First the good news. Adam Levine confirmed on Monday night’s (April 7) Tonight Show that Maroon 5 will be be back in our ears this year. The bad news is that, for now, the details are a bit fuzzy. “I am gonna confirm the rumors are true,” Levine said to huge shouts from the studio audience when host Jimmy Fallon asked him if the band is planning to release new music this year.
“The rumors are correct. There are details. I cannot divulge all the details,” Levine continued cagily. “But the details are basically, roughly, there’s a single coming at the end of the month-ish. I’m really excited about it. An album is coming over the summer. Non-specifically around the summertime. And then, even more non-specifically, there is a tour coming in the fall-ish.”
The album, when it comes, will be the follow-up to 2021’s Jordi. And the single, when it drops, will be the band’s first since 2023’s “Middle Ground.”
Levine also talked about the the first time he worked with producer/songwriter Benny Blanco on the M5 smash “Moves Like Jagger.” The 2011 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit was co-written and co-produced by Blanco, who Levine described as a “fun… hilarious dude” who was the first person to convince him to write songs on his own away from his M5 bandmates. They talked and Blanco played him a few demos, including “Moves Like Jagger” and another track that went on to be a hit for Gym Class Heroes, “Stereo Hearts.”
“He brought those two to me and I was like, ‘Oh this is a lot of fun,’” Levine said. “Having new energy is a great thing… funnily enough, now I’ve kind of gone back to writing and shutting everybody out. But Benny was the first guy that got me to kind of think outside of the band.”
Watch Levine on The Tonight Show below.
