Girls Aloud (2002 - 2009)

Let's be honest, there was a sick streak inside all of us who loved them, wasn't there?

I saw married men, their eyes lighting up in delight just talk...errmmm...thinking about them - I saw married women, their eyes turning to jealous slits, hissing with gossip.
But you know, they were what they were... - so they were an absolutely atrocious live band, but as a recording quintett they did fairly well:
Cheryl Cole (née Tweedy), Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh were Girls Aloud.
Girls Aloud was formed on 30 November 2002, in front of millions of viewers on UK's ITV1 programme 'Popstars: The Rivals'. The concept of the programme, hosted by Big Brother presenter Davina McCall was to produce a boyband and a girlgroup who would be 'rivals' and compete for the 2002 Christmas number one single. The finalists were chosen by judges Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh and Geri Halliwell.
If anyone remembers, two of the five were actually stand-ins: Hazel Kaneswaren was found to be too old to participate (what the f**k?!), whilst Nicola Ward refused to sign the contract, claiming the pay the group would receive was too low, so Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts, who had made it into the final 15 but not the final 10, were chosen to join.
Several commercially successful years followed - and in 2009 the whole thing started to fall apart.

Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (2002)
UK#1, IRL#1, NL#9, GRE#8, ROM#10, BE#13, CH#25, AUS#31, SWE#39, DE#42, NZ#53, FR#55



Girls Aloud - No Good Advice (2003)
UK#2, IRL#2, GRE#4, NL#23, BE#45, AUS#88, ROM#97



Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold (2003)
IRL#2, UK#3, GRE#3, NL#11, BE#14, ROM#78



Girls Aloud - Jump (2003)
UK#2, IRL#2, GRE#2, BE#6, NL#7, SWE#9, NZ#13, HUN#22, AUS#23, ROM#97



Girls Aloud - The Show (2004)
GRE#1, UK#2, IRL#5, NL#47, AUS#67



Girls Aloud - Love Machine (2004)
UK#2, GRE#4, IRL#9, NL#52



Girls Aloud - I'll Stand By You (2004)
UK#1, IRL#3, GRE#5, NL#85



Girls Aloud - Wake Me Up (2005)
UK#4, IRL#6, GRE#15



Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer (2005)
UK#7, IRL#16, GRE#30



Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh (2006)
GRE#2, UK#2, IRL#7, ROM#9



Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes - Walk This Way (2007)
UK#1, GRE#7, IRL#14, ROM#54



Girls Aloud - Sexy! No no no... - 'live' at the o2 London (2007)
UK#5, GRE#5, IRL#11



Girls Aloud - Call The Shots (2007)
UK#3, GRE#5, IRL#9, ROM#38



Girls Aloud - The Promise (2008)
UK#1, IRL#2



Girls Aloud - Untouchable (2009)
UK#11, IRL#19