Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whakamātautau a Cheryl mo te whakaaturanga pouaka whakaata Popstars: The Rivals i te tau 2002, ko te whaainga ko te hanga i tetahi roopu tama me tetahi roopu kotiro ki te whakataetae mo te waahi Kirihimete tuatahi i runga i te UK Singles Chart. I waiata ia i a "Have You Ever" i tana whakaaturanga, a ko ia tetahi o nga kaitono e rua tekau (tekau nga kotiro me te tekau nga tama) i tohua hei whiringa toa e nga kaiwhakawa a Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh me Geri Halliwell. Ko nga kaitono whakamutunga i mahi ora i nga ahiahi o te Rahoroi, me tetahi taangata e mahi ana i ia wiki, ana i ia wiki ka whakakorea te kaiwhakataetae i nga pooti waea iti rawa, kia puta ra ano nga rarangi whakamutunga o nga roopu e rima. E rua nga wa i raru ai a Cheryl ki te whakakore, i ora ia i runga i a Emma Beard me Aimee Kearsley i nga wiki mahi whai muri. I te 30 o Noema 2002, ko ia te kaitono tuatahi i tohu mo te roopu kotiro, ka uru atu a Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts me Kimberley Walsh ki te whakatuu i a Girls Aloud, whai muri i te pooti a te iwi. Ko te roopu tuatahi o te roopu "Te tangi o te Underground" i eke ki te tau kotahi i runga i te UK Singles Chart, ka noho ko te 2002 Kirihimete te tau kotahi i runga i te roopu tama One True Voice's "Sacred Trust / After You're Gone". Girls Aloud pupuri i te rekoata mo te wa poto i waenganui i te hanga rite te rōpū, me te whakatutuki i te tokorua tau kotahi. Girl Aloud tukua ratou album tuatahi Sound o te raro i roto i Mei 2003, i tomo i te mahere i te tau e rua, ka i tiwhikete parahi e te British Phonographic Ahumahi (BPI) i muri i taua tau. Ko a raatau takitahi "Ka tu ahau ki a koe", "Haere i tenei ara", me te "Te Whakaari" i tu ki te nama kotahi. E rua o a raatau pukaemi i eke ki te tihi o te UK Albums Chart: ko ta raatau pukaemi tino nui The Sound of Girls Aloud me te Out of Control o te 2008, i uru mai raua ki te raarangi i te nama kotahi, neke atu i te kotahi miriona kape o te tuatahi i hokona.  Pātai: He aha te mea i whakataetae ai ngā kaiwhakataetae?
Ko te wāhi tuatahi o te Kirihimete i te UK Singles Chart