86 Fun Facts About 5SOS Trivia: 5 Seconds of Summer

In which Australian city did 5 Seconds of Summer form in 2011?

Sydney's outer suburbs are where the members grew up, and they built an audience by posting cover songs to YouTube before they had played a single gig.

How is the abbreviation 5SOS officially pronounced?

Five sauce is how the band says it; guitarist Michael Clifford came up with the full name, which the band says was picked with no deeper meaning in mind.

Which instrument does Calum Hood play in 5 Seconds of Summer?

Bass guitar won out over football: he had been to a training camp in Brazil with a career in mind, then gave the sport up when the band moved to London in 2012.

Which member of 5SOS was the last to join, completing the line-up before their first gig?

Ashton Irwin was invited in by the other three, who had been posting covers online as a trio, just in time for the band's first show.

Members of which pop-punk band co-wrote 5SOS's 'Amnesia' and 'She's Kinda Hot'?

Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden also co-wrote 'Hey Everybody!', and 5SOS count their band among the pop-punk acts that shaped their sound.

How many people watched 5SOS's first show, at the Annandale Hotel pub?

12 people is the reported crowd; in 2020 the band restaged that pub gig with child actors in the video for 'Old Me'.

Which boy band did 5SOS support on a 2013 world tour, launching them internationally?

One Direction took them around the world before 5SOS even had a major-label deal, which came only that November, and then booked them again for 2014.

What was 5SOS's first single, released in November 2012?

Out of My Limit came out a full year before the band had a major-label deal, and its video still drew more than 100,000 views in its first 24 hours.

5SOS signed to which major label in November 2013?

Capitol Records signed them after a year spent opening arenas for a bigger act, and went on to release the band's first three albums.

What was 5SOS's debut major-label single in 2014?

She Looks So Perfect soon had a famous fan: within months Ed Sheeran was singing his own cover of it on Britain's Capital FM.

In 2014, 5SOS became only the fourth Australian band to top the singles chart in which country?

The United Kingdom gave them a number one although the single led the iTunes chart for only a day; no Australian band had managed it since Madison Avenue in 2000.

Billboard compared 5SOS's 'Don't Stop' to Green Day's 'She' and which Blink-182 song?

All the Small Things was Billboard's pick; Digital Spy went further, calling 5SOS Blink-182's 'loyal understudies' for jolting new life into pop punk.

Which cover was the first single from 5SOS's 2014 live album LIVESOS?

What I Like About You, first a hit for the Romantics, got a prime-time launch: 5SOS played it at the American Music Awards, where they were also named New Artist of the Year.

What was the name of 5SOS's first headlining world tour, in 2015?

The Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour had a scare at London's Wembley Arena that June, when a pyrotechnic burned guitarist Michael Clifford's face and hair.

What was the lead single from 5SOS's album Sounds Good Feels Good?

She's Kinda Hot gave the album its rallying cry: a phrase from its lyrics, the New Broken Scene, became the name of the fan movement the band built around the record.

5SOS's single 'Hey Everybody!' reuses part of which Duran Duran hit, earning that band a writing credit?

Hungry Like the Wolf supplied the borrowed elements, so Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and the three Taylors are all listed among the 5SOS song's writers.

5SOS's 'Girls Talk Boys' appeared on the soundtrack of which 2016 film?

Ghostbusters carried the song on its soundtrack in July 2016, and it turned out to be the band's last new single for more than eighteen months.

Which Japanese band featured 5SOS on the 2017 track 'Take What You Want'?

One Ok Rock had spent the summer of 2016 opening 5SOS's North American shows, and then invited the Australians onto their own next album.

Which rock frontman was among the co-writers on 5SOS's album Youngblood?

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer co-wrote 'Why Won't You Love Me' with Jake Sinclair, who links the two bands: he produced 5SOS's breakthrough single and, later, Weezer's White Album.

Which song was the lead single from 5SOS's album Youngblood, released in February 2018?

Want You Back came with a surprise for an arena band: a run of intimate club shows, where 5SOS road-tested the album's unreleased songs.

Youngblood made 5SOS the first Australian act to score what on the US Billboard 200?

Three number-one albums, in fact from their first three: Youngblood edged out Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Everything Is Love in a week forecasters could not call.

Which singer featured on 5SOS's December 2018 rendition of 'Lie to Me'?

Julia Michaels turns the song into a two-sided story: in the new version the lyrics were reworked so that both people in the break-up get their say.

5SOS's 'Who Do You Love' was a 2019 collaboration with which DJ duo?

The Chainsmokers then took 5SOS out on their World War Joy Tour, and the two acts even faced each other on Celebrity Family Feud that June.

