Boys Like Girls

Boys Like Girls is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts.

Band History

Became famous for the first band on the Internet, where she published her first demos and created a cult following. Finally, producer Matt Squire became aware of them and their right music career began.

They started in 2006 with a tour once and then presented their debut album. The album, which is titled with the band name, released in August at Red Ink / Columbia and remained long unnoticed. Only with the release of the song The Great Escape The breakthrough came after months. The single made it to number 23 in the official charts and sold over a million copies. Then they also increased album sales and although it is not it past in the LP charts on number 55, the debut album spent over a year in the chart ranks and reached gold status. Two other singles were also certified gold.

On March 17, 2007 it was announced that the band by the readers of the magazine Spin for Artist of the Year 2006 - has been named Artist of the Year 2006.

Until the completion of the follow-up album then some time passed and until mid-2009 Love Drunk has been published. For this, it immediately debuted at # 1 on the rock album charts, and also reached the Billboard 200 8th place The decoupled title song was also very successful and was already her fourth title, which was sold at least half a million times. The album also contains a collaboration with Taylor Swift, the most successful artist of 2009 in the U.S., which has been selected as the second publication.

In 2011, the band of bassist Bryan Donahue separated.