Hoobastank

After logging more than a year on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their Grammy-nominated double-platinum second album, The Reason, Island recording group Hoobastank returns with their long-awaited new album, EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,, due to arrive in stores on April 18th. Hoobastank worked on the new album starting in the summer 2005, with renowned producer Howard Benson, who produced POD, My Chemical Romance and Hoobastank’s The Reason.

First single, “If I Were You…,” is #1 most added at rock radio with major adds at KROQ LA, WWDC Washington, WNNX Atlanta, KDGE Dallas, KTBZ Houston, and KEDJ Phoenix with a total of over 30 adds first week!

Hoobastank delivered one of the true phenoms of rock’s last two years with The Reason. The title hit, “The Reason,” 2004’s longest-running rock single inside the Hot 100, was nominated for Grammy awards as Song Of the Year and Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, while The Reason was nominated as Best Rock Album.

Released December 2003, The Reason eventually peaked at #2 and became the Island Def Jam Music Group’s biggest and hottest-selling album of 2004. “The Reason” hit #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks, Adult Top 40, and Top 40 Mainstream charts, and rose to #2 on the Hot 100. The song was heard by tens of millions when it was featured on the high-rated Friends retrospective special (May 2004), and an episode of The O.C..

The group subsequently earned three nominations at Teen People magazine’s “Teen Choice” Awards in August, including Choice Music: Rock Group as well as Choice Love Song and Choice Rock Track, both for “The Reason.” Also in August, the song was nominated for Best Group Video and Best Rock Video at the 20th annual MTV VMAs, where Hoobastank performed. Back in Los Angeles in September, they performed at the 14th annual World Music Awards, Leno and WB’s Pepsi Smash. That same month in New York, after appearing on Late Night with David Letterman, they were the only rock band chosen to perform at the A-list “Fashion Rocks” concert event at Radio City Music Hall, which kicked-off the annual Fashion Week blitz.

2005 began with the MTV Asia Awards the first week of February, where Hoobastank not only tore it up with another great live performance, but was also named Favorite International Rock Act. Their two-month U.S. tour with Velvet Revolver kept Hoobastank on the road from March through May, at which point they settled into the process of recording their eagerly anticipated third album.

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