Jonas Brothers is an American boy band that had its hayday during 2008 when they debuted on Disney Channel and released their first album.
After 4 albums, a tv show and two Camp Rock movies the band disbanded! Now they made their comeback! So it’s the perfect time to find out some trivia and facts about them!
- The Jonas Brothers are an American pop rock band
- Formed in 2005
- They gained popularity from their appearances on the Disney Channel television network
- They consist of three brothers
- Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas
- Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey
- The Jonas Brothers moved to Little Falls, New Jersey in 2005
- There they wrote their first record that made its Hollywood release
- In the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock
- And its sequel, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
- They also starred as Kevin, Joe, and Nick Lucas
- In their own Disney Channel series Jonas
- It was rebranded as Jonas L.A. after the first season
- It was cancelled after the second
- The band released four albums
- It’s About Time (2006), Jonas Brothers (2007), A Little Bit Longer (2008), and Lines, Vines and Trying Times (2009)
- In 2008, the group was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 51st Grammy Awards
- The band won the award for Breakthrough Artist at the American Music Awards
- As of May 2009, before the release of Lines, Vines and Trying Times, they had sold over eight million albums worldwide
- They had a hiatus during 2010 and 2011 to pursue solo-projects
- The group reconciled in 2012 to record a new album
- The album was cancelled following their break-up on October 29, 2013
- They have sold over 17 million albums worldwide
- Six years following their split, the group reunited with the release of “Sucker” on March 1, 2019
- In 2005, Joe, Kevin and Nick recorded “Please Be Mine”, their first song
- Upon hearing the song, the Columbia Records president Steve Greenberg decided to sign the brothers as a group
- They considered naming their group “Sons of Jonas”
- While working on their debut studio album, the band toured throughout 2005 with various artists
- They spent the latter portion of the year on a tour with Aly & AJ and The Cheetah Girls
- Additionally, they opened for The Veronicas in early 2006
- For their first album, titled It’s About Time, the band collaborated with several writers
- The album was initially supposed to be released in February 2006
- It was pushed back several times
- Due to executive changes at Sony (the parent company of Columbia)
- And the executives’ desire to have “another lead single” on the album
- For the album, the Jonas Brothers covered two hit songs by UK band Busted
- They were “Year 3000” and “What I Go to School For”
- The Jonas Brothers’ first single, “Mandy”, was released on December 27, 2005
- Its music video was shown on MTV’s Total Request Live on February 22, 2006
- It reached number four
- Another song, “Time for Me to Fly”, was released on the Aquamarine soundtrack, also in February
- In March, “Mandy” was featured in the Nickelodeon television film Zoey 101: Spring Break-Up
- And the Zoey 101: Music Mix soundtrack album
- The group’s music was also featured on Cartoon Network’s Friday night programming block Fridays
- The band covered “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me)” from Pirates of the Caribbean for the Disneymania 4 album, released on April 4, 2006
- Over the summer of 2006, the Jonas Brothers went on tour with Aly & AJ
- The Jonas Brothers also created the theme song for the second season of American Dragon: Jake Long
- It was airing from June 2006 to September 2007 on the Disney Channel
- It’s About Time was finally released on August 8, 2006
- According to the band’s manager, it was only a “limited release” of 50,000 copies
- Because Sony was not interested in further promoting the band, the Jonas Brothers considered switching labels
- The second single from It’s About Time was “Year 3000”
- The music video of which premiered on the Disney Channel in January 2007
- The band was ultimately dropped by Columbia Records in early 2007
- After being without a label for a short time, the Jonas Brothers signed with Hollywood Records in February 2007
- The Jonas Brothers made their first appearance at the White House on Monday, April 9, 2007
- There they sang the National Anthem
- Their self-titled second album was released on August 7, 2007
- It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 200 chart in its first week
- Two singles with music videos were also released around this time
- They were “Hold On” two weeks before
- And “S.O.S.”, four days before the release of the album
- In August 2007, the Jonas Brothers made several appearances on television
- On August 17, they guest-starred in an episode of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana
- The episdoe was titled “Me and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas”
- They also performed “We Got the Party” with Miley Cyrus in the episode
- The episode premiered after High School Musical 2
