RBD

'RBD' is a Mexican Pop group that gained popularity from Televisa's teenage-oriented telenovela ''Rebelde''. To date, RBD has achieved a great commercial success with cross-over appeal, and has received a Latin Grammy Award nomination. They are also popular in non-Spanish speaking countries, most notably in Brazil. RBD has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.^[1]

Contents

Biography

Rebelde

Discography

Albums

Tours

Tour Generación RBD En Vivo

Tour Generación 2006

Celestial World Tour

RBD: La Familia

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Biography

Rebelde

Rebelde is a Mexican "novela" (soap opera) produced by Televisa, starring the members of RBD. It is a remake of an Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. The series ran for three seasons, the final episode airing in Mexico on 2006-06-02.
Rebelde was one of the biggest teen soaps in Mexico and had a huge impact among Latin-American youth.
The series is set at the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding high school near Mexico City. The school's faculty and the parents often have their own subplots as well. One feature of the show is the random use of English words and phrases, commonly used by fresas (like Mia Colucci when she said to Giovanni "Talk to the hand, por favor! When he spread a vicious rumor about her.
One of the series' major plot lines revolves around a group of students forming a pop band. The actors, who play the members of this band, are also in a real band, abbreviated as RBD to distinguish it from the show. RBD performs most of the music used on the show, and has been extremely successful in its own right, becoming one of the highest-grossing acts in Mexico and touring internationally.
'RBD' debuted in December 2004 with the album ''Rebelde'', released through EMI. The main writers for the project were DJ Kafka and Max di Carlo, and their songs proved just as popular as the show. The first three singles ("Rebelde", "Solo Quédate En Silencio" and "Sálvame") were all number one hits in Mexico, with the fourth single, "Un Poco De Tu Amor" reaching number two.
In 2005 a portuguese languaged edition of the album was released for the Brazilian market called ''Rebelde (Edição Brasil)''. And though no english languaged edition was released, ''Rebelde'' sold well in the States, breaking into the Top 100 of the album chart (#95) and reaching number two on the Top Latin Albums chart. ''Rebelde'' sold over 400,000 copies in the U.S.^[2] and was certified diamond in both Mexico and Brazil, selling at least 1.4 million copies between the two of them.
In July of 2005 a live CD/DVD, ''Tour Generación RBD En Vivo'' was released, including the group's sold-out tour of Mexico (35 sold-out concerts across the country, including six in Mexico City alone).
In October of the same year came their second studio album, ''Nuestro Amor'', which set new sales records in Mexico, selling 160,000 copies in its first week alone. In the U.S., the album topped the Latin Albums Chart for 3 weeks and again broke into the overall Top 100 (#88). The first four singles hit number one in Mexico. In the United States, only "Nuestro Amor" (#6), "Aún Hay Algo" (#24) and Este Corazón" (#10) charted on the Hot Latin chart.
The following year, 2006, brought no rest for RBD. Tragedy struck early, when a 38-year-old woman and her children, ages 11 and 13, were trampled during an autograph rush in the parking lot of a shopping mall in São Paulo, Brazil on February 4. The three died and another 42 were injured in the incident, which involved the breach of a security fence holding back an estimated 15,000 rabid fans.
Early in 2006, they RBD released a portuguese version of ''Nuestro Amor'', entitled ''Nosso Amor Rebelde (Edição Brasil)'', specially for the Brazilian fans. Not long after, RBD toured the United States for the first time, issuing a second CD/DVD in April, titled ''Live In Hollywood'', which peaked at number 6 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums Chart.
With the June 2 finale of ''Rebelde'' (after three seasons), came the news that the group would begin filming a new telenovela and record an english language album comprised of songs from their first two albums and some new songs.
2006 also brought RBD a nomination for the Latin Grammy Awards in the category 'Best Pop Album by a Group or Duo' for their second studio album ''Nuestro Amor''. However, they lost the award to La Oreja De Van Gogh, but made a performance, singing a new version of "Tras De Mí".
