{"key":"8184","name":"The Saturdays","bio":"The Saturdays are a pop group formed in the United Kingdom in 2007, comprising Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. Songfacts reports that they decided on calling themselves 'The Saturdays' as it sounded fun and different to the other girl bands. They didn't want the name to reference their gender, like Girls Aloud, The Spice Girls or Sugababes.The Saturdays made their recording debut in 2007 under the record label Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records. Their debut album, Chasing Lights, produced five UK Top 25 singles. The band embarked on their first headlining UK tour, called 'The Work Tour', in June 2009.Their first single, titled If This Is Love was released on 28th July 2008 and entered the UK chart at #8 where it peaked. It reached #33 on the Eurochart Hot 100 singles. The single's sold around 90,000 copies to date. The second single, Up, was released on 13 October 2008. It debuted on the UK singles chart at #5, where it peaked, #11 on the Irish singles chart and #15 on the Eurochart Hot 100 singles. The single was certified as Silver and sold over 285,000 copies to date. The third single was released on January 4th 2009 and was called Issues. The chorus' lyrics had to be changed as the word \"slap\" sounded too close to the word \"stab\", and the band didn't want to condone violence. It was later changed to \"leave\". The single entered the UK chart at #84 and peaked at #4. It managed to hit #14 in Ireland and #21 in Europe. Their fourth single, Just Can't Get Enough, was the official Comic Relief single in 2009. It was a cover of the Depeche Mode song with the same name. It entered and peaked in the chart at #2, giving The Saturdays their highest charted position to date, and their 4th consecutive top 10 hit in the UK. Their 5th single was called Work. It was released on June 29th 2009 and peaked at #22 on the UK singles chart. Chasing Lights was released on October 27th 2008 and re-released on March 16th 2009 including the Comic Relief single. It entered the UK album chart at #11, peaking at #9 and was certified Platinum, selling over 300,000 copies. It also reached #34 in Ireland and #46 in Europe.The Saturdays' second album, Wordshaker, was released October 12th 2009. The first single from Wordshaker was released on October 5th 2009. Titled Forever Is Over, it peaked at #2 in the UK charts, while coming in at #9 in the Irish charts. This was the band's fifth consecutive Top Ten hit. The second single from Wordshaker was Ego. The video was released on 17th of November and the single officially came out on January 3rd, 2010.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8184_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8193","name":"Little Mix","bio":"Little Mix is a British girl group formed in 2011 during the eighth series of the British version of \"The X Factor.\" The group consists of Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock; former member Jesy Nelson left the group in 2020 due to mental health issues. The first group to win \"The X Factor,\" they signed with Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music. They released a cover of Damien Rice's \"Cannonball\" as their winner's single, which debuted atop the UK Singles Chart upon release. The group is known for their strong vocals and signature harmonies, as well as their representative songs about female empowerment and unity. Being one of the most successful acts to emerge from \"The X Factor,\" the group has since earned four more UK #1 singles: \"Wings\" in 2012, \"Black Magic\" in 2015, \"Shout Out to My Ex\" in 2016, and \"Sweet Melody\" in 2021. Each of their albums, 2012's DNA, 2013's Salute, 2015's Get Weird, 2016's Glory Days, 2018's LM5, and 2020's Confetti, has peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart. Notably, their fourth album, Glory Days, became the longest-reigning girl group #1 album since the Spice Girls' debut album 20 years earlier, and the highest first-week UK album sales for a girl band since 1997. Throughout their career, the group has sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of the bestselling girl groups of all time. The group won the Brit Award for Song of the Year with \"Shout Out to My Ex\" in 2017 and the Brit Award for British Video of the Year for \"Woman Like Me\" in 2019. In the media, Little Mix has appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK, Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2018, on the Sunday Times Young Rich List for four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/www.aaemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Little-Mix-2.jpg","feeRange":"40,000 - 75,000"}

