5 seconds of summer

5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS)
General information
origin	Sydney , Australia
Genre (s)	Pop-punk , pop-rock , power pop
founding	2011
Website	www.5sos.com

5 Seconds of Summer is an Australian pop-rock - band from Sydney .

history

5 Seconds of Summer was founded in early 2011 by Luke Robert Hemmings, Michael Gordon Clifford and Calum Thomas Hood, who attended Northwest Christian College in Sydney together . They started uploading covers of popular songs to YouTube . Her cover of Chris Brown's and Justin Bieber's hit Next 2 You has reached over 3,600,000 views to date. Before their first appearance in December 2011, they brought in Ashton Fletcher Irwin, who came from their mutual circle of friends, as drummer. Since then, the composition of the band has not changed. They achieved over 4 million views on YouTube in a short time and built a large fan base on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook .

In 2012, the band attracted some interest from major music labels and publishers and eventually signed a deal with Sony ATV Music Publishing . Although they continued to receive no support other than on Facebook and Twitter, their first musical release, an EP called Somewhere New , hit # 3 on the iTunes charts in Australia and made it to the top 20 in New Zealand and Sweden .

They achieved great international success when Louis Tomlinson from the British-Irish boy band One Direction tweeted a link to the YouTube video of their song Gotta Get Out . In that tweet he mentioned that he had been a fan of 5 Seconds of Summer for a while. 5 Seconds of Summer attracted further attention when they released their single Out of My Limit on November 19, 2012 and Niall Horan , also a member of the boy band One Direction, tweeted a link to their video, which received over 100,000 views within 24 hours received.

5 Seconds of Summer spent the second half of 2012 writing new songs with the help of Christian Lo Russo and Joel Chapman of the Australian band Amy Meredith. With them they wrote two more songs for their Somewhere New EP: Beside You and Unpredictable .

In December 2012 the boys embarked on a songwriting trip to London, where they worked with various well-known artists including McFly , Roy Stride from Scouting for Girls , Nick Hodgson from Kaiser Chiefs , Jamie Scott, Jake Gosling, Steve Robson and James Bourne from Busted worked together.

The EPs She Looks So Perfect , Don't Stop , Amnesia and Good Girls were released in 2014.

5 Seconds of Summer (2014)

5 Seconds of Summer released their debut album entitled 5 Seconds of Summer in June 2014 . The album was released in the US on July 22, 2014. It reached number 1 not only in Australia and New Zealand, but also in the USA and made it into the top 10 in many other countries. Don't Stop and Amnesia were successful singles , the latter sold over a million times in the USA alone. At the end of the year the fourth official song was released, Good Girls , which also made it into the international charts again.

With She's Kinda Hot , the next new song was released in July 2015. It was again successful in many countries and announced the second album Sounds Good Feels Good in the same year. The album was released on October 23, 2015.

With Girls Talk Boys , a new single by the band was released on July 15, 2016. This is included on the soundtrack for the new Ghostbusters film.

In 2016 5 Seconds Of Summer also completed a world tour called Sounds Live Feels Live , during which they gave concerts in Europe, Asia and the USA.

They also recorded the track Take What You Want with the Japanese rock band One Ok Rock , which can be heard on their album.

On February 22nd, 2018 the band released the song Want You Back and announced a new tour for 2018.

Influences

Influences of the band are Blink-182 , All Time Low , Ed Sheeran , Mayday Parade , Boys Like Girls , Green Day and Nickelback .