Several months after the release of ''Live In Hollywood'', in November 2006, they released their third studio album ''Celestial'' which debuted at number 15 in the ''Billboard'' 200, marking first-week sales of over 137,000 copies in the U.S. The album however did not have a full week of album sales, due to its Friday release. Despite this, it became their first album to peak or chart within the top 20 of the Billboard 200.^[3] Two weeks later they released their first English album, ''Rebels'' which debuted at number 40 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart with first-week sales of 94,000 copies. On the day of release, the cover of the album was altered by the changing of the group's logo from white to pink. Ironically, the band's third Spanish album ''Celestial'' sold 43,000 copies more than ''Rebels'' in its first week.
The group is a huge phenomenon all over Latin America. In Colombia, they sold more records than successful local act Juanes and in Chile they sold over 5,000 tickets in a few hours. In Brazil, after the tragedy, they came back in October for a 12 city stadium tour, including a concert on the world's biggest stadium Maracanã in Rio De Janeiro, selling over 50,000 of the 78,000 seats in just 2 hours. The historical concert came out on a DVD, entitled ''Live In Rio''. They also received a certification for selling over 2.5 million copies of their albums and DVDs sold in Brazil. In Spain, ''Rebelde'' spent 5 weeks on the top of the charts going 2x platinum for sales over 160,000. ''Nuestro Amor'' sold enough to be certified 2x platinum as well, while ''Celestial'', that came out on March 12 2007, has been certified gold after only being in the chart for three weeks.^[4]
On March 2 2007, Christian Chavez revealed that he is homosexual after pictures of him getting married to another man in Canada surfaced on the Internet. In a letter on the group's website, he asked fans for understanding and acceptance.^[5]
The group is currently working on two other projects; Sálvame, an organization that helps homeless youth get an education and shelter, and , their new sitcom. In an interview in late March, Dulce María revealed that Sálvame will start operating on May 1st and that the RBD members were also thinking of starting the project in Brazil, Spain and Mexico too.^[6].
RBD is also four times nominated in three categories for the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards. They are twice nominated in the category for 'Latin Pop Album Of The Year By A Duo Or Group', with ''Celestial'' and ''Live In Hollywood'', which were both released in 2006. They also have a nomination for 'Top Latin Albums Artist Of The Year' and 'Latin Tour Of The Year' for the below mentioned Tour Generación 2006.^[7] The show was be held on April 26 in Miami. They won in all categories they were nominated in; ''Celestial'' was the one which won the Latin Pop Album Of The Year By A Duo Or Group award.^[8]
The group has also prepared their 2007 world tour called Celestial, starting in Ecuador on April 20.
They performed as musical guests at the Miss Universe 2007 final in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 28, 2007. They were personally chosen by Donald Trump himself. RBD performed a medley of "Wanna Play", "Cariño Mio" and "Money Money" in the event. In June of 2007, RBD recorded the video for "Bésame Sin Miedo" in Transylvania, while touring in Romania^[9]. Later, they toured in Spain, and recorded a new live DVD, ''Live In Madrid'', to be released in September ^[10]. Recently, they were chosen to headline, along with Black Eyed Peas, a series of Pepsi commercials to air on South America and Spanish-speaking countries.
On July 19th, 2007, RBD performed their single "Bésame Sin Miedo" at Premios Juventud 2007, and also won 7 awards that night, including "Voice of the moment" and "Favorite Concert" (they were nominated). They have won a total of 24 Premios Juventud awards. On July 20, 2007, RBD showed their new tour bus on ''El Gordo Y La Flaca'' for their Celestial World Tour. On July 25, 2007, RBD performed and acoustic concert in Mexico City as part of a new Ritmoson Latino Show called ''Confesiones En Concierto''. The group has become such a phenomenon they have been nominated as best international song of Tu Amor in France proving their huge success.

