Editing Yellowcard (section)

===''Ocean Avenue'' (2003–2005)===
Shortly after releasing ''The Underdog EP'', Yellowcard signed with [[Capitol Records]].<ref>[http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=725]{{dead link|date=July 2011}}</ref>  The group recorded their major-label debut ''[[Ocean Avenue (album)|Ocean Avenue]]'' in February–March 2003 and released on July 22, 2003.<ref>{{cite web |author=MacKenzie Wilson |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ocean-avenue-mw0000037522 |title=Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |date=2003-07-22 |access-date=2016-11-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912041845/http://www.allmusic.com/album/ocean-avenue-mw0000037522 |archive-date=2016-09-12 }}</ref>  During the recording of the album, Mosely left Yellowcard, devoting his time to his first band, Inspection 12, and finishing the band's album, ''[[Get Rad]]''. The members of Yellowcard began the search for a new bass player and chose Alex Lewis, whose sister, Alieke Wijnveldt, contributed vocals to the ''Ocean Avenue'' track "View from Heaven". After Lewis joined, the band filmed an unreleased music video for the song "Powder". The video was later put on the enhanced version of ''[[Ocean Avenue (album)|Ocean Avenue]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAdRBwog7O0|title=YouTube – Yellowcard – Powder(Official Music Video)|date=October 11, 2010 |publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=June 25, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207041931/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAdRBwog7O0|archive-date=December 7, 2015}}</ref>

Yellowcard released its first single from ''Ocean Avenue'', "[[Way Away]]". The song did well on [[MTV2]] and rock radio, peaking at No. 25 on the modern-rock charts. The song created enough buzz to cause the band's mainstream explosion. In the middle of the band's first headlining tour, Peter Mosely decided to leave Inspection 12 and asked if he could rejoin Yellowcard. Because Mosely had been an integral part of the writing for ''Ocean Avenue'' and had also been friends with most of the band's members since high school, Lewis was asked to leave on March 1, 2004, and Mosely was reinstated as the bass player.

In late 2003, Yellowcard finally broke through with a hit single, "[[Ocean Avenue (song)|Ocean Avenue]]", in part due to the song premiering on [[MTV]]'s ''[[Total Request Live]]''. Radio eventually picked up on the single, with it peaking at No. 37 on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] during the summer of 2004. The band experienced its peak popularity during the second half of 2004.  They were cover features on ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' magazine, a headliner of the 2004 [[Warped Tour]], performed "Ocean Avenue" and won the MTV2 award at the [[2004 MTV Video Music Awards]], and were featured in the season 2 premiere of ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]'' with their song "Empty Apartment". The band was featured episode 3 in season 8 of MTV's [[The Challenge (TV series)|Real World/Road Rules Challenge]] (later abridged to "The Challenge"), performing "Way Away" while cast members trashed a mock hotel room for a "rock star redecoration" challenge. The album's first track, "Way Away", appeared on the soundtracks of ''[[SSX 3]]'' and ''[[Madden NFL 2004]]''. The album's second track, "Breathing", also appeared in [[Electronic Arts|EA]]'s ''[[Burnout 3: Takedown]]'' and ''[[FlatOut 2]]''. Following the success of "Ocean Avenue", the band released the single "[[Only One (Yellowcard song)|Only One]]", a rock ballad which also did fairly well on TRL and radio. The ''Ocean Avenue'' album sold over one million copies in the U.S. alone.

During this time, Yellowcard contributed songs to various other soundtracks. The first, "Gifts and Curses", appeared in the hit film ''[[Spider-Man 2]]''. Another, a cover of [[Lagwagon]]'s "Violins", was featured on ''[[Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2]]'' compilation album. At the [[2005 MTV Movie Awards]], Yellowcard performed a cover of the song "[[Don't You (Forget About Me)]]" during a special tribute to the movie ''[[The Breakfast Club]]''.

On August 13, 2013, an acoustic version of ''Ocean Avenue'' was released in honor of the album's 10th anniversary.<ref>[http://yellowcardrock.com/post/52062419072/ocean-avenue-acoustic] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623024048/http://yellowcardrock.com/post/52062419072/ocean-avenue-acoustic|date=June 23, 2013}}</ref>