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The Charlies is a girl group composed of members Alma Goodman, Camilla Stones and Klara Elias. They are Iceland's most successful singer/songwriter girl-group ever, producing ten number one singles, three number one studio albums, one number one compilation and one number one DVD in Iceland.

2004-2005: Formation of Nylon and Groundbreaking Success
The group was formed after auditions in Iceland, which Alma, Camilla and Klara attended. They took the name Nylon, changing it to The Charlies in 2008. A few weeks later they added one girl to the group, Emilia Oskarsdottir, who left the group in 2007. Under the name Nylon the group sang pop music in English and Icelandic. Their first single, "Lög Unga Fólksins" (which means "The Young People's Song" in English), was released in April 2004 and went straight to number one. The group have had huge success in their native country of Iceland: achieving a total of 13 Number 1 singles to date, a TV show about their first summer as a girlband, three chart topping albums, and a book entitled "100% Nylon" (which instantly became a best seller). They have also released a DVD entitled "Nylon Allstaðar", which contained their smash hit TV show as well as other bonus features. They are the only girl group ever to come out of Iceland and remain the biggest selling all female group, ever, to come out of Iceland.

The Charlies released three albums in Iceland (as Nylon), the two Icelandic language albums being titled 100% Nylon and Góðir Hlutir (e. Good Things), named after the albums biggest single, written by Alma. Both albums went straight to number one. Their third album (and first English effort) 100% Nylon, or plainly Nylon in Iceland, features many exclusively English songs as well as many re-written Icelandic tracks. Nylon have also worked with many artists in Iceland for various collaborations. They are featured on an Icelandic Christmas album titled Jólaskraut, released Christmas 2005. Another notable collaboration the band has done would be "Furðuverk", on one of the biggest selling children albums of all time, Stóra Stundin Okkar. Many of the group's singles have also been featured on various compilation albums.

2006: International success, UK arena Tours
The Charlies released their debut UK single "Losing A Friend" (written by English songwriters, Chris and Tony Griffiths, ex The Real People) on 10 July 2006. It reached number 29 in the UK Top 40 singles chart, was Woolworths' single of the week upon release, and also hit number one on The Box's famed Box Breakers chart.

The Charlies went on three arena tours as opening acts for three of the biggest bands in UK at the time; Westlife, Girls Aloud, McFly and they also did a theater tour with the X-Factor finalists from Journey South. They performed at Wembley Stadium a total of seven times, more then any other Icelandic artist ever has. At the Wembley performance of the McFly tour the girls met Queen (band) lead guitarist Brian May whom they befriended after he invited them to be his special guests at his musical based on the songs of Queen, We will Rock you (musical)

The follow-up to their first UK single, "Losing A Friend", was a double A-Side single; "Closer", and a cover of the Eurythmics classic "Sweet Dreams". The video for "Closer" was being rotated on 'The Box' and, as "Losing A Friend" did, reached #1 on the Box Breakers chart. The single was released on October 23. Although it had previously made #1 in Iceland, it failed to reach the top 40 in the UK.

Their version of "Sweet Dreams" did receive much attention from clubs, making it #1 on the Commercial Dance Charts in the UK. The April release of "Holiday", the band's last single with all four bandmembers, went straight to number one and was on the top of the Icelandic Chart for over a month. "Holiday" went on to be one of the girl's biggest selling singles ever.

2007-2009: Greatest Hits album and hiatus
The UK release of "100% Nylon", originally announced for October 2006, was then planned for February 2007 but was cancelled and shelved when Emilia, the fourth original member of the group, left the band in late summer of 2007. The news, announced on their official website a day after the press had reported the story, came shortly after a swarm of pregnancy rumors and Emilia set to be married that same year. The girls have express multiple times that Emilia´s departure was all on good terms and the reason for the split, being that they wanted different things.

In 2007, as a trio, the group released a 'Best of'/'Greatest hits' album in Iceland featuring all of their hit singles, videos, and three new songs. The Charlies gave all the proceeds from the album to charity, called "Blatt Afram", raising awareness and help preventing child abuse. In 2008 the group returned to Iceland and announced hiatus.

2009-2011: Name change and Major label deal in USA
The girls returned in December 2008 to announce that they had changed their name to The Charlies and were working on new music with a new production team they had co-founded, called StopWaitGo (production team). Their new image was much more mature, edgier and very different from the Nylon days.

In late 2009 the girls went to a meeting with the then chairman of Hollywood Records, Bob Cavallo, whom they sang for A cappella. He offered the girls a record deal that same day.

The girls signed with Hollywood Records and moved to Los Angeles in the beginning of 2010. They started working on an album shortly after their move. They did the album with Bruno Mars & The Smeezingtons, J.R. Rotem, The Movement (production team), Ezekiel Lewis of The Clutch and StopWaitGo (production team).

Studio albums

 * 2004: 100% Nylon
 * 2005: Góðir Hlutir
 * 2006: Nylon

Compilation

 * 2007: Best Af Nylon

DVD

 * 2005: Nylon Allstaðar