DC Playlist: Now United's "Let the Music Move You", and the Eighteenth Member

 FOLLOW-UP  The Biggest Pop

 Group You've Never Heard Of

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A couple weeks ago on here, this fanatic of reality TV took a break from covering that world to one of my other passions of music, and help introduce a group that might not be as well known in America as they are in much in the world, but they are one that's rapidly growing across our planet. Now United was created in summer 2017 by Spice Girls and American Idol creator Simon Fuller, comprised originally of fourteen singers & dancers from fourteen different countries, but whose roll call expanded last year to include three additional members from Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Since our post on them back in mid-April, Now United has further spread its wings around the globe by adding its eighteenth member to their family, and also got to talk to MTV's YouTube channel back on its weekly Friday music livestream with host Kevan Kenney. The three members who joined the band last year were all girls -- Savannah Clarke, Nour Ardakani and Melanie Thomas. But if you were in the shoes of any of the five guys who are trumped by the group's twelve girls, then you must've been felt being in the minority of sorts... though all's not bad given the mania the Uniters fan base have for this collective.

It was after Melanie joined the group last fall than the process began once again for XIX Entertainment, and where this time the search for #NowUnited18 would turn to finding the sixth boy in the group to join this global supergroup. It was most especially true when the Philippines' Bailey May and Canada's Josh Beauchamp were the only two guys for most of the group's stay in Abu Dhabi and Dubai last fall, and after the group agreed that the ladies would take the lead in the global search, the process began when they left the Middle East and continued into the spring.

Someone You Should Know: Now United - The Biggest Pop Group You've Never Heard Of

BY DC CUEVA                        

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In the mind of yours truly, there are four passions that matter the most to me: MTV Reality shows, sports, music and Las Vegas. The first choice is the one that is covered wall-to-wall on this DCBLOG website like no other in the blogosphere, and if you get to see what I'm like in my ideal environment perfecting this craft then typically I'll be hunkered down in my desktop or laptop having the earphones on and plugged to that fourth option.

The music world is something that I have a tremendous interest in, and not just because I've been loving the song choices on recent seasons of MTV shows. Across my slew of choices to hear those tunes -- iPhone, FOUR iPod's and my CD collection, the amount of songs I have are limitless... and that doesn't account for the current craze of streaming services. And if you're curious of what I have, if there is someone who is on the top of the charts chances are they are in my playlist, but so are artists from the entire musical spectrum -- both known to us here in America and those who you don't know about.

But if there's a choice of those artists who stood out to me in my DC Playlist in the past year, then it's something that taps into me being a fan of the one event I look forward to most in the sports world, and brings that idea into the world of music. And this week, that artist (or artists) got to visit a place familiar to me and those who watch TV's most exciting reality programming, which gave me reason to introduce you, the visitors of this blog, to perhaps the biggest global pop you've never heard of: Now United.