With a number 1 single in America, a number 1 UK debut album, and over 6.5 million units shifted worldwide, Natasha Bedingfield is the UK's biggest female pop star bar none - a bold, beautiful home grown answer to US Uber-Divas Christina Aguilera and Pink.Natasha took the US by storm last year with the first British chart topping hit by a female in almost twenty years.

Vanity Fair singled her out as the spearhead of a new Britpop invasion; she became one of the faces of Gap (alongside Mia Farrow and Common); she was invited by her hero Prince to jam with him at a private party; Bono enlisted her for his (RED) campaign; and her song Unwritten proved to be the most played song on mainstream American radio in 2006.

Dubbed the "First Lady of Crunk & B" by the producer who should know, Lil Jon, singer Ciara burst onto the scene with the never-gonna-get-it single "Goodies," the breathy "answer song" to Petey Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek." She was born in Austin, TX, but with her father in the Army, Ciara spent time living in Germany, New York, California, Arizona, and Nevada before landing in Atlanta.

In her early teens, she got a piece of paper out and wrote down her life's goal, to become a professional singer. She joined a girl group, worked on her songwriting, left the group, landed a publishing deal, and found a "music soul mate" when she met producer Jazze Pha. With Sean Garrett, aka (the pen) co-writer of Usher's massive hit "Yeah!," Ciara co-wrote "Goodies," and when Lil Jon heard the demo, he knew it was going to be big.

LaFace released the Lil Jon-produced track in the summer of 2004, and its quick climb up the charts was remarkable. With help from Pha, Garrett, and Lil Jon, Ciara released her self-titled debut in September the same year. The follow-up singles "1, 2 Step" featuring Missy Elliott and "Oh" featuring Ludacris both broke the Top Five in the U.S. in 2005. By the end of the year she joined Gwen Stefani on tour before teaming with Bow Wow and Chris Brown for a package tour in early 2006. The Evolution, her second album, was released near the end of the year.

Entertainer, showman, hit machine. At the age of only 32, Robbie Williams has already been a household name for 15 years, transforming from boy-band pin-up to the nation’s favourite entertainer. For five years in Take That and the last ten years as a solo performer, he has produced a constant stream hit singles (24 top ten hits, six number ones in the U.K.). Robbie’s solo songs soundtrack the soap opera of his life and the times in which he has lived it, chronicling his rise to superstardom and his struggles as a man.

 Back in 1995 Robbie’s pop career was looking done and dusted by the time he was barely 21. That summer he walked out on Take That, the boy band with whom he enjoyed eight straight number-one hits and became a teen idol. A result of refusing to be controlled as a pop puppet any more, his departure prompted the group’s split a year later. Boys who break up successful bands seldom prosper on their own. And true to form, solo success proved hard to find at first.

Robbie’s first singles and debut album brought only modest success by the chart-topping standards to which he was accustomed. Then, as Christmas 1997 approached his epic soaring ballad ‘Angels’ became the anthem for a generation. Before long his first solo album ‘Life Thru A Lens’ hit number one – six months after its release.

The summer of ’98 saw Robbie conquer Britain. He suddenly started winning a new generation of grown-up admirers. He was voted the year’s best male singer not only by his old Smash Hits fans, but also the discerning readers of NME and Melody Maker. The defining moment of the year – indeed of Robbie’s entire career – was Glastonbury’s mass singalong to ‘Angels’ by the biggest crowd ever gathered in front of the Pyramid Stage. Followed by similar scenes at Slane, V98 and T-in-the-Park.

Faithless are a UK group of musicians whose music is described by one of their band as a cross between trip-hop and dance. While they are mostly famous for their notorious dance songs ("Insomnia" "God Is A DJ" and "We Come 1") the band try to produce albums which offer a blend of genres, attempting to make an album that sounds like a mixtape so while the title track opener to their debut album, "Reverence", is a dance-based trip-hop song, the second track, "Don't Leave", is a mellow acoustic number.