Tours

• 2012: Mini Australian Tour
• 2012: Twenty Twelve Tour
• 2012: Support act for Hot Chelle Rae's Whatever World Tour
• 2013: Pants Down Tour
• 2013: Support act for One Direction's Take Me Home Tour
• 2014: UK Tour
• 2014: 5 Countries 5 Days European Tour
• 2014: Stars, Stripes and Maple Syrup Tour
• 2014: There's No Place Like Home Tour
• 2014: Support act for Where We Are (Stadium Tour) by One Direction
• 2015: Rock Out with Your Socks Out Tour
• 2016: Sounds Live Feels Live Tour
• 2018: Meet You There Tour

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU	NZ
2014	5 seconds of summer	DE6 (8 weeks) DE	AT4 (10 weeks) AT	CH5 (12 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (42 weeks)UK	US1 gold (66 weeks)US	AU1 gold (29 weeks)AU	NZ1 (19 weeks) NZ	First published: June 27, 2014
2015	Sounds good, feels good	DE3 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 (4 weeks) AT	CH3 (4 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (12 weeks)UK	US1 (14 weeks) US	AU1 (11 weeks) AU	NZ2 (7 weeks) NZ	First published: October 23, 2015
2018	Youngblood	DE6 (4 weeks) DE	AT5 (3 weeks) AT	CH8 (3 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	US1 (64 weeks) US	AU1 gold (15 weeks)AU	NZ2 (11 weeks) NZ	First published: June 15, 2018
2020	Calm	DE7 (3 weeks) DE	AT4 (5 weeks) AT	CH13 (2 weeks) CH	UK1 (5 weeks) UK	US2 (9 weeks) US	AU1 (... week) AU	NZ4 (... weeks) NZ	First published: March 27, 2020

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU	NZ
2014	LiveSOS	-	-	CH65 (1 week) CH	UK31 (5 weeks) UK	US13 (7 weeks) US	AU7 (6 weeks) AU	NZ23 (5 weeks) NZ	First published: December 15, 2014

More live albums

• 2018: Meet You There Tour Live (First released: December 21, 2018)

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU	NZ
2012	Somewhere New	-	-	-	-	-	-	NZ36 (1 week) NZ	First published: December 7, 2012
2014	She Looks So Perfect	-	-	-	-	US2 (24 weeks) US	-	-	First published: March 21, 2014

