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Billboard: '5SOS could be bigger than Fall Out Boy or All Time Low'

Billboard has published a new article about the success 5 Seconds Of Summer have achieved since bursting onto the scene with their debut single, 'She Looks So Perfect', and suggested that they could go onto be bigger and more powerful than other pop-punk heavyweights Fall Out Boy or All Time Low. 

Michael Clifford directed his followers to the magazine's editorial via his Twitter account and told fans that it really shows off what they've been aiming to do within the music industry: "Love this article @billboard wrote up on us. Really gets to the core of what we're trying to achieve."

Billboard's article explains: "What 5 Seconds of Summer have accomplished in a very short amount of time is an exponential growth in popularity often only accessible to bands knighted by the "boy band" term. It's a level of success that is unique to that genre: cute boys and ravenous young female fans."

Referring to popularity within the pop-punk genre specifically, it continues: "Other groups have recently made something akin to this leap, or gotten closer to doing so. Fall Out Boy has always been rooted in rock, but Pete Wentz was a heartthrob that looked transported from another genre. All Time Low came close to reaching crossover success in the mid-to-late 00's, but never quite made it; they're actually closer to it now, perhaps thanks to 5 Seconds of Summer's constant co-signing of the veteran group. When all is said and done, 5SOS could very well be bigger than either of those bands."

The piece concludes with the following statement: "5 Seconds of Summer -- the boy band that's not a boy band -- is better set up for superstardom than perhaps any other group out there thanks to that multi-dimensional appeal. Now, it's up to them to sustain it."

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