Midnight Melodies (album)

**Midnight Melodies** is the third studio album by Canadian pop band The Five, released in July 15, 2016. Production for the album took place in March 2016, and is handled by Adam Messinger and the band members of Canadian reggae band MAGIC!, along with the Tinker family. Considered a departure from their music with N.J., six singles were released, including Canadian hit "Best Friends Forever".

The album features collaborations with Ash Koley, The Weeknd, The Heist, Tyler Shaw, MAGIC!, Delaney Jane, kai and JAHKOY. It is The Five’s final album as a quintet featuring Peanut Otter, who announced he was leaving the band on March 1, 2017. Around May 2023, The Five released a deluxe version that contains several additional previously remixed releases.

To promote the new album, The Five embarked on their third and first multi-night concert tour, entitled the Where We Are Tour in 2016.

## Where We Are Tour

The outstanding scale of the Where We Are Tour was realized on Canada Day on July 1, 2016, when The Five played their first multi-night concert in the Vaughan-penned Concert Way. The multi-night concert is broadcast on television, airing on both Treehouse TV and Disney Junior, and is later heard live on both the New Hot 93.5 and Kiss 105.3, then released on DVD. It broke records as The Five's biggest concert of all time, tying with the concert in Barrie's Park Place. There is a reported 2 million people present all over Concert Way and the Concert Freeway. Newly recorded versions of songs from Midnight Melodies are performed by all of The Five's band members and Midnight Melodies' musicians.

The concert began with floating star-shaped stages with ramps and rainbow lights illuminating all of Concert Way, and concluded to massive rainbow fireworks set off all over Concert Way and the Concert Freeway. A special bridge was constructed for the band to cross from the huge floating star-shaped stage to the airplane safely. After playing their first multi-night concert in the Vaughan-penned Concert Way, the tour's opening night is on July 14, 2016, at the RioCan Centre Sudbury, attended by over 2 million people. The tour's first leg consisted of outdoor concerts in shopping centres throughout Toronto and finished on December 14, 2016 in Burlington.

The tour concluded its first leg on Christmas Eve, on December 24, 2016 in Toronto, at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, attended by over 3 million people or more, and is, indefinitely, The Five's biggest concert of all time. It later broke a new record, beating the previous record held in both Barrie's Park Place and the Vaughan-penned Concert Way. The Five returned to Toronto to play a multi-night concert at both venues — on one side at the Scotiabank Arena, and the other at Yorkdale Shopping Centre. The Scotiabank Arena concert for Jelly Otter's 7th birthday is on June 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM. It premiered in Cineplex Cinemas across Toronto.

After the Toronto concerts, in 2019, the band’s Paradise, Nevada concerts on July 9, 10 and 11, and July 14 and 15, 2022 at the Great Barrier Reef Arena involved a large-scale departure from outdoor concerts in shopping centres in the series by the band, marking their first-ever concerts outside of Canada, when its second leg began in 2019. The Paradise concerts attracted over 610,000 attendees, counting in-person crowds. The Five is the only music artist to play four shows to 200,000 concert-goers at Great Barrier Reef Arena since it first opened in 2014. An additional 14,000 and 15,000 concert-goers gathered at both the Paradise Arena and the Flamingo Arena to watch livestream performances of the shows.

In the summer of 2019, Los Angeles made The Five's five SoFi Stadium shows the highest-attended concert of 2019 since it first opened that year and the highest ever attended concert in California to date. The fifth concert at SoFi Stadium, attended by 176,000 concert-goers, and at Staples Center, attended by an additional 14,000 concert-goers, made The Five their highest ever attended concert in the summer of 2019.

The tour concluded in July 15, 2021 in the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia after the Sydney concerts at ANZ Stadium and the Sydney SuperDome.

## Genres

Primarily a pop record, *Midnight Melodies* incorporates ambient pop and dream pop. The 7th track, and in the album's deluxe edition, Out On The Coral Reef, both incorporate Caribbean, soca and reggae.

The Five decided to incorporate an ambient production for their third and fourth studio albums.

## Singles

"Glow" was released as the lead single from the album.

"Rainbow" was released as the second single from the album.

"Fireflies" featuring Tyler Shaw was released as the third single from the album.

"Starlight" was released as the fourth single from the album.

"Sunshine" was released as the fifth single from the album.

"Best Friends Forever" featuring Delaney Jane is released as the sixth and final single from the album. It is also the final single to feature Peanut Otter. The song achieved a new peak of number six in January 2023. Following a remix with The Heist, the song peaked at number one in the *Canadian* Hot 100 in March 2023.

### Promotional Singles

"Out On The Coral Reef" with MAGIC! is released as the first promotional single from the album's deluxe edition.

"Moon Tides" with JAHKOY is released as the second and final promotional single from the album's deluxe edition.

## Track Listing

1. Rainbow
2. Sunshine
3. Glow
4. Fireflies (ft. Tyler Shaw)
5. Starlight
6. Best Friends Forever (ft. Delaney Jane)
7. Paradise (MAGIC! ft. The Five)
8. Tomorrow

### Deluxe Edition

1. Best Friends Forever (Remix) (ft. Delaney Jane & The Heist)
2. Sakura (The Five x kai & The Weeknd)
3. Out On The Coral Reef (ft. MAGIC!)
4. Moon Tides (The Five x JAHKOY)

### Baby Butter Deluxe Edition

1. Ladybug (Pinch Raccoon & Jelly Otter ft. Ash Koley & Tyler Shaw)

## Personnel

##### **Musicians**

* Abel Makkonen "The Weeknd" Tesfaye - featured artist, vocals, songwriting, production, keyboards, programming (deluxe track 2)
* Ash Koley - featured artist (BBDX track 1)
* Alex Tanas – drums, backing vocals (track 7, deluxe track 3)
* Baby Butter Otter - xylophone
* Ben Spivak – bass, backing vocals (track 7, deluxe track 3)
* Carlos "Illangelo" Montagnese – songwriting, production, keyboards, programming, engineering, mixing (The Weeknd) (deluxe track 2)
* Delaney Jane – lead vocals (track 6, 9, 10, deluxe track 1)
* Isabelle Tinker – background vocals
* JAHKOY – lead vocals (deluxe track 4)
* Jason "DaHeala" Quenneville – songwriting, production, keyboards, programming (The Weeknd) (deluxe track 2)
* Jelly Otter – ukelele, lead vocals, background vocals
* Jayden Tinker – guitar, background vocals
* kai - featured artist (deluxe track 2)
* Lauren Tinker – background vocals
* Mark Pellizzer – guitar, vocals (track 7, deluxe track 3)
* Nasri – lead vocals, guitar (track 7, deluxe track 3)
* Nicki Tinker – background vocals
* Peanut Otter – lead vocals
* Pinch Raccoon – handle castenet, lead vocals, background vocals
* Scootch Raccoon – recorder, lead vocals
* The Heist – featured artist (deluxe track 1)
* Tyler Shaw – featured artist (track 4)
* William Tinker – drums, background vocals