"footsteps of Girls Aloud, Shayne Ward and Leona Lewis. Instead, this song written especially for JLS by Wayne Hector and Steve Mac. The song was originally titled 'No Beat' and supposedly took only two hours to write. Mac himself had originally presented the song to Nick Raphael, JLS' A&R at Epic Records, as a potential single. ""Beat Again"" is written in the key of A-flat minor. Raphael had originally been looking for a ballad in the vein of Boyz II Men's ""End of the Road"" and had in fact already asked Mac for another ""Flying Without Wings"". However, according to"
"The band's self-titled debut album was released on 9 November 2009, and has since sold over 1 million copies in the UK. JLS won the awards for British Breakthrough and British Single (""Beat Again"") at the 2010 BRIT Awards. They also won several awards at the MOBO Awards for Best song for ""Beat Again"" in 2009 and also Best Newcomer in the same year. In 2010 they won the MOBO Awards for Best UK act and Best Album. They also went on to win their fifth MOBO in 2012 by winning Best Video for ""Do You Feel What I Feel?""."
"album was released on 9 November 2009, and has since sold over 1 million copies in the UK. JLS won the awards for British Breakthrough and British Single (""Beat Again"") at the 2010 BRIT Awards. They also won several awards at the Mobo awards for Best song for ""Beat Again"" in 2009 and also Best Newcomer in the same year. In 2010, they won the MOBO Awards for Best UK act and Best Album. They also went on to win their fifth MOBO Award in 2012 by winning Best Video for ""Do You Feel What I Feel?"". They won the"
"the chart since Shakira's ""Hips Don't Lie"" in July 2006. Their follow up single in the UK ""I Gotta Feeling"" also peaked at number one and managed the same feat of having two separate runs at number one on the UK Singles Chart. With sales of over 600,000, the single is currently the sixth best selling of 2009 in the UK. ""Boom Boom Pow"" is also the 13th best selling R&B song of the 21st century in the UK. Fergie had stated at an interview on ""The Insider"" that the music video would be shooting the week of March 8,"
"Again"", a song he had written with Hector, and the pair enthusiastically agreed that it was perfect for JLS. Charrington said: ""Once you've got that special song everything else seems to fall into place."" The song was released as the debut single in July, only six months after the band had signed with the label. It reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 19 July 2009. On 9 November 2009 JLS released their eponymously titled debut album, ""JLS"". The album debuted at No. 1 on the UK Album Chart, selling over 1 million copies and named the sixth"
"over 1 million copies and becoming the sixth best-selling album in the UK during 2009, only being released for 8 weeks before the list was compiled. Their second single ""Everybody in Love"", released on 2 November 2009, also topped the UK Singles Chart. Their third single, ""One Shot"", peaked at number six despite a physical release. However, it did stay in the charts for a number of weeks. ""The Club Is Alive"" was announced as the lead single for their second studio album in April and released on 4 July 2010. JLS promoted the single on ""Britain's Got Talent"" and"
"JLS (album) JLS is the debut studio album by English boy band JLS. It was released in the UK on 9 November 2009 by Epic Records. It was preceded by the lead single, ""Beat Again"" on 13 July 2009. The album debuted at number-one in the UK and Ireland. It has been certified four times platinum in the UK, where it was the sixth best-selling album of 2009. In the US, the album was issued as a six track EP featuring their three UK singles, their new single ""The Club Is Alive"" and two other tracks from the UK version"
"copies in the United Kingdom as of August 2018, making it the band's best-selling song. After finishing as runners-up to Alexandra Burke on the fifth series of ""The X Factor"" in December 2008, JLS signed a record deal with Epic Records. Epic managing director Nick Raphael said, ""JLS are the best boy band to emerge from a TV talent show. The band already have an incredible fan base, and I look forward to launching their recording career."" ""Beat Again"" was unusual for being a debut single from reality show contestant in that was not a cover version, following in the"
