Attempting to silence the intense debate over who was going to have the more durable career post-Pop Idol, Will Young and Gareth Gates teamed up for one last chart topper ahead of the release of their debut albums...
In the race to releasing original material after Pop Idol, Gareth Gates was first to pole position with his second number one, with a song whose subject matter proved oddly prophetic in the year that followed...
Even with the huge sales for his fellow finalist and Pop Idol winner Will Young, Gareth Gates proved he had a sizeable fanbase awaiting his debut with an equally record setting number one smash with a song as old as the charts themselves...
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