Hanson (band)

Hanson
Hanson (2013)
General information
origin	Tulsa , United States
Genre (s)	Pop rock
founding	1992
Website	http://www.hanson.net/
Current occupation
Vocals , keyboard	Taylor Hanson
Vocals, guitar	Isaac Hanson
Vocals, drums	Zac Hanson

Hanson is a band from Tulsa , Oklahoma , who became known worldwide with their debut single MMMBop in 1997 .

Band history

Early Years (1992-1996)

Hanson have been performing in public since 1992. They recorded their first album Boomerang in 1995 and self-distributed it, as did the album MMMBop that followed in 1996 . At the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas , Hanson appeared as a street musician in 1996, when they were discovered by manager Christopher Sabec.

Commercial success (1997-2002)

Hanson were signed by Mercury Records and released their debut single MMMBop in 1997 , which reached number 1 in the charts in 27 countries. Their debut album Middle of Nowhere , released in the same year, was produced by Steve Lironi and the Dust Brothers . More than eight million copies have been sold worldwide. The album earned the band three Grammy nominations for Record of the Year , Best New Artist and Best Pop Performance .

In the same year Hanson released the Christmas album Snowed In . In 1998 3 Car Garage followed , a compilation of tracks from their two independent albums. In addition, Hanson completed their first major tour in 1998. In addition to appearances in Paris , Cologne and London , the Albertane tour led Hanson mainly through Canada and the USA . The live album Live from Albertane was recorded at Key Arena in Seattle during this tour .

In 2000, Hanson released their second studio album, This Time Around , which was again produced by Steve Lironi. Due to structural reorganizations at Mercury Records, This Time Around appeared on Island Def Jam Records . The album could not build on the success of Middle of Nowhere . In 2002 they also made a musical appearance in the series Sabrina - Totally Verhext! .

Independent career (since 2003)

During the recording of her third album, she broke with her record company. Hanson left Island Def Jam Records and started her own record label 3CG Records . Ashley Greyson's documentary Strong Enough to Break shows this process.

In the summer of 2003, Hanson began an acoustic tour to introduce the songs from their new album to the public. The DVD Underneath Acoustic Live , which was only released the following year, contained the recording of the concert in the House of Blues in Chicago .

After the quarrels with Island Def Jam and the founding of 3CG Records, her third studio album, Underneath , was released in 2004, which she produced for a long time and entered the American Billboard Independent Charts at number 1. On the first single, Penny & Me , Hanson worked for the first time with producer Danny Kortchmar . They also received prominent support from Michelle Branch , who sings in the background for Deeper .

The following year they released the album The Best of Hanson Live and Electric , which, in addition to the well-known hits, also contained unreleased material.

Also in 2005, Hanson presented the documentary Strong Enough to Break at American colleges to draw attention to the state of the music industry. They protested against the power of the big record companies and advocated giving bands development opportunities and not planning them on the drawing board. On October 22, 2006, Strong Enough To Break was screened at the Hollywood Film Festival in Los Angeles . In January 2007, Hanson made the film available on iTunes as a free podcast .

While working on their fourth album The Walk , Hanson traveled to Africa in 2006 and recorded the song Great Divide with a school choir from Soweto , South Africa . This choir can also be heard on other tracks on the album. Hanson donated the proceeds of the single Great Divide , released in October 2007, to organizations that are committed to the fight against the HIV virus in Africa.

The album The Walk , produced together with Danny Kortchmar , was initially released in 2007 in Japan and England . In the summer of 2007, Hanson released The Walk in the USA and Canada. On the subsequent tour of the United States, Hanson organized a one-mile march before each concert to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. Shoes were sold on this occasion in collaboration with TOMS Shoes. TOMS Shoes promised to donate an equivalent shoe in Africa for every shoe sold.

Ten years after the release of Middle of Nowhere , Hanson recorded the songs from the album live in acoustic versions on May 5, 2007 in Tulsa. They released Middle of Nowhere Acoustic in December 2007, but only distributed the CD / DVD through their website.

