History Trivia / MatchboxTwenty

* SequelGap: It took five years after their third album to release an album with any new material, with said album being an EP with a GreatestHitsAlbum attached to it, and another five years from that to release their fourth full studio album. After a hiatus, they reconvened with the intent of heavily touring for some time ''before'' going back into the studio. But when a certain [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic worldwide pandemic]] forced them to push their world tour back [[ScheduleSlip several times over a total of three years]], they eventually decided said tour should be in support of a new album, and ''Where The Light Goes'' was released in 2023, ''eleven years'' after their previous album.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Kyle Cook actually [[https://www.reddit.com/r/matchboxtwenty/comments/4e1y33/kyle_cook_leaving_matchbox_20/ left Matchbox Twenty in 2016]], citing CreativeDifferences, but decided to come back the following year. Given that MB20 were essentially on a hiatus from touring at the time and not releasing music, this change to the band's LongRunnerLineUp went largely unnoticed.

* SequelGap: It took five years after their third album to release an album with any new material, with said album being an EP with a GreatestHitsAlbum attached to it, and another five years from that to release their fourth full studio album. After a hiatus, they reconvened with the intent of heavily touring for some time ''before'' going back into the studio. But when a certain [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic worldwide pandemic]] forced them to push their world tour back [[ScheduleSlip ''three years'']], they eventually decided said tour should be in support of a new album, and ''Where The Light Goes'' was released in 2023, ''eleven years'' after their previous album.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Kyle Cook actually [[https://www.reddit.com/r/matchboxtwenty/comments/4e1y33/kyle_cook_leaving_matchbox_20/ left Matchbox Twenty]] in 2016]], citing CreativeDifferences, but decided to come back the following year. Given that MB20 were essentially on a hiatus from touring at the time and not releasing music, this change to the band's LongRunnerLineUp went largely unnoticed.

* SequelGap: It took five years after their third album to release an album with any new material, with said album being an EP with a GreatestHitsAlbum attached to it, and another five years from that to release their fourth full studio album. They've yet to release a fifth studio album since to focus more on tours.

* NamesTheSame: No, the Rob Thomas from this band is not the creator of ''Series/VeronicaMars'' and ''Series/IZombie''. The former eventually jokes about it, with a character declining tickets to the band because "Rob Thomas is a whore." (actually a sly bit of SelfDeprecation about the show's use of ProductPlacement) The latter series has the singer himself appear in the season 2 finale as an act for a party promoting an energy drink [[spoiler:which when combined with a popular street drug caused a zombie outbreak. Thomas sees it all unfold in front of him before eventually being killed and his brains devoured by the new owner of the drink]].