Blue are an English boy band made up of members Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe.

The band burst onto the music scene in 2001 with their debut single “All Rise”. This was then followed by further hits “Too Close”, “If You Come Back” and “Fly By II”. Debut album All Rise, released between the latter two songs, debuted at number 1 in the UK.

Despite media backlash following Ryan’s infamous outburst regarding media reactions to the September 11 attacks, Blue’s chart success continued with follow-up albums One Love (2002) and Guilty (2003), before they eventually called it a day in 2005.

Blue reformed in 2009 and represented the UK at Eurovision two years later, coming 11th with the song “I Can”.

In 2013, they joined an already stellar reunion of 1990s and 2000s pop bands on ITV2’s The Big Reunion. Off the back of this comeback, their fourth album Roulette was released, but it became their lowest charting album with a peak of number 13. Fifth album Colours (2015) had an identical chart peak and resulted in Blue being dropped by their record label, Sony Music.

Blue began recording their sixth studio album in 2017.