"number 1 single in the UK. The week after they released their second album since their reunion in 2006, ""The Circus"". ""The Circus"" album was also a great success for Take That going straight to the top of the UK album chart and selling over 2.2 million copies in the country, going multi-platinum within four days of its release. In June and July 2009, Take That performed a record-breaking tour named """" throughout the United Kingdom and it sold over one million tickets in just five hours. It was announced that Barlow was in the process of writing Take That's"
"on August 28, 1968, and thus becoming the band's second number one hit in the United Kingdom after ""Good Vibrations"" two years earlier. Love remembered thinking that the song's success in Britain ""was unbelievable. It showed how many fans we had there and how attractive the whole California lifestyle is."" When ""Friends"" was issued in Japan, ""Do It Again"" was included in its track list. In Britain's ""Disc & Music Echo"", Penny Valentine praised the single: ""Do It Again"" remained at the top position for only one week, after which it was supplanted by the Bee Gees' ""I've Gotta Get"
"the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. ""About You Now"" was nominated for a 2008 BRIT Award for Best British Single and is to date their highest-selling single, with sales standing at almost 500,000 copies. In the 2009 edition of the ""Guinness Book of World Records"", ""About You Now"" was listed as the ""first track by a British pop act to top the singles chart solely on downloads"". The song was also named as the ""biggest chart mover to the number one position in the UK"". In October 2007, ""Change"" became the group's second UK number 1 album. For the"
"on the ""Billboard"" Music Video Sales chart. Two years later, ""Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium"" reached number 7 on the Music Video Sales chart and the top 100 of the ""Billboard"" 200. In 2009, the band achieved its first UK Singles Chart number 1 when ""Killing in the Name"" became Christmas number one as the result of a Facebook campaign. To celebrate the achievement, the group reunited for a free concert at Finsbury Park in London on June 6, 2010, which was later released in the form of ""Live at Finsbury Park"" in 2015 and reached number 2 on"
"""Back To Bedlam"" had hit the top spot the week previous. After five weeks at the top, he was then replaced by McFly, who scored their fourth chart topper with ""I'll Be OK"", the second release from their second album ""Wonderland"" which was to also top the album chart, making them the youngest band ever to have scored two UK number-one albums. Oasis then followed up their May chart topper ""Lyla"" with a second, ""The Importance of Being Idle"", which would be their final number one before their break up in 2009. Gorillaz then scored their first (and to date"
"a duo. In 1999, he set up his own production business with long-time friend and co-producer Barry Stone, formerly frontman of late period Romo band Belvedere Kane. They called the company Jewels and Stone (Jewels as in Jules, an abbreviation of Julian, and Stone from Barry Stone's surname). As well as remixing songs such as Sophie Ellis-Bextor's ""Murder on the Dancefloor"", Boyzone's ""No Matter What"" and S Club 7's ""Don't Stop Movin'"", the duo are credited with writing and producing the Adam Rickitt hit ""I Breathe Again"", which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in 1999, the S"
"slot in the UK Singles Chart, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show ""The X Factor"". Before the chart was announced on December 20, 2009, the Facebook group membership stood at over 950,000, and was acknowledged (and supported) by Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Muse, Fightstar, ""NME"", John Lydon, Bill Bailey, Lenny Henry, BBC Radio 1, Hadouken!, the Prodigy, Stereophonics, BBC Radio 5 Live, and even the 2004 ""X Factor"" winner Steve Brookstein, amongst numerous others. On the morning of December 17, Rage Against the Machine played a slightly"
