Five
-
Search on Spotify
Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more
1,417,226 plays (180,250 listeners)
(1997 – 2001, 2006 – 2007)
1. Five (formerly styled 5ive) were a British boy band formed in 1997, created by the two men who had created the Spice Girls - Bob and Chris Herbert. The five lads - Richard ‘Abs’ Breen, Jason ‘J’ Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon - were the five members picked from over 3,000 hopefuls at auditions in early 1997. They went on to have ten top 10 hits in the UK and three number 1’s, and enjoyed marginal success worldwide, particularly in parts of Europe and in Australia. Five disbanded on 27 September 2001.
Biography
In 1997, an advertisement was placed in the UK performing arts newspaper The Stage, asking for young male singers/dancers to audition for a boy band-style group with “attitude and edge”. Bob and Chris Herbert, the two men who had earlier created the Spice Girls, thought the time was right for a male group. Three thousand hopefuls auditioned and they were finally narrowed down to only fourteen, five of whom had arranged themselves into a group while waiting for their audition and subsequently were signed with BMG/RCA for a six-album deal.
In November of 1997, the band released their first single in the UK, “Slam Dunk (Da Funk)”, which debuted at #10. The song was also released in the US in 1998 but had little chart success, although it was chosen as the new theme song by the NBA. In 1998 Five earned their first major international hit, “When The Lights Go Out”, which cracked the US top 10 and earned Gold status there soon after.
Shouts:
377 shouts
Top Albums
-
Invincible
Five
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $9.99
- 7digital $9.99
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $1.29
- eBay Search
-
Greatest Hits
Five
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $9.99
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Five
Five
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $9.99
- 7digital $9.99
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $8.82
- eBay Search
-
5IVE
Five
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital $9.99
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Videos
See moreListening Now
Top Listeners
-
Skippy1988
Top Listener
-
juninho_kun
Top Listener
-
Blacksepia
Top Listener
-
rudimanek
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
joseyraquel1202, MFRARIAS, pineapplemango and 19 other people added Five to their libraries. 3 hours ago
-
RyanRossFreak tagged Five with ‘90s’. last week
-
tommiere, lucycoxhead, Bilkokuya and 22 other people added Five to their libraries. last week
-
sunil73, KseniaCh, RusGirl and 3 other people added Five to their libraries. last month
-
sunil73 tagged Five with 90s and pop. last month
-
Gueybs tagged Five with british, dance, 90s and 2 other tags. last month
-
Gueybs, HACTEHA7, Doubleoshea and 17 other people added Five to their libraries. last month
-
v0xtheriot tagged Five with boyband and pop. last month
-
borius89, lanethsffarlenn, VoR_x and 4 other people added Five to their libraries. last month
-
anapaula____, gise1205 and medisanski added Five to their libraries. last month
Related Journals
-
50 questions about my top 50 artists
by Fabvin |
2 Jan 2012
-
Random surveys
by Shorty5 |
7 Jul 2011
-
Artists Seen Live
by theanthonyds |
5 Jun 2011
Groups (33)
-
Smash Hits Magazine
46 members
-
Max Martin
94 members
-
Pop is Love
555 members
-
Backstreet Boys
475 members
-
I Still Love Cheesy 90s Pop
243 members
More Information
- Links
- Band Members
- Labels
- Other spellings



























