5 years ago, 9th October 2012 - a 10 day countdown appeared on their website, hyping up their upcoming reunion!

 

At the time, it had been just over three years since they'd last been active (when they were Coldplay's support act at Wembley Stadium in September 2009).

 

 

 

:drama: @ the Ten era almost being 5 years ago! :cry:

Can't believe that happened so long ago :mellow: so many good memories of the excitement!!

5 years since Girls Aloud reunited via a press conference, and launched the truly EPIC song that is Something New into our lives. *.* :wub:

Omg *.* memories

Today also marks 9 years since "The Promise" was released in the UK, the same day as their 'X Factor' performance of the song:

 

 

:wub: I still love this song much, I've been listening to it a lot more recently - the trinity of singles from 'Out of Control' were probably their best ever so while I'm sad that "The Loving Kind" and "Untouchable" underperformed, I am still so proud that they achieved such a big hit so late into their career - and an overdue #1 studio album!

Argh, I can't quite believe their final studio album era began 9 years ago! :cry: That was an amazing time to be a fan - fabulous for them to achieve an original song #1 hit after so long, and a #1 studio album too. It really felt like they'd climbed to a new level of success, which was remarkable after 6 years; I'll always find it a shame they decided to take a hiatus after this. :(

Argh, I can't quite believe their final studio album era began 9 years ago! :cry: That was an amazing time to be a fan - fabulous for them to achieve an original song #1 hit after so long, and a #1 studio album too. It really felt like they'd climbed to a new level of success, which was remarkable after 6 years; I'll always find it a shame they decided to take a hiatus after this. :(

Whilst I agree with you, I do think that it's good that they started their hiatus whilst they were still in favour with the GP and managing a top 5 single and top 10 album is no mean feat given that they already had a million-selling greatest hits. If they'd had another couple of studio albums with middling success, then went on hiatus, they may not have even achieved the limit success of the 'Ten' era.

I really think had they done one more studio album after 'Out Of Control' but before the hiatus, they'd have cemented themselves as the biggest pop act in the country at the time and set themselves up better for the 'Ten' era. Just as the general public was really getting in to them they threw it all away and allowed Cheryl to swoop in and claim the momentum they'd set up. I think a new Girls Aloud song in October 2009 would've easily sold similarly to 'Fight For This Love'.

Recent anniversaries of Girls Aloud releases:

 

Albums:

11 years ago - 30th October 2006: 'The Sound of Girls Aloud - The Greatest Hits' (Album)

9 years ago - 3rd November 2008: 'Out of Control' (Album)

 

Singles:

11 years ago - 23rd October 2006: 'Something Kinda Ooooh'

 

DVDs:

12 years ago - 7th November 2005: 'What Will the Neighbours Say? Live in Concert'

11 years ago - 13th November 2006: 'The Greatest Hits Live from Wembley Arena 2006'

10 years ago - 12th November 2007: 'Style'

4 years ago - 11th November 2013: 'Ten - The Hits Tour 2013'

 

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Today is 12 years since the release of the critically acclaimed pop masterpiece that is 'Biology'. :wub: Released on Monday 14th November 2005, initial midweek figures suggested that it'd land outside the Top 5, at #6 - but thankfully by the day of the chart announcement, it had climbed to an official peak of #4! This made it their 9th Top 5 single. As of July 2017 it had exceeded 190,000 sales across physicals, downloads and streaming - making it their 9th best selling hit.

 

 

What an incredible and unique song. :wub:

 

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On a personal note, two days before the release of Biology, I saw Girls Aloud for the very first time! It was at the Christmas Lights concert in Birmingham. Sadly Sarah wasn't there due to being ill, but I still remember how exciting it was to see them up close (me and my friends were at the barrier *.* ).

