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Girls Aloud are a BRIT Award
nominated British girl group created on ITV1 talent show Popstars: The
Rivals in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole (nee Tweedy), Nadine
Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh, has gone on to
become one of the most successful pop groups of the decade with a record
breaking fifteen consecutive Top 10 singles (including three number ones),
four platinum albums (including a number one) and record sales in excess
of 4 million in the UK alone. They have also scored successes around
Europe with Number One singles in Greece and Ireland as well as a TMF
Award.
Girls Aloud hold the record for the shortest time between forming and
reaching number-one in the UK Charts (with their platinum-selling debut
single "Sound Of The Underground"), and have since become one of the few
reality television groups to have had continued success with Guinness
World Records listing them as the Most Successful Reality TV Group in the
2007 edition. Their record of fifteen consecutive top ten singles is also
unmatched by any other girl group beating the Spice Girls' previous record
of ten, but not the string of number-one singles.
For a contemporary pop group manufactured on reality television they have
received unprecedented praise from broadsheet newspapers and the rock
music press, with publications including the Observer Music Monthly, and
the NME giving their music rave reviews. |