5SOS's 'Teeth' ends with a guitar riff from which guest guitarist?

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine supplies the riff, and the video matches its menace: the four band members play test subjects in a lab experiment that goes wrong.

5SOS's 'Teeth' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?

13 Reasons Why put it on its third-season soundtrack; Luke Hemmings said the lyrics came out of a tumultuous stretch in his own relationship.

What does the title of 5SOS's album CALM stand for?

Calum, Ashton, Luke, Michael: the title is the members' first initials, which is why the cover styles it as four spaced letters, C A L M.

Why did 5SOS's album CALM miss out on a US number one in 2020?

Copies shipped a week early by mistake, so CALM charted before its real release week and then stalled at number two behind The Weeknd's After Hours.

5SOS played a fifteen-minute set before Queen at which February 2020 benefit concert?

Fire Fight Australia was a televised stadium concert, and Queen and Adam Lambert followed 5SOS by recreating Queen's 1985 Live Aid set.

5SOS's Ashton Irwin released a second solo album in July 2024, titled what?

Blood on the Drums is, he said, a metaphor for how much he has given to his music; it came out in two halves weeks apart, The Thorns and then The Roses.

Luke Hemmings of 5SOS released a 2021 solo debut that entered which chart at number one?

The ARIA Albums Chart had When Facing the Things We Turn Away From at number one; he wrote and recorded it during the 2020 lockdown, when the pandemic stopped the band's touring.

Which single did 5SOS release in December 2021 to celebrate their anniversary as a band?

2011 is named for the year the band came together, and it arrived with an hour-long YouTube special of performances, interviews and sketches.

What was the lead single from 5SOS's fifth album, 5SOS5?

Complete Mess arrived in March 2022 with guitarist Michael Clifford as its producer, on the first album the band made without a major label.

On the eve of 5SOS5's release, 5SOS played a choir-and-orchestra concert at which London venue?

The Royal Albert Hall show, called The Feeling of Falling Upwards, was streamed worldwide and later issued as the band's third live album.

Luke Hemmings duets with his wife, Sierra Deaton, on which track from 5SOS5?

Older began in the couple's living room in 2019 as a nod to 1950s love songs; years later a voice memo of it convinced bandmate Michael Clifford that they had to finish it.

5SOS's Take My Hand Tour ended its Australian leg in December 2022 with two shows at which landmark?

The Sydney Opera House forecourt closed a seven-show home leg of a tour first planned for 2020 and put back two years.

5SOS's 'Lighter', released in March 2024, paired them with Galantis and which superstar DJ?

David Guetta and Galantis gave the band its one new single of 2024, a year its members otherwise spent on solo records.

What is the title of 5SOS member Calum Hood's 2025 solo debut, which hit number one in Australia?

Order Chaos Order is named, he has said, for a cycle that runs through his life as an artist; to write it he had to let go of every fixed idea of who he was.

What is the title of 5SOS's sixth studio album, released in November 2025?

Everyone's a Star! was the band's first album in three years, arriving after all four members had released solo records of their own.

Irwin, the drummer, was born in which New South Wales suburb?

The other three answers are the home suburbs of Michael, Calum and Luke.

Which clothing brand saw its underwear sales jump 10% after a 2014 5SOS hit name-checked it?

American Apparel reported a 10 per cent rise in US sales of its men's underwear that spring, though its spokeswoman admitted she could not be sure the song was the reason.

Which pop-punk band did 5SOS name as one of their biggest inspirations and dream collaboration in early interviews?

All Time Low's frontman Alex Gaskarth went on to co-write for 5SOS's debut album, and his band was later booked to open 5SOS's 2020 European tour.

Three future members of 5SOS met at which high school before forming the band?

Norwest Christian College is where Luke Hemmings and Calum Hood first played together, covering a Secondhand Serenade song at a Year 7 talent show.

What is the name of the label imprint 5SOS set up in 2014 to release their own records?

Hi or Hey Records put out the band's first three albums alongside their major label, and in 2015 it signed its first outside act, the pop rock band Hey Violet.

Which label did 5SOS sign with in 2019 for their fourth album, CALM?

Interscope Records kept the band for just that one album; by the next, 5SOS had left the major labels altogether and were releasing music independently.

5SOS released their fifth album, 5SOS5, independently in 2022 through which company?

BMG Rights Management handled the release once the band had left the major labels; much of the album was recorded at Joshua Tree with guitarist Michael Clifford producing.

What was the third single from 5SOS's self-titled 2014 debut album, released that July?

