The Cheetah Girls are an American girl group created by The Walt Disney Company, and made famous by the successful eponymous Disney Channel original film and its sequels, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group has released three studio albums, Cheetah-licious Christmas, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour and TCG and several successful RIAA certified Platinum albums including, The Cheetah Girls , The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. All of their albums and soundtracks have debuted in the Billboard 200. Their first album sold over 2 million copies.
The group has launched a clothing line, several perfume collections, doll lines, room decor, a book series and a successful video games line. The group has had two successful nationwide tours, Cheetah-licious Christmas Tour and The Party's Just Begun Tour. The Cheetah Girls grossed over USD $26 million from touring,[1] and their merchandise has grossed over USD $17 million in revenue.[2] The group has won seven Radio Disney awards and one 'Communications Award'.
Career
The Cheetah Girls' television movie, based on a bestselling series of young adult books of the same name by Deborah Gregory, was debuted on August 15, 2003. The film won several awards including Black Reel awards, an Image Award. The movie's DVD sold over 800,000 copies.[3] The film received over 84 million viewers worldwide and remained a hit in the ratings for months afterwards. The Cheetah Girls were also supposed to be a TV series for ABC in their 2004-2005 season.[4] The show was to begin production in early 2004, according to an article on the MTV news site, but according to another article on MTV News website in February 2004, it said The Cheetah Girls sitcom had been delayed, due to the success of That's So Raven.[5] Therefore, Raven would not be able to do the series. Although a pilot was shot in late 2003, ABC decided not to pick up the series.
In early 2005, Disney decided to turn the girls into a recording act outside of the movies. However, due to her busy schedule as well as already being signed to the label as a solo act, Raven Symoné decided not be a part of the actual group, leaving the trio of just Bailon, Bryan and Williams. In January 2005, the girls recorded for the first time as a trio and recording act for the 2005 DisneyMania soundtrack, remaking the song I Won't Say (I'm in Love) from the Hercules soundtrack.
The girls released their first recording in October, 2005 under Walt Disney Records, Cheetah-licious Christmas, the holiday album included classic Christmas songs, as well as several original songs, one of which was co-written by all three girls. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The lead single, "Cheetah-licious Christmas", was rotated on Radio Disney and a music video for the song was shown on Disney Channel. A second single from the album, "Five More Days 'Til Christmas" was released as a Radio Disney-only single. The girls went on tour to support the album that fall. Along with Aly & AJ as the opening act, the tour was successful.
The Cheetah Girls began work on their debut album in January 2006. However, when filming and recording for The Cheetah Girls 2 came up, the album was put on hold. "We'll be making a real album, not a soundtrack", Adrienne Bailon says. "Some of the music on there will be produced by will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas", she says. "It's important for people to see us as a real musical group. We have all this great marketing around us, with the movies and other things. But we are a musical group."
The Cheetah Girls 2 premiere received a total of over 8.1 million viewers, making it the highest rated premiere for a Disney Channel Original Movie at the time.
In an interview with Billboard about the postponed album, Sabrina Bryan stated that the girls worked on writing for the album on their Party's Just Begun tour and that they hoped to gather an audience of older fans while simultaneously staying true to their younger fan base.[6]. Bryan also stated that the girls would work with producers they've worked with in the past as well as exploring new producers, such as Timbaland.[6]
The album was originally titled Who We Are,[7], and set to be released on June 19, 2007[8] but this was postponed to September 25, 2007, with a release name of TCG.
The track So Bring It On was released as the album's first single. Fuego was released as the second single from the album[9]. The Girls recorded their own version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for the holiday compilation album, A Disney Channel Holiday, which was released on October 16, 2007.
The girls began filming their third Cheetah Girls movie, entitled The Cheetah Girls: One World, in January 2008. It is the only movie to not feature Raven-Symone and premiered on August 22 with its soundtrack released on August 19.
Outside of the group, the girls are also pursuing solo projects. Bailon is currently recording a solo album, Bryan released a book titled Princess of Gossip in 2008, had a small supporting role in the straight-to-dvd film Mostly Ghostly and has filmed another fitness DVD called Byou 2, while Williams had a role in the 2008 film The House Bunny.
Recently both Williams and Bailon announced that they are both in the process of recording solo albums. Bryan wrote a book called Princess of Gossip.
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