Must Haves. Music Edition.The Wanted.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active2010s - 2020s

Formed2009 in London, England

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

Dance-Pop

Teen Pop

Contemporary Pop/Rock

Pop

Group Members

Jay McGuiness

Max George

Nathan Sykes

Siva Kaneswaran

Tom Parker

ALBUMS

The wanted, battleground, word of mouth

HITS

Glad you came, Warzone, show me love, lighting, walks like rihanna, I found you, heart vacancy, glow in the dark, lose my mind, we own the night

CULTURAL IMPACT

With a watch towards reinventing the boy band sound, the Wanted fashioned in 2009, almost ten years after companies like *NSync and the Backstreet Boys hit their business peak. Like the ones companies, the Wanted have been assembled via a sequence of auditions. Max George, a member of the short-lived British boy band Avenue, become the maximum well-known singer to land a gap withinside the outfit`s lineup, even as Siva Kaneswaran have become the group's best Irish member. Rounded out with the aid of using British vocalists Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker, and Nathan Sykes, the Wanted crowned the U.K. charts much less than one year after forming while their debut single, "All Time Low," debuted at primary in August 2010.

The band's debut album, The Wanted, accompanied with comparable chart success, debuting at quantity 4 at the U.K. album charts upon launch in October 2010. One 12 months later, the Wanted again with their sophomore effort, Battleground, offering the single "Gold Forever." By the time the album become launched, the band had already signed a distribution cope with the American-primarily based totally Def Jam Records. In 2012, the band launched a self-titled compilation EP as an creation to the U.S. market; it featured hits off its first albums, in addition to newly recorded songs. The EP become well-acquired stateside and shortly after, they started classes for his or her 1/3 record, Word of Mouth, which become issued in 2013. It reached Top Ten withinside the U.K., and the Wanted started a global excursion that took them into 2014. The band started to splinter later that 12 months earlier than saying a hiatus.