By Don Chareunsy
Three-time Grammy Award-winning band Maroon 5 is returning to Dolby Live at Park MGM this year for 16 performances of their Las Vegas residency “M5LV The Residency,” and frontman Adam Levine and his bandmates kick it all off on May 17.
With the residency shows, Maroon 5 gives fans an exclusive concert experience in Dolby Live, Park MGM’s 5,200-seat entertainment venue. Maroon 5’s only-in-Las Vegas spectacular is packed with the band’s anthemic top hits, including RIAA Diamond-certified songs “Sugar,” “Girls Like You” and “Moves Like Jagger.”
Produced by Baz Halpin and directed by Parker Genoway, Maroon 5 custom designed the show for the Dolby Live stage, immersing the audience in Dolby Atmos audio. In other words, the sound is outstanding, as are the visuals.
The panoramic and multilayered video box and Dolby Atmos sound design, ensuring high-intensity visuals and rich sound, surround and envelop the audience as Adam and Co. serve hit after hit in a show that encapsulates Maroon 5’s two-decade career.
I attended Maroon 5’s opening night of “The Las Vegas Residency” on March 24, 2023. Levine was in super-fine form with his soulful falsetto and super-sexy black bell-bottom slacks. The show was hits-only, super-slick, well-produced and engaging from beginning to end.
Levine is the quintessential frontman at center stage during the 97-minute concert singing, swaying, playing guitar and charming and disarming. I deemed it my favorite Las Vegas residency at the time. I returned July 28, and the show was equally as awesome.
Los Angeles band Maroon 5 has won three Grammys and sold 96 million-plus albums and more than 660 million singles worldwide. Maroon 5 currently has more than 20 billion combined streams on Spotify and has the most billion-plus streamed songs by a group with nine.
Maroon 5 was the first artist to reach more than 3 billion views on a music video on YouTube, and they currently have more than 22 billion combined views on YouTube channels.
Maroon 5 has 32 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 since their first release in 2002, with 26 hitting the Top 50, 22 in the Top 25, 15 in the Top 10 and 10 in the Top 5. Three are Diamond Certified and 23 are Platinum certified. The band has the most Top 10’s in this century by a duo or group, most #1’s on the Hot 100 this century by a duo or group and most #1’s by a duo or group in Top 40 history. In January 2023, “Moves Like Jagger” became the #2 most downloaded song of all time.
All shows are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. The 16 dates are May 17-18, 22, 25-26, 29 and 31; June 1; Sept. 27-28; and Oct. 2, 4-5, 9 and 11-12. Tickets can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com/Maroon5Vegas.
Dolby Live also is home to, or has been home to, extended engagements by Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Usher, Cher, Ricky Martin and Jonas Brothers, among other top artists.
