Eden's Crush
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Eden's Crush is a former girl group
based in Los Angeles created on the American
television series Popstars
which aired on AOL Time Warner
's WB
television network in early 2001, and promoted on the AOL
on-line service. Nicole Scherzinger
was one of the group members and went on to join the group The Pussycat Dolls.
Hundreds of girls competed to become pop star
s in late 2001 on the TV series Popstars
, produced by David Foster
. The group was narrowed down to five finalists, Ivette Sosa
, Maile Misajon
, Ana Maria Lombo
, Nicole Scherzinger
, and Rosanna Tavarez
, over several prime time
episodes. Warner Bros.
/Sire Records
signed the group to a recording contract
before the band was named or had finalized its membership, due to the hours of network television exposure the group would receive.
The group's debut single, "Get Over Yourself" topped the Canadian Singles Chart
and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100
. Their second single "Love This Way" had some radio play. Their album Popstars was certified gold, and peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200
albums chart. The group featured a multicultural membership of Dominic
an, Puerto Rican
, Russian
, Filipino
, Hawaiian
, Irish
, German, and Colombia
n descent. The group also guest starred as themselves in in the television show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
In 2001 they played as a support act on some dates for *NSync's Pop Odyssey Tour
and Jessica Simpson
's DreamChaser Tour.
At the end of 2001, their record company, London-Sire Records
, folded and the group eventually disbanded.
"Love This Way" (May 2001)
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
based in Los Angeles created on the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television series Popstars
Popstars
Popstars is an international reality television franchise and a precursor to the Idol series. The series first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the five member all-girl group TrueBliss...
which aired on AOL Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
's WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
television network in early 2001, and promoted on the AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
on-line service. Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....
was one of the group members and went on to join the group The Pussycat Dolls.
Hundreds of girls competed to become pop star
Pop Star
"Pop Star" is a 2005 single from Japanese singer Ken Hirai. The single went on to top the 2005 Oricon Charts and is known for its remarkable music video, featuring Ken in seven different personas, including a raccoon and his own manager. The Video also helped Ken break into the US and Canadian...
s in late 2001 on the TV series Popstars
Popstars
Popstars is an international reality television franchise and a precursor to the Idol series. The series first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the five member all-girl group TrueBliss...
, produced by David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
. The group was narrowed down to five finalists, Ivette Sosa
Ivette Sosa
Ivette Maritza Sosa is a Puerto Rican singer and dancer was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey U.S. Ivette found she had a passion for stage and she began dancing at 3 years old. She attended High School at Bishop George Ahr High School...
, Maile Misajon
Maile Misajon
Maile Francis Kealoha Misajon is an American singer and songwriter. She is a former member of the pop girl group Eden's Crush, formed in 2001 after its members auditioned for the WB Network reality television series Popstars....
, Ana Maria Lombo
Ana Maria Lombo
Ana Maria Lombo , is an American-Colombian singer/songwriter and dancer best known for her work as one of the lead vocalists for Eden's Crush...
, Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....
, and Rosanna Tavarez
Rosanna Tavarez
Rosanna Tavarez is a Dominican American entertainment reporter and presenter on television. Tavarez stars on TV Guide Channel alongside former American Idol contestants Kimberly Caldwell and Justin Guarini. She started off on Mun2, a Telemundo cable channel, hosting a show...
, over several prime time
Prime time
Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00 Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast...
episodes. Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
/Sire Records
Sire Records
Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...
signed the group to a recording contract
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...
before the band was named or had finalized its membership, due to the hours of network television exposure the group would receive.
The group's debut single, "Get Over Yourself" topped the Canadian Singles Chart
Canadian Singles Chart
The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....
and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. Their second single "Love This Way" had some radio play. Their album Popstars was certified gold, and peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
albums chart. The group featured a multicultural membership of Dominic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
an, Puerto Rican
Puerto Rican people
A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...
, Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
, Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
, Hawaiian
Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants. Native Hawaiians trace their ancestry back to the original Polynesian settlers of Hawaii.According to the U.S...
, Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, German, and Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n descent. The group also guest starred as themselves in in the television show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
In 2001 they played as a support act on some dates for *NSync's Pop Odyssey Tour
Pop Odyssey Tour
The PopOdyssey Tour is the fourth concert tour by American boy band 'N Sync. Sponsored by Verizon Long Distance and Chili's, the tour promoted the band's third studio album, Celebrity. The tour's name is defined as "an adventurous journey towards popularity, beginning as just a dream and ending in...
and Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
's DreamChaser Tour.
At the end of 2001, their record company, London-Sire Records
London-Sire Records
London-Sire Records was an American-based record label owned by Warner Music Group, created in 2000 with the merging of Sire Records and London Records. Seymour Stein remained at the helm as CEO. The binding of the two companies, however, proved to be largely unsuccessful...
, folded and the group eventually disbanded.
Albums
Popstars (May 2001)- "What's Good 4 the Goose" (Blackman/Cham/Ferguson/McLaughlin/Ridel/Dawkins/SandstromRenee SandsRenee Ilene Sandstrom , an American singer and actress better known by her stage name, Renee Sands. She is best known for appearing as Renee on the 1980s children's television show Kids Incorporated.-Career:...
) - "Let Me Know" (Klaus DerendorfKlaus DerendorfKlaus Derendorf, also known as "Klaus D," is a Los Angeles based record producer and songwriter with millions of worldwide record sales to his credit including two Number 1 albums on the Billboard Charts.-Early Years:...
/Ascencio/Jeeve) - "Get Over Yourself" (Gerrard/Keller/Vice)
- "Anywhere But Here" (Kopatz/Kasha)
- "Love This Way" (Harman/Golde/Livingston)
- "No Drama" (Burris/Loftin)
- "I Wanna Be Free" (G-Sleep/Ascencio/Jeeve/Nubar/Klaus DerendorfKlaus DerendorfKlaus Derendorf, also known as "Klaus D," is a Los Angeles based record producer and songwriter with millions of worldwide record sales to his credit including two Number 1 albums on the Billboard Charts.-Early Years:...
) - "The Glamorous LifeThe Glamorous Life"The Glamorous Life" is a song written by Prince in 1984 and first recorded by singer/percussionist Sheila E. The dance song has lyrics which reflect a cynicism for the decadence and materialism of the song's protagonist, referred to in the third person, who "wants to lead a glamorous life",...
" (Prince) - "1,000 Words (Mil Palabras)" (Hunter/Jeeve/Klaus DerendorfKlaus DerendorfKlaus Derendorf, also known as "Klaus D," is a Los Angeles based record producer and songwriter with millions of worldwide record sales to his credit including two Number 1 albums on the Billboard Charts.-Early Years:...
) - "Two Way" (Kara DioGuardiKara DioGuardiKara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...
/Brain/Young) - "It Wasn't Me" (Marvel/Holland)
- "You Know I Can" (Kipner/Goldmark/Frank)
- "Promise Me" (bonus track)
Singles
"Get Over Yourself" (March 2001)- "Get Over Yourself" (Gerrard/Keller/Vice)
- "Get Over Yourself" (Instrumental)
- Ana Maria's Message
- Ivette's Message
- Maile's Message
- Nicole's Message
- Rosanna's Message
- "Solo Piensas En Ti" ("Get Over Yourself" – Spanish lyrics by: Connie Blue Puche)
- Eden's Crush Message (English – hidden track)
- Eden's Crush Message (Spanish – hidden track)
"Love This Way" (May 2001)