Crash Adams is a Canadian pop music duo from Toronto, most noted as Juno Award nominees for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024."Here are all the 2024 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 6, 2024.
Music career The duo, consisting of Rafaele "Crash" Massarelli and Vince "Adams" Sasso, began making music together in the 2020s, but struggled to get attention until hitting on a social media strategy which involved transporting Massarelli's grandmother's red couch to unexpected locations to create short TikTok videos.Lisa Power, "Someone just put a sofa in the middle of a downtown Toronto street". BlogTO, July 11, 2020. With a quickly expanding fanbase, they released a number of singles over the next few years until signing to Warner Music Canada, which released the four-song EP California Girl in early 2023.Michael Major, "Crash Adams Release Sun-Kissed Single 'California Girl'". Broadway World, February 17, 2023.
In 2023, they also participated in the Artists for Feel Out Loud supergroup cover of Serena Ryder's "What I Wouldn't Do".Brent Furdyk, "Feel Out Loud: Alessia Cara, Serena Ryder & More Canadian Artists Collaborate On New Single Promoting Youth Mental Health Initiative". Entertainment Tonight Canada, March 2, 2023. In 2025, the duo auditioned on America's Got Talent. They performed their original song "Optimist" and received 4 yeses, putting them through to the next round. Simon Cowell commented, "I liked it a lot, and the great thing, like Howie said is, if the song really is good, it's gonna react within minutes of this audition going out, which is brilliant."Elizabeth Logan, "All About YouTubers Crash Adams, Who Just Debuted on AGT". NBC, July 15, 2025.
Discography EPs California Girl (2023) Crashing Into Your Living Room, Vol. 1 (2024) Crashing Into Your Living Room, Vol. 2 (2025)
Charted singles +List of charted singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album or EP Peak chart positions for singles in TopHit's Estonian Airplay: "Right Foot First": "New Heart": "Right Foot First" 2024 — — — 181 — — — — — — Crashing Into Your Living Room, Vol. 1 "New Heart" 2025 1 10 15 122 11 3 195 2 6 1 Crashing Into Your Living Room, Vol. 2 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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