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Overexposed (album)

Overexposed
Maroon 5 - Overexposed.png
Studio album by Maroon 5
Released June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20)
Recorded Late 2011–12
Studio Conway Recording Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length 42:10
Label A&M/Octone
Producer
Maroon 5 chronology
iTunes Session
(2011)
Overexposed
(2012)
V
(2014)
Singles from Overexposed
  1. "Payphone"
    Released: April 17, 2012
  2. "One More Night"
    Released: June 19, 2012
  3. "Daylight"
    Released: November 27, 2012
  4. "Love Somebody"
    Released: May 14, 2013
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
American Songwriter 3/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly C+
The Guardian 3/5 stars
The Independent 3/5 stars
musicOMH 3/5 stars
NME 5/10
PopMatters 5/10
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
Spin 4/10

Overexposed is the fourth studio album by the American band Maroon 5, released on June 20, 2012, by A&M Octone Records. The album was recorded between 2011 and 2012 and was driven after the moderate success of their third album, Hands All Over (2010), and later by the enormous success of the re-released edition, which was promoted by the single "Moves Like Jagger", recorded as a collaboration with Christina Aguilera. It is the band's only album not to feature keyboardist, rhythm guitarist and background vocalist, Jesse Carmichael, who took a temporary break from performing with the group to focus on his studies back then, but eventually returned to Maroon 5 in 2014. The band worked with different producers, such as Max Martin, who serves as the album's executive producer, Ryan Tedder, Shellback and Benny Blanco. The band's guitarist and Levine's usual co-writer James Valentine only has four credits on the album.

The accompanying artwork, created by LA artist Young & Sick, is a colorful collage of illustrations seemingly inspired by the likes of Picasso and a range of modern cartoonists. Its title is a smirking allusion to Levine's ubiquity, while its sound is a reflection of how the group wishes to retain the large audience they won once again with "Moves Like Jagger". The album's lead single "Payphone", featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa, produced by Shellback and Benny Blanco, was released and performed on The Voice on April 16, 2012. The song was a success, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as on the ARIA Charts, while it topped the UK Singles Chart, Canadian Hot 100 and Italian Singles Chart. The second single, "One More Night", was released on June 19, 2012. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks, becoming their longest Hot 100 reign. All four singles released from Overexposed have reached the Hot 100 top-ten, including the last two of them: "Daylight" and "Love Somebody".


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