Maroon 5 had finished a busy year in 2023, which included the launch of its Las Vegas residency at Park MGM and dates in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. But a long period of rest was not in the cards as the new year of 2024 began.

“We knew in the future a new album as going to be worked on at some point,” guitarist James Valentine recalls via Zoom from his home in Toluca Lake, Calif. “Then in January of (2024) Adam (Levine) out of the blue sent us a new song he had recorded a voice memo of, with an old guitar, and that song was ‘Priceless.’ He had just sort of sat down with an old guitar and wrote it.

“And he was like, ‘Hey, guys, I’m fired up. I want to write. Let’s go! And with that song it was off to the races. We knew it was time because Adam felt inspired.”

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