 

(Lmao I remember that my camera's memory card was only 64MB, so I couldn't film very much *_* )

All of these make me feel so old :( Biology being 12 years old is absolutely crazy - it could be released right now with absolutely nothing changed and still sound just as innovative and exciting. :wub:

Echoing Joseph here! "Biology" is the song that a lot of people who aren't huge fans of Girls Aloud remember outside of "Sound of the Underground"/"The Promise". Criminal that it only peaked at #4 although I think a lot of momentum was lost from "Long Hot Summer" and then sweeping it to the side so quickly for "See the Day" - possibly their worst ever single - is still such a WTF moment. I actually think 'Chemistry' is probably their second best album after 'Tangled Up' but gets overlooked a lot because it's their only album to miss the top ten.

I wholeheartedly agree, Chemistry is such a brilliant pop album with so many standout moments! Thankfully it seems well appreciated on Buzzjack but does generally feel very underappreciated :(

I'll Stand By You was released 13 years ago today (Monday 15th November 2004)! :o Their cover of The Pretenders' 1994 hit was chosen to be that year's Children In Need single, and it went straight in at #1 in the UK singles chart - staying there for two weeks, holding off Destiny's Child's Lose My Breath.

 

 

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I'll Stand By You was recently revealed to have sold 235,000 copies (not including streams), and as of October 2012 it was their 6th best selling single.

 

Jump was released 14 years ago this week (Monday 17th November 2003)! It's included on the re-release of their debut album 'Sound of the Underground', and also features on their second offering 'What Will the Neighbours Say?' The cover of The Pointers Sisters' 80s classic was included on the soundtrack of the movie Love Actually (which explains the rather horrid default picture the video has on YouTube :') ).

 

 

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It sold just under 60,000 copies in its first week (a very respectable first week by 2003 standards), but unfortunately Girls Aloud were runners up in the chart to Westlife, who scored their 12th #1 hit with their own cover version release, 'Mandy'. However, 'Jump' ended up achieving a longer stay in the charts, and also outsold it! As of October 2013, 'Jump' had sold 250,000 copies, whereas 'Mandy' only surpassed 200,000 sales in July 2014.

Jump deserved #1 :cry:

 

Still such a great cover, I remember buying both CDs very clearly :wub:

Jump totally deserved #1! Then again so did Love Machine, Biology, Call the shots, Something kinda ooh, Something new... Girls Aloud the band who were ripped off with #1's!

Ten was released 5 years ago today!

 

 

It peaked at #9 in the UK charts, and as of October 2013 it had sold 167,290 copies. I'd be interested to know how much it's sold over the past 4 years - I wonder if it's exceeded 200k?

It still upsets me how much their comeback underperformed :( They had all the hype right with the countdown and press conference but due to Kimberley's Strictly schedule/general laziness they didn't promote "Something New" at all until the Children in Need night - and then they moved straight on to the disaster that is "Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me" - amongst their worst songs ever.

 

For overall sales, will streams of the individual tracks go towards 'Ten' or the albums that they were originally released on?

Nadine has posted on social media that today marks 14 years since the release of 'What Will the Neighbours Say?'. It's only actually been 13 years but I think this album was definitely the point that the girls moved from reality TV successes to a genuinely successful pop group. "The Show" and "Love Machine" remain two of their greatest singles and "Graffiti My Soul" is obviously one of (if not THE) most popular album tracks from them.

 

Personally I find the album a bit too ballad heavy, particularly towards the end although the two singles I mentioned plus "Big Brother" and "Real Life" are amongst their best, for me.

 

ALSO "Jump" is their best cover but I still find it odd how it appeared on this after it was tacked on to the re-release of 'Sound of the Underground'.

:wub: I know I write this sort of thing every time, but I really can't believe it was 13 years ago. Such a great era for them, and like you say Theo, I think they'd well and truly shaken off the "reality winners" tag by this point.

 

It'd actually slipped my mind that this is certified double platinum! A pity it doesn't have a Top 5 peak to boot, but with this album & Chemistry they were pretty brave to release so deep into Q4.