Alt/rockers Hoobastank are celebrating over twenty years of being a band with a new docuseries available on YouTube, in the latest episode, the band shares unreleased footage and behind-the-scenes stories from their “Remember Me” and “Crawling In The Dark” music videos.
In the latest episode Guitarist, Dan Estrin, chats with vocalist, Doug Robb and drummer, Chris Hesse on being recognized for the first time and being a brand new band to the world, with the attention that it came with being completely foreign.
Two decades later, Hoobastank is still clocking in at 7M monthly listeners on Spotify, and “Crawling In The Dark” has surpassed the 100M streaming mark across DSPs. The band’s 2003 follow up studio album The Reason took them to even greater heights and solidified Hoobastank as a household name. The title track “The Reason” went 4x RIAA Platinum and racked up quite a few #1 chart positions along the way, while the album went 2x RIAA Platinum. “The Reason” has over 2.5 Billion streams/views which has helped lead the way to the band’s catalog surpassing the 3 billion mark across the various streaming platforms.