My Chemical Romance and lead singer Gerard Way have signed with CAA for representation in all areas. Both the group and Way solo will be represented by the agency in North America, Australia, Mexico, Japan, the Middle East and Africa.
The Grammy-nominated rock band originated in Newark, New Jersey and released their debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love independently in 2002. One year later, the band signed to Reprise Records and released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge in 2004, which has now reached 3x Certified Platinum.
According to MRC Data, My Chemical Romance has six charting albums on the Billboard 200, including three top 10s (The Black Parade which hit No. 2; Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys landed at No. 8; and May Death Never Stop You: The Greatest Hits 2001-2013 reached No. 9). The band has charted six albums on the Top Rock Albums chart, including two No. 1s with The Black Parade and Danger Days.
Over nearly two decades, the band’s albums have earned 8.7 million equivalent album units in the U.S., according to MRC Data, of which 5.6 million are in album sales. Way’s solo album Hesitant Alien peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200, No. 4 on Top Rock Albums, No. 1 on Top Alternative Albums.
Way is also a celebrated comic book author, best-known for writing and creating the hit comic mini-series The Umbrella Academy. The Umbrella Academy was subsequently adapted into a Netflix television series of the same name featuring Elliot Page, with season three set to air next year. Way also founded DC Comics’ Young Animal imprint and his follow up series, The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, is currently being developed as a television series with Hivemind.
In 2019, My Chemical Romance announced that they were reuniting and performed a sold-out show at the landmark Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles that December. After the reunion show, they announced a full North American arena tour for Fall 2020, which sold out instantly and included four nights at The Forum in Los Angeles. The tour was rescheduled all shows until 2022 with the band stating in April, “We are deeply sad, but those emotions are only a fraction of the depth of feeling we have all experienced watching the suffering and loss of the past year. We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe.”
MCR also announced their Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge makeup collection with HipDot, which sold out in under a minute in December 2020. In July 2021, the band launched a second collection, Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys, with the brand based on another of their beloved albums.
My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way’s solo music career and Umbrella Academy are managed by Stacy Fass. All other Gerard Way properties are managed by Brian Schechter.
