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Africa

• South Africa
  South Africa
  
  The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
  
• Popstars 101 (disbanded)
• Adilah (disbanded)

Asia

• India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  
• Viva!
  Viva (band)
  
  Viva is an Indian pop music girl group that formed in 2002, and have disbanded since. The band was composed of the winners of the first season of Indian version of the international television talent show Popstars, named Coke [V] Popstars, after its principal sponsors, Coca-Cola and music channel Channel V]...
   (disbanded)
• Aasma
• Indonesia
  Indonesia
  
  The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  
• Sparx
  Sparx (band)
  
  SparX is the pop group formed by the top five winners of the first season of Popstars Indonesia in 2003. They launched their self-titled debut album in 2004, spawning a one-hit wonder Sayangi Aku Apa Adanya....
  
• Malaysia
  Malaysia
  
  Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  
• By'U (disbanded)

Europe

• Belgium
  Belgium
  
  * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  
• Vanda Vanda (disbanded)
• Denmark
  Denmark
  
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  
• EyeQ (disbanded)
• Maria Lucia
• Fu:el (disbanded)
• Jon Nørgaard (with Julie Berthelsen
  Julie Berthelsen
  
  Julie Ivalo Broberg Berthelsen is a Danish singer and songwriter. She is known largely for her success on the TV series Popstars. Although she finished in second place, she has become more popular and successful than the first place winner....
   as runner-up)
• Finland
  Finland
  
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
  
• Gimmel (disbanded)
• indX (disbanded)
• Jane (disbanded)
• France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  
• L5 (disbanded 2007)
• Whatfor
  Whatfor
  
  Whatfor is the name of the band created by the 2nd French season of the popular reality-TV show "Popstars" aired on RTL Group TV channel M?tropole T?l?vision in fall 2002....
   (disbanded)
• Linkup
  Linkup
  
  Linkup is a France boy band, created by the 3rd French season of the popular reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel M?tropole 6 in fall 2003....
   (disbanded)
• M. Pokora
  M. Pokora
  
  Matthieu Totta , commonly known as M. Pokora or Matt Pokora, is a France singer and songwriter of Poland ancestry.Biography ...
   (previously in Link'up)
• Diadems
  Diadems
  
  The Diadems was one of the bands created by the 3rd French season of the popular reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel M?tropole 6 in fall 2003....
   (disbanded)
• Sheryfa Luna
  Sheryfa Luna
  
  Sheryfa Luna is a France contemporary R&B singer born to an Algerian father of Kabyle origin and a French mother.She won the fourth series of the French edition of popular Popstars in October 2007....
  
• Germany
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
   (see Popstars (Germany)
  Popstars (Germany)
  
  Popstars is a Germany television talent show, which began its first installment on the RTL2 network on November 14, 2000. Part of the international Popstars franchise, it originated from the same-titled New Zealand reality program....
  )
• No Angels
  No Angels
  
  The No Angels are an ECHO -winning girl group Pop music Band from Germany. Originally a quintet, the group originated in 2000 on the international television talent show Popstars and was one of the first talent shows to enjoy a great deal of success throughout Central Europe in the early 2000?2009....
   (disbanded 2003, reunited 2007)
• Bro'Sis
  Bro'Sis
  
  Bro'Sis were a multicultural R&B group from Germany, formed in 2001 in the second installment of the television talent show Popstars . Originally a sextet, the group eventually became a quintet, selling more than 2.2 million albums and singles worldwide....
   (disbanded)
• Overground
  Overground
  
  Overground, a boy group from Germany, was the result of the third season of the international television sensation Popstars, a precursor to the Idol shows....
   (disbanded)
• Preluders
  Preluders
  
  The Preluders were an girl group band from Germany, formed in 2003 during the third season of the international television talent show Popstars....
   (finalists, disbanded)
• Nu Pagadi
  Nu Pagadi
  
  Nu Pagadi was a Germany pop band, formed in December 2004 on the fourth season of international reality television program Popstars . Originally a quartet, from May 2005 a trio , the group describes their own musical style as "glam rock"; in fact the attribute "Pop music with rockmusic elements" fits better....
   (disbanded)
• Monrose
  Monrose
  
  Monrose is an ECHO -nominated Germany girl group pop music band, first established in 2006 in music. Formed on the fifth installment of the German version of the international television talent show Popstars , the trio is composed of singers and songwriters Mandy Capristo, Senna Guemmour, and Bahar Kizil....
  
• Room2012
  Room2012
  
  Room2012 is a Germany pop music quartet, which originated in the late fall of 2007 on the sixth installment of the German version of the international television talent show Popstars ....
  
• Queensberry
  Queensberry
  
  Queensberry may refer to:* Queensberry , an German pop girl group* Duke of Queensberry, a hereditary title in Scotland* Marquess of Queensberry, a hereditary title in Scotland...
  
• Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
   and Cyprus
  Cyprus
  
  Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
  
• Hi-5
  Hi-5 (Greek band)
  
  Hi-5 was a Greece girl pop music Band consisting of five females created by the Greece version of the popular show Popstars in 2003. The band shot to fame immediately and had huge fans in Greece and Cyprus....
   (disbanded)
• Hungary
  Hungary
  
  Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
  
• Sugar & Spice (disbanded)
• Republic of Ireland
  Republic of Ireland
  
  Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
  
• Six
  Six (band)
  
  The Ireland band Six was formed on the television programme Irish Popstars in 2002. The programme aired on RT? One on Sunday nights in the autumn and winter of 2001-02....
   (disbanded)
• Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  
• Lollipop
  Lollipop (band)
  
  Lollipop, a girl group from Italy, were formed in 2001 on the international television sensation Popstars , a precursor to the Idol shows. They sang in English and Italian and were popular in their home country....
   (disbanded)
• Lucky Star (disbanded)
• Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  
• Popstars: The Rivals (RTL 4) (2004)
• Men2B (winners, male category, disbanded 2006)
• Raffish (winners, female category, disbanded 2006)
• POPSTARS (SBS 6) (2008)
• RED!
• Norway
  Norway
  
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
  
• Cape
• Portugal
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  
• Nonstop
  Nonstop
  
  Nonstop are a Portugal girl group, created out of the television reality show Popstars, in 2001. They are also the oldest Popstars group in activity....
  
• Romania
  Romania
  
  Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  
• Cocktail
• Bliss
• Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  
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• Slovenia
  Slovenia
  
  Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
  
• Bepop (disbanded) (their debut album was the highest-selling Slovenian-language album of all times)
• Unique (disbanded)
• Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  
• Bellepop
  Bellepop
  
  Bellepop were a pop music girl group who formed from five contestants from the 2002 Spanish TV show Popstars. The group consisted of Elisabeth Jord?n, Norma ?lvarez, Davinia Arquero, Marta Mansilla and Carmen Miriam Jim?nez....
   (disbanded)
• Magnolias de Acero
• Roser
• Carmen Miriam
• Elisabeth Jordan
• Sweden
  Sweden
  
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
  
• Excellence
  Excellence (pop group)
  
  Excellence were a Swedish Pop music from 2001 created through the TV programme Popstars on Kanal 5 . The group scored a number one album on the Swedish Charts, as well as five top 10 singles, and entered Melodifestivalen 2002....
   (also known as XLNS) (disbanded)
• Supernatural (pop group)
  Supernatural (pop group)
  
  Supernatural was a pop group that consisted of the winners of the second season of the Sweden reality TV show Popstars. In Sweden the show was broadcast on Kanal5 in 2003....
   disbanded
• Johannes Kotschy
  Johannes Kotschy
  
  Johannes Kotschy is a Sweden singer and songwriter who rose to fame after winning the third season of the Swedish reality show Popstars on Kanal5....
  
• Switzerland
  Switzerland
  
  Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  
• Tears (disbanded 2004)
• United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  
• Series 1 (2000/01)
• Hear'Say (winners, disbanded 2002)
• Liberty X
  Liberty X
  
  Liberty X were a Brit Award-winning pop vocal group formed from five contestants from the 2001 ITV show Popstars. The group consisted of Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Michelle Heaton, Kelli Young and Jessica Taylor ....
   (finalists, disbanded 2007)
• Darius Danesh
  Darius Danesh
  
  Darius Danesh is a Scotland platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter, and West End theatre stage actor. He rose to fame on the British TV talent show Pop Idol....
   (also appeared on Pop Idol
  Pop Idol
  
  Pop Idol was a United Kingdom television series which debuted on ITV on October 5 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop music singer, or 'pop idol', in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation....
  )
• Series 2 ("Popstars: The Rivals", 2002)
• Girls Aloud
  Girls Aloud
  
  Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
   (winners, female category)
• Javine (finalist)
• One True Voice (winners, male category, disbanded 2003)
• Phixx
  Phixx
  
  Phixx were an English boy band formed in 2003 from the five runners up on United Kingdom Television show Popstars: The Rivals. The original members were Andrew Kinlochan, Chris Park, Mikey Green, Peter Smith, and Nikk Mager....
   (finalists, disbanded)
• Clea
  Clea (band)
  
  Clea were an England girl group whose members met on the television program Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Chloe Staines, Lynsey Brown, Emma Beard, and Aimee Kearsley, decided to form a band after they were voted off the series....
   (finalists, disbanded)
• LoveShy
  LoveShy
  
  LoveShy were an England girl group whose members met on the television show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Emma Beard and Aimee Kearsley were previously in the band Clea and after the two other members of the group left the band they began to tour Europe before deciding to leave Clea behind....
   (finalists, Aimee and Emma from Clea)
• The Cheeky Girls
  The Cheeky Girls
  
  The Cheeky Girls are a pop music duo formed by twin sisters Monica and Gabriela Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Great Britain....
  