{"key":"138047","name":"Lovelyz","bio":"LOVELYZ (\ub7ec\ube14\ub9ac\uc988) is a eight-member South Korean pop girl group formed by Woollim Entertainment. The group consists of Baby Soul, Jiae, Mijoo, Jisoo, Kei, JIN, Sujeong and Yein. LOVELYZ announced their official debut on November 3, 2014 with the release of their first teaser image along with the opening of their Twitter and Official website. The group released a pre-release digital single, \"\uc5b4\uc81c\ucc98\ub7fc \uad7f\ub098\uc787 (Goodnight Like Yesterday)\" on November 10, 2014. The group released their debut album, \"Girls' Invasion\" on November 17, 2014.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/www.aaemusic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/all-american-music\/assets\/images\/default-artist.png","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8198","name":"Atomic Kitten","bio":"Atomic Kitten were an English girl group, first established in 1997 in Liverpool. The original line-up featured, Liz McClarnon, Kerry Katona and Heidi Range (now in the Sugababes), but Range decided to quit and was replaced by Natasha Hamilton. Jenny Frost (formerly of Precious) replaced Katona in 2001. Hamilton, McClarnon & Frost were the final and most successful line-up of the group.Atomic Kitten had three UK number one singles; Whole Again, the fourth best selling single by a girl group of all time; Eternal Flame and The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling). They also had two UK number one albums, Right Now, a re-issue of their debut album, and Feels So Good, both going double platinum in the UK alone. Atomic Kitten sold over 10 million records worldwide. In terms of sales, Atomic Kitten are the one of the most successful European girl groups of the twenty first century, alongside the Sugababes.The group's first single, Right Now, debuted in December 1999 and reached the UK Top 10. After their initial success, Atomic Kitten performed an Asian tour and scored their first number one hit there with Cradle. The album, also titled Right Now, was first released in Japan on 16 March 2000, and subsequently released in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2000 with a slightly modified track list. In 2000, the group also recorded a cover version of The Locomotion for the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad.The Right Now album was unsuccessful upon its first release, peaking only at #39 in the UK album chart. Initially, there were no plans to focus on the global market and Atomic Kitten's record label, Innocent Records, was even considering dropping them because of their limited success. However, the record company were persuaded to allow the group to record one more single. The single, Whole Again, became their first no. 1 hit in the UK in 2001, and stayed at the top for four consecutive weeks. Due to this success, \"Whole Again\" was released worldwide, and reached #1 in 18 other countries. The song and video for \"Whole Again\" originally featured Kerry Katona; however, she left the group several days prior to the number-one position because of her pregnancy. The single was remade when Jenny Frost was added to the line-up as Katona's replacement. This led to a decision to partially re-record and re-release the album, which then went to no. 1 in August 2001. The next single, Eternal Flame, a cover version of the 1989 hit by The Bangles, also became a no.1 hit in several countries, and sold a million copies worldwide.Following the success of \"Right Now\", a new album, Feels So Good, was recorded. The songwriting and production agreement with Andy McCluskey was an increasing source of tension within the group, and the girls decided to terminate the contract with McCluskey halfway through the recording of the album.The first single off the album was It's OK!. Even though this song performed well in the charts, securing a No. 3 position in the United Kingdom, and reaching the top 20 in many other countries, it was the next single The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling), a remake of the 1965 song by The Paragons (also made famous by Blondie in 1980), which attained Atomic Kitten their third number-one single in their homeland. The single became the Kitten's second largest hit, getting into the top 10 in over 25 countries. In April 2002, Hamilton announced that she was pregnant, but rather than leave the group, she opted to continue with the scheduled 2002 tour. Hamilton filmed the music video for \"The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)\", and made an appearance at Party in the Park before finally going on pregnancy leave.In April 2003, the group released the album, Atomic Kitten in the United States. Until that time, the group had not focused on the American market, and the album consisted of tracks from their first two albums, Right Now and Feels So Good. Promotion for the album began with the single, The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling), appearing on the soundtrack for the Disney film, \"The Lizzie