Westlife is a pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998 in Dublin, Ireland. The group’s original lineup comprised Brian McFadden, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, and Shane Filan. Filan and Feehily are the band’s lead vocalists. In March 1999, Westlife released their first single, "Swear It Again" which immediately topped the charts in Ireland and in UK for two weeks.On November 1, 1999, Westlife released their self titled debut album. The album entered the UK chart at its number 2 peak, selling a little over 83,000 units. It remains the only Westlife album to date to chart in the US, peaking at #129 on the Billboard 200. Westlife has since released eight more albums. They have garnered 14 number one singles in the United Kingdom, the third-highest in UK history, just tailing behind Elvis Presley and The Beatles. The band has also won numerous awards such as the "Best Irish Pop Act" at the annual Ireland Meteor Awards and ITV "Record of the Year" award in the UK. The band has broken a few top records, including "Music artist with most consecutive number 1’s in the UK" and the "Biggest selling arena act in the UK".
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Backstreet Boys was formed on April 20, 1993 by boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. The band consist of Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A. J. McLean, Nick Carter. Pearlman had spent around $3.5 million on his search to form the group, and then spent more to launch their career. In 1996 they launched their self titled debut album which was released internationally. Then in 1997 they launched their U.S debut also entitled Backstreet Boys. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard charts and has been certified platinum over fourteen times over. In May of 1999 they released Millenium, an album that would rocket them to super stardom. Millennium entered the Billboard 200 at number one, where it remained for 10 non-consecutive weeks. It sold over a million copies it’s first week. It was their first record to be released in both the U.S. and internationally in the same form, at the same time. In the United States, it holds the record for most shipments in one year, with 11 million in 1999. Since then they have released three more albums, have sold more than one hundred million albums and have had 13 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 making them the best selling boy band of all time. Backstreet boys is currently working on their seventh album to be released in 2009.
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McFly was formed in London, England in 2004. The band derives it’s name from the Back to the Future trilogy and Michael J. Fox’s character Marty McFly. McFly’s members include Tom Fletcher on lead vocals and guitar, Danny Jones on lead guitar, Dougie Poynter on bass guitar and Harry Judd on drums. McFly released their debut album Room on the 3rd Floor in 2004. It debuted at number one in the UK albums chart and has sold over over eight hundred thousand copies to date. They followed the success of their debut album with the release of their second studio album entitled Wonderland in the summer of 2005. It wasn’t quite as successful as Room On The 3rd floor but it still managed to over a quarter a million copies. After Wonderland, McFly released four more studio albums, Just My Luck, Motion in the Ocean, All the Greatest Hits and Radio:Active. As of December 2008, McFly have had sixteen consecutive top twenty singles, seven of which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart and fifteen of which were consecutive top ten singles. The group have also performed at various charity projects such as Comic Relief, Live 8 and Sport Relief.
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Kate Nash is an English singer & songwriter based in London. She was born on July 6,1987. Kate Nash started her career in 2006. After several gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the social networking website MySpace. Nash found a manager for herself before proceeding to look for producers for her music. Nash’s debut was a single, "Caroline’s a Victim"/"Birds," produced and recorded in Iceland by Valgeir Sigurđsson and released through Moshi Moshi Records in February 2007. In April 2007, Nash was signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records. Kate Nash released her debut album, Made Of Bricks, in August of 2007. In the US, Made of Bricks debuted at number 36 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 16,000 copies. During mid-2007, Nash performed at numerous festivals including Wireless Festival, Bestival, the Electric Gardens, Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading and Leeds, Oxegen and T in the Park. She made her official TV performance debut on Later with Jools Holland. Kate Nash recently co-wrote "Almost Isn’t (Good Enough) Is It?" for Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players member Jason Trachtenburg for his upcoming album, Jason Trachtenburg: File Under Pop Male Vocal. A music video for the song premiered on April 25, 2009.
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Fat Joe is the stage name of Joseph Cartagena. He’s an American rapper from the Bronx neighborhood of New York. He is currently signed to Imperial Records, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad. In 1993, he released his debut album, Represent. It features guest appearances from Diamond D, Grand Puba, Apache, Kool G Rap, Gismo, Kieth Kieth and King Sun. It also features DJ scratches by Roc Raida and Rob Swift. In 1995, Fat Joe released his second studio album, Jealous One’s Envy, which peaked at #71 on The Billboard 200 and at #7 on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. The album featured a guest appearance from KRS-One and production from Diamond D. The success of this album led Fat Joe to be featured on the remix of LL Cool J’s single I Shot Ya along with Foxy Brown, Keith Murray and Prodigy of Mobb Deep. In 1998, Fat Joe signed to Atlantic Records and released his third album, Don Cartagena. It peaked at the number seven spot on the Billboard Top 200. Since then Fat Joe has released six more albums. Starting in 2006, when his album Me, Myself, & I was released, Fat Joe was signed to Imperial Records, which distributes through Terror Squad Entertainment. His follow up album wasThe Elephant in the Room, which was released in 2008.
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