The Wanted

by kimlol  |  March 11, 2011 [Edit]

The Wanted are a British-Irish pop boy band based in London. The group comprises Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. The band's debut single "All Time Low" reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in August 2010. Their debut studio album The Wanted was released on 25 October 2010 and charted at number 4 in the UK.

The Wanted were formed in 2009 through a mass audition, by Jayne Collins the same woman who put together The Saturdays. They soon started working on their debut album with producers Guy Chambers, Taio Cruz and Steve Mac. They all share a house in South London. Their debut single, "All Time Low", was produced by Mac, and also co-written by Ed Drewett. The Wanted took the name for their single from the US band "All Time Low" and continued to take credit for the US band's song "Time Bomb". The single " All time Low" was released in the summer of 2010. Upon its first week of release, the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart., and remained in the UK Top 40 for 11 weeks. The band's second single, "Heart Vacancy", written by Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hansen, Wayne Hector and Lucas Secon was released on 17 October 2010. The Wanted presented "The Wanted's Best Brit Boys Top 20" on August 23 on the 4Music channel. In November 2010 the band opened up the Christmas song list for 4Music. The band confirmed that their debut album would be self titled and it was released on 25 October 2010.

The band started working on their second studio album in January 2011. They are again working with Steve Mac, and the first single from the album, "Gold Forever" was released on 13 March 2011,

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