More EPs

• 2012: Unplugged (first published June 26, 2012)
• 2014: Don't Stop (first published June 15, 2014)
• 2014: Amnesia (First published September 5, 2014)
• 2014: Good Girls (first published November 14, 2014)
• 2015: She's Kinda Hot (first published August 28, 2015)
• 2018: Spotify Singles (First release: 2018)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU	NZ
2014	She Looks So Perfect 5 Seconds of Summer	DE35 (6 weeks) DE	AT21 (2 weeks) AT	CH26 (2 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (27 weeks)UK	US24 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	AU1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AU	NZ1 platinum (16 weeks)NZ	First published: February 21, 2014
	Don't Stop 5 Seconds of Summer	DE46 (2 weeks) DE	AT37 (1 week) AT	CH36 (1 week) CH	UK2 gold (11 weeks)UK	US47 gold (3 weeks)US	AU3 gold (12 weeks)AU	NZ1 (8 weeks) NZ	First published: May 9, 2014
	Amnesia 5 Seconds of Summer	DE64 (1 week) DE	AT40 (2 weeks) AT	CH49 (1 week) CH	UK7th gold (18 weeks)UK	US16 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	AU7th gold (18 weeks)AU	NZ6 (5 weeks) NZ	First published: July 1, 2014
	Good Girls 5 Seconds of Summer	DE96 (1 week) DE	AT62 (1 week) AT	-	UK19th silver (8 weeks)UK	US34 gold (2 weeks)US	AU19 (9 weeks) AU	NZ15 (2 weeks) NZ	First published: November 17, 2014
2015	She's Kinda Hot Sounds Good Feels Good	DE76 (1 week) DE	AT35 (2 weeks) AT	CH59 (1 week) CH	UK14th silver (10 weeks)UK	US22nd gold (9 weeks)US	AU6th platinum (6 weeks)AU	NZ11 (1 week) NZ	First published: July 17, 2015
	Jet Black Heart Sounds Good Feels Good	-	AT60 (1 week) AT	-	UK60 (1 week) UK	US95 (1 week) US	AU34 (1 week) AU	-	First published: August 28, 2015
	Hey everybody! Sounds good, feels good	DE74 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK49 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	First published: October 9, 2015
2016	Girls Talk Boys Ghostbusters (OST)	DE80 (1 week) DE	-	CH68 (1 week) CH	UK28 (5 weeks) UK	US68 (1 week) US	-	-	First published: July 15, 2016
2018	Want You Back Youngblood	DE82 (1 week) DE	AT50 (1 week) AT	CH56 (1 week) CH	UK22nd silver (8 weeks)UK	US61 gold (1 week)US	AU32 platinum (1 week)AU	-	First published: February 22, 2018
	Youngblood Youngblood	DE45 gold (15 weeks)DE	AT23 (31 weeks) AT	CH34 (31 weeks) CH	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)UK	US7th × 2 Double platinum (48 weeks)US	AU1 × 11 Eleven times platinum (57 weeks)AU	NZ1 × 3 Triple platinum (44 weeks)NZ	First published: April 13, 2018
2019	Lie to Me	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	-	AU38 platinum (2 weeks)AU	-	First published: January 18, 2019
	Easier Calm	-	AT58 (1 week) AT	CH66 (1 week) CH	UK27 silver (9 weeks)UK	US48 (16 weeks) US	AU12 × 2 Double platinum (15 weeks)AU	NZ16 gold (12 weeks)NZ	First published: May 23, 2019
	Teeth Calm	-	AT70 (2 weeks) AT	CH99 (1 week) CH	UK46 (5 weeks) UK	-	AU15th × 2 Double platinum (16 weeks)AU	NZ25 (8 weeks) NZ	First published: August 21, 2019
2020	No shame calm	-	-	-	UK68 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	First published: February 5, 2020
	Old Me Calm	-	-	-	-	-	AU39 gold (… Where.)AU	-	First published: March 6, 2020
	Wildflower Calm	-	-	-	UK81 (... weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: March 25, 2020
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	Everything I Didn't Say 5 Seconds of Summer	-	AT44 (1 week) AT	-	-	US24 (1 week) US	AU11 (1 week) AU	NZ8 (1 week) NZ	First published: May 9, 2014
	Kiss Me Kiss Me 5 Seconds of Summer	-	AT49 (1 week) AT	-	-	US28 (1 week) US	AU14 (1 week) AU	NZ10 (1 week) NZ	First published: May 9, 2014
	Try Hard Don't Stop EP	-	-	-	UK80 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	First published: June 16, 2014
2015	Fly Away Sounds Good Feels Good	-	AT60 (1 week) AT	-	UK44 (1 week) UK	US100 (1 week) US	AU26 (1 week) AU	-	First published: August 14, 2015
	Money Sounds Good Feels Good	-	-	-	UK88 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	First published: September 18, 2015

More singles

• 2012: Out of My Limit
• 2014: What I Like About You
• 2014: Daylight
• 2014: American Idiot
• 2018: Valentine
• 2018: Killer Queen
• 2020: Kill My Time

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU	NZ
2019	Who Do You Love	DE55 (3 weeks) DE	AT31 (4 weeks) AT	CH43 (3 weeks) CH	UK34 silver (14 weeks)UK	US56 platinum (5 weeks)US	AU13 × 2 Double platinum (15 weeks)AU	NZ24 (10 weeks) NZ	First published: February 7, 2019 The Chainsmokers feat. 5 seconds of summer
2020	Times Like These	-	-	-	UK1 (8 weeks) UK	-	-	NZ5 (2 weeks) NZ	First published: April 23, 2020 as part of Live Lounge Allstars Original: Foo Fighters (2003)

Video albums

year	title	Remarks
2015	How Did We End Up Here? Live at Wembley Arena	First published: November 20, 2015 AU:gold