Amnesia is a ballad that no member of the band helped to write, and 5SOS announced it as a single during a live stream for fans on 1 July 2014.

Which superstar couple's album Everything Is Love did 5SOS's Youngblood beat on its US chart debut?

Beyoncé and Jay-Z released it as the Carters, and industry forecasters were at first unsure which of the two albums would come out ahead.

Which band earned a writing credit on 5SOS's 'Hey Everybody!' because it borrows from Hungry Like the Wolf?

Duran Duran got the credit because the single contains elements of that hit. Its video casts the four in menial jobs, among them a dog walker and a hot-dog mascot.

In the music video for 5SOS's single Don't Stop, the four band members spend the day dressed as what?

Superheroes with alter egos, to be precise: Hood is Cal-Pal, Irwin is SmAsh! and Hemmings is Dr. Fluke, and all four spend the video attempting good deeds.

The music video for 5SOS's 2014 single Good Girls was filmed inside what kind of old Los Angeles building?

A jail in Lincoln Heights, to be exact: the Art Deco complex was decommissioned in 1965 and counted Al Capone among its notable detainees.

Which Freddie Mercury song did 5SOS cover in October 2018, giving the proceeds to the Mercury Phoenix Trust?

Killer Queen came out ahead of the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and the trust it funded was founded by Mercury's bandmates to fund work against HIV/AIDS.

Which sibling band brought 5SOS on stage as surprise guests during its 20th-anniversary tour in November 2025?

Jonas Brothers gave the Australians a mini-set of their own on two nights of the Jonas20 tour, days after 5SOS had released a sixth studio album.

Which Foo Fighters song did 5SOS's Luke Hemmings help re-record for BBC Radio 1's lockdown charity single in April 2020?

Times Like These, sung by a cast of famous voices recording at home, topped the UK chart in its second week and raised money for Children in Need.

The retro game 5SOS released alongside the 2022 single Blender was modelled on which arcade classic?

Pac-Man was the template for Blender Brutality, in which players grab every item and escape the blenders. A companion web page took anonymous messages about how people felt.

On which US game show did 5SOS play in June 2019 to win prize money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation?

Celebrity Family Feud pits famous teams against each other for a $50,000 top prize, donated to whichever charity the winning side has chosen.

At which New York venue did 5SOS play a July 2016 show on the Sounds Live Feels Live World Tour?

Madison Square Garden was one stop on a run that began in Nagoya, Japan, in February 2016 and finished back home in Sydney that October.

Which instrument does Calum Hood, who also sings lead on some 5SOS songs, play in the band's four-piece lineup?

Bass guitar became Hood's career only after he gave up football, a sport he had pursued as far as a training camp in Brazil before the group moved to London.

On 5SOS's 2023 world tour, the crowd picked a bonus song each night using which giant inflatable?

A red die labelled with possible songs was tossed into the audience to roll, part of a concert styled like a late-night variety programme with comic video sketches.

Which band's Heart-Shaped Box did 5SOS drummer Ashton Irwin cover and release as a solo single in 2020?

Nirvana's song also featured in his first solo concert film that October, alongside every track from his debut album.

For a Spotify session in August 2018, 5SOS recorded a cover of Stay, a song by which American rapper and singer?

Post Malone's Stay was paired with a stripped-back recording of the band's own Lie to Me, a Youngblood track that later became the album's fourth single.

Which American singer-songwriter joined 5SOS on an August 2019 remix of the band's single Easier?

Charlie Puth's version followed a remix by Seeb a month earlier; the original, the first taste of CALM, made Billboard's list of the 100 best songs of 2019.

Twins Benji and Joel Madden, who co-wrote a hit ballad on 5SOS's debut album, started which American pop-punk band?

Good Charlotte's founders wrote for other artists while still in the group, and the Maddens also share a credit on the 5SOS B-side If You Don't Know.

The driving drum groove of 5SOS's 2019 single Easier was inspired by Closer, a song by which American rock band?

Nine Inch Nails were among the dark, synth-heavy acts of the 1980s and 1990s that the group studied for the moodier sound of the CALM album.

Which song on 5SOS's album CALM is the only one sung by Calum Hood instead of regular frontman Luke Hemmings?

Wildflower leaves words out of its chorus on purpose, replacing them with stabs of synth so that listeners can fill in the gaps however they like.

Which 2020 album made drummer Ashton Irwin the first member of 5SOS to release a solo project?

Superbloom was preceded by the single Skinny Skinny, a song about body image, a subject Irwin said he had never before confronted in his writing.

Which single, released in September 2025, was the first taste of 5SOS's sixth studio album?

