Appleton | |
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Origin | Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Pop |
Years active | 2002–2005 |
Labels | Polydor |
Spinoff of | All Saints |
Past members | Natalie Appleton Nicole Appleton |
Appleton was a Canadian musical duo composed of sisters Natalie and Nicole Appleton. The sisters are better known as members of the girl group All Saints. [1]
In 2002, after All Saints disbanded, Natalie and Nicole formed the duo Appleton and signed with Polydor. [2] In September 2002, they released their first single "Fantasy", written with Andy Hayman and Gareth Young, [3] which reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. [4] Their autobiography, Together, came out in October 2002. [5] The sisters releases stated that director David Slade announced he would direct the autobiographical book into a film, but that has yet to happen. In 2003, they had two more hits with "Don't Worry" and "Everything Eventually" and the album, Everything's Eventual which went silver in the UK. [6]
In 2004 they left Polydor and signed with Concept Music. Their second album was cancelled after All Saints' return in 2006.
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
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UK [7] | IRE [8] | SCO [9] | |||
Everything's Eventual |
| 9 | 49 | 9 | |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
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UK [7] | AUS [10] | BEL [11] | EUR [12] | IRE [13] | ITA [14] | NL [15] | SCO [9] | SWI [16] | ||||||
"Fantasy" | 2002 | 2 | 56 | 57 | 16 | 15 | 29 | 65 | 2 | 39 | Everything's Eventual | |||
"Don't Worry" | 2003 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 95 | 6 | 89 | ||||
"Everything Eventually" | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 | — | |||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
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