Announcement of breakup

When the band canceled their appearance at the Atlanta open-air music festival RockFest, as well as their UK tour (scheduled to start on May 17, 1999), rumors started they would break up, while MCA Records claimed an unspecified member of the band being ill was the cause for the canceled shows. New Radicals went on to shoot the video for their second single ” Someday We’ll Know “; however, less than two weeks before its release, Gregg Alexander issued a press release on July 12, announcing the breakup of the group. Alexander said that New Radicals “will no longer be a recording, promoting, or performing entity” and that he would focus on producing and writing material for other artists. He went on to say that he “accomplished all of [his] goals with this record” and that “the fatigue of traveling & getting three hours sleep in a different hotel every night to do boring ‘hanging and schmoozing’ with radio and retail people, is definitely not for [him]”, that he “lost interest in fronting a ‘ One Hit Wonder ‘ to the point that [he] was wearing a hat while performing so that people wouldn’t see [his] lack of enthusiasm” and that he would go on to form a production company to focus on producing and writing songs freelance for other artists. His first production work after New Radicals’ breakup was the album Portable Life by fellow Radical Danielle Brisebois, originally set to be released in October 1999, but cancelled by RCA Records until eventually being released digitally almost a decade later in September 2008. Given the band’s breakup and the resulting lack of promotion, “Someday We’ll Know” failed to have a notable impact on the charts (it did not chart the Billboard Hot 100 and reached only No. 28 on the U.S. Adult Top 40 and No. 48 on the UK Singles Chart)