Shortly afterwards, the band also announced a UK tour. The album charted at number 10 on the UK Albums Chart in the week ending 27 September 2014, was certified Silver in the UK on 9 January 2015, was certified Gold on 20 March 2015 and reached Platinum sales on 30 December 2016. They won the BBC Introducing Award at the first BBC Music Awards in December 2014 and performed "Kathleen". "The Balcony" was released in the US on 6 January 2015. The following day, the band performed on the "Late Show with David Letterman". In an interview with WOW247, McCann said that the band have "three albums written already". He continued to say that "I'm more excited for the second album than the first, because the workload is done now". At the 2016 Brit Awards, the band won in the British Breakthrough Act category. They headlined Liverpool Sound City in May 2016, their first headline slot at a festival. On 23 March 2016, the band announced via Twitter and Instagram that their second studio album would be entitled "The Ride", which was released on 27 May 2016. On 3 June 2016, "The Ride" reached number one on the UK Albums Chart with unit sales of 38,000. On 8 July 2016, Catfish and the Bottlemen played their largest headlining show to date at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester, UK with Vant, Broken Hands, and Little Comets as support. On 1 July 2017, they headlined the first Community Festival in Finsbury Park London. On 8 January 2019, the band released a new single entitled "Longshot", the lead single off their third studio album, "The Balance". "Fluctuate", the second single from the album, was released on 13 February 2019. "2all", the third single from the album, was released on 19 March 2019. "Conversation", the fourth and final single from the album, was released on 18 April 2019. The album was released on April 26, 2019. On July 16, 2019, a music video for "Conversation" was released, after the release of a Snapchat lens, which featured visuals from the music video. When reviewing "The Balcony", Scott Kerr of AllMusic likened the band's sound to that of Johnny Marr, The Cribs, Feeder and Mystery Jets. According to Ben Homewood of "NME", McCann's vocal style is similar to The Kooks' frontman Luke Pritchard. With respect to the musical approach to "The Ride", McCann has stated, "I feel like everybody started thinking too outside the box trying to be arty and different.