McFly are an English pop band formed in London in 2003. The band took their name from the Back to the Future character Marty McFly. They rose to fame after fellow band Busted helped launch them by inviting them to tour in 2004. In 2005, they won the Brit Award for Best British Pop Act. In November 2013, it was announced that McFly would be joining forces with Busted to form the supergroup McBusted.
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McFly are an English pop band formed in London in 2003. The band took their name from the Back to the Future character Marty McFly. McFly rose to fame after fellow band Busted helped launch them by inviting them to tour in 2004. In 2005, they won the Brit Award for Best British Pop Act. In November 2013, it was announced that McFly would be joining forces with Busted to form the supergroup McBusted. The only member of the original groups not to participate in the new lineup was former Busted singer Charlie Simpson. In September the band announced a new album of previously unreleased material and a concert at the O2 Arena in November 2019, followed by a 2020 come-back arena tour. As of 2016, McFly have had 18 consecutive UK top 20 singles, seven of which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and seventeen of which were consecutive top ten singles. According to the British Phonographic Industry, McFly has been certified for 2 million albums and 1. 8 million singles in theUK. They have also performed at various charity projects such as Comic Relief, Children in Need, Live 8, Sport Relief and Earth Hour. They played as themselves in the film Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, which was also used as the film’s soundtrack. In January 2019, Poynter confirmed via a podcast that the band would be reforming that year with anew album and tour. They were signed to Island Records from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records.
They released their All the Greatest Hits compilation album on 5 November 2007, which charted at number 4. Their fourth studio album, Radio: Active, was given away for free as a supplement in the Mail on Sunday on 20 July 2008, before being released in the conventional manner on 2 September 2008. The band’s fifth album Above the Noise was released in November 2010 and charting at number 20. The pair, both lads, coincidentally turned up at the same audition and got to talking over their appreciation of the same band. Dougie PoyNter and Harry Judd were recruited via a classified advertisement in the NME magazine in the late 1990s. They are the youngest band to have topped the UK album charts twice, with Room on the 3rd Floor and Wonderland both topping the UK Album Chart. In 2006, they played a 34-date tour with both Busted and McFly songs. In 2007, they were invited to join the Busted line-up for their second album, A Present for Everyone, and toured the UK with the band until the end of the year. In 2008, they released their fifth album, Above The Noise, which is certified as double platinum. In 2010, they performed at Comic Relief’s Live 8 benefit concert in London. In 2011, the band performed at Live 8’s annual Live 8 gala in London to raise money for Sport Relief.
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