Released single ‘Complete Mess’

On 2 March 2022, the band released ” Complete Mess ” as the lead single from their fifth studio album. The second single, ” Take My Hand “, was released on 1 April 2022. On 3 April 2022 the band embarked on the postponed Take My Hand World Tour , which had originally been planned for 2020. The third single, ” Me, Myself & I “, was released on 11 May 2022. In May 2022, the band announced their fifth studio album, 5SOS5 , which was released on 23 September 2022. The album is the band’s first released independently under BMG Rights Management . The fourth single ” Blender ” was released on 13 July 2022 and the fifth single ” Older ” (featuring Sierra Deaton ) was released on 7 September 2022, both of which were released with no prior announcement. On the eve of the album release, the band performed a concert entitled The Feeling of Falling Upwards at the Royal Albert Hall in London alongside a choir and orchestra. The concert was also streamed globally and subsequently available on-demand for three days. 5SOS5 charted in numerous countries, and debuted atop the album charts in Australia, the UK, Scotland, and the Netherlands, and at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. The album was praised for its lyricism, maturity, and for both paying homage to the band’s previous albums as well as experimenting and taking risks.