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Hoobastank‘s track ‘The Reason’ has topped one billion streams on Spotify – joining the likes of Ed Sheeran, Drake, Coldplay and more.‘The Reason’ was released on January 26, 2004, as a single from the band’s second album of the same name. The power ballad is Hoobastank’s most commercially successful single. Upon its release, the track earned the Number Two spot on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and Number One on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.The following year, the song earned the band two Grammy nominations for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Hoobastank have announced a special show in London to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘The Reason’.The US rock band will perform on June 17 at the O2 Academy Islington to celebrate their seminal second studio album, first released in 2003.The band will perform the album in its entirety at the one-off show.General sale tickets will be available from 10am GMT on March 1, and you can purchase yours here.A post shared by Hoobastank ♾ (@hoobastank)This year, the band are also due to play Download festival at Donington Park in Derby.The anniversary show announcement comes after the band dropped their 20th anniversary version of ‘The Reason’, which includes a previously unreleased cover of Rod Stewart‘s ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?’.“Back when we made the record, we started recording the song, but never fully completed it, so we shelved it for 20 years,” they shared on social media.

The premiere episode of Netflix’s Beef ends with a needle drop of Hoobastank’s “The Reason.” The track plays as Ali Wong’s Amy runs down the street after Steven Yeun’s Danny, who has just posed as a contractor to get inside her home and pay her back after the series’ inciting road rage incident.

Thania Garcia Following Rihanna’s explosive Super Bowl LVII halftime show, Hoobastank’s Doug Robb admitted the band once rejected a feature from Rihanna. “Back when we were recording our third album, ‘Every Man For Himself,’ we were approached by someone at our label, Island Def Jam, about potentially featuring a ‘new artist’ on one of the songs,” Robb told Consequence in a statement. “This kind of stuff happens all the time. We said, ‘Sure. Who do you have in mind?’ It was Rihanna. I had never heard of her. I don’t think anyone else in the band had, either, at the time.” Robb revealed the song Rihanna recorded for them was “Inside Of You,” from the alt-rock band’s 2006 album.

Rihanna on one of their albums. Robb shared the revelation on Twitter yesterday (February 15). “There is a version of a [Hoobastank] song featuring [Rihanna] when she was a ‘newer’ artist,” Robb wrote.

Everyone has made a decision or two in life that they’ve eventually come to regret and the members of Hoobastank are no exception.