| - | The song is Hoobastank's most commercially successful single, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (kept from the top spot by Usher's hit "Burn"), and No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks. In addition, it topped the singles charts in both Mexico and Italy. It was nominated for the Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards. It won the MTV Video Music Awards Japan for best rock video.
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| + | In 2014 interview with DIRECTV, Doug Robb explained, "It was definitely different from the other songs that we've released. On our first record, we had a song called 'To Be With You' that was even more 'ballady' and more mellow. We have a pretty vast taste when it comes to what kind of music we like. We always like doing slower songs; all the bands that we listened to had the mellower songs as well as, the heavier songs. And when we recorded this song it wasn't like we sat around high-fiving each other like 'That's it!' When that record was done, the management, the band, and the producer sat around like 'What do you think gonna be the first single? What about the second one?', and I don't think anybody even said 'That song.'" <ref name="youtube1">{{cite Youtube.com|url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpcVViAZWU"|title="Hoobastank 'The Reason' Interview Guitar Center Sessions on DIRECTV"}}</ref>
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| - | "The Reason" also earned a place in pop-culture history as it was featured in the final episode of "Friends." <ref name="mtv1"/>
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| + | But various radio stations began playing "The Reason" on their own, the record label got wind of that and the song was chosen as the second single from the album. <ref>{{cite Cryptic Rock.|url="http://crypticrock.com/interview-doug-robb-of-hobastank/"|title="Interview. Doug Robb of Hoobastank"}}</ref>
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| + | The song became Hoobastank's most commercially successful single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks. "The Reason" was nominated for the Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards, but lost to John Mayer's "Daughters."
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| + | "The Reason" was featured in the final episode of "Friends." <ref name="mtv1"/>
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| - | In "The Reason" the band members stage a diversion so they can carry out the elaborate theft of a ruby gem from a pawnshop, but those facts are only clear after enough of the action unfolds because nothing is as it seems. In the beginning of the video, a girl gets hit by a car and then turns out to be an accessory to the crime. After the "accident", while everyone's attention is diverted, the band members execute the heist. The viewer then realizes that she was in on the operation, as she gets up and rides off with an accomplice on a motorcycle at the end. The presumed owner of the pawnshop displays a look of realization, and the song ends with the band admiring their new acquisition, holding it up to the light and projecting red light-rays onto the ceiling. The accident "victim" is also present. They then hear police sirens from above, and the video fades out.
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| + | Brett Simon directed the official video for the song.
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| + | In the video, the band members organize an accident for the theft of a ruby gem from a pawnshop. The video ends with the band admiring their new acquisition, but then they hear police sirens from above, and the video fades out.
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| + | The official video for "Same Direction" extends this storyline revealing the details of the band member's roles.
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| + | "The Reason" won the MTV Video Music Awards Japan for best rock video in 2005.
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