Sunrise Avenue's best known songs are "Hollywood Hills" (2011), "Fairytale Gone Bad" (2006), "Forever Yours" (2007), "The Whole Story" [fi] (2009), "Heal Me" (2007), "Welcome to My Life" (2009), and "Heartbreak Century" (2017).

Samu Haber established Sunrise together with Finnish singer-songwriter Jan Hohenthal in April 1992 in Espoo, Finland.

After four years in Spain and only a handful of performances at private Spanish events, Haber moved back to Finland.

"[citation needed] Between 2002 and 2005, Haber visited record companies and agencies 102 times in Finland and Sweden before they were finally signed to small Scandinavian label Bonnier Amigo Music.

"[citation needed] To finance the debut album On the Way to Wonderland, Haber introduced the "Sunrise Avenue Business Plan" to his friend, a copy machine sales man Mikko Virtala.

Virtala financed most of the album's recordings and a trip to Midem Music Expo in Cannes, France, to meet the European managers and labels.

In 2008, Haber and Backlund bought the Sonic Kitchen Recording Studio in Helsinki together with a Finnish producer Aku Sinivalo.

In 2010, Sunrise Avenue started working with their third studio album together with Backlund and a new producer Jukka Immonen.

In the summer of 2010 after negotiating with many Scandinavian major record companies, Sunrise Avenue signed a worldwide deal with Universal Music (excluding Germany, Switzerland and Austria).

In 2013, Sunrise Avenue released their fourth studio album, Unholy Ground, which was a huge success in Germany, Austria and in Switzerland.

[3] Sunrise Avenue's farewell concert tour continued to Germany in autumn 2022 (Hannover, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf).

Starting from 2020, Sunrise Avenue's head singer and songwriter Samu Haber is continuing his career as a solo artist and mainly singing in Finnish language.