Big Time Rush (band)
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Big Time Rush is an American boyband formed in Los Angeles, California
, in 2009. The band consists of members Kendall Schmidt
, James Maslow
, Carlos Pena Jr.
and Logan Henderson
. Big Time Rush was created through the Nickelodeon
television series with the same name
. The band released its debut album in October 2010, titled B.T.R
. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200
and was certified Gold by the RIAA
for sales of over 500,000 copies. A second studio album, Elevate, was released on November 21, 2011.
, who recorded the original versions of Famous and This Is Our Someday with the group before being replaced by Kendall Schmidt.
Big Time Rush signed a record deal in 2009 simultaneously with the television series, Big Time Rush
. Their debut single, "Big Time Rush", was released on November 29, 2009. It debuted during a one-hour special preview of the series and it is currently the show's opening theme. The series also saw the releases of other promotional singles including "City Is Ours" and "Any Kind of Guy". Big Time Rush also covered a Play
song titled "Famous
". The song was released on iTunes on June 29, 2010. Another song, "Halfway There", was released to iTunes on April 27, 2010 after its premiere on the series. The single has become their first to chart on the Billboard Hot 100
, peaking at number 93 due to strong digital sales.
On September 21, 2010, Big Time Rush released a promotional single, "Til' I Forget About You", to promote the release of their debut album. The album, titled B.T.R.
, was released on October 11, 2010. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200
, selling 67,000 copies in its first week of release. The album also peaked at number 4 on the "Top Internet Albums" and number one on "Top Soundtracks". Its track "Big Night" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100
at number 79, making it their highest peaking single. The album was later certified Gold
for shipments of 500,000 copies in the U.S. and has currently sold over 1,000,000 copies that has been scanned around the world. In November 2010, it was announced that a Christmas
special of Big Time Rush
would debut later that month, and that a Christmas EP
would be released to coincide with the episode. The EP, titled Holiday Bundle was released on November 30, 2010. They covered All I Want For Christmas Is You
, originally performed by Mariah Carey
, with fellow Nickelodeon
star Miranda Cosgrove
. On February 15 2011, "Boyfriend" was released as the band's first official single to mainstream US radio. "Boyfriend" peaked at number seventy-two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their most successful song to date. It peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart in March 2011. A remix of "Boyfriend" which featured New Boyz
was leaked onto the internet.
" featuring Iyaz
, off their second album, Elevate released on November 21, 2011. The first single, "Music Sounds Better With U," written by Ryan Tedder
from OneRepublic
, was released on November 1, 2011.
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!Year
!Award
!Category
!Result
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| rowspan="1"| 2010
| rowspan="1"| Australian Kids' Choice Awards
| Fave International Band — Big Time Rush
|
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| rowspan="8"| 2011
| rowspan="2"| 2011 Kids' Choice Awards
| Favorite Music Group
|
|-
| Favorite TV Show
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| Kids' Choice Awards México 2011
| Favorite International Artist
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| Australian Kids' Choice Awards
| Hottest Guy Hotties — Big Time Rush
|
|-
| MTV Europe Music Awards 2011
| Best Push
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| Kids' Choice Awards Argentina 2011
| Favorite International Artist
|
|-
| Favorite Song — Boyfriend (feat. Snoop Dogg)
|
|-
|Youth Rocks Awards
| Rockin Group of the Year 2011
|
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, in 2009. The band consists of members Kendall Schmidt
Kendall Schmidt
Kendall Francis Schmidt is an American actor and singer-songwriter; he is best known for playing Kendall Knight in Big Time Rush and has played small roles on different TV shows such as ER, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Ghost Whisperer, and Frasier...
, James Maslow
James Maslow
James David Maslow is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for playing the role of James Diamond on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush and is a member of the boy music group with the same name.-Early life:...
, Carlos Pena Jr.
Carlos Pena, Jr.
Carlos Roberto Pena, Jr. is an American actor, dancer and singer. He is best known for starring on the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush as Carlos García.- Early life :...
and Logan Henderson
Logan Henderson
Logan Phillip Henderson is an American actor, dancer, rapper and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his starring role as Logan Mitchell on the Nickelodeon series, Big Time Rush, as well as being a member of the Big Time Rush band itself.-Early life:Henderson was born and raised in North...
. Big Time Rush was created through the Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon is a US cable TV channel.Nickelodeon may also refer to:-In television:*Spinoffs of the Nickelodeon channel:** Nickelodeon Magazine, a children's magazine.** Nickelodeon Universe, an amusement park....
television series with the same name
Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon television series created by Scott Fellows about the Hollywood misadventures of four hockey players from Minnesota—Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos, after they are selected to form a boy band. The series premiered with an hour-long pilot episode, "Big Time...
. The band released its debut album in October 2010, titled B.T.R
B.T.R. (album)
BTR is the debut studio album from Big Time Rush, which was released on October 11, 2010. The track listing for the album was announced on September 1, 2010....
. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
and was certified Gold by the RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
for sales of over 500,000 copies. A second studio album, Elevate, was released on November 21, 2011.
2009-2010: Beginnings and BTR
The band originally consisted of Logan, James and Carlos along with Curt HansenCurt Hansen (actor)
Curt Hansen www.curthansen.com is an American-born actor/singer. A Wisconsin native, Curt has performed on Broadway in the final cast of Hairspray, as well as other Broadway readings and workshops. Recently Curt was the Gabe understudy/cover in the Tony award winning Broadway musical Next to Normal...