Not OK arrived with a sound the group said was inspired by The Prodigy and N.E.R.D., all hyper-charged beats and a hummable guitar solo.

5SOS's 2018 world tour shares its name with which bonus track from the deluxe edition of Youngblood?

Meet You There was written in late 2016, long before most of the album, and the tour that borrowed its title ran from Osaka in August to Madrid in November.

Which American band, formerly a hard rock group called Cherri Bomb, signed to 5SOS's own record label in 2015?

Hey Violet went on to open two of the Australians' world tours, and had been formed by middle-school pupils in Los Angeles back in 2008.

5SOS capped a year of touring in October 2023 with a set at which Las Vegas music festival?

When We Were Young closed out the run of dates the group had named after itself, which had started in Buenos Aires that July.

The 2022 music video for 5SOS's Bad Omens was made entirely by a local film crew in which European country?

Ukraine hosted the shoot months into the Russian invasion, and the group called it the first international video made there since the war began.

In the music video for 5SOS's 2020 single No Shame, which stunt does Luke Hemmings's character pull off?

Fakes his own death, then turns up dressed in black at the funeral, where his bandmates and weeping relatives are mourning him.

Luke Hemmings's first YouTube video, the start of the road to 5SOS, was a cover of Please Don't Go by which singer?

Mike Posner's hit was the first of the covers a teenage Hemmings uploaded; as they gained traction he invited two schoolmates to join his videos.

Which online platform staged an intimate New York show in June 2018 at which 5SOS celebrated the Youngblood album?

Tumblr put on the sold-out show in Brooklyn as part of its IRL event series; in 2015 it had sponsored the best-fandom prize the group won at the Alternative Press Music Awards.

Which streaming service released On the Record, a 2018 documentary about 5SOS's two-year break and return?

Apple Music marked the film's launch with a one-night, sold-out show in New York, and a recording of the full set then went up on the service.

5SOS spent most of 2017 off the road but played a run of festivals that included which Brazilian event?

Rock in Rio was one of several festival dates across Asia, Europe and South America that summer, squeezed into a break of nearly two years between albums.

In which US city did 5SOS hold the songwriting camp that produced Telephone Busy and much of a sixth album?

Nashville hosted the group's first camp-style writing session, where Ashton Irwin turned a living room into a studio and emerged ten hours later with Telephone Busy.

The album version of 5SOS's Take My Hand adds a Luke Hemmings voice memo recorded in which California national park?

Joshua Tree is also credited as the studio for the 5SOS5 album, and the memo helps make the album cut almost a minute longer than the single.

On a songwriting trip to London in December 2012, the teenage 5SOS wrote with which British pop rock band?

McFly were among a string of British writers the Australians met on that visit, alongside members of Busted, Kaiser Chiefs and Scouting for Girls.

John Feldmann, who produced much of 5SOS's first two albums, is the frontman of which American punk band?

Goldfinger's singer once called 5SOS the best pop-punk band he had ever heard, and he later co-wrote and produced solo material for Ashton Irwin.

Rejecting the boy band tag, Ashton Irwin compared 5SOS's largely female fanbase to that of which American rock band?

Fall Out Boy also draw a large female crowd, Irwin pointed out; Luke Hemmings put it another way, calling 5SOS a pop rock band with a boyband fanbase.

What was the name of 5 Seconds of Summer's 2018 promotional tour of intimate venues, which sold out within minutes?

5SOS III previewed the third album in 26 clubs and theatres, opening in Stockholm in March and finishing in São Paulo in June.

Which American singer and producer sent 5SOS the idea that became the 2022 single Me Myself & I?

Jon Bellion co-wrote and co-produced the track, and Luke Hemmings said it fitted like a puzzle piece beside the album's other introspective songs.

Which singer's hit Ghost kept 5SOS's Don't Stop off the top of the UK chart by about 3,000 sales?

Ella Henderson's song edged ahead in the final count, leaving Don't Stop to enter at number two with just over 80,000 sales in its first week.

Which twin-sister pop duo opened for 5SOS at pre-tour shows in Phoenix and Los Angeles in late 2014?

The Veronicas, the Origliasso twins from Brisbane, played the two American warm-up dates before the world tour proper opened in Lisbon the following May.

In which city did 5SOS finally begin the pandemic-delayed Take My Hand World Tour in April 2022?

Dublin's 3Arena hosted opening night almost two years after the original start date in Belfast, which became the second stop instead.

What did 5SOS name the philanthropic brand launched in May 2019 with a charity clothing collection?

Friends of Friends began by funding Safe Place for Youth, a Los Angeles project for the homeless, and soon staged sold-out benefit concerts on two continents.