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"The Jonas Brothers have explained why they are breaking up. Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas announced their split earlier this week, after previously cancelling their North American tour on the eve of the first show.  The brothers opened up about their decision to end the group on Good Morning America today (October 30), with Nick revealing that he recently &amp;quot;initiated&amp;quot; a discussion about their future. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re family first, and that&amp;#039;s always been our main priority, and so honesty within what we do as a group was really important,&amp;quot; Nick explained. &amp;quot;I came to the table with the guys just before we were prepping to leave for tour, and I shared my heart with them, my feelings.&amp;quot; He went on to say: &amp;quot;In a nutshell, I said, &amp;#039;Look, I feel like we&amp;#039;ve had some complications within the group for a long time without addressing them. I think this train will fall off the tracks without really getting real about some of the concerns and some of the limitations that we may feel as individuals in the group&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;It was a tough conversation\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 It was the first time we really had that real conversation. It was a few days of working through it.&amp;quot;  Nick added that at this point the siblings are &amp;quot;best suited to do [their] own individual things, all things [they are] passionate about, and choose to be brothers first&amp;quot;. Kevin also revealed that the group&amp;#039;s proposed fifth album will not be released in a traditional format. &amp;quot;The album will actually not be completed, but we will be doing something for our fans,&amp;quot; Kevin said.  He continued: &amp;quot;They have travelled with us and been with us for so many years that we did not want to just leave without giving them back something.  &amp;quot;So what we&amp;#039;re going to do is, we&amp;#039;re going to release four unreleased songs from the album. The rest of the album will be never released.&amp;quot; Kevin concluded: &amp;quot;I think it was time, and for us it took some time getting there, but we feel like it&amp;#039;s time that the Jonas Brothers come to an end.&amp;quot; The Jonas Brothers have sold more than 20 million records worldwide since their formation. Watch the music video for the Jonas Brothers&amp;#039; single &amp;#039;SOS&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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