the saturdays

The Saturdays are a British/Irish girl group formed in London, UK in 2007. It consists of five members, which are Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White, Una Healy, Mollie King and Rochelle Wiseman. They made their recording debut in 2008 for the record label Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records. They have released three albums, and scored eight UK Top Ten singles, with only nine singles released. As of September 2010, the band have sold close to 2 million records.^[1]

Their debut album, Chasing Lights, produced four top ten singles on the UK Singles Chart.^[2] The band embarked on their first headlining UK tour, The Work Tour, in June 2009, and started work on their second album during this tour.^[3] The band released the number-two single "Forever Is Over" in October 2009 from their second album, Wordshaker.^[2][4] The album peaked at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and produced another top ten single, "Ego".^[2] The Saturdays released an mini album, Headlines!, on 16 August 2010.^[5] "Missing You" is the album's first single, and "Higher" is the second. Soon after release, the band announced an accompanying tour, The Headlines Tour.^[6]

The Saturdays confirmed that they would go on tour again, in December 2011.^[7] It was confirmed that their single from their fourth upcoming album would be released on 29 May 2011, titled "Notorious"^[8][9] The single was written by Steve Mac and Ina Wroldsen.^[10]