, who recorded the original versions of Famous and This Is Our Someday with the group before being replaced by Kendall Schmidt.
Big Time Rush signed a record deal in 2009 simultaneously with the television series, Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon television series created by Scott Fellows about the Hollywood misadventures of four hockey players from Minnesota—Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos, after they are selected to form a boy band. The series premiered with an hour-long pilot episode, "Big Time...
. Their debut single, "Big Time Rush", was released on November 29, 2009. It debuted during a one-hour special preview of the series and it is currently the show's opening theme. The series also saw the releases of other promotional singles including "City Is Ours" and "Any Kind of Guy". Big Time Rush also covered a Play
Play (band)
Play was a Swedish pop girl group, consisting of, in total, seven young women. Faye Hamlin, Anna Sundstrand, Anaïs Lameche, and Rosie Munter formed Play's original line-up from the band's formation from 2001 until late 2003. After founding member Faye left the group, fifth member Janet Leon joined...
song titled "Famous
Famous (Play song)
"Famous" is an English language hit by Swedish girl group Play, taken from the album Under My Skin released April 21, 2010. It is the first number-one single for the group on the Swedish Singles Chart, and their first top 10 hit since Play began, a decade ago.The song was released as a one-track...
". The song was released on iTunes on June 29, 2010. Another song, "Halfway There", was released to iTunes on April 27, 2010 after its premiere on the series. The single has become their first to chart on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, peaking at number 93 due to strong digital sales.
On September 21, 2010, Big Time Rush released a promotional single, "Til' I Forget About You", to promote the release of their debut album. The album, titled B.T.R.
B.T.R. (album)
BTR is the debut studio album from Big Time Rush, which was released on October 11, 2010. The track listing for the album was announced on September 1, 2010....
, was released on October 11, 2010. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, selling 67,000 copies in its first week of release. The album also peaked at number 4 on the "Top Internet Albums" and number one on "Top Soundtracks". Its track "Big Night" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
at number 79, making it their highest peaking single. The album was later certified Gold
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
for shipments of 500,000 copies in the U.S. and has currently sold over 1,000,000 copies that has been scanned around the world. In November 2010, it was announced that a Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
special of Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon television series created by Scott Fellows about the Hollywood misadventures of four hockey players from Minnesota—Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos, after they are selected to form a boy band. The series premiered with an hour-long pilot episode, "Big Time...
would debut later that month, and that a Christmas EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
would be released to coincide with the episode. The EP, titled Holiday Bundle was released on November 30, 2010. They covered All I Want For Christmas Is You
All I Want for Christmas Is You
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released by Columbia Records on November 1, 1994 as the lead single from her fourth studio album, Merry Christmas. The song was written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, both of whom were also the producers...
, originally performed by Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
, with fellow Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
star Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
. On February 15 2011, "Boyfriend" was released as the band's first official single to mainstream US radio. "Boyfriend" peaked at number seventy-two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their most successful song to date. It peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart in March 2011. A remix of "Boyfriend" which featured New Boyz
New Boyz
New Boyz is an American hip hop/rap group and a former jerkin crew duo made up of rappers Earl "Ben J" Benjamin and Dominic "Legacy" Thomas from Hesperia, California. They debuted in summer 2009 with their viral hit, "You're a Jerk", taken from their debut studio album Skinny Jeanz and a Mic,...
was leaked onto the internet.
2011-present: Elevate
On July 22, 2011, the band released a promotional single, "If I Ruled The WorldIf I Ruled the World
"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick...
" featuring Iyaz
Iyaz
Keidran Jones , better known by his stage name Iyaz, is a singer signed with the record label Beluga Heights Records from the British Virgin Islands. His debut single "Replay", was released in 2009 and reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, number-one in the UK, Australia and the top ten...
, off their second album, Elevate released on November 21, 2011. The first single, "Music Sounds Better With U," written by Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Benjamin Tedder is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the pop rock band, OneRepublic, though he has an independent career as songwriter and producer for various artists such as Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Far East Movement, Jordin Sparks, Leona...
from OneRepublic
OneRepublic
OneRepublic is an American pop rock band from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Formed in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins, the band achieved massive success on MySpace, becoming the most prominent unsigned act on the website then...
, was released on November 1, 2011.
Discography
- B.T.R.B.T.R. (album)BTR is the debut studio album from Big Time Rush, which was released on October 11, 2010. The track listing for the album was announced on September 1, 2010....
(2010) - Elevate (2011)
Awards and nominations
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!Year
!Award
!Category
!Result
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| rowspan="1"| 2010
| rowspan="1"| Australian Kids' Choice Awards
| Fave International Band — Big Time Rush
|
|-
| rowspan="8"| 2011
| rowspan="2"| 2011 Kids' Choice Awards
2011 Kids' Choice Awards
Nickelodeon's 24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards were held on April 2, 2011 at 8 p.m. ET at the Galen Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles's University Park neighborhood due to renovations disallowing use of traditional venue Pauley Pavilion until at least 2013. Jack Black...
| Favorite Music Group
|
|-
| Favorite TV Show
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| Kids' Choice Awards México 2011
| Favorite International Artist
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| Australian Kids' Choice Awards
| Hottest Guy Hotties — Big Time Rush
|
|-
| MTV Europe Music Awards 2011
| Best Push
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| Kids' Choice Awards Argentina 2011
| Favorite International Artist
|
|-
| Favorite Song — Boyfriend (feat. Snoop Dogg)
|
|-
|Youth Rocks Awards
| Rockin Group of the Year 2011
|