The Sugababes are still arguing and in-fighting amongst themselves, but not the girls that are in the group together now, rather the former members. It’s as though Mutya Buena never left the group, judging by her drunken rant about Heidi Range on Twitter last night.

If you know anything of the Sugababes it’s probably the fact that the line-up has changed multiple times, and that the group now doesn’t contain a single original member. Siobhan Donaghy, Mutya Buena, and Keisha Buchanan have all moved on.
I’d like to say there’s no bad blood between the former and current members, but that would …read more

When Keisha Buchanan left the Sugababes (whether voluntarily or not) in September, it saw the end of the group as we know it, with no original members left. I’m afraid that Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah, and Jade Ewen are Sugababes by name only. However, the real Sugababes could be on the way back.

Rumors of the original Sugababes line-up reforming first appeared in September before being brought up again at the beginning of November, with a gossip blog reporting that Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena, and Keisha Buchanan were joining forces once again.
And now the rumors have resurfaced, despite the girls having …read more

It’s hard to remember the original line-up of the Sugababes performing together. It all feels so long ago, and it’s a distant memory for me, and probably them too. But there’s a chance that Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena, and Keisha Buchanan are about to reform the group.

As soon as Keisha Buchanan left the Sugababes in September, there were rumors that with the group now being made up of a different trio than that which originally formed way back in 1998 the originals were going to come back together and start all over again.

The last week has seen the Sugababes lose their last original member in the form of Keisha Buchanan, who left after a ruckus with Amelle Berrabah. Eurovision singer Jade Ewen promptly joined the group, leaving her, Amelle, and Heidi Range as the Sugababes, at least in name. But can they really call themselves the Sugababes when none of them helped found the group back in the day?

The Sugababes originally formed way back in 1998, with Buchanan, Mutya Buena, and Siobhan Donaghy teaming up to become the Sugababes. But Donaghy left in 2001, Buena left in 2005, and now Buchanan has …read more

It’s official, although it’s a different member of the Sugababes who is leaving than we all thought. Keisha Buchanan, the last surviving original member of the group, has left to become a solo artist. The Sugababes will continue on with Amelle Berrabah and Heidi Range, who will be joined by Eurovision singer Jade Ewen to keep the group as a trio.

There was, of course, speculation at the end of last week that Amelle was about to leave and be replaced by Ewen, but it seems while the thrust of the story was correct, the departing member wasn’t. The 24-year-old Buchanan …read more

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

This week’s singles chart sees Taio Cruz go straight in at number one with Break Your Heart, knocking last week’s topper Pixie Lott down to number 6 in the process. Madonna enters at number 3 while Shakira had a massive climber with She Wolf going from 25 to 5. Sugababes manage to stick in the top 10 despite rumors of a …read more

Pixie Lott has already had a number one single in the U.K., with her debut release Mama Do reaching the top spot in June of this year. And now she’s back trying to repeat that success with her second single, Boys and Girls. Can Pixie Lott make it two singles, two chart hits in a row?

As I stated in the review for Mama Do, Pixie Lott is the latest in a long line of new British female singers to hit big, following in the footsteps of the likes of Amy Winehouse, Duffy, and Adele. But while they are all soulful …read more

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

The singles chart sees Jay-Z straight in at number one, with the Sugababes having to settle for number two with Get Sexy. Dizzee Rascal drops from one to four, while Kings Of Leon are still in the Top 10 with Sex On Fire.
The albums chart sees Arctic Monkeys still at the top with Humbug, while Vera Lynn (wartime sweetheart) has …read more

I’m a big fan of the Sugababes, and have been since they started out in the last millennium. Back then they were a very different group of course. For starters, two of the girls were different, but more than that they had a very different style. So they’ve changed and evolved, but whether that’s a good thing or not depends on your point of view.

My personal take on it is that they’ve dumbed down considerably, now appealing more to the lowest common denominator, which in the U.K. today is chavs. The refined pop sound has disappeared to be replaced by …read more

Girls Aloud and Sugababes are, without a doubt, the two biggest girl groups in the UK right now. They have crosses genre divides and grabbed fans from all walks of life and are both talented and able pop groups.
While I may like both groups, many fans have chosen to stay loyal to just one of the two, and a rather unhealthy rivalry has cropped up between Girls Aloud fans and Sugababes fans. This is despite the two groups getting along fine, at least on the face of it.
Some would argue that there is enough in-fighting in both camps that an …read more