Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. The band have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have also had eight number one albums on the UK Albums Chart. In 2012, Forbes named them the fifth highest-earning music stars in the world.
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Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow is the group’s lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald and Orange serving primarily as dancers. The band have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the UK Singles Chart, 12 of which have reached number one. They have also had eight number one albums on the UK Albums Chart. In 2012, Forbes named them the fifth highest-earning music stars in the world. In 2014, the band recorded a seventh studio album, this time as a trio without Williams and Orange. The album, titled III, was released in November 2014 and became the band’s seventh no. one. In the same year, the Official Charts Company revealed the biggest-selling singles artists in British music chart history with Take That currently placed at 15th overall, making them the most successful boy band in UK chart history. In 2011, Take That set the new record for the fastest-selling tour of all time in theUK with Progress Live, beating the previous record set by their Circus Live Tour in 2009. At the 2011 Brit Awards they won Best British Group and Best British Live Act. In 2012 they received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. They performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, playing \”Rule the World\” while the Olympic Flame was extinguished.
They also appeared on The Hit Man and Her in 1990, where they performed a second time to perform “Once You’ve Tasted It”. They later appeared on Kick It Out, which went by the name Kick It Tasted U.S. and released a second single, which would become the first single, “Do Like the B-side” The group have sold over 45 million records worldwide. Four of their albums are listed in the best-selling albums of the millennium, with three of them among the 60 best- selling albums in UKchart history. The four remaining members completed their world tour and released one final single before splitting up in 1996. Jason Orange rejoined Take That in 2010 for the band’s sixth studio album,. It was the first album of new material to feature Take That’s originalLine-up since their 1995 album, Nobody Else. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while selling over 45million records worldwide, including 14 million albums and 10.8 million singles. In 2013, the group were named the fifth most successful music group in the history of the British music industry by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) The group has also won eight Brit Awards, winning for Best British group and Best Live Act in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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