Overexposed by Maroon 5

Overexposed, Maroon 5's fourth studio album, arrived on A&M Octone on June 20, 2012, and the title is a smirk at Adam Levine's inescapability. Riding the comeback of "Moves like Jagger", the band went all in on the pop machine: Max Martin as executive producer, with Shellback, Benny Blanco and Ryan Tedder in the room. Jesse Carmichael sat this one out to study, the only Maroon 5 album without him, so PJ Morton took over the keys alongside Levine, James Valentine, Mickey Madden and Matt Flynn.

It's glossy, candy-colored pop with a guitar band buried under the lacquer. "Payphone", with Wiz Khalifa, hit number 2 on the Hot 100 and topped the UK chart, "One More Night" sat at the top of the Hot 100 for nine weeks, and "Daylight" and "Love Somebody" both went top 10. Critics split, some calling it their strongest record and others a bald grab for the mainstream, and plenty grumbled that it was all Levine. Buyers shrugged: it was the world's 11th best-selling album of 2012.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.