Just six years after their debut, Matchbox Twenty have made a staggering amount of achievements in the music industry. Belonging to the post-grunge genre, Matchbox Twenty are taking the declining grunge genre of the mid-90's and laying down a new lineage of music that inherits its solid musical style with a new direction of greater fluidity and sophistication. The band has been working on a new direction for the band since their formation. The band immediately signed a contract with Atlantic Records, and with producer Matt Serletic (who produced Collective Soul and Aerosmith) at the helm, they released their first album, "Yourself Or Someone Like You," in 1996 as a first step in the right direction. The band's first album "Yourself Or Someone Like You" was released in 1996, but failed to catch the attention of music fans until the spring of 1997, when the single Push was released, which immediately turned the tide and skyrocketed the band's popularity. The album **** released four singles, Push, 3am, Real World and Back 2 Good, all of which became radio favorites, and the four fun music videos also received high airplay on MTV and VH1. With media magazines and magazines calling them "Best of the Year," Matchbox Twenty's visual and aural appeal has garnered accolades from all corners of the globe: Roller's Rock Readers' Choice "Best New Group" in 1997, Billboard Magazine's "Best Group of the Year" in 1997, and "Best Group of the Year" in 1997, as well as "Best Group of the Year" for Matchbox Twenty in 1997. Billboard Magazine's 1997 "Best Group Award", one of Spin Magazine's 1998 Top Ten Albums of the Year, and songwriter Rob Thomas was listed as one of People Magazine's 1998 "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" because of his charismatic leadership qualities. "Matchbox Since then, Matchbox Twenty has been touring to sold-out venues.

In early 1998, they performed a concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom for MTV's Live At The Ten Sporthaisl program, and the entire United States was treated to their powerful vocals and songs. The next step was to take their music around the world, and after a well-received promotional tour of Europe, the group embarked on their first tour of Australia, where they found themselves in a sell-out crowd at all of their shows, including five shows in Sydney. The Australian tour was filmed and edited as "Matchbox Twenty Live From Autralia", the group's first live concert video.

In 1999, Rob supported Santana's comeback with their debut single Smooth, which not only created a new career peak for the two musicians, but also became a legend in the music industry, and their second album Mad Season, released in the new millennium, was the first to reach the top spot on Billboard's Pop Singles Chart, making it the group's first mainstream album. The first wave of their second album "Mad Season" topped the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, becoming their first mainstream album, and If You Gone was awarded "Best Pop Song of the Year" by the National Lyric Association, with sales of the two albums exceeding 20 million worldwide! With the high expectations from all walks of life and the idea that the members of the group are eager to do better for each other, the group finally entered the recording studio in June 2002 and delivered their third album "More Than You Think You Are".