In Real Life (band)

In Real Life (IRL) was an American boy band composed of Brady Tutton, Chance Perez, Drew Ramos, Sergio Calderon, and Conor Smith, the final five vocalists from the American reality television music competition series Boy Band. The show premiered June 22, 2017, on ABC.

Due to lack of success, the band was dropped from their Hollywood Records label in 2019. In 2020, the band announced their split.

The ten-episode season of the American television music competition series Boy Band began with thirty young male vocalists competing to become a member of the new five-member boy band. Each week, the boys would rotate into different groups and perform, at the end, the "architects" would put either two or three boys up for elimination and through live voting, a boy would be chosen by America to be saved. At the end of the season, the five remaining boys would form the boy band and receive a recording contract with Hollywood Records. After a 24-hour voting period the week before, it was announced at the final live show on August 24, 2017, that Tutton, Perez, Ramos, Calderon and Smith were the winning members, thus forming the boy band In Real Life and performing their debut single, "Eyes Closed".

Following their formation, In Real Life performed live on various television programs including Total Request Live in November 2017, Good Morning America in December 2017, and on Live with Kelly and Ryan in February 2018. That same year, they released an acoustic version of "Eyes Closed", along with two holiday songs—"Feel This Christmas" and "I'll Be Home Christmas".

In February 2018, they appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and performed on ¡Despierta América! that April. In 2018, the band released several singles, starting with "Tattoo (How 'Bout You)", which peaked at number 29 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart for radio play. Other released singles included "How Badly", "Tonight Belongs to You", and "Got Me Good".

In May 2018, it was announced that In Real Life would open in a supporting slot in July and August on the 2018 American Idol summer tour. In September 2018, they headlined the Tonight Belongs To You tour, performing in small venues across the U.S. and Asia. The tour concluded in November. In 2019, they released the singles "Crazy AF", "Somebody Like You", and "Hurt For Long". Their debut album She Do, which features all of their singles from the past two years along with three new songs, was released on August 23, 2019. Their third Christmas single, "California Christmas", was announced to be released on November 29, 2019. The band created their own label, Broke Hero Records, after being dropped from Hollywood Records.

On January 20, 2020, In Real Life announced their separation on Instagram.

In Real Life was a pop boy band that experimented with other sounds such as pop rap, dance-pop, teen pop and Latin pop.