- It was viewed by 10.7 million people that night
- They performed several new songs on the tour that were slated to be on their third studio album, A Little Bit Longer
- The Jonas Brothers made their acting debut in Season 2 of the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana
- In 2008, they collaborated with Miley Cyrus on her 3D concert film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
- The Jonas Brothers filmed a Disney Channel reality short series entitled, Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream, that premiered on Disney Channel
- The Jonas Brothers’ third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, was released in the United States on August 12, 2008
- On June 24, 2008, iTunes announced that it would release four songs from A Little Bit Longer, one roughly every two weeks
- Each song released also featured a podcast
- Each song occupied the number one spot on iTunes for at least three days
- The Jonas Brothers co-wrote and co-produced six songs for fellow Disney Channel star and close friend Demi Lovato, for her upcoming album, Don’t Forget
- The album, co-produced by the Jonas Brothers, was released on September 23, 2008
- A soundtrack was released for the film Camp Rock on June 17, 2008
- It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200
- With 188,000 copies sold in its first week
- The Jonas Brothers also did a half-hour variety special on Disney Channel special entitled, Studio DC: Almost Live
- It featured The Muppets and other Disney Channel stars
- During the summer of 2008, the Jonas Brothers started the Burnin’ Up Tour in North America
- The tour began on July 4, 2008, at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, Ontario
- The band made their film debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock
- In the movie they played a band called Connect Three
- The film premiered on June 20, 2008, in the United States on Disney Channel
- A 3D concert biopic Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience was released on February 22, 2009
- The band was featured in the July 2008 issue of Rolling Stone magazine
- It became the youngest band to be on the cover of the magazine
- In April 2009, the Jonas Brothers finished filming the first season of their Disney Channel Original Series, Jonas
- It made its premiere on May 2, 2009
- The Jonas Brothers fourth studio album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, was released on June 15, 2009
- Before the release of the album they released two singles
- They were “Paranoid” and “Fly with Me”
- Lines, Vines and Trying Times became their second No. 1 album
- After the success of Camp Rock, a sequel was in immediate development
- Production on the film began on September 3, 2009 and wrapped on October 16, 2009
- The film, entitled Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, was aired on Disney Channel on September 3, 2010
- On March 6, 2012, the Jonas Brothers released a video on Twitter of them in their home studio, suggesting that a reunion was occurring
- Joe was on tour promoting his debut solo album
- While Nick started the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway
- On May 1, 2012, the Jonas Brothers announced that they had parted ways with Hollywood Records
- The split caused Jonas Records to become defunct
- On August 19, 2012, Kevin began appearing in an E! reality series, alongside his wife Danielle and brothers Nick and Joe
- Married to Jonas documented the young couple’s domestic life and the brothers’ recording efforts as they prepared to release their newest album
- They performed a new song entitled “Let’s Go”, intended to be on their fifth studio album
- Their fifth studio album was scheduled to be released in 2013
- The lead single, “Pom Poms” was released on April 2, 2013
- The music video for the song premiered on E! on April 2, 2013
- “First Time”, the second single from their fifth album, was released on June 25, 2013
- On July 10, 2013, the group announced that their fifth studio album would be titled V
- The Roman numeral for five
- On October 9, 2013, the group cancelled their highly anticipated comeback tour days before it was slated to start
- Following the tour cancellation, the Jonas Brothers’ Twitter page went offline
- And the brothers’ individual accounts became temporarily obsolete, causing several media outlets to report that a break-up was imminent.
- On October 29, 2013, the Jonas Brothers officially confirmed their split
- They announced that the release of V had been cancelled
- An album was released with the title Live
- Noting the letter “V” in caps as a reference to their would-be fifth studio album of the same name
- On February 28, 2019, the Jonas Brothers announced via social media that they would be releasing a new single, “Sucker”
- The song was released on March 1, 2019 under Republic Records
- After one week of release, the music video for the song has over 50 million views on youtube
- They appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden the whole first week of their single release