McGuire Movie\" starring Hilary Duff, and managed to debut and peak at #42. However, the single plummeted to #88 in it's second week. In addition, after the album only managed to peak at #102 on the US Billboard 200, it was decided the group would focus solely on the European, Oceanian, and Asian markets.Before recording their third album, Kool & The Gang approached the group about a collaboration of their hit Ladies Night and were looking for a girl group to sing the lyrics. Atomic Kitten liked the idea and enquired whether they could use it for their next album which was subsequently named Ladies Night in honour of this collaboration.Their first single of the album, excluding Be with You, was If You Come to Me. It secured a #3 position on the UK top 40. It became Atomic Kitten's 6th best selling single in the United Kingdom for sales of 180,000 copies. Moreover, \"If You Come to Me\" reached the top 30 in every single country it charted, and reached the top 10 in over 10 countries.Atomic Kitten spent late 2002 and early 2003 in the studio recording their third and final studio album. Up until the recording of Ladies Night, the group mainly relied on songwriters, though they had occasionally co-written songs featured on their albums. While recording Ladies Night, they decided to be directly involved in the creation of eight of the fifteen songs. Ladies Night was released on 10 November 2003, and peaked at no.5 in the UK album chart.In early 2004, a tour to support the Ladies Night album and the upcoming release of their Greatest Hits album was planned. Shortly before the tour kicked off, the group announced they would be taking an extended break after the completion of the tour.On 23 January 2004, Natasha Hamilton decided to devote more time to her young son and wanted to take a hiatus from the group. Atomic Kitten released the single Someone Like Me\/Right Now 2004\" as a \"goodbye\" to their fans. The reunited on Valentine's Day 2005 to release the charity single Cradle 2005\", a new version of the original song from their album Right Now which was a no. 1 hit in Asia back in 2000. \"Cradle 2005\" peaked at No. 10, selling 35,000 copies worldwide, with proceeds going to World Vision.In 2005, the group was featured on the soundtrack of Disney's Mulan II with the song (I Wanna Be) Like Other Girls. In 2005, they also performed together in Krakow, Poland on 28 August at the Coca-Cola SoundWave Festival.In 2006, Atomic Kitten recorded a one-off single, All Together Now (Strong Together), in association with Goleo VI, the official mascot of the FIFA World Cup 2006. The track is taken from The Official FIFA World Cup Album and was released for digital download and in CD form on 6 June 2006, in Germany, where the World Cup was held ten days later. The single was listed by the HMV website for physical release in the UK many weeks prior to the competition, but was later withdrawn due to the amount of competing football records that were being released at that time. The proceeds of the single went to SOS Children's Villages.On 4 December 2006, the group reunited again for a one-off performance of \"Whole Again\" and two other songs at a benefit concert for the Michael Shields appeal at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.On 31 December 2006, Atomic Kitten performed at the Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong at Nokia's New Year's Eve celebration. The marked their second international appearance since their extended break in 2004.Atomic Kitten released another charity single, Anyone Who Had A Heart on 27 January 2008, a version of Dionne Warwick's 1963 hit as part of the Liverpool Number One Project. The single peaked at no.77 in the UK. Their last stage performance happened on 19 January 2008, Atomic Kitten had returned to the stage for The Number One Project, where they sang \"Anyone Who Had a Heart\", \"Whole Again\" and \"The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)\" live. Their last television performance happened on 25 January 2008, the group appeared on GMTV, talking about The Number One Project and performed \"Anyone Who Had a Heart\" in the studio. Jenny Frost and Liz McClarnon embarked on solo careers, although neither were able to replicate the Kitten's success.They returned on 12 March 2012","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8198_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38574","name":"Sahara Hotnights","bio":"Sahara Hotnights is a rock group from Robertsfors, Sweden whose music includes elements of garage rock, power pop and punk. They began playing together in 1991, before they were even in their teens, eventually winning a \"battle of the bands\" contest in 1995. On the back of their debut EP Suits Anyone Fine they became a live favorite around Sweden in 1997. A debut album (C'mon Let's Pretend) followed in 1999, and the band made inroads in Europe