Maroon 5 will play their first local show since 2018 when they headline St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center on Oct. 29.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. TikTok star Claire Rosinkranz opens.
Maroon 5 emerged in the early ’00s with a string of radio hits including “This Love,” “She Will Be Loved” and “Sunday Morning.” The band’s 2002 debut album, “Songs About Jane,” sold more than 5 million copies. Following up that success proved to be difficult, though, with the band making what looked like their final trip to the Top 10 with the 2007 single “Makes Me Wonder.”
But after bandleader Adam Levine joined the then-new competitive reality TV show “The Voice” as a coach in 2011, Maroon 5 returned to the charts for a string of smashes including “Moves Like Jagger,” “Payphone,” “One More Night,” “Daylight,” “Maps,” “Sugar,” “Don’t Wanna Know” and “What Lovers Do.”
Levine left “The Voice” in 2019 after 16 seasons. Two years later, Maroon 5 released their seventh album “Jordi,” which earned mixed reviews and only generated a single Top 10 hit in “Memories.” Earlier this year, Levine returned as a coach on “The Voice” for a single season.
Maroon 5’s eighth album “Love Is Like” is due out Aug. 15. The first single “Priceless” flopped in the States, but did hit the Top 10 in Mexico, Thailand, New Zealand and several other countries. The follow-up, “All Night,” will be released Friday.
The band was scheduled to play the X in August 2022, but ended up canceling that show along with nearly half of their 2022 dates due to what they called “a combination of unexpected issues and exponentially increased costs.”
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