Girls Beat The Boys But Reality Pop Starts To Fizzle

While the girls beat the boys in first week sales on Popstars: The Rivals, the total sales were a big drop off and many wonder if the reality pop star genre has gone bust in the UK. Girls Aloud sold 213,000 copies of ‘Sound Of The Underground’ since last Monday, while One True Voice’s single Sacred Trust shifted just 147,000. Hear’Say sold 550,000 copies of Pure And Simple in March 2001, while Will Young and Gareth Gates sold 1.1 million and 860,000 copies of their albums respectively.