After Taylor Hanson had released an album as the supergroup Tinted Windows in 2009 with James Iha ( Smashing Pumpkins ), Adam Schlesinger ( Fountains of Wayne ) and Bun E. Carlos ( Cheap Trick ) and had performed several gigs, Hanson went back to the studio. Hanson presented their fifth regular studio album Shout It Out as part of a concert series during the Bamboozle Festival in New York in April 2010. In each of the five concerts at the Gramercy Theater for five consecutive days, Hanson played one of their albums, starting with Middle of Nowhere and ending with Shout It Out .

In the US, Shout It Out was released in June 2010. The video for the first single Thinking 'Bout Somethin' , a tribute to the Blues Brothers , was shot by Hanson with the support of hundreds of fans and weird Al Yankovics in their hometown of Tulsa. On the tour that followed, Hanson continued to march a mile before each concert to raise money for Africa.

In June 2011, they starred in Katy Perry's Last Friday Night video .

Members

Isaac Hanson

Clarke Isaac "Ike" Hanson was born on November 17, 1980 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He married in Panama City (Florida) in September 2006 . The couple have two sons and a daughter.

Taylor Hanson

Jordan Taylor "Tay" Hanson was born on March 14, 1983 in Jenks, Oklahoma. He married in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2002 . The couple have six children.

Zac Hanson

Zachary Walker "Zac" Hanson was born on October 22, 1985 in Arlington, Virginia. He married model Kathryn Tucker in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2006. The couple have four children.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1997	Middle of Nowhere	DE1 gold (17 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (16 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (22 weeks)CH	UK1 gold (32 weeks)UK	US2 × 4 Quadruple platinum (58 weeks)US	First published: May 6, 1997
	Snowed In	DE65 (4 weeks) DE	AT31 (3 weeks) AT	CH20 (7 weeks) CH	UK87 (1 week) UK	US7th platinum (9 weeks)US	First published: November 18, 1997
2000	This time around	DE54 (1 week) DE	-	CH30 (8 weeks) CH	UK33 (1 week) UK	US19th gold (16 weeks)US	First published: May 9, 2000
2004	Underneath	-	-	-	UK49 (2 weeks) UK	US25 (5 weeks) US	First published: April 20, 2004
2007	The Walk	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK	US56 (2 weeks) US	First published: July 24, 2007
2010	Shout it out	-	-	-	-	US30 (2 weeks) US	First published: June 8, 2010
2013	Anthem	-	-	-	-	US22 (1 week) US	First published: June 18, 2013
2017	Finally it's Christmas	-	-	-	-	US81 (1 week) US	First published: October 27, 2017

Live albums and compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	3 car garage	DE51 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	US6th platinum (19 weeks)US	First published: May 5, 1998
	Live from Albertane	-	-	-	-	US32 gold (9 weeks)US	First published: November 3, 1998
2005	The best of: Live & Electric	-	-	-	-	US182 (1 week) US	First published: October 11, 2005

More albums

• 1995: Boomerang
• 1996: MMMBop
• 2005: MMMBop: The Collection
• 2006: The Millennium Collection: The Best of
• 2007: Middle of Nowhere Acoustic

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1997	MMMBop Middle of Nowhere	DE1 platinum (18 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (16 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (25 weeks)CH	UK1 gold (11 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: April 15, 1997
	Where's the Love Middle of Nowhere	DE52 (9 weeks) DE	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH24 (8 weeks) CH	UK4th silver (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 1997
	I Will Come to You Middle of Nowhere	DE36 (10 weeks) DE	AT10 (12 weeks) AT	CH9 (10 weeks) CH	UK5 (9 weeks) UK	US9 gold (20 weeks)US	First published: September 1997
1998	Weird Middle of Nowhere	-	-	-	UK19 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1998
	Thinking of You Middle of Nowhere	-	-	-	UK23 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 1998
2000	This Time Around This Time Around	-	-	-	-	US20th gold (7 weeks)US	First published: April 2000
	If Only This Time Around	DE68 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH47 (6 weeks) CH	UK15 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 2000
2004	Penny & Me Underneath	DE99 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK10 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 2004
2005	Lost Without Each Other Underneath	-	-	-	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 2005
2007	Go the walk	-	-	-	UK44 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 2007

