The Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies, August 2012
Background information
Origin	Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Alternative rock Jangle pop College rock Folk rock
Years active	1988–present
Labels	John King Artist Consultants, Page Publications, Sire, Reprise, Desperation, Raisin'
Associated acts	The Brothers Creeggan, Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle, Yukon Kornelius, The Vanity Project
Website	barenakedladies.com
Members	Ed Robertson Jim Creeggan Tyler Stewart Kevin Hearn
Past members	Steven Page Andy Creeggan

Barenaked Ladies awards and nominations

From left to right: Hearn, Stewart, Creeggan, and Robertson watch Page mime golfing during an ad lib in 2004.
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Billboard Music Awards 2 2 Grammy Awards 0 2 Juno Awards 8 18 MTV Video Music Awards 0 1 World Music Awards 1 1
Totals
Awards won	10
Nominations	15

Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Canadian rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario (now incorporated into the City of Toronto) as a duo of Robertson and Steven Page. Brothers Jim and Andy Creeggan joined at the end of 1989, and Stewart was added in 1990 while Andy was on hiatus from the group. Andy departed permanently in 1995 citing musical differences and was replaced by Hearn. Page left in 2009, leaving the group as a quartet.

Upon forming, the band quickly developed a cult following in their native Canada culminating in their self-titled 1990 cassette becoming the first independent release ever to be certified gold in Canada. The band then received a major record deal with Reprise Records. Its label debut, Gordon, was released in 1992.

The band's style has evolved greatly throughout its career, and its music which began as exclusively acoustic quickly grew to encompass a mixture of a wide array of styles including pop, rock, hip hop, rap, etc. They are most commonly billed as an "alt rock" band. The band's cult following translated into immediate success with Gordon in Canada with a number of popular singles including "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson", but it was not until the band's 1996 live album, Rock Spectacle with its singles, live versions of "The Old Apartment" and "Brian Wilson", and its 1998 fourth studio album, Stunt that the band finally found success in the United States. The lead single from Stunt, "One Week" remains the band's most successful single. Other well-known singles include Stunt's second, "It's All Been Done", and the lead single from the follow-up album Maroon, "Pinch Me".