Red Pill Blues is the sixth studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The album was released on November 3, 2017, by Interscope Records and 222. The title of the album refers to the science fiction term of taking the red pill or the blue pill. This is the band’s first album to feature Sam Farrar as a studio member after becoming a touring member in 2012. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 122,000 copies in equivalent album units and 94,000 copies in traditional album units in its first week.