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12 unusual facts about Popstars


Al B. Rich

Their first remix project was for a girl group called Eden's Crush created on the American TV show Popstars.

Đorđe Novković

In 2003 Novković gained a lot of popularity as judge of Story Supernova Music Talents, a reality show for aspiring musicians similar to Popstars aired on Nova TV.

Give Me the Music

It's also been covered by the German band Queensberry and released as their debut clip following their success on German Popstars in 2008 and Nicki French is too releasing a version of the song on Energise Records in 2009.

Gracia Baur

In 2000, she even made it through the first round of Popstars, but was forced out when she forgot the words of her song.

Kelli Young

While the five winning contestants of Popstars formed Hear'Say, the five runner-up contestants formed the group Liberty.

Monrose discography

German pop trio Monrose was formed in November 2006 after winning the fifth installment of ProSieben talent show Popstars.

Nicola Ward

She went on to reach the final ten female contestants of the music reality show Popstars: The Rivals.

Nkhensani Manganyi

In 2003 Manganyi was a judge on the South African run of the television series Popstars.

Notre étoile

It was released in 2003 on Universal Licensing Music (ULM) in France after it was created during the third season of the popular French reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel M6.

Peter Urlich

In 1999 Urlich co-starred in a New Zealand reality show, Popstars (arguably the inspiration for the worldwide "Idol" phenomenon), which was a hunt for people to form a pop band, and to perform and produce an album (the winners formed a band named TrueBliss).

Toni Cottura

In 2000, Cottura parted ways with Aris and disbanded Booya, returning to Eurodance to form The Underdog Project and Popstars winners Bro'Sis.

Yodelice

He partly composed the first album by L5–a female band created during a popular reality TV show, Popstars.


Diadems

The Diadems was one of the bands created by the 3rd French season of the popular reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel Métropole 6 (better known as M6) in fall 2003.

Even Heaven Cries

The video, however, was not included into its music video rotation since Popstars broadcaster ProSieben wanted to promote the official video premiere with the start of second cycle of Germany's Next Topmodel on March 1 - almost one week after its initial first airing.

Gamze Özçelik

Gamze was also a co-host of the Turkish version of Popstars, Popstar 1 and afterwards Pop Idol, Turkstar.

Joe Cotton

Joe worked as an assistant manager at Sounds CD store in Johnsonville, Wellington before appearing on Popstars and has subsequently found work on the C4 television station and in radio, first with The Edge and most recently with More FM.

Josh Henderson

Henderson competed on the second season of the WB reality show Popstars, where he won a spot in the group Scene 23, which disbanded due to their record company folding.

RED!

On the basis of downloads directly after the final broadcast of Popstars, the song hit straight to the top of the Single Top 100 on 27 December 2008 on its first week of release.

Slave contract

According to the BBC's reporter Lucy Williamson, some of K-Pop's biggest popstars were built on the back of slave contracts, which tie trainees into long exclusive deals, with not much control and little financial reward.

Tsunami Aid

It was two hours long with stories and entertainment from a huge array of Hollywood popstars notables that include Brad Pitt, Donald Trump, and much more.