and the US with Jennie Bomb in 2002. In 2007 they released What If Leaving Is a Loving Thing. The band also released a covers set entitled Sparks in early 2009.Current line-up: Maria Andersson (guitars, lead vocals), Jennie Asplund (backing vocals, guitar), Johanna Asplund (backing vocals, bass) and Josephine Forsman (drums).","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38574_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38659","name":"SKE48","bio":"SKE48 is an all-female Japanese theater\/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The 1st generation audition was held during the summer of 2008 and Team S debuted in October 2008. SKE48 performs in the newly built studio in the renewalled Sunshine Sakae in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan every other day of the week. In AKB48's single \"Oogoe Diamond\" (\u5927\u58f0\u30c0\u30a4\u30e4\u30e2\u30f3\u30c9), Matsui Jurina (\u677e\u4e95\u73e0\u7406\u5948) became the first and only member of SKE48 to be featured on a single cover and in the song itself. Since then, Matsui Jurina, Matsui Rena (\u677e\u4e95\u73b2\u5948) as well as other SKE48 members have taken part in AKB48 singles as well as releasing their own singles under the SKE48 name. SKE48 also takes part in the yearly AKB48 Senbatsu Elections and Request Hour concerts. As of December 2010, SKE48 has three full-fledged teams (Team S, Team KII, Team E) as well as their own Kenkyuusei team performing at the Sunshine Sakae theatre.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38659_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38555","name":"Serebro","bio":"Serebro is a Russian girls-band, created by Max Fadeyev in 2006. Current line-up includes Olga Seryabkina, Kate Kishchuk and Polina Favorskaya. Original band leader was Lena Temnikova, who left the band in May, 2014. In 2016 Daria Shashina was replaced by Kate Kishchuk.The first public performance of Serebro - Lena Temnikova, Olga Seryabkina and Marina Lizorkina - was at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki where the girls presented \"Song #1\", that was awarded with the 3rd place. In 2009 the girls presented the \u041e\u043f\u0438\u0443\u043croz debute album, including songs in Russian and English. After the release Marina Lizorkina was replaced with Nastya Karpova.In 2011 Serebro debuted the song \"Mama Lover\", that got an international hit in several European countries. In 2012 the girls presented their second album Mama Lover, including 12 songs in English. In 2013 Nastya Karpova decided to leave the band and do the solo project. She was replaced with Daria Shashina.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38555_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38641","name":"The Crystals","bio":"Two artists exist by this name:1) The Crystals were one of the most successful girl groups of the early 60s, Known for their association with producer Phil Spector, they had several well-remembered hit singles such as \"He's A Rebel\", \"Da Doo Ron Ron\", and \"Then He Kissed Me\". They were also trailblazers for many later African-American pop artists.2) The Crystals was also the name of an obscure doo-wop group organised by the enigmatic Sun Ra in the mid-50s. Little is known about them. However, their tune \"Honey In The Bee Box\" was featured in the compilation album 'Interplanetary Melodies' on Norton Records, an album which has received critical acclaim.3). If you are here for the Italian progressive rock band Crystals, they are not \"The Crystals\". Refer to the Crystals band page for more information and please fix your tags.\u2014\u2014-In the late 50s, Barbara Alston, Mary Thomas, Delores \"Dee Dee\" Kennibrew, Merna Girard and Patricia \"Patsy\" Wright formed a singing project called \"The Crystals\" in high school. Under the leadership of Alston's uncle, Benny Wells, they wanted to aim for the big time. Soon, the quintet signed with Phil Spector's label Philles Records. Spector then chose Alston to be the group's lead singer, which made her very uncomfortable since she had a fear of singing in front of audiences.Their first hit was 1961's \"There's No Other Like My Baby\". This song's B-side \"Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby\" (featuring Wright on lead) and the following single \"Uptown\" were topical and socially-aware pieces about growing up in the ghetto. After the success of \"Uptown\", a pregnant Girard was replaced by Dolores \"LaLa\" Brooks. The next single was 1962's \"He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)\", still widely remembered though only rarely played on the radio due to the touchy subject matter of spousal abuse. Sales were sluggish.Soon after \"He Hit Me\" flopped, Phil Spector began recording singer Darlene Love and her backing group The Blossoms under the name \"The Crystals\". Legend has it that the real Crystals were not able to travel from New York to Los Angeles fast enough to suit the LA-based Spector, who wanted to quickly record and release \"He's a Rebel\" (written by Gene Pitney) before anyone else had a chance to cover it and have a hit with it. The Crystals were unavailable, but Love and the Blossoms were also based in LA, so Spector recorded them and put the record out under The Crystals' banner.