Discography

Main articles: RBD discography

Albums

★ 2004: ''Rebelde''

★ :2005: ''Rebelde (Edição Brasil)'' – Portuguese version of ''Rebelde''

★ 2005: ''Tour Generación RBD En Vivo''

★ 2005: ''Nuestro Amor''

★ :2006: ''Nosso Amor Rebelde (Edição Brasil)'' – Portuguese version of ''Nuestro Amor''

★ 2006: ''Live In Hollywood''

★ 2006: ''Celestial''

★ :2006: ''Celestial (Edição Brasil)'' – Portuguese version of ''Celestial''

★ 2006: ''Rebels''

Tours

Tour Generación RBD En Vivo

'Tour Generación RBD En Vivo' is RBD's first national tour. It spawned 35 sold out dates in Mexico, they visited Monterrey three times gathering over 50,000 fans. The live performances were viewed by more than 700,000 fans in Mexico. The tour was certified by OCESA as the fourth most rapidly sold tour in Mexico, behind The Cure's 2004 ''Sing to the Dead Tour'' (#1), Britney Spears' 2002 ''Dream Within a Dream Tour'' (#2), and Backstreet Boys 2001 ''Black & Blue Tour'' (#3).

Tour Generación 2006

The 'Tour Generación 2006' began in the United States in March 2006, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a crowd of more than 63,000 fans - a record-breaking act for a Latin group and a sure sign of their widespread success. 374,000 tickets worth a total of $18,200,000 were sold for the tour, putting them in the 15th place among all the US tours in the first half of 2006 by total ticket sales.

Celestial World Tour

The Celestial World Tour is the RBD tour where they'll be performing in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
On June 22, 2007 RBD filmed their concert in Madrid, Spain for a DVD said to be called ''Live In Madrid''.

RBD: La Familia

is RBD's sitcom made by Televisa about their fictional lives in the group. RBD and the producer, Pedro Damián, have stated that this sitcom is pure fictional and not based on the real lives of the members of RBD. The characters of the sitcom are not similar to the soap opera ''Rebelde'', but are similar to the real people of RBD.
RBD: La Familia debuted on March 14 2007 in SKY television in Mexico. The opening song for the sitcom is "Family", a song in English which is included on the '' album. "Quiero Poder", a song composed and sung by Dulce Maria in Spanish, is also heavily featured in the show, it is also included on the ''RBD: La Familia'' compilation and will appear on the Special Edition of ''Celestial''. The first season of the series consists of 13 episiodes.
Although the group has stated that the new sitcom's characters would be different then the characters in ''Rebelde'', critics say that the new sitcom is oddly familiar to ''Rebelde'' due to Annie's obvious jealousy torwards Poncho's girlfriend; Dul's attraction to Ucker; Ucker's pranks towards Dul and May's and Chris' wild behavior as seen in the first episode.

