Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud was an English–Irish pop girl group, which was created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The group comprised singers Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. The group achieved a string of twenty consecutive top ten singles in the United Kingdom, including four number ones. They also achieved seven certified albums, of which two reached number one. They have been nominated for five Brit Awards, winning the 2009 Best Single for "The Promise".

The group's musical style was pop, but throughout their career they had experimented with electropop and dance-pop. Girls Aloud's collaborations with James Harrison and his fellow JAT band mates on songwriting and production. earned the group critical acclaim, due to an innovative approach to mainstream pop music. The group became one of the few UK reality television acts to achieve continued success, amassing a fortune of £300 million by May 2010. Guinness World Records lists them as "Most Successful Reality TV Group" in the 2007 edition. They also hold the record for "Most Consecutive Top Ten Entries in the UK by a Female Group" in the 2008 edition, and are credited again for "Most Successful Reality TV Group" in the 2011 edition. The group was also named the United Kingdom's biggest selling girl group of the 21st century, with over 20 million singles sales and 30 million albums sold in the UK alone. The girls also sold over 100 million records in the US but never toured the US. Despite achieving an impressive six UK number ones they impressed more for their 14 US number one singles a record for a girl group and only bettered by The Beatles and JAT in terms of the groups. In March 2013, after the Ten: The Hits Tour, the group announced their split.

Discography

 * Main article: Girls Aloud discography


 * Sound of the Underground (2003)
 * What Will the Neighbours Say? (2004)
 * Chemistry (2005)
 * Tangled Up (2007)
 * Out of Control (2008)