician

• JJ Kirkpatrick

Discography

Studio albums

• Living Room (2015)
• The Click (2017)
• Neotheater (2019)
• OK Orchestra (2021)
• The Maybe Man (2023)

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Шаблон:Abbr
2014	The X Factor	Musical guest	In Australian Season 6
	Live with Kelly and Michael		In Season 27
2016	Live with Kelly		Episode 10
2017	Live with Kelly and Ryan		Шаблон:Hlist
2018
2019
2020	The Ellen DeGeneres Show		Episode 2954
	Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade		Television special
2021	iHeartRadio Jingle Ball
	NBC's New Year's Eve
	The Late Late Show with James Corden		Episode 862
	The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo		Season 2 Episode 7
	The Kelly Clarkson Show		Шаблон:Hlist
2022
	iHeartRadio Jingle Ball		Television special
	Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		Шаблон:Hlist
2023
	Music Universe K-909		Korean Episode 18
	Live with Kelly and Mark		In Season 36
	The Voice		In Season 24
	iHeartRadio Jingle Ball		Television special

Headlining tours

• I'm Ready Tour (2014)
• The Infinity Tour (2014)
• Living Room Tour (2015)
• What Everyone's Thinking Tour Part I & II (2017)
• The Click Tour (2018)
• The Click Tour Part 2 (2018)
• Neotheater World Tour (2019)
• Neotheater World Tour Part II (2020) Шаблон:Small
• Everything Everywhere Tour (2020) Шаблон:Small
• OK Orchestra Tour (2021–2022)

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• A Night in Your Car with AJR (2020)
• Шаблон:Vanchor (2020)
• One More Spectacular Night (2021) Шаблон:Small

On May 14, 2020, the band announced the cancellation of their upcoming tours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stating via Twitter that "it’s more important to us that [our fans] are safe".

On July 21, 2020, AJR announced their drive-in show, "A night in your car with AJR", which took place on August 19, 2020, in Philadelphia. Two days later after the first show had sold out entirely, they announced a second show for Philadelphia which took place on August 20. The first show saw the debut of "Bummerland".

On November 19, 2020, AJR announced their first virtual concert, AJR's One Spectacular Night, which took place on December 26, 2020. The livestream was interactive, allowing viewers to clap after songs and change the camera to both simulate a live concert and experiment with livestreaming.

Opening acts

AJR opened for Andy Grammer, American Authors, Demi Lovato, Fifth Harmony, Fitz and the Tantrums, Hoodie Allen, Imagine Dragons, Ingrid Michaelson, Lindsey Stirling, Melanie Martinez, Sammy Adams, the Wanted, Train, and We the Kings.

Philanthropy

• On March 31, 2017, AJR released a charity single "It's On Us" to support sexual violence survivors across the United States.
• $1 for every AJR's tour ticket sold will go towards Planet Reimagined, a non-profit organization co-founded by Adam Met, that trains the climate leaders of the future with customized programs for action-researchers from around the world, teaching them how to combine thought and advocacy for measurable impact to fight the climate crisis and deliver fair solutions for people and the planet.

Family and education

The brothers are Jewish. Their parents are Gary Metzger, an architect, and Laurie Marvald, who began her career as an architect, attending Cornell University, then moving on to entrepreneurship. The three members of AJR grew up in Bayside, Queens, until moving to Chelsea, Manhattan, in 2001. There, Jack attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan. Jack was a child actor, appearing in The Pink Panther 2 as well as an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Adam received a BA from Columbia University, majoring in business and philosophy, an MA from New York University, and PhD in International Human Rights Law from the University of Birmingham, while Ryan and Jack studied film at Columbia University.

See also

• List of indie pop artists
• List of bands formed in New York City
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. alternative rock chart

External links

• Шаблон:Official website