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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 37)
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 36)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 35)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 34)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 33)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 32)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 31)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 30)
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...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 29)
Hailing from the same Murder Inc hip hop stable as Ja Rule, Ashanti quickly established herself as a force to be reckoned with on the US R&B scene with her debut album and single...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 28)
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...
The Niche Reference 