{"id":117049,"date":"2024-02-08T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/08\/maroon-5s-memories-hits-1-billion-views-sugar-passes-4-billion\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:01:50","slug":"maroon-5s-memories-hits-1-billion-views-sugar-passes-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/08\/maroon-5s-memories-hits-1-billion-views-sugar-passes-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Maroon 5’s “Memories” hits 1 billion views; “Sugar” passes 4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maroon 5<\/strong> has been quiet on the music front lately, but that hasn’t stopped their older hits from racking up views on YouTube.<\/p>\n

The band’s video for 2019’s “Memories<\/a>,” directed by Wedding Crashers<\/em> director David Dobkin<\/strong>, has just passed\u00a01 billion views, making it their fourth entry in YouTube’s Billion Views Club. And another Dobkin-directed clip, the wedding-themed video for 2015’s\u00a0“Sugar<\/a>,” has passed\u00a04 billion views.<\/p>\n

Maroon 5 has four videos that have reached\u00a01 billion views or more: those two, plus “One More Night” and “Girls Like You.” But unlike those videos, “Memories” doesn’t feature guest stars or any kind of narrative. Instead, it’s just a close-up of a shirtless Adam Levine<\/strong>\u00a0singing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The clip is a tribute to the band’s late manager, Jordan Feldstein<\/strong>, who died unexpectedly in 2017 at age 40 from a pulmonary thromboembolism. But although it was inspired by Feldstein \u2014 the “Jordi” of the Maroon 5 album of the same name \u2014 it’s also been adopted by fans as a way to pay tribute to their own loved ones.<\/p>\n

“We knew how much it meant to us in the context of losing Jordi,” Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine<\/strong> told ABC Audio a few years ago. “And we’ve heard that, yeah, it’s become a very important song … for a lot of people.”<\/p>\n

“I think the message is so simple and pure, resonates with everybody,” he added. “We’ve all lost people, and especially over the last couple of years [with COVID-19], I think it’s just become more important for people.”<\/p>\n

Maroon 5 will resume<\/a> their Las Vegas residency in May.<\/p>\n