AJR (band)
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AJR are an American indie pop - Trio consisting of three brothers Adam, Jack and Ryan Met.
Band history
The three Met brothers grew up in New York. They started making music together in 2007 when the youngest, Jack, was nine and the oldest, Adam, was 17. Later they also appeared as street musicians with cover songs. In 2013 they posted a video of their own song I'm Ready on the Internet. The song contains a sample of the cartoon character SpongeBob as she says I'm Ready . You wrote to all sorts of celebrities on Twitter . The Australian singer Sia Furler , who brought her to the Australian label Liberator Music , attracted attention . She also referred them to Steve Greenberg, former chairman of Columbia Records . Then she signed the major label Warner in the USA and they appeared as the opening act for musicians such as Lindsey Stirling , The Wanted and Demi Lovato .
When I'm Ready was released in the USA in mid-2014, it reached number 65 in the official singles charts and reached platinum status . The trio was even more successful in Australia, where the song advanced into the top 5 and got double platinum. The official YouTube video has been viewed over 20 million times on the Internet.
This was followed by the EPs I'm Ready and Infinity and in March 2015 the debut album Living Room . All three made it onto the Heatseekers charts , but missed the official charts. It wasn't until the end of 2016 that AJR got back with the song Weak . In their homeland, they weren't that successful, but they entered the charts across Europe at the beginning of 2017 and reached number 39 in Germany and number 58 in the British charts.
Members
- Adam Met (born August 27, 1990 ), bass guitar , vocals
- Jack Met (born August 16, 1997 ), guitar , vocals
- Ryan Met (born March 3, 1994 ), guitar, keyboard , vocals
Discography
Albums
- 2015: Living Room
- 2017: The Click
- 2019: Neotheater
EPs
- 2010: Born and Bred
- 2010: Venture
- 2012: AJR
- 2013: I'm Ready
- 2014: Infinity
- 2016: What Everyone's Thinking
- 2017: Spotify Singles
Songs
- 2010: Go On Take a Chance
- 2010: 212
- 2010: 50 States Away
- 2010: Let It Snow
- 2011: Snowglobe
- 2012: More Than Friends
- 2012: The Night Before
- 2013: I'm Ready
- 2014: Infinity
- 2015: Let the Games Begin
- 2015: Call My Dad
- 2016: I'm Not Famous
- 2016: Weak
- 2016: The Lotto (with Ingrid Michaelson )
- 2017: It's On Us
- 2017: drama
- 2018: Sober Up ( feat.Rivers Cuomo ) (US:platinum)
- 2018: Burn the House Down
- 2019: 100 Bad Days (US:gold)
- 2019: Birthday Party
- 2019: Dear Winter
- 2019: Next Up Forever
- 2019: Don't Throw Out My Legos
- 2019: Break My Face
- 2019: Turning Out Pt. ii
- 2019: The Entertainment's Here
- 2019: Karma
- 2019: Beats
- 2019: Wow, I'm Not Crazy
- 2019: Finale (Can't Wait To See What You Do Next)
- 2020: Bang!
- 2020: Bummerland
Guest Posts
- 2016: Celebrate (Ingrid Michaelson feat.AJR)
- 2017: Darlin ( Mike Love feat.AJR)
- 2018: The Pretender ( Steve Aoki feat. Lil yachty & AJR)
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | Sales | swell |
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Australia (ARIA) | - | gold1 | 3 × platinum3 | 245,000 | aria.com.au |
Belgium (BEA) | - | - | platinum1 | 30,000 | ultratop.be |
Denmark (IFPI) | - | gold1 | - | 30,000 | ifpi.dk |
Germany (BVMI) | - | gold1 | - | 200,000 | musikindustrie.de |
Italy (FIMI) | - | gold1 | - | 25,000 | fimi.it |
Canada (MC) | - | - | 4 × platinum4th | 320,000 | musiccanada.com |
Austria (IFPI) | - | gold1 | - | 15,000 | ifpi.at |
Switzerland (IFPI) | - | gold1 | - | 10,000 | hitparade.ch |
United States (RIAA) | - | 3 × gold3 | 4 × platinum4th | 5,500,000 | riaa.com |
United Kingdom (BPI) | silver1 | - | - | 200,000 | bpi.co.uk |
All in all | silver1 | 9 × gold9 | 12 × platinum12 |
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- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b Band Of The Moment: AJR , Faye Leck, Musichel, July 8, 2014
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
- YouTube channel
- AJR at Reverbnation (English)
- AJR at Allmusic (English)