Girls Aloud are the most successful group to appear on the programme, scoring four number-one singles and two number-one albums.

Popstars (UK) is a British reality television show produced for ITV that aired for two series. The first series, Popstars, aimed to find five singers to form a new pop group. During the second series, Popstars: The Rivals, two music groups were formed to compete for the Christmas number-one single in the United Kingdom.[1]

The five winning contestants from the first series formed the group Hear'Say.[2] Their first two singles, "Pure and Simple" and "The Way to Your Love", became number-one hits on the UK Singles Chart. Two other single releases, "Everybody" and "Lovin' Is Easy", reached the top ten. Hear'Say released their first album Popstars in May 2001; this was followed by a second album, Everybody. After a line-up change, the group split a year after formation.[3][4]

In the second series, two new groups, Girls Aloud and One True Voice, were formed.[5][6] They competed for the Christmas number-one in 2002 with their debut singles "Sound of the Underground" and "Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" respectively; Girls Aloud finished on top and debuted at number one, and One True Voice debuted at number two.[7] One True Voice released another single, "Shakespeare's (Way with) Words" before splitting in June 2003.[8] Girls Aloud, in contrast, have become one of the most successful female groups in the United Kingdom, with 21 successive top-ten singles (including four number-ones), and six top-ten albums (including two number-ones). During the group's three-year hiatus, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, and Nicola Roberts also went on to release solo material. Girls Aloud reunited to celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2012.

In addition to the winners of the show, several other participants have achieved careers in music. Liberty X (originally known as Liberty before a legal dispute) has had eight top ten singles in the UK charts, including the number-one hit "Just a Little" in 2002. Kym Marsh released a solo album and two singles after leaving Hear'Say, and Darius Danesh, who did not advance past the audition stage, released material after appearing on Pop Idol. Javine Hylton, the singer who missed out on a place in Girls Aloud, debuted at number four with "Real Things and released several other singles. She was selected as the United Kingdom's entry for the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, singing "Touch My Fire".[9] The four other female finalists formed the band Clea, and the five losing male finalists experienced success in their band Phixx. The Cheeky Girls, a Romanian duo who did not make the live finals, were given a record contract, and debuted at number three behind the two winning bands.

Singles

Artist(s)SeriesPosition in ShowSong title(s)Release dateUK peak
chart position
Ref
Hear'Say1Winner"Pure and Simple"12 March 20011[10]
"The Way to Your Love"25 June 20011[11]
"Everybody"26 November 20014[12]
"Lovin' Is Easy"12 August 20026[13]
Liberty [D]Runner-Up"Thinking It Over"24 September 20015
"Doin' It"3 December 200114
Liberty X"Just a Little"13 May 20021
"Got to Have Your Love"9 September 20022
"Holding On for You"2 December 20025
"Being Nobody" [E]24 March 20033
"Jumpin"20 October 20036
"Everybody Cries"12 January 200413
"A Night to Remember"14 November 20056
"Song 4 Lovers"26 September 20055
"X"19 June 200647
Claire FreelandN/A"Free"21 July 200144
Kevin SimmRunner-Up (with Liberty X)"All You Good Friends"9 April 201624
Kym Marsh [C]Winner (with Hear'Say)"Cry"6 April 20032
"Come On Over"7 July 200310
"Sentimental"27 October 200335
Warren StaceyEliminated at Boot Camp"My Girl, My Girl"11 March 200226
Girls Aloud2Winner (Girl Group)"Sound of the Underground"16 December 20021
"No Good Advice"12 May 20032
"Life Got Cold"18 August 20033
"Jump"17 November 20032
"Love Machine"13 September 20042
"I'll Stand by You"15 November 20041
"The Show"28 June 20042
"Wake Me Up"21 February 20054
"Long Hot Summer"22 August 20057
"Biology"14 November 20054
"See the Day"19 December 20059
"Whole Lotta History"13 March 20066
"Something Kinda Ooooh"23 October 20063
"I Think We're Alone Now"18 December 20064
"Walk This Way"12 March 20071
"Sexy! No No No..."31 August 20075
"Call the Shots"26 November 20073
"Theme to St. Trinian's"10 December 200751
"Can't Speak French"14 March 20089
"The Promise"19 October 20081
"The Loving Kind"12 January 200910
"Untouchable"27 April 200911
"Something New"19 November 20122
"Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me"17 December 201297
One True VoiceWinner (Boy Band)"Sacred Trust / After You're Gone"16 December 20022
"Shakespeare's (Way with) Words"2 June 200310
Cheeky GirlsAuditions"Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)"9 December 20022
"Take Your Shoes Off"5 May 20033
"(Hooray! Hooray! It's a Cheeky Holiday!)"4 August 20033
"Have a Cheeky Christmas"8 December 200310
"Cheeky Flamenco"27 September 200429
"Boys and Girls"6 December 200450
CleaRunner-Up (Girl Group)"Download It"22 September 200321
"Stuck in the Middle"16 February 200423
"We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" [F]17 October 200535
"Lucky Like That"12 June 200655
Javine [A]Runner-Up"Real Things"7 July 20034
"Surrender (Your Love)"10 November 200315
"Best of My Love"14 June 200418
"Don't Walk Away" / "You've Got a Friend"9 August 200416
"Don't Walk Away" / "You've Got a Friend"9 August 200416
"Touch My Fire"16 May 200518
"Don't Let the Morning Come" [B]2 October 200649
PhixxRunner-Up (Boy Band)"Hold on Me"27 October 200310
"Love Revolution"8 March 200413
"Wild Boys"21 June 200412
"Strange Love"24 January 200519
CherylWinner (with Girls Aloud)"Heartbreaker"5 May 20084
"Fight for This Love"19 October 20091[14]  
"3 Words"18 December 20094[15]
"Parachute"11 March 20105[15]
"Promise This"24 October 20101[15]
"The Flood"2 January 201118[15]
"Call My Name"10 June 20121[16]  
"Under the Sun"2 September 201213[17]
"Crazy Stupid Love"18 July 20141[15]
"I Don't Care"2 November 20141[15]
"Only Human"18 October 201470[15]
"Love Made Me Do It"9 November 201819[15]
"Let You"31 May 201957[15]
Nadine Coyle"Insatiable"31 October 201026[18]
Nicola Roberts"Beat of My Drum"2 June 201127[19]
"Lucky Day"16 September 201140[19]
"Yo-Yo"6 January 2012111[20]

