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

[kill-yr-idols.livejournal.com]

OI!

"The reality pop programs began with the New Zealand (in 1999) and Australian Popstars (in 2000) and the phenomenally successful format then traveled around the globe, creating groups in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan, Argentina, the United States, France, and Ireland."

"Well known for world firsts, New Zealand scored another slightly more dubious one in the late 90s with the first ever TV show based on the idea of putting together a pop group and filming what happens as they audition, rehearse, promote themselves and record their album." (http://xtramsn.co.nz/music/0,,13586-5697545,00.html)



. . . I'll dig out their CD & YSI some stuff!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Wow! Is that really true - this show started in NZ? We have Eddie Rayner to thank for all this?!