"BRIT Award in 2010, winning the British Breakthrough and Best British Single for ""Beat Again"". Jay-Z predicted that they would become as big as 'N Sync. In the beginning of 2010, a bidding war was underway between (US-based) Epic Records and Jive Records to sign JLS to an American deal. The group settled with Jive Records, while continuing to remain with their native signing on Sony Music UK's Epic Records. As of August 2010, the album has sold over 1.2 million copies and has been certified 4x Platinum in the UK. The album was released as a six-track EP in"
"eleven straight weeks. ""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 1 song of 2009. It has also topped the charts on the Canadian Hot 100 the same week as on the Hot 100 and on the Australian ARIA Charts. On the New Zealand RIANZ chart, the song has so far peaked at number two. Moreover, it has charted within the top 10 in more than ten countries. On May 17, 2009, it entered the UK Singles Chart at number one based on almost 75,000 downloads alone. It is the band's second number one in the UK (the other being ""Where Is"
"first Hungarian chart-topper. It remained atop the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. ""About You Now"" was nominated for a 2008 BRIT Award for Best British Single and is to date their highest-selling single, with sales standing at almost 500,000 copies. In the 2009 edition of the ""Guinness Book of World Records"", ""About You Now"" was listed as the ""first track by a British pop act to top the singles chart solely on downloads"". The song was also named as the ""biggest chart mover to the number one position in the UK"". In October 2007, ""Change"" became the group's second"
"It Again Sam, a part of PIAS Entertainment Group. Their second single ""We Should Be Swimming"" was released in February 2012 and was Zane Lowe's Hottest Record In The World on his BBC Radio 1 show, on 11 January 2012. The band received various features in the UK press, including a two-page spread in Q (magazine), ""New Band Of The Day"" on the Guardian website and a mention in the Independent's ""Music One's To Watch Lists: This millennium’s school yard brawl"". The band were also chosen by Mumford & Sons as an act for the Galway leg of the Gentleman"
"June 2009, five members of the group released their comeback single, ""Let's Start Again"". The single fared slightly better than the previous single but could only peak at #51 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite their record label wanting to drop them following the lack of success of the single, they had signed a binding contract to release an album. The label issued a Greatest Hits compilation via digital download and thereby ended the contract with the group. At varying times band members have included Kenzie, Oliver Georgiou known as Freek, Lee Collas known as Colak, Marcel Somerville known as"
"group had a previous number-one single in the UK—""Geno"" in 1980—but ""Come On Eileen"" was their only US hit). ""Come on Eileen"" has sold 1.33 million copies in the UK as of June 2013. The song reached number one in the United States on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charts during the week ending 23 April 1983. ""Come on Eileen"" prevented Michael Jackson from having back-to-back number one hits in the US: ""Billie Jean"" was the number one single the previous week, while ""Beat It"" was the number one song the following week. In 1997, ska band Save Ferris released a"
"Gallagher and Liam Gallagher led to the official splitting up of the Britpop band Oasis, announced by brother Noel on the band's website. Oasis was later said to be continuing without Noel under the new name Beady Eye. Another new number 1 single on 6 September, with Jay-Z teaming up with Rihanna and Kanye West for Run This Town. At number 2 was the Sugababes with Get Sexy, their biggest hit in two years, and at number 6, Kings of Leon made a surprising return to the top 10 with 2008 hit Sex on Fire, which regained popularity after the"
"and 2005 number 9 hit ""I Predict a Riot"", 2007 UK number 1 hit ""Ruby"", which has sold over 461,000 copies, from their platinum album ""Yours Truly, Angry Mob"" plus a further two Top 20 singles in 2007 with ""The Angry Mob"" and ""Everything Is Average Nowadays"". In 2008, they had a UK number 5 hit with the post-punk revival track ""Never Miss a Beat"". Their 5 singles ""Ruby"", ""I Predict a Riot"", ""Everyday I Love You Less and Less"", ""Never Miss a Beat"" and ""Oh My God"" had sold a combined total of 1.1 million up to August 2012."
