Maroon 5
Score Position: #6
Longevity Score: 9/10
Potency Ranking: 82.17 (#11)
Lead vs. Featuring Rate: 100%
Best Year: 2012
Other Awards: Artist of the Year 2012, Artist of the Summer 2012
Adam Levine and crew found themselves at a payphone trying to call home to let everyone know that Maroon 5 was the real deal. Formed in the late 1990s, Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from California that gained widespread popularity in the 2000s and 2010s. The band is known for its catchy pop-rock sound and for lead singer Adam Levine’s distinctive voice and partial nudeness.
In the 2010s, Maroon 5 released several successful albums, including “Hands All Over” (2010), “Overexposed” (2012), and “V” (2014). These albums spawned hit singles such as “Moves Like Jagger,” “One More Night,” and “Sugar,” which cemented the band as one of the most popular and successful groups of the decade.
This artist is one of the 8 artists in the 2010s decade who rated with 100% for the Lead vs. Featuring Rate. The full list of top 25 artists with this statistic are: Adele, Ed Sheeran, Flo Rida, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Post Malone, and The Chainsmokers.
Drake and Maroon 5 tied for the highest Longevity Score in the 2010s decade with both scoring 9/10. The only year that Drake did not have a hit song was 2014. The only year that Maroon 5 did not have a hit song was 2010.
Biggest songs of the decade:
- “Moves Like Jagger” (featuring Christina Aguilera) (2011)
- “Payphone” (featuring Wiz Khalifa) (2012)
- “One More Night” (2012)
- “Daylight” (2012)
- “Love Somebody” (2013)
- “Maps” (2014)
- “Sugar” (2015)
- “Animals” (2015)
- “Don’t Wanna Know” (featuring Kendrick Lamar) (2016)
- “What Lovers Do” (featuring SZA) (2017)
- “Girls Like You” (featuring Cardi B) (2018)
- “Memories” (2019)