Girls Aloud announce tenth anniversary tour and Greatest Hits album

At a press conference held in London this lunch time, Girls Aloud revealed that they will release a new Greatest Hits album and will embark on an arena tour to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Since winning ITV’s hit reality TV show, Popstars: The Rivals, in 2002, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh have gone on to become the biggest selling girl group of the 21st Century. To date, they have racked up over 4.3 million singles sales, and have scored 20 Top 10 hits (including four Official Number 1s). Girls Aloud went on hiatus in 2009 to pursue projects outside the group.

At the press conference at London’s Corinthia Hotel in Whitehall, the five piece revealed that they will be embarking on a 12 date UK arena tour to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Tour dates are as follows:

February 2013
21 Newcastle Metro radio Arena
22 Newcastle Metro radio Arena
25 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
26 Birmingham LG Arena

March 2013
01 London The O2
02 London The O2
05 Manchester MEN Arena
06 Manchester MEN Arena
09 Glasgow SECC
10 Glasgow SECC
19 Nottingham Trent FM Arena
20 Liverpool Echo Arena

Tickets go on sale from www.gigsandtours.com at 9am on Friday, October 26.

The group’s come back track, Something New, which is their first new single since 2009’s Untouchable, will be released on November 18, and their Greatest Hits album, Ten, will follow on November 26.

The tracklisting and artwork for Ten is below:

01 Something New
02 The Promise
03 The Loving Kind
04 Untouchable
05 Sexy! No No No
06 Call The Shots
07 Can’t Speak French
08 Something Kinda Ooooh
09 Biology
10 The Show
11 Love Machine
12 I’ll Stand By You
13 Jump
14 No Good Advice
15 Sound Of The Underground
16 On The Metro
17 Beautiful Cause You Love Me
18 Every Now And Then