Songs About Jane

Songs About Jane is Maroon 5’s first album, released in the summer of 2002. The album has sold more than 5 million copies in the United States, and it has peaked at #1 in six countries.

There are five editions of the album. The most recent is a 10th anniversary edition released in 2012 that contains a second CD with demo versions of the songs.

All the songs on the album were either written or co-written by Levine while he was living in New York. Much of the lyrics for the album are inspired by Levine’s relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Jane. Levine notes, “I saw this girl at a gas station, and I fell in love with her,” he says. “I wrote a song about her and played it in the store where she worked. It was an awful song. But she found out about this relatively psychotic boy. She was my muse for years… . And then it kind of faded away.” Levine also confirmed this, saying there was at least one line in every song about her.