Albums

Only albums that charted in the Top 100 of the UK albums chart are included in this list.

ArtistSeriesAlbum titleRelease dateUK peak
chart position
Ref(s)
Hear'Say1Popstars26 March 20011
Everybody2 December 200124
Liberty XThinking It Over27 May 20023
Being Somebody3 November 200312
X10 October 200527
Kym MarshStanding Tall21 July 20039[21]
Myleene KlassMoving On20 October 200332
Girls Aloud2Sound of the Underground26 May 20032
What Will the Neighbours Say?29 November 20046
Chemistry5 December 200511
The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits29 October 20071
Tangled Up19 November 20074
Mixed Up [H]19 November 200756
Out of Control3 November 20081
Girls A Live I26 May 200329
Ten26 November 20129
Cheeky GirlsPartyTime11 August 200314
Cheryl Cole3 Words26 October 20091[15]
Messy Little Raindrops29 October 20101[15]
A Million Lights18 June 20122[15]
Only Human14 November 20147[15]
Kimberley WalshCentre Stage4 February 201318
Nadine CoyleInsatiable8 November 201047[18]
Nicola RobertsCinderella's Eyes26 September 201117[19]

Other releases

  • Liberty X recorded a version of Kool and the Gang's "Fresh", which charted at number 58 on the Australian Singles Chart.
  • In addition to recording her own solo album following the split of Hear'Say, Myleene Klass signed a deal with EMI Classics which allowed her to choose her own tracks for a series of classical albums. She recorded two songs each for Music for Romance and Music for Mothers.[22]
  • Darius Danesh appeared on the first series but was eliminated at the audition stage. He reached the final three in Pop Idol and had a succession of hit singles.
  • Clea released two albums, Identity Crisis and Trinity; the former was released only in Russia and the latter charted at number 258 on the UK Albums Chart. They also re-released "Stuck in the Middle" in 2006 as a joint single with "I Surrender", but the song failed to chart.

See also

Notes

  • a Javine Hylton is known professionally by her first name only. She was due to release a song with the producer Richard X but the single was cancelled.
  • b "Don't Let the Morning Come" was a collaboration with Soul Avengerz.
  • c Kym Marsh continued to be known professionally by this name despite her marriage to Jack Ryder.[23] She was originally a part of the band Hear'Say
  • d Liberty X were originally known as Liberty but changed their name in 2002.[24] This was following a high-profile court case where another UK band with the same name claimed that their name was being used without permission.[25] Readers of The Sun chose the name X Liberty but the band decided to call themselves Liberty X.
  • e "Being Nobody" was credited as Richard X vs. Liberty X.[26]
  • f Clea recorded "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" with Da Playaz and the release was credited as Da Playaz vs. Clea.
  • g "Walk This Way" was released by Girls Aloud in collaboration with fellow British girl group Sugababes as the Comic Relief single in 2007, charting at number-one.[27]
  • h Girls Aloud's album Mixed Up was a bonus CD offered exclusively at Woolworths which contained remixes of the Tangled Up album tracks.
  • i Girls A Live is a live album to accompany Out of Control that was initially available at Woolworths.
  • j Cheryl Cole was credited on the release of will.i.am's 2008 single "Heartbreaker" as having sung backing vocals.[28]

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