The band's first single from that album, ' Anna Sun', peaked at number ten on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
On its release in June 2012, the album entered the top forty on the Billboard 200, debuting at number 36. Walk the Moon signed with RCA Records to release their first major-label album, self-titled Walk the Moon, many of which are re-recordings of the songs from I Want! I Want!. In 2011, a final lineup change was formed with bassist Kevin Ray, drummer Sean Waugaman, and guitarist Eli Maiman. The band self-released their first studio album I Want! I Want! in November 2010. The band's lineup would begin to go through several different member changes throughout the next three years, leaving Petricca as the only member from the original group. Wicked in the Mix later self-released their only studio album, WM in June 2007.
The group's first EP, entitled The Anthem, would be released later that same year in March.
Walk the Moon was formed in 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio as Wicked in the Mix, originally consisting of Nicholas Petricca, Adam Reifsnyder, Sam Cole and Ricky Human, the former two having attended Kenyon College together. Walk the Moon at the 2019 Love Street Music Fest in Houston, Texas.Īmerican rock band Walk the Moon has released four studio albums, one live album, one compilation album, seven extended plays, ten singles (including two as featured artists), four promotional singles, and nineteen music videos.