Video albums

• 1997: Tulsa, Tokyo and the Middle of Nowhere (UK:gold; US:× 5Quintuple platinum )
• 1998: Road to Albertane (US:platinum)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 1998: for the album 3 Car Garage 1998: for the single Thinking of You 1998: for the single Weird 2000: for the single If Only  Belgium 1998: for the single I Will Come to You  Brazil 1998: for the album 3 Car Garage 2000: for the album This Time Around  Finland 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere  France 1998: for the single I Will Come to You  Canada 1998: for the album 3 Car Garage  Mexico 1999: for the album Middle of Nowhere  New Zealand 1997: for the album Where's the Love  Netherlands 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Poland 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Spain 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere

2 × gold record  France 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere Platinum record  Australia 1997: for the single I Will Come to You 1997: for the single Where's the Love  Belgium 1997: for the single MMMBop 1998: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Brazil 1998: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Europe 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Canada 1998: for the album Snowed In  New Zealand 1997: for the single MMMBop  Sweden 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere 1997: for the single MMMBop

2 × platinum record  Australia 1997: for the album Snowed In 1997: for the single MMMBop 3 × platinum record  New Zealand 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere 4 × platinum record  Canada 1998: for the video album Tulsa, Tokyo and the Middle of Nowhere 5 × platinum record  Australia 1997: for the album Middle of Nowhere  Canada 1998: for the album Middle of Nowhere

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)	-	4 × gold4th	11 × platinum11	910,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	125,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	450,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	750,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	(1,000,000)	ifpi.org
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	31,809	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	3 × gold3	-	450,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	10 × platinum10	690,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	-	75,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	67,500	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	50,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	50,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	110,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	50,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	13 × platinum13	9,600,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	3 × gold3	-	925,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	28 × gold28	46 × platinum46

Web links

Commons : Hanson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Documentary "Strong Enough To Break" (English)
• Hanson at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Billboard.com: Biography - Hanson , accessed December 27, 2015
2. ^ Billboard.com: Hanson Gets Serious On Tour , accessed December 27, 2015
3. ↑ CNN.com: The boys are grown ( Memento October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
4. ^ CNN.com: List of Grammy award nominations. June 14, 2000.
5. ^ Billboard.com: Hanson Splits Island, Working On New Album. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
6. ↑ Billboard.com: Hanson Sets Acoustic August. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
7. ↑ PRSSA: Hanson "Strong Enough To Break". November 30, 2005.
8. ↑ Absolutepunk: Interview: Hanson. September 25, 2007.
9. ↑ Strong Enough To Break ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . As of October 28, 2007. 
10. ↑ Hanson.net: World Aids Day. October 30, 2006.
11. ↑ Hanson.net: Hanson / TOMS - The Walk Tour. ( Memento of June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) As of December 27, 2015.
12. ↑ Hanson.net: Middle of Nowhere Acoustic. ( Memento of July 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 27, 2015.
13. ↑ yahoo.com: SXSW 2009 ARTIST ALERT: Tinted Windows. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
14. ↑ Hanson.net: Hanson Announce Gramercy Theater Concert Series Leading up to Bamboozle appearance. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
15. ↑ allmusic.com: Shout It Out . Retrieved August 25, 2010.
16. ↑ mtv.com: Hanson Pay Homage To Blues Brothers In Thinking 'Bout Somethin' Video. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
17. ↑ PopEater.com: Hanson Check In From Philly on Their 'Shout It Out' tour. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
18. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US1 US2