Hanson (band)
Hanson | |
---|---|
Hanson (2013) |
|
General information | |
origin | Tulsa , United States |
Genre (s) | Pop rock |
founding | 1992 |
Website | http://www.hanson.net/ |
Current occupation | |
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
(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
|
|
|
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
- Official website (English)
- Documentary "Strong Enough To Break" (English)
- Hanson at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Billboard.com: Biography - Hanson , accessed December 27, 2015
- ^ Billboard.com: Hanson Gets Serious On Tour , accessed December 27, 2015
- ↑ CNN.com: The boys are grown ( Memento October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ CNN.com: List of Grammy award nominations. June 14, 2000.
- ^ Billboard.com: Hanson Splits Island, Working On New Album. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Billboard.com: Hanson Sets Acoustic August. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ↑ PRSSA: Hanson "Strong Enough To Break". November 30, 2005.
- ↑ Absolutepunk: Interview: Hanson. September 25, 2007.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hanson.net: World Aids Day. October 30, 2006.
- ↑ Hanson.net: Hanson / TOMS - The Walk Tour. ( Memento of June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) As of December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Hanson.net: Middle of Nowhere Acoustic. ( Memento of July 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ↑ yahoo.com: SXSW 2009 ARTIST ALERT: Tinted Windows. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ↑ Hanson.net: Hanson Announce Gramercy Theater Concert Series Leading up to Bamboozle appearance. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ↑ allmusic.com: Shout It Out . Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ↑ mtv.com: Hanson Pay Homage To Blues Brothers In Thinking 'Bout Somethin' Video. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ↑ PopEater.com: Hanson Check In From Philly on Their 'Shout It Out' tour. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US1 US2