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The video album Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty was released in May 2004, topping the Billboard Top Video Albums chart. [5] [9] Following a hiatus to allow lead singer Rob Thomas to focus on his solo career, Matchbox Twenty reunited to record six new songs for a compilation album. [10]
The album was also released in the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format, which included two video interviews discussing the six new songs and eleven greatest hits, plus extras including a photo gallery, U-MYX (to remix "How Far We've Come"), buddy icons and wallpapers. "How Far We've Come" was released on the band's MySpace page in July ...
Exile on Mainstream is the first compilation album by American rock band Matchbox Twenty. The album was released in two parts: the first was an EP, featuring seven new songs that emerged from a 12-song recording session, produced by Steve Lillywhite. The other part consists of remastered versions of 11 of the band's biggest hits.
“When it got back to me, my first thought was, ‘Man, this sounds like Matchbox Twenty,’” Thomas says. "I know what I sound like. But once their DNA gets into this song, it sounds like ...
The track entered the top 40 the following week and rose into the top 10 on July 8. [21] [22] Two issues later, the song jumped from number six to number one, becoming Matchbox Twenty's highest-chart single in the United States. [23] [24] The song spent that week only at number one and remained on the Hot 100 for 39 weeks altogether. [24]
"Back 2 Good" was the band's biggest hit song on the US Billboard Hot 100 from Yourself or Someone Like You—peaking at number 24 in 1999—because their more successful prior hits, "Push" and "3AM", were not allowed to chart due to not receiving commercial releases in the US. The chart rules were changed in December 1998 to allow songs to ...
They decided to release a greatest hits album, Exile on Mainstream, which included an additional six new songs. [29] The album released three singles: "How Far We've Come", "All Your Reasons", and "These Hard Times". [29] The album debuted at number 3. [30] Rob Thomas at a Matchbox Twenty concert in Las Vegas (The Venetian) - IBM Impact 2013-04-30.
The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 with 178,000 copies sold. Although not as commercially successful as the band's two earlier records, Yourself or Someone Like You and Mad Season, it had a large radio presence and produced three consecutive singles in the United States, all of them charting onto the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.