Fascination Records

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Fascination Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	2006
Distributing label	Polydor Records (UK) Interscope Records (US)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	UK
Official website	http://www.fascinationrecords.co.uk

Fascination Records is a Polydor sub-label that launched in spring 2006. The record label is managed by former TOTP Magazine editor Peter Loraine.

As part of Polydor Records UK, the label will concentrate on a small number of pop acts and will complement the re-activated Fiction rock imprint.

1 Main artists
2 Rumoured artists
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Main artists

Girls Aloud:

Having become the first all-girl group ever to score 17 consecutive Top 10 hits with their first set of releases (as part of Polydor), taking the record from Destiny's Child who had 11 to their name, Girls Aloud moved to Fascination for the release of their greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud and its preceding singles "Something Kinda Ooooh" (#3), "I Think We're Alone Now" (#4) and "Walk This Way" featuring Sugababes (#1). Their forthcoming 4th studio album Tangled Up will be released on this label on the 19 November 2007, and will include their 16th single, "Sexy! No, No, No..." (which reached #5) and their 17th single, "Call the Shots",(which reached #3) making it their 17th consecutive top 10

Sophie Ellis-Bextor:

Shooting to fame as the singer of Spiller's "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)", Sophie went on to score a string of Top 10 singles. Her multi-platinum album Read My Lips peaked straightly to the UK Top and was a success throughout many European Countries and Australia. After the release of her second album, Shoot from the Hip, Sophie took a break from music to have a baby and to marry Richard Jones from The Feeling. She finished her third solo album in 2007 with the Fascination team, which was released on 21 May 2007. It's entitled Trip the Light Fantastic with the first single from it being "Catch You", released on 19 February 2007, becoming her 7th Top 10 Hit. Also, she released "Me and My Imagination", the second single from her 3rd album, reaching the UK Top 40 again. Her third single released by Fascination was considered a flop, however. The album debuted inside the Top 10 in the first week of its release in the United Kingdom.

Tokio Hotel

The German punk pop band have achieved success in every part of Europe except the UK - as yet. They release their debut UK single Ready, Set, Go! under the label on 27th August 2007 with a debut UK album to follow after.

Paul Steel

New singer songwriter Paul Steel is also one of the new signings to the label and has been touted by the Sunday Times as one to watch. He released a debut, 10 track EP entitled April And I in March 2007 and now signed to the label will release debut single Your Loss on 3rd September followed by a full length debut album entitled Moon Rock on 10th September.

Connie Fisher:

The winner of the BBC1 show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? released her debut album Favourite Things on Fascination on October 9, 2006. Her debut album peaked #14 on the UK Albums Chart.

Lee Mead:

As with Connie, Lee, the winner of BBC1's Any Dream Will Do has been signed to this label. His debut single of the same name entered on downloads at #18 before peaking at #2 the following week behind "Umbrella" by Rihanna feat. Jay Z.

Popjustice:

The Popjustice compilation album, Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music, has also been released on this label.

[edit] Rumoured artists

Fascination in collaboration with Prestige Management are in the process of auditioning for an all male pop group of a similar ilk to Busted and McFly. It's also rumored Rachel Stevens will due her relaunch on the Fascination label.