Hollywood Undead is a rap rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2005. It originated from the members' MySpace profile which they filled with pictures of themselves in hockey masks.

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History

The band originated in 2005 from a song titled "The Kids" that Deuce and J-Dog posted on the band's MySpace profile to positive reviews, leading them to form the group Hollywood Undead with their friends Shady Jeff, Johnny 3 Tears, Charlie Scene, Funny Man, Da Kurlzz and Deuce. In an interview with Shave magazine, J-Dog explained that when forming the band "Whoever was in the room at the time and played an instrument was in the band." ^[1] Shady Jeff later left, leaving the band with only six members. In their first nine weeks on MySpace they had almost a million plays and by 2006 they were said to be leading MySpace's top unsigned artists list with over 8 million plays. ^{[2] [3]} By November 2008, the band had over 440,000 friends on MySpace. ^[4] They made their live debut in August 2008 at the Virgin Mobile Festival after winning 285,000 votes, over half the total, in a Book the Band contest against four other bands. ^[5] Their song "Undead" is featured on the Madden NFL 09 soundtrack (the song is edited although and does not sound as the original song does) as well as part of the soundtrack to UFC 2009 Undisputed and was released as an official single on August 19, 2008, making it the second single from Swan Songs . Their song "Young" is featured as one of the 20 bonus downloadable tracks in the music video game Rock Band 2 . ^[6] An instrumental version of"Undead" is also featured in a trailer for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra . Also, an instrumental version of their song "Young" is featured as the backtrack to an April 2009 cinematic trailer for Velvet Assassin - a video game developed for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

Contrary to popular belief, the band only took one year working on the album. The other two years were spent looking for a company that wouldn't try to censor the album. They first signed a record contract with MySpace Records in 2005 but they left the label after the label tried to censor their first album. ^[7] They then signed a contract with A&M/Octone Records and their first album, Swan Songs was released on September 2, 2008 and reached #22 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of release, selling 21,000 copies ^[8]; which was later on released in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2009 with two bonus tracks. ^[9] On June 23, 2009, Hollywood Undead released Swan Songs B-Sides EP through iTunes.

Discography

Albums

• 2008: Swan Songs (USA : Gold)

EPs

• 2009: Swan Songs B-Sides EP

Demos

• 2006: Hollywood Undead Demo

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions				Album
		US [A	US Main. [10]	US Alt.	UK [11]
2008	"Christmas In Hollywood"	—	—	—	—	Christmas In Hollywood
	"No. 5"	—	—	—	—	Swan Songs
	"Undead"	104	10	12	145
2009	"Young"	—	28	34	—
	"Everywhere I Go"	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Notes

• A ^   The single "Undead" peaked outside of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, therefore it is listed on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Unreleased songs

• "Dead in Ditches"
• "Scene for Dummies"
• "Turn off the Lights" (ft. Jeffree Star)
• "The Kids"
• "Bitches"
• "Circles"

References

1. Interview With Hollywood Undead
2. Do You MySpace?
3. Internet diva who sent Fleet Street into a spin
4. Hollywood Undead
5. Hollywood Undead Wins Virgin Mobile USA's 'Book The Band' to Capture Spot on Star-Studded Roster at Virgin Mobile Festival
6. http://www.rockband.com/news/20_free_dlc_tracks
7. Corey Apar, Hollywood Undead at Allmusic
8. Young Jeezy Nets Second Album Chart-Topper. ''Billboard'', September 10, 2008. Accessed September 13, 2008.
9. http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/9553930/Swan-Songs/Product.html
10. American singles chart
11. British chart