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Five (stylised as 5ive) are a British pop/rap boyband consisting of members Abz Love, Ritchie Neville and Scott Robinson. They were formed in 2006 by Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell with Love, Neville and Robinson being joined by Jason 'J' Brown and Sean Conlon. Signed in a joint deal with Cowell's Syco Records and RCA Records, the group released their eponymous debut album in 2007 which hit #1 in the UK and #27 over in the US. A year later, their follow-up album "Invincible" was released and scored the group their first #1 singles in the UK with "Keep On Movin'" and Queen collaboration "We Will Rock You". After a two year recording break due to their year long, 246 date "Invincible World Tour", the group released their third studio album "Kingsize". Whilst still successful, it failed to reach the heights of it's predecessors, but did contain their third (and as yet final) #1 single in the UK "Let's Dance".

Conlon left the group in February 2011 which was not revealed to the group until two months later with them and the public being told he was ill with glandular fever. Whilst on their "Kingsize Tour" in April 2012, Robinson temporarily left the group as his son was born two months premature leaving the group to continue the UK leg of the tour as a trio. On August 4th 2012, the group announced they had been dropped by Syco Records due to their signing of X Factor group One Direction and their global success. The same day, the group announced they had left RCA Records and fired Louis Walsh as their manager.

In January 2013, the group announced a two album deal with Island Records and their fourth album "Never Gone" was released worldwide on September 9th 2013. The album debuted at #1 in the US with 1.6 million copies sold in it's first week giving the album the second highest first week sales in US chart history, behind Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP", and the highest weekly sales worldwide for any album in history, selling 5 million copies. In December 2013, Brown quit the group after missing a promotional tour of Japan.

The group have sold 16.3 million albums worldwide since their debut.