• Turkey
  Turkey
  
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
  
• Abidin
• Selçuk
• Simge
• Hasret

North America & Central America

• Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  
• Sugar Jones
  Sugar Jones
  
  Sugar Jones was a Canada pop group created on the first season of the Canadian version of Popstars, that aired on Global Television Network....
   (disbanded)
• Velvet Empire
  Velvet Empire
  
  Velvet Empire was a Canadian pop music group that was formed through the second edition of the Global TV show Popstars, entitled "Boy Meets Girl." The group was formed in the spring of 2002....
   (disbanded)
• Christa Borden
  Christa Borden
  
  Christa Borden is a Canadian pop singer, known as the winner of the television reality series contest Popstars: The One in April 2003.As a child, Christa spent much time performing in public....
  
• Mexico
  Mexico
  
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  
• T' de Tila (disbanded)
• United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Eden's Crush
  Eden's Crush
  
  Eden's Crush was a girl group based in Los Angeles created on the United States television series Popstars which aired on The WB Television Network in early 2001....
   (disbanded)
• Scene 23
  Scene 23
  
  Scene 23 was a pop group formed by the winners of the American show Popstars, which aired on The WB Television Network in the fall of 2001. Unlike the modestly successful earlier run of Popstars which created Eden's Crush, Popstars 2 was one of the least popular shows on TV, and suffered in the Nielsen ratings from airing on Thurs...
   (disbanded)

Oceania

• Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  
• Bardot
  Bardot
  
  Bardot was an Australian girl group which formed in 1999 on the original Australian reality television series of Popstars. Aired in early 2000, the program was a fresh concept to audiences, attracting high Television ratings and much hype in the media....
   (disbanded)
• Scandal'us
  Scandal'us
  
  Scandal'us were the winners of the Australian Popstars 2 in 2001 . They were the first group to have a debut single debut at #1 on the Australia ARIAnet Singles Chart and keep it there for three weeks ....
   (disbanded)
• Series 3
• Scott Cain
  Scott Cain
  
  Scott Cain is the winner of the third Australian Popstars competition in 2002.In his earlier years he was a member of a band named Funkapation, who released the album Peanut Butter Brick in 2000....
  
• Danielle Stearman - (also known as Danielle) was the runner-up of the Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  n Popstars
  Popstars
  
  Popstars is an international reality television program and a precursor to the Pop Idol series. The series first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the five member all-girl group TrueBliss....
   3 in 2002. Her first official/solo single "Tell Me If You Like It" debuted and peaked at #20 in the same year, but she has not charted in the ARIAnet Singles nor Albums Charts since.
• Series 4 (see Popstars Live
  Popstars Live
  
  Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It also spawned a spinoff single and album that made the Australian Recording Industry Association charts in April that year....
  )
• Kayne Taylor
  Kayne Taylor
  
  Kayne Taylor is a pop music singer from Melbourne, Victoria who won the 2004 Australian series of Popstars Live. Taylor started singing ten years ago and can also play Bass guitar and guitar....
  
• Miranda Murphy (runner-up) released a single called "That Girl" debuted and peaked at #19.

• New Zealand
  New Zealand
  
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  
• TrueBliss
  TrueBliss
  
  TrueBliss was a New Zealand reality television pop band formed in April 1999. The formation of the band was documented on the highly-rated television show, Popstars, aired on state run Television New Zealand#TV2 over nine weeks....
   (disbanded)

South America

• Argentina
  Argentina
  
  Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
  
• Bandana
  Bandana (pop group)
  
  Bandana were a Latin Grammy-nominated List of all-female bands pop music from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They saw both local and international success from 2001 until 2004 when they disbanded....
   (disbanded)
• Mambrú
  Mambrú
  
  for the Spanish traditional song "Mambr? se fue a la guerra", see Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerreMambr? was a male popgroup from Buenos Aires, Argentina....
   (disbanded)
• Brazil
  Brazil
  
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
   - Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT)
• Rouge
  Rouge (pop group)
  
  Rouge was a commercially successful, Spice Girls-like Brazilian vocal group and girl band, formed in the first season of the reality show Popstars, broadcasted by SBT in 2002....
   (disbanded)
• Br'oZ
  Br'oZ
  
  Br'oZ is a short-lived Brazilian vocal group and boy band, formed in the second season of the Reality television Popstars, broadcast by SBT in 2003....
   (disbanded)
• Brz2 (formerly Br'Oz)
• Colombia
  Colombia
  
  Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
• Escarcha
  Escarcha
  
  Escarcha was one of the most important groups in Colombia in 2002 born out ofPopstars. Escarcha disbanded in 2004.The band members were:...
   (disbanded)
• Ecuador
  Ecuador
  
  Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
  
• Kiruba
• La Coba

Number one singles

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