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"This Love" - Maroon 5
from the album Songs About Jane (2002)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 38
Today's song comes from the pop/rock band Maroon 5, who scored their first hit on Billboard's Hot 100 with "Harder To Breathe", which hit the top-20 in the late autumn of 2003, and secured them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. The second single from the record was the white boy funk of "This Love". Written by lead singer/guitarist Adam Levine and keyboardist Jesse Carmichael (coincidentally the only two remaining original members of the group still around), the lyrics have Adam going through a breakup, but the production is so grooved-up and sunny that you kind of forget any hurt that he may be dealing out. Also, his boasting on his sexual prowess while stating the fact that she wasn't satisfied is a choice. But she's apparently done this before, so something must be bringing her back. But it wasn't about the heartbreak; this is all about the attitude and the groove, and in that it succeeds immensely. The music video played up Levine's sex-god image, basically doing soft-porn with then-girlfriend Kelly McGee...
"This Love" became Maroon 5's first top ten hit on the Hot 100 in April of 2004. On the radio, the song spent three weeks at #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Top-40 chart, topped the older-skewing Adult Top-40 list for thirteen weeks, and took two weeks at #3 at the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format, lasting on the latter for 64 weeks, as well as getting to #14 on the Adult Album Alternative (or "Triple-A") Rock radio chart. The dance remixes of the song helped it rise to #21 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart and #18 on the Dance Airplay list. Internationally, the single topped the charts in Poland (airplay), Hungary, Czechia, and Greece, and reached the top ten in Romania (#2), Canada (#2 airplay), the United Kingdom (#3), Italy (#3), Austria (#3), Norway (#3), Switzerland (#4), New Zealand (#4), Germany (#5), the Netherlands (#5), France (#6), Ireland (#6), Belgium (#7 Wallonia/#21 Flanders), Australia (#8), and Croatia (#8).
Maroon 5 and the album will be back to the series.
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In 2005, the band released their first live CD/DVD Live Friday The 13th. Their performance of "This Love" won them a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance the year after...
Here's the group on Conan O'Brien in 2004 hyping the single...
Maroon 5 included "This Love" in their Live 8 set in 2005...
Lastly, in 2004, the group released an album of live acoustic takes on their songs, including "This Love". The set went to #42 on the Billboard 200 sales tally. ..
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