It freed their foremost album, yourself or someone like you in 1996. When their foremost lone, "Long Day", was a rock radio-just smash, the album shortly spun off many Top 40 hit singles throughout 1997 and 1998, including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World" & "Back 2 Good". A album yet went in to sell concluded 12 million copies in the Usa alone, earning diamond status.

Prior to recording their next album, Rob Thomas wrote the song for Carlos Santana's comeback album, Supernatural, on which he sang vocals. A song, "Smooth", became the album's lead individual & the mammoth megahit inside 1999, & Thomas would earn many Grammys for writing it.

Within 2000, Matchbox 20 renamed themselves matchbox twenty and discharged their 2nd album, mad season. A video for their first hit only, "Bent", blackguard of singer Thomas' heightened profile by showing a more b& members mug and beat him unmercifully. A evocatively-intended ballad "If You're Gone" became the large hit, especially in adult contemporary formats; "Mad Season" was as well the hit.

For their third album, a more band members demanded equal songwriting credit. Sharing the songwriting duties proved to become a good idea, when a band once more got a greatly successful album, more than you think you are that was omnipresent in radio for to a higher degree one and a half using many hit singles including "Disease", "Bright Lights" & "Unwell", which topped a stock and index charts for Xx weeks around 2003.

Inside May 2004, the band freed the concert DVD, Show: The Nighttime in the Life of Matchbox Twenty, featuring Twenty songs, including tons of their hit singles.

Around February 2005, rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor officially left the class action, which got get on hiatus to allow more members to pursue side projects. Rob Thomas has so experienced a bit of solo releases, including a US Billboard 200 #1 album, ...Something To Be, and the top ten hit, "Lonely No More".

Hit Singles (in chronological order)

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |- |US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |US Adult Top 40 |US Top 40 Mainstream |US Top 40 Tracks |UK |- | |colspan="8"| 'From either yourself or even mortal such as busy people: |- | 1996 | "Long Day" | - | - | #8 | - | - | - | - |- | 1997 | "Push" | - | #1 | #4 | #6 | #3 | - | #38 |- | 1997 | "3 A.M." | - | #3 | #2 | #1 | #2 | #34 | #64 |- | 1998 | "Real World" | #38 | #17 | #13 | #3 | #4 | #13 | - |- | 1998 | "Back 2 Good" | #24 | - | - | #4 | #8 | #8 | - |- | |colspan="8"| From either mad year: |- | 2000 | "Bent" | #1 | #16 | #24 | #1 | #1 | #1' | - |- | 2000 | "If You're Gone" | #5 | - | - | #1 | #4 | #4 | #50 |- | 2001 | "Mad Season" | #48 | - | - | - | #20 | #19 | - |- | 2001 | "Angry" | - | - | - | #5 | - | - | - |- | 2001 | "Last Beautiful Girl" | - | - | - | #20 | - | - | - |- | |colspan="8"| 'From either to a higher degree wise shoppers believe your family is: |- | 2002 | "Disease" | #29 | - | - | #4 | #21 | #15 | #50 |- | 2003 | "Unwell" | #5 | - | - | #1' | #3 | #2 | - |- | 2004 | "Bright Lights" | #23 | - | - | #2 | #15 | #11 | - |- | 2004 | "Downfall" | - | - | - | #27 | - | - | - |}

Discography
Yourself Or Someone Like You (1996) US: #5 (12x Pt) (WW: 20 million) Mad Season (2000) US: #3 (4x Pt); UK: #31 (WW: 10 million) More Than You Think You Are (2002) US: #6 (2x Atomic number 78); UK: #31 (WW: 7 million) EP (2003) US: #43 (200,000)