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The Wanted - Heart Vacancy

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Description: The Wanted are a British-Irish pop boy band based in London. The group comprises Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. The band's debut single "All Time Low" reached number 1 in the United Kingdom in August 2010. Their debut studio album The Wanted was released on 25 October 2010 and charted at number 4 in the United Kingdom. The Wanted were formed in 2009 through a mass audition, by Jayne Collins, the same woman who put together The Saturdays. They soon started working on their debut album with producers Guy Chambers, Taio Cruz and Steve Mac. They all share a house in South London. The Wanted are a British-Irish pop boy band based in London. The group comprises Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. The band's debut single "All Time Low" reached number 1 in the United Kingdom in August 2010. Their debut studio album The Wanted was released on 25 October 2010 and charted at number 4 in the United Kingdom.
The Wanted were formed in 2009 through a mass audition, by Jayne Collins, the same woman who put together The Saturdays. They soon started working on their debut album with producers Guy Chambers, Taio Cruz and Steve Mac. They all share a house in South London. Their debut single, "All Time Low", was produced by Mac, and also co-written by Ed Drewett. It was released on 25 July 2010, and debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, remaining in the Top 40 for 11 weeks. The band's second single, "Heart Vacancy", written by Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hansen, Wayne Hector and Lucas Secon was released on 17 October 2010. The Wanted presented "The Wanted's Best Brit Boys Top 20" on 23 August on the 4Music channel. In November 2010 the band opened up the Christmas song list for 4Music. The band confirmed that their debut album would be self titled and it was released on 25 October 2010. Also, The Wanted presented "The Wanted's Top 20 Pop Number Ones", their own show, screened on the Viva music channel.

The Wanted announced in November 2010 that they would be touring for their album. The concerts will be held in Wolverhampton, Nottingham, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Brighton, Cardiff, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Glasgow, Sheffield and Edinburgh.

In November 2010 they confirmed they had signed a record deal with American label Def Jam and planned on releasing their album stateside at some stage in 2011.

The band performed their third single, "Lose My Mind", on The X Factor on 28 November 2010.

In January 2011, The Wanted performed at the MakeMineMilk gig, in the UK. They agreed to have their photograph on the MakeMineMilk website, with Siva drinking a glass of milk and the rest of them with milk moustaches on.

The band started working on their second studio album in January 2011. They are again working with Steve Mac, and the first single from the album, "Gold Forever" was released on 13 March 2011, in aid of Comic Relief. It peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. The second single from the album is "Glad You Came", which received its radio premiere on 24 May 2011 and will be released 10 July 2011. Another song from the album, "Lightning", was co-written by Ed Drewett. ... (more)