[Blink 182 Discography 320 112
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This is a discography of the American pop punk and rock band Blink-182. They have released nine studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, three video albums, two extended plays (EPs), twenty-four singles, six promotional singles, and thirty-two music videos. Their recording material was distributed mainly by subdivisions of Universal Music Group, including Geffen Records, Interscope Records, and DGC Records. They have also released material under MCA Records, Cargo Music and its subdivision Grilled Cheese, Kung Fu Records, and BMG. The band currently consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, and guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge. Founded by Hoppus, guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Scott Raynor, the band emerged from the Southern California punk scene of the early 1990s and first gained notoriety for high-energy live shows and irreverent lyrical toilet humor.[1] Blink-182 has sold 15.3 million albums in the United States,[2] and over 50 million albums worldwide.[3] The band is known for bringing the genre of pop punk into the mainstream.[4]
The band recorded three demos, including the commercially available Buddha, before signing to San Diego-based independent label Cargo Music in 1994.[1] Cargo issued the band's debut album, Cheshire Cat, in 1995.[5] The band signed with major label MCA Records to co-distribute 1997's Dude Ranch.[6] The album was their first to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 67.[7] Dude Ranch also featured their first radio hit, "Dammit",[8] which helped the album reach Platinum status in the United States.[9] The following album, Enema of the State (1999), was met with more commercial success, reaching top ten positions in several countries, including the United States.[7] Its singles, "What's My Age Again?", "All the Small Things", and "Adam's Song", became airplay and MTV staples.[10] "All the Small Things" became the most successful of the three, reaching number-one on the Alternative Songs chart,[11] but also became a crossover hit and peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[12] Enema of the State is Blink-182's most successful album, certified five times platinum in the United States for having shipped five million units.[9] It has sold over 15 million worldwide.[13]
Their fourth album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001), reached the number-one spot in the United States,[14] Canada,[15] and Germany.[16] In its first week, the album sold more than 350,000 copies in the United States,[17] eventually being certified double Platinum by the RIAA.[9] The first two singles, ("The Rock Show" and "First Date") achieved moderate success internationally, while its third and final single "Stay Together for the Kids" had a weaker impact. The eponymously titled Blink-182 followed in 2003 and marked a stylistic shift for the group, infusing experimental elements into their usual pop punk formula,[18] resulting in a more mature sound.[19] The album spawned four singles: "Feeling This", "I Miss You", "Down", and "Always", with "I Miss You" having the greatest success and narrowly missing the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.[12] "Feeling This" and "I Miss You", along with "All the Small Things" and "Bored To Death", remain the best-selling of the group's singles, which have all been certified Gold by the RIAA.[9] DeLonge left the group in 2005, sending the band into what was termed an "indefinite hiatus."[20]
The trio reunited in 2009,[21] and their sixth studio album, Neighborhoods, was released in 2011. While it was a top ten success on many charts around the globe, it did not prove to be as successful as their last album, and its singles "Up All Night" and "After Midnight" had weaker success on the charts in comparison to previous releases. Dogs Eating Dogs, an extended play containing new material, was self-released by the band after they departed their record label DGC in 2012, whom the group had been with since they reunited.[22] After a second falling-out with DeLonge which resulted in his departure in January 2015,[23] the band recruited Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba as a replacement.[24] The album's production was expedited without DeLonge, and their seventh record California was released in 2016. It was the band's first album to reach number-one on any chart since before the band's breakup, and their first ever in the UK;[25] and each song from the album managed to reach chart positions in the US[26] and the UK.[27] The band's eighth studio album, Nine, was released on September 20, 2019.[28]
Upon DeLonge's return to the band in 2022, a new album was announced to be in the works, with the lead single "Edging" releasing on October 14, 2022.[29] The band's ninth studio album, One More Time... was announced on September 18, 2023 and released on October 20, 2023. The album's title track was released on September 21, 2023, along with a third single titled "More Than You Know". The fourth single of the album titled "Dance with Me" was released on October 5 and the fifth single "Fell in Love" was released on October 13, 2023, followed by the sixth single, "You Don't Know What You've Got", which was released on October 18, 2023. The album scored the band's third number-one album on the Billboard 200.
