AJR
AJR is an American pop band founded by brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met (né Metzger), collectively a trio of vocalists, multi-instrumentalists, and songwriters. In the 2010s and the 2020s, the cross-genre trio of the 21st century in music has recorded over 100 songs and released five studio albums on various record labels along with their indie label.
Born in New York City, where the brothers primarily focused on busking, tap dancing, and singing covers in their preteen years, they started those in 2005 and slowly shifted toward songwriting. After AJR wrote "I'm Ready" and linked the song on Twitter in 2012, Australian singer and songwriter Sia supported and referred them to her talent management network in the music industry, in turn, a record label named AJR Productions was formed, and the song has become their first pop radio platinum single in both Australia and America. AJR has released three more indie pop EPs—Infinity (2014), What Everyone's Thinking (2016), and What No One's Thinking (2025)—since the song was released on 6foot1 (2013) as well as that of the reissue I'm Ready EP (2014).
At their home studio, AJR has written or co-written every song in their five-album discography: Living Room (2015); The Click (2017); the two US Billboard 200 top-ten albums—Neotheater (2019), OK Orchestra (2021); and The Maybe Man (2023). The 2017 electropop platinum album contained their first Billboard Alternative number-one song "Sober Up" (featuring Rivers Cuomo), and the 2021 orchestral pop gold album spawned—their first Hot 100 top-ten single and also the Billboard Music Award Top Rock Song—"Bang!".
AJR is a multi-platinum band for having eight platinum singles—including the three aforementioned songs; "Weak", "Burn the House Down", "100 Bad Days", "Way Less Sad", and "World's Smallest Violin"—all these songs accounted for nineteen million certified units of their digital single sales in America.
The Maybe Man
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OK ORCHESTRA
- 2021-03-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Neotheater
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The Click
- 2017-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z
Living Room
- 2014-09-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Infinity - EP
- 2014-09-19T00:00:00.000000Z
Infinity
- 2014-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z
I'm Ready
- 2014-03-25T00:00:00.000000Z
I'm Ready - EP
- 2014-03-25T00:00:00.000000Z
Living Room
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Betty
- 2025-07-09T00:00:00.000000Z
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