Now That's What I Call Reality Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I tried this on ILM during the Rough Guide era - the object being to create a compilation CD that would showcase the best of reality TV pop. The rules being:

- only 1 track per artist
- only artists and bands who formed/rose to stardom through a reality TV show
- only ace pop please.
- nothing pre 2000 (interesting cases of pre-Popstars/Pop Idol RTV shd be cited in the comments though)

So help me out. I've done the easy ones for starters:

Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Will Young - Leave Right Now
Kelly Clarkson - Since You Been Gone
Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)
...

Over to you! (Foreign entries particularly welcome)

Comments

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Natalia - I've Only Begun To Fight (second on Belgian idol. DISCO DISCO DISCO DISCO etc.)
Sarah Whatmore - Automatic (OW! Best UK reality pop single not by Girls Aloud)
Rosie Ribbons - Good Thing (tragically shelved after her first two singles didn't do so well, sounded like a smash to me)
David Bisbal - Buleria and Oye El Boom (MEGA danceable spanish pop par excellence, both must be heard)
Alex - I'm Still Alive (shouty girl from Polish idol)
Christian Forss - Unforgettable (classy, smooth 80s-ish pop number, came 2nd I think on Finnish Idol)
Antti Tuiksu - Yritta Ymmartaa (another Finnish idol reject. Just gorgeous - that string sample is aamaazing [delib. typo] and I have no idea from where it comes. He's ugly and can't sing though.)
Gimmel - Sydan Plys Sarkekaa, Roviolla (more Finns! They won Popstars, and decided to be a girl rock group instead)
Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take The Wheel (This really is astonishingly good)
Bardot - I Need Somebody (the Australian 'Popstars', were not that bad really, this single was uptempo goodness)
Sophie Monk - Inside Outside (was in Bardot. Written by Rob Davis. Would have been an easy #1 if Kylie had sung it)
Kate D'Araugo - Faded (last Australian idol winner. Very Veronicas-esque single. Previous runner up Shannon Noll has some passable songs, including an A1 cover. A1!)

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Oh! Also The Preluders' "Hotter Than You Know" was great too. They were the German Girls Aloud, except they LOST to the boys (called Overground, who do dull ballads, including a spectacularly awful ballad version of Real Life's "Send Me An Angel"), but this song sounds a bit like "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue.

I'm going to upload some of these and put them in a f-locked post.