Blink-182's straightforward approach and simple arrangements, which helped initiate pop-punk's second mainstream rise, made them popular among generations of audiences. Worldwide, the group has sold 50 million albums[4] and moved 15.3 million copies in the U.S.[5]
Blink-182, originally named only Blink, was formed in August 1992 in Poway, California, a northern suburb of San Diego. Guitarist Tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High School for being drunk at a basketball game and was forced to attend another school, Rancho Bernardo High School, for one semester. There, he performed at a Battle of the Bands competition, where he was introduced to drummer Scott Raynor.[6][7] He also befriended Kerry Key, who was also interested in punk rock music. Key was dating Anne Hoppus, sister of bassist Mark Hoppus, who had recently moved from Ridgecrest, California, to work at a record store and attend college. Both Hoppus and DeLonge grew up listening to punk rock music, with both particularly enamoured by the Descendents.[8][9] Southern California had a large punk population in the early 1990s, aided by an active surfing, skating, and snowboarding scene.[10] In contrast to East Coast punk music, the West Coast wave of groups typically introduced more melodic aspects.[10] "New York is gloomy, dark and cold. It makes different music. The Californian middle-class suburbs have nothing to be that bummed about," said DeLonge.[10]
"We had a lot of fuckin' fun. We were out all night skateboarding. We were out throwing food and drinks at security guards who were chasing us through malls, skateboarding at four in the morning, eating doughnuts at places making hot doughnuts near the beach, breaking into schools and finding skate spots in dark schools or slaloming down parking garages naked and shit in downtown San Diego."
The band began booking shows, and were on stage nearly every weekend, even at Elks Lodges and YMCA centres.[18] DeLonge constantly called clubs in San Diego asking for a spot to play, as well as local high schools, convincing them that Blink was a "motivational band with a strong antidrug message" in hopes to play at an assembly or lunch.[18] San Diego at this time was "hardly a hotbed of [musical] activity", according to journalist Joe Shooman, but the band's popularity grew as did punk rock concurrently in the mainstream.[17] They quickly became part of a circuit that also included bands such as Ten Foot Pole and Unwritten Law, and Blink soon found its way onto the bill as the opening band for acts performing at Soma, a local all-ages venue. "The biggest dreams we ever had when we started was to [headline] a show at Soma", Hoppus said later.[19] Meanwhile, Hoppus' manager at the record store, Patrick Secor, fronted the group money to properly record another demo at a local studio Doubletime.[20] The result was Buddha (1994), which the members of the band viewed as the band's first legitimate release.[21][20] That year, however, Raynor's family relocated to Reno, Nevada, and he was briefly replaced by musician Mike Krull.[22] The band saved money and began flying Raynor out to shows, and he eventually moved back and in with Hoppus in mid-1995. During that time, the band would record its first album, first music video, and develop a larger following.[23]
The band soon hired a manager, Rick DeVoe, who had worked with larger bands such as NOFX, Pennywise and The Offspring.[28] In addition, the group drew the attention of Rick and Jean Bonde of the Tahoe booking agency, who were responsible for "spreading the name of the band far and wide."[28][31] In late 1995, the trio embarked on their first national tour, promoting the surf video Good Times with Unwritten Law, Sprung Monkey and 7 Seconds. Good Times was directed by filmmaker Taylor Steele, who was a friend of DeVoe. In preparation for the trek, the band members purchased their own tour van, which they nicknamed the Millennium Falcon.[32] The Good Times tour extended outside the States with a leg in Australia; the trio were financially unable to go, but Pennywise's members paid for their plane tickets.[33] Fletcher Dragge, guitarist of Pennywise, believed in the band strongly. He demanded that Kevin Lyman, founder of the traveling rock-based Warped Tour, sign the band for its 1996 iteration, predicting they would become "gigantic."[34] That year, the band toured heavily, with several domestic shows on and off the Warped Tour, trips to Canada and Japan, and more Australian dates. Australia was particularly receptive to the band and their humorous stage antics, which gained the band a reputation, but also made them ostracized and considered a joke.[35][36]
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