Early naughties popular UK boy band Blue have announced that they will be reuniting for their 20th anniversary of the band for a 2021 come back. This is the first big piece of news to come from the band since 2015 after being dropped by their record label Sony. This comes back is a piece of much welcome news for a lot of fans of the band as we reach the end of 2020 and what will be remembered for a long time as a terrible year for all.
Blue was a very popular band when they formed back in 2000. Formed by Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan, and Simon Webbe Blue wherein high regards around the time of early Naughties pop bands. In the same tier as bands like Steps, S Club Seven, and the Spice Girls the British pop band scene of the naughties was hard to topple. Blue was a band that started very strong and did very well early but unfortunately was hit with a lot of misfortunes halting the band’s progress.
Between 2000, when the band formed, and 2003 the band released three studio albums. All of the albums reached critical success with all three peaked at number 1 in the UK charts. Starting strong early the band became so famous they worked alongside the likes of Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John. However, Hard times hit the band and the boys announced a hiatus after the release of their compilation album Best of Blue in 2004
Speaking to the Sun, Duncan shed some light on the band’s goings-on “I’d like to think we’ll reform again. We were wanting to do something for our 20th anniversary but at the moment lockdown has meant it’s been difficult to get together. It’s not been easy.”. Obviously, with the on-going global pandemic, the band has missed the date of their 20 year anniversary but there is hope that 2021 will see them return. After their hiatus, the band did reunite before but has been fairly silent since the first reunion.
The original reunion (back in January of 2011) was to represent the UK in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest (a very good choice). Blue wrote the song I can for the contest, It later appeared on their fourth studio album, that year the UK came eleventh scoring 100 points. Unfortunately for the boy band, bad news followed after their comeback. in 2015 the band were dropped by their label Sony for poor sales of their fifth album. Colours was met with poor reviews selling just 4000 copies in the first week alone. Since then the band have been quiet aside from a few shows.
An insider has come forward to back up the claims of a comeback saying seemingly trying to hype up fans “They know they have a loyal fanbase who they love to entertain so it’s safe to say it’s going to be a Blue extravaganza in 2021.”
