
The third single from their debut album in the United States is "American Dream". This featured opening acts Tiffany Houghton and Action Item. During the summer of 2014, MKTO went on their first headlining tour, the American Dream Tour. In February 2014, their debut album went to #1 in Australia and #6 in New Zealand. They also served as the opening for Emblem3's #bandlife Tour and Demi Lovato's "Demi: World Tour" in 2014. The music video for their third single, "God Only Knows", was released on Novemon YouTube and Vevo. Their self-titled debut album was released on April 1, 2014. In 2013, they served as the opening for Emblem3 on their summer tour across the United States. Classic peaked at number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and the music video has since compiled over 50 million views on YouTube. MKTO released their second single, "Classic" along with the music video on June 20, 2013. In the music video, Harold Perrineau, who played the father of Malcolm Kelley's character on Lost, appeared as a reference to the show.

The song has attained commercial success, reaching the top ten on both the Australian and New Zealand singles charts. The song's music video was released on YouTube via VEVO on January 4, 2013, and garnered over 500,000 views within two days of being released. "Thank You" is a crossover between pop and hip hop. The duo signed to Columbia Records and released their debut single "Thank You" on January 15, 2013.

They elaborated upon the inspiration for their name, saying: "It also stands for what our album kind of is: Misfit Kids and Total Outcasts – just like the kids we were in high school". They later formed as a duo and came up with the name MKTO, which represents the combined initials of their names and surnames, MK for Malcolm Kelley and TO for Tony Oller.
#MTKO HANDS OFF MY HEART LYRICS SERIES#

While she leaving with my heart in her handsīut your hands on my heart, got a hold of me Taking what you wanted here, too good to be trueĪlways heard about the warning, never thought it’d be you Stealing every single piece of me like loving’s a crimeĬaught her on the bus with the band leader

Trying to keep myself together, but I’m losing my mind every second that I think of you Baby you don’t even know it, but you’re leaving me in piecesīaby I surrender it’s too late for me to get your hands off, hands off
