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Hands All Over (album)

Hands All Over is the third studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5, which features guest appearances from American country band Lady Antebellum and singer Christina Aguilera. Produced by veteran producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the album was released by A&M Octone Records on September 15, 2010, and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200.[6] The standard edition of the album includes three singles: "Misery", "Give a Little More" and "Never Gonna Leave This Bed".

Hands All Over

September 15, 2010

July 2009 – April 2010 (Lake Geneva in Vevey, Switzerland);[1] "Moves like Jagger" recorded 2011 (Los Angeles, California)

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On July 12, 2011, the band re-released the album to include their summer hit and the fourth single "Moves like Jagger".[7]

Background[edit]

The band began writing the songs from the third album, after winding down from a world tour in support of their second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long. Several months later, the band received a phone call from Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who had heard the band were beginning to write a new album, and expressed an interest in producing it.[1] In a press release on their official website, the album is described as "a killer hybrid of rock, pop, funk and R&B."[1]


In an interview with Rolling Stone, the band revealed they spent two months writing and recording their third album with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange in his recording studio in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Lead singer Adam Levine, spoke about the experience of working with Lange: "He worked me harder than anyone ever has," [...] "I would come in with a finished song, and he'd say, 'That's a good start. Now strip it down to the drums and start over.' The coolest thing about him is that not only has he been a huge, legendary producer, but he also is a legit, serious writer."[8] Rolling Stone has said that the resulting disc is the band's brightest-sounding and poppiest yet and that it delivers Lange's mix of catchy hooks and punchy rhythms.[8] Levine has also said about the album: "Our first record was a reflection of my love for Stevie Wonder. With the second I kept going back and forth between Prince and The Police. But there was no one on my mind for this album. It's just great pop."[8] In a separate interview, however, Levine said that the album was influenced by Tupac Shakur and Marvin Gaye.[9] The album artwork was revealed on July 1, 2010.[10] The cover photo for the album was taken by 19-year-old photographer Rosie Hardy, who also serves as the model in the photo. Hardy took the photo herself in just under an hour, in her own bedroom from the town of Buxton, United Kingdom.[11]


A web series titled Palm Trees & Power Lines, was released in three parts: Part 1 on August 23, Part 2 on October 11, and Part 3 on December 3, 2010, respectively.[12][13][14] The series follows the band's journey on their 2010 promotional tour and performing with songs from the album.

The lead single to be taken from the album is "". It was released on June 22, 2010. The music video for the single was directed by Joseph Kahn.[15] The song reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Misery

The second single is "", and was released on August 17, 2010. The music video was directed by Paul Hunter.[16]

Give a Little More

The third single, "", was released to Australian radio in January 2011. It was later released to the US mainstream radio on May 17, 2011.[17] The music video for the song was shot on January 12, 2011[18] and premiered exclusively on Just Jared on February 4.[19] The band performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 17.[20][21][22] The song debuted at #35 on the Billboard's Hot Adult Pop Songs and reached #55 on the Billboard Hot 100.[23]

Never Gonna Leave This Bed

The fourth and final single, "", featuring Christina Aguilera, was released on June 21, 2011, being the first single from the re-release of the album. The song debuted at number 8 on the Hot 100, the first Top 10 for Maroon 5 and Aguilera, since "Makes Me Wonder" and "Keeps Gettin' Better" respectively. The song peaked at #1 on the issue of August 31, 2011, making this song the band's second #1 (after "Makes Me Wonder" in 2007) and Aguilera's fifth number-one (after "Lady Marmalade" in 2001).[24] The band performed the song several times, including on America's Got Talent, The Voice, The Today Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Saturday Night Live.

Moves like Jagger

Commercial performance[edit]

On the Billboard 200, the album debuted at number two behind You Get What You Give by Zac Brown Band,[47] which despite a high placement sold a relatively weak 142,000 copies, compared to their previous effort, which debuted at number-one with 429,000 copies.[6] In the second week, it dropped to #9.[48] In November 2010, the album was certified Gold by RIAA, denoting a sales of at least 500,000 copies in the United States.[49] In an interview with Billboard, Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine expressed some frustration in the lackluster sales of the Hands All Over, saying a new album may be coming sooner than was originally planned. "Of course we could have liked it to have done better so far," Valentine told Billboard, "It hasn't sold at the pace that our previous records did." The lack of response to the latest record has the band thinking about recording another album sooner than they originally planned, but according to Valentine "that may not be a bad thing".[50] However, on the week of September 24, 2011, the album returned to the top 10 for the first time since its second week on the chart last October, climbing from number 23 to number 7 with 29,000 copies sold. This was spurred on by a four-day $6.99 sale price in the iTunes Store as well as the success of "Moves like Jagger", and represented the album's best sales frame since its second chart week and highest rank since its debut.[51] The album was certified platinum on January 9, 2012,[52] and as of April 2012 it has sold 1,079,000 copies in the United States.[53]

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards

Adam Levine

– keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Jesse Carmichael

– bass guitar

Mickey Madden

– lead guitar, backing vocals

James Valentine

– drums, percussion

Matt Flynn

Based on the liner notes of Hands All Over as well as the documentary "Vevey Forever".[54]


Maroon 5


Additional personnel

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Hands All Over