Pop
In the 2000s, new girl groups managed to enjoy sustained success, including the Sugababes and Girls Aloud, the last of the these the most successful British product of the many Popstars format programmes, which began to have a major impact in the charts from the beginning of the 2000s. The Saturdays were the next girl group to sustain success in the late 2000s. The most successful solo winner Leona Lewis enjoyed a number one album in 2008 and her début single "Bleeding Love" was the first number one single in the U.S charts by a British solo female artist since Kim Wilde in 1987. The 2000s also saw the reunion of Take That, who went on to achieve new stardom by the end of the decade. In the early 2010s, the British boy bands, The Wanted and One Direction, have experienced worldwide success, charting highly in Britain as well as North America.
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