\"He's A Rebel\" is perhaps the Crystals' most well-remembered and beloved songs, and one of the most enduring of the girl group genre. It was also their only US #1 hit. The follow-up Crystals single, \"He's Sure the Boy I Love\", in actuality also featured Love and The Blossoms.The next single credited to The Crystals is one of the rarest \u2013 and also possibly the strangest \u2013 in rock music history. Reports vary as to the actual motivation behind the recording, but most agree that Phil Spector was looking for a way to annoy former business partner Lester Sill. What he came up with was a nearly six-minute song called \"Let's Dance The Screw - Part I\", which would be unplayable on 1963 radio. The record featured simple instrumentation (very much unlike Spector's famous Wall of Sound production style), repetitive lyrics, and Spector himself intoning the lyric \"Dance The Screw\" numerous times in a deadpan monotone. (The B-side, Part II, was more of the same.) The Crystals sang the song's repetitive verses, though it is unclear if these singers were the 'real' Crystals or The Blossoms.The single was never commercially released, and only a few copies are known to exist (all marked D.J. COPY - NOT FOR SALE). The record was apparently only created to be a bizarre sort of joke at Sill's expense, as a single copy was specially delivered to him in early 1963. Though it's unclear as to the level of their participation in \"Let's Dance The Screw\", the 'real' Crystals definitely began recording again under their own name in 1963. However, Thomas had departed to get married which reduced them to a quartet, and Alston stepped down from the lead spot giving it to Brooks.After \"Let's Dance The Screw\", the group's next release was the classic \"Da Doo Ron Ron.\" According to Darlene Love, the track was originally recorded by The Blossoms, with Love on lead vocal. Prior to release, Spector erased Love's lead vocal and replaced it with a vocal by LaLa Brooks, although he kept the Blossoms' backing vocals in place. The song was a top 10 hit in both the US and the UK, as was the follow-up single \"Then He Kissed Me\" \u2014 the first Crystals single since \"He Hit Me\" to feature all members of the Crystals as a definite group.Both \"Da Doo Ron Ron\" and \"Then He Kissed Me\" were penned by Spector with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich.Despite the steady flow of hit singles, tensions between Spector and the Crystals mounted. Already unhappy with having been replaced by Love and company on two singles, The Crystals were even more upset when in 1964, Spector began focusing much of his time on rival girl group The Ronettes. Two failed Crystals singles followed, before the band left Spector's Philles Records for Imperial Records later in 1964. 1964 also saw the departure of Wright who was replaced by Frances Collins; toward the end of that year Alston departed leaving the group a trio. They disbanded in 1966. They reunited in 1971 and toured widely in varying incarnations on the oldies circuit; they still occasionally perform today. Kennibrew is the only original Crystal who remained active throughout their touring from the seventies to the present.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38641_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38649","name":"AOA","bio":"There are at least four artists with this name.1) AOA is a South Korean girl group under FNC Entertainment that debuted in 2012. AOA members are Seol Hyunari (Kim Seol Hyun), Choaya (\uc724\uc218 \/ Yoon Su), Hyejeong Linus, Chanmi T T (\ubc15\ucc2c\ubbf8 \/ Park Chan Mi), Yunaria (\uc11c\uc720\ub098 \/ Seo Yoo Na), Minaring (\uad8c\ubbfc\uc544 \/ Kwon Min Ah), Jiminel (\uc2e0\uc9c0\ubbfc \/ Shin Jimin), and Y (\uc720\uacbd \/ Yugyeon\/ Yukyeong). They debuted on July 30th with their first single album Angels' Story.http:\/\/www.a-o-a.co.kr\/2) Working the same way that a DJ works and works on a dancefloor, AOA is an improvised jam unit. Based on the core members of Boredoms bassist Hilah, Bordoms drummer\/session percussionist E-Da, Tribal Circus' Miya, Soft's drummer\/electronics operator Shinkichi, DJ Tateyamars (programming\/sound FX) and session guitarists Bravo Komatsu (Pizzicato 5).3) AOA (All Out Attack) Anarcho punk from Edinburgh Scotland.4) AOA is also a c-pop group with at least one album out named \u540c\u540d\u4e13\u8f91.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38649_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}