"and the band's fourth overall, on 15 November 2009 achieving the same success as in Australia. As of Sunday 27 December, ""Meet Me Halfway"" has sold 517,178 copies in Britain, making it the 13th best selling single of 2009. On December 20, ""Meet Me Halfway"" fell to #10, after eight consecutive weeks, but rose to #6 the following week. As on January 3, 2010 it rose again to #3. On the New Zealand Top 40, the song peaked at number three, making it their third consecutive top three hit from the album. It was certified Gold after 10 weeks on"
"Beat"" occurred there after the release of ""Picture of You"" in the United Kingdom. The American edition of the album includes three new tracks that were not released in Britain until the release of ""By Request"" in 1999. Although ""Shooting Star"" was released as a double A-side with ""Baby Can I Hold You"" in most territories, it only appeared as a bonus track on the album in Japan. The album is also the third and final studio album that the group released before the death of Stephen Gately eleven years later. The album topped the UK Albums Chart twice, on"
"another number-one hit in Norway and resulted in a new tour. A seventh studio album, ""Lifelines"", was released in 2002, and an eighth album, ""Analogue"", in 2005, was certified Silver in the UK – their most successful album there since 1990's ""East of the Sun, West of the Moon"". Their ninth album, ""Foot of the Mountain"", was first released on 19 June 2009 and returned the band to the UK top 5 for the first time since 1988, being certified Silver there and Platinum in Germany. The album peaked at number 2 in Norway (their first release not to reach"
"two. With The Essential Michael Jackson knocking Number Ones off the top spot, Jackson became only the third act to ever manage two consecutive #1 albums - the first act to do it was The Beatles who achieved the feat twice, and later Mike Oldfield became the second. Florence and the Machine, with her debut album ""Lungs"", which was released on 6 July, spent five weeks at #2 behind Michael Jackson. After two weeks at the top spot, ""Evacuate the Dancefloor"" was knocked to #2 by JLS' debut single ""Beat Again."" The second highest new entry that week came from"
"the possibility of a new tour or album. Soon, the Boyzone went on a 29-date tour. The tour, taking in cities such as Cardiff, Newcastle, Liverpool, London at the O2 Arena and Wembley, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Edinburgh Castle and the RDS in Dublin. A greatest hits collection was released and two new singles in 2008 selling 700,000 copies. Stephen Gately, close friend and bandmate of Keating, died on 10 October 2009 of a pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs. This left Keating devastated. In 2009 Keating co-wrote the song ""Believe Again"" sung by Niels Brinck,"
"UK) and ""Ladies Night"", and a greatest hits album before announcing a break following their 2004 tour. To date the group have had three UK number-one singles: ""Whole Again"", the fourth-best-selling song of all time by a girl group in the UK; ""Eternal Flame"", a song originally recorded by The Bangles; and ""The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"", a song originally recorded by The Paragons. They have sold over 10 million records worldwide. After making sporadic appearances in 2006 and 2008, it was announced that McClarnon, Hamilton, and Katona would reunite for the ITV2 series ""The Big Reunion"", alongside"
"and 1969, the group spent more weeks in the UK Singles Chart than the Beatles and made the odd tour 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand, where they had also experienced some marked chart success during this period. They also scored a Number One hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 with ""The Legend of Xanadu"". The combined sales figures were in excess of one million copies. Their other top 10 UK hits included ""Hideaway"", ""Hold Tight!"", ""Bend It!"", ""Save Me!"", ""Touch Me, Touch Me"", ""Okay!"", ""Zabadak!"" and ""Last Night in Soho"". ""Bend It!"" was a big hit"
"the Love?"" which also reached the top of the chart six years prior). It has also reached number three so far in Ireland. After being knocked off the number one spot in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2009 by ""Bonkers"" by Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden, the song remained at the number two slot for 2 weeks before returning to number one on June 7, 2009. ""Bonkers"" had meanwhile swapped places with ""Boom Boom Pow"" and took the number two slot. This subsequently marks the first time a song has had two separate runs at the summit of"
"stars out of five. In a foreseeable review, Female First's Ruth Harrison was also positive and commented on their perennial comparisons with the band So Solid Crew. She said: ""I can promise you one thing - Blazin Squad have come so far with their new single, that it’s just a case of So Solid Who?"" Let's Start Again ""Let's Start Again"" is a song by the then five-piece hip-hop group Blazin' Squad, released as a single on 15 June 2009. In 2009, Strider, Flava, Kenzie, Krazy and Rocky B announced that they would be reuniting as a five-piece version of"
"eleven on the UK Albums Chart and receiving a silver certification from the BPI. Both ""One Way Ticket"" and follow-up single ""Is It Just Me?"" reached number eight on the singles chart, while the third and final single from the album, ""Girlfriend"", charted at number 39. Following the band's first break up in 2006, ""The Platinum Collection"" compilation and a set comprising both of the band's albums were released in 2008. The band reunited in 2011 then released ""Nothing's Gonna Stop Us"" in February 2012, followed by ""Every Inch of You"" in May , then ""Everybody Have a Good Time"""