Music videos

year	title	Director
2012	Out of my limit	Bryce Jepsen
2013	Heartbreak girl	Charlie Miller
	Try hard	Ben Winston
	Wherever You Are	Ben Winston
2014	She looks so perfect	Frank Borin
	Don't stop	Isaac Rentz
	Amnesia	Isaac Rentz
	Good girls	Isaac Rentz
2015	She's Kinda Hot	Isaac Rentz
	Hey everybody!	Isaac Rentz

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Brazil 2015: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2018: for the single Youngblood  Denmark 2014: for streaming She Looks So Perfect 2016: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2019: for the single Amnesia 2019: for the album Youngblood 2020: for the single Easier  France 2019: for the single Youngblood  Italy 2014: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2014: so perfect for the single She Looks  Canada 2014: for the single Amnesia 2014: for the single Lie to Me 2020: for the single Teeth  Mexico 2018: for the single Youngblood 2019: for the single Who Do You Love  Norway 2015: so perfect for the single She Looks 2015: for the single Amnesia  Poland 2014: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2019: for the single Who Do You Love  Sweden 2014: for the single Amnesia 2015: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2018: for the album Youngblood

Platinum record  Belgium 2019: for the single Youngblood  Italy 2019: for the single Youngblood  Canada 2014: so perfect for the single She Looks 2015: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer 2019: for the album Youngblood  Mexico 2015: for the album 5 Seconds of Summer  Sweden 2014: so perfect for the single She Looks 2 × platinum record  Denmark 2019: for the single Youngblood  Sweden 2018: for the single Youngblood 4 × platinum record  Poland 2020: for the single Youngblood

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	6 × gold6th	22 × platinum22nd	1,687,500	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	2 × gold2	-	40,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2	290,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	100,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	90,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	360,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	120,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	120,000	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	10,000	ifpi.no
Poland (ZPAV)	-	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	100,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	180,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	7 × platinum7th	9,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × silver6th	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	4,060,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × silver6th	38 × gold38	52 × platinum52

Web links

Commons : 5 Seconds of Summer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

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1. ↑ Alex Langlands: Meet 5 Seconds Of Summer . May 14, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012. 
2. ↑ Jason Lipshutz: 5 Seconds of Summer: 10 Things You Need To Know . Billboard, April 3, 2014
3. ↑ ^{a b} 5 Seconds of Summer Australian Tour . May 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Toby Creswell: Smells Like Teen Spirit . July 30, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012. 
5. ^ Louis Tomlinson: Louis Tomlinson Twitter . November 7, 2012. Retrieved November 11, 2012. 
6. ^ Niall Horan: Niall Horan Twitter . November 27, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012. 
7. ↑ Kathy McCabe: Sydney teen band 5 Seconds of Summer is getting hot in the UK . November 18, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2012. 
8. ↑ 5 Seconds of Summer Twitter . July 9, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2013. 
9. ↑ 5 Seconds of Summer are Writing with McFly . December 19, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012. 
10. ↑ Jessica Aquilina: Local boys to play support for One Direction tour . February 15, 2013. Archived from the original on February 20, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 22, 2013.  
11. ↑ Kathy McCabe: Things are hotting up for 5 seconds of Summer . February 18, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013. 
12. ↑ Poppy Reid: Sydney's 5 Seconds of Summer Support 1D on World Tour. (No longer available online.) February 15, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2013 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Sounds Good Feels Good . October 23, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2016. 
14. ↑ 5 Seconds of Summer release funky new Ghostbusters single 'Girls Talk Boys' . July 15, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016. 
15. ↑ Everything 5 Seconds Of Summer Did Between 'Sounds Good Feels Good' and 'Want You Back' . February 23, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018. 
16. ↑ WANTYOUBACK is here . February 22, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018. 
17. ↑ // We Are Coming To A City Near You // Here Are The Tour Dates // 5SOS3 // . February 22, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018. 
18. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU NZ