Awards and nominations

Year	Category	Álbum	Result
Latin Grammy Awards[11]
2006	Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocal	''Nuestro Amor''	Nominated
World Music Awards[12]
2006	Best Latin Artist of the World	RBD	Nominated
Billboard Latin Music Awards[13][14]
2006	Latin Pop Album of the Year - New Artist	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2006	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2006	Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year - Duo or Group	"Solo quédate en silencio"	' Won'
2006	Latin Pop Album of the Year - New Artist	''Nuestro Amor''	Nominated
2006	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Tour Generación RBD en Vivo''	Nominated
2006	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Nuestro Amor''	Nominated
2006	Latin Artist of Albums In Top of the Stops of the Year	''Rebelde''	Nominated
2006	Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year - New Artist	"Solo quédate en silencio"	Nominated
2006	Latin Ringtone of the Year	"Solo quédate en silencio"	Nominated
2007	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Live in Hollywood''	Nominated
2007	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Celestial''	'Won'
2007	Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year	''Celestial''	'Won'
2007	Latin Tour of the Year	Tour Generación 2006	'Won'
Premios lo Nuestro[15]
2006	Latin Pop New Artist of the Year	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2007	Latin Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Nuestro Amor''	'Won'
2007	Duo or Group of the Year	''Nuestro Amor''	'Won'
Premios Oye![16][17]
2005	New Artist of the Year	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2005	Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2005	Best Selling Pop Album of the Year	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2006	Pop Album of the Year - Duo or Group	''Nuestro Amor''	Nominated
Premios Juventud[18][19] [20][21][22]
2005	Voz Del Momento	RBD	'Won'
2005	Celebridad Hispana	RBD	'Won'
2005	Me Muero Sin Ese CD	''Rebelde''	'Won'
2005	Mi Balada Favorita	"Solo quédate en silencio"	'Won'
2005	Tórrido Romance	Dulce María & Alfonso Herrera'	' Won'
2006	Voz Del Momento	RBD	'Won'
2006	Artista Pop Favorito	RBD	'Won'
2006	Mi Ídolo Es...	RBD	'Won'
2006	En La Mira Del Papparazzi	RBD	'Won'
2006	El Más Buscado En Internet	RBD	'Won'
2006	Mi Concierto Favorito	RBD	'Won'
2006	Me Muero Sin Ese CD	''Nuestro Amor''	'Won'
2006	La Más Pegajosa	"Aún hay algo"	'Won'
2006	Canción Corta-Venas	"Este corazón"	'Won'
2006	Quiero Vestir Como Ella	Dulce María	'Won'
2006	Quiero Vestir Como Ella	Anahí	Nominated
2006	Chica Que Me Quita El Sueño	Dulce María	Nominated
2006	Chica Que Me Quita El Sueño	Anahí	Nominated
2006	El De Mejor Estilo	Alfonso Herrera	'Won'
2006	¡Esta Buenísimo!	Alfonso Herrera	'Won'
2006	¡Esta Buenísimo!	Christopher Uckermann	Nominated
2007	¡¡Qué rico que se mueve!	Dulce María	Nominated
2007	¡¡Qué rico que se mueve!	Anahí	Nominated
2007	Voz del momento	RBD	'Won'
2007	La más pegajosa	"Celestial"	Nominated
2007	La más pegajosa	"Ser o Parecer"	Nominated
2007	Me muero sin ese CD	"Celestial"	'Won'		2007	Mi concierto favorito	RBD	'Won'
2007	Canción Corta-venas	"Algún Día"	'Won'
2007	Artista Pop favorito	RBD	'Won'
2007	Mi Video Favorito	"Celestial"	Nominated
2007	Mi Video Favorito	"Ser o Parecer"	Nominated
2007	Quiero Vestir Como Ella	Anahí	Nominated
2007	Quiero Vestir Como Ella	Dulce María	Nominated
2007	El De Mejor Estilo	Alfonso Herrera	Nominated
2007	El De Mejor Estilo	Christopher Uckermann	Nominated
2007	¡Está buenísimo!	Christopher Uckermann	Nominated
2007	¡Está buenísimo!	Alfonso Herrera	'Won'
2007	Chica que me quita el sueño	Dulce María	Nominated
2007	Chica que me quita el sueño	Anahí	Nominated
2007	Mi ídolo es...	Anahí	Nominated
2007	Mi ídolo es...	Dulce María	Nominated
2007	En la mira del Paparazzi.	RBD	Nominated
Brazil Music Awards
2006	Best Duo or Group	RBD	'Won'
Meus Prêmios Nick[23]
2006	Melhor Banda Internacional (Best International Band)	RBD	'Won'
2007	Artista Internacional Favorito (Best International Artist)	RBD	Nominated
Premios Orgullosamente Latinos[24]
2007	Grupo Latino 2007 (Latin Group)	RBD	'Won'
2007	Disco Latino 2007 (Latin Album)	''Celestial''	'Won'
2007	Cancion Latina 2007 (Latin Song)	"No pares"	'Won'
2007	Cancion Latina 2007 (Latin Song)	"Ser o Parecer"	Nominated
2007	Video Latino 2007 (Latin Video)	"Ser o Parecer"	Nominated
Les Etolies Cherie[25]
2007	Chanson Internationale De L'Anee ( Int.Song of the Year)	Tu Amor	Nominated

References

1. Sales over 20 million
2. Album sales in the U.S.
3. First (and only) debut within top 20
4. Spanish Albums Chart with certification sales at ''Los40.com''
5. Christian reveils sexuality
6. Sálvame information
7. 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards nominations
8. Billboard Latin Music Awards winners
9. http://www.rbdworld.org/
10. http://www.esmas.com/rbd/noticias/639662.html
11. 2006 Latin Grammy Awards
12. 2006 World Music Awards
13. Billboard Latin Music Awards 2006
14. Billboard Latin Music Awards 2007
15. Ganadores Premio lo Nuestro 2007
16. 2005 Premios Oye winners!
17. Nominaciones 2006 Premios Oye
18. Premios Juventud
19. 2006 Premios Juventud
20. Premios Juventud 2007 'Musica'
21. Premios Juventud 2007 'Imagen y Moda'
22. Premios Juventud 2007 'Cultura Pop'
23. Award won (Meus Prêmios Nick)
24. Premios Orgullosamente Latinos
25. [1]

External links

'Official'

★ Official American website

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