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...
Breaking the boyband mould with their cutting edge mix of guitars, punk pop and cheeky lyrics, Busted debuted with an ode to their favourite teacher and quickly became the biggest new band in British pop...
Although she didn't make the final 10 on Pop Idol, Sarah Whatmore categorically proved that she could become a big success in her own right with her debut top 10 hit...
After being on the receiving end of a pop miracle with four weeks at number one for "Whole Again", Atomic Kitten's success continued into their second album, with a reworked cover of a Paragons / Blondie classic...
Offering up streetwise lyrics and hip hop and UK garage leaning beats, Ms. Dynamite blew down a few barn doors for British R&B with her Mercury Prize winning debut...
There are not many teenagers who can claim to get their GCSE results and a number one single in the same week, but that is precisely what happened for the ten piece Walthamstow collective Blazin' Squad...
Any doubts at all that the Sugababes' chart topping success with their previous single was a fluke were promptly dispatched with their equally addictive follow up, helmed by the fledging pop team Xenomania...
Second album time dawned for Coldplay in the summer of 2002 - and they duly proved that they had the legs to become globe straddling, stadium smashing megastars in the process...
Having turned the public ridicule he faced on the first series of Popstars to triumph on the first Pop Idol, Darius proved he was a winner after all with his self penned chart topping debut single...
From the moment its iconic piano riff chimed in, the debut single from the classically trained Vanessa Carlton instantly announced itself as an example of early 00s pop at its finest...
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