Blue

The most predominant were a British boy band consisting of four members: Lee Ryan, Duncan James, Antony Costa, and Simon Webbe. The band released their debut single "All Rise" which sold more than 1.300.000 copies on May 21, 2001 and the song rose to number four on the British Top 40. Blue released their next single, "Too Close" a cover version of Next's song, on August 27, 2001 and this song was Blue's first number one single. After the cd single Too Close there were two new singles from the album All Rise; If you Come Back and Fly By II which is a remix of Fly By. Those singles sold more than 200.000 copies in the UK. The band released a new single and album, in the summer of 2002, both called "One Love" which was the best Blue album, selling more than 3.000.000 copies. Their next single, which also reached number one on the British Top 40, was a duet with Elton John entitled "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word", a cover version of one of John's songs. This track was number one in Europe for 6 weeks

The band decided to split after Elton John suggested that their popularity was decreasing and that they should concentrate on their solo careers. They did so after releasing their Best Of Blue greatest hits compilation in 2004, which contained a few new tracks such as "Curtain Falls", "Get Down On It" and "Only Words I Know".

Blue were also British poprock group formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1973 by Timmy Donald b. 1946, Bristol, Avon, England drums, Ian MacMillan b. 1947, Paisley, Strathclyde, Scotland bass, guitar, vocal, and Hugh Nicholson b. 1949, Rutherglen, Strathclyde, Scotland guitar, vocal, keyboard. Signed to Elton John's Rocket Records label John also produced them, they released their self-titled debut album, then added Robert "Smiggy" Smith b. 1946, Kiel, Germany guitar for their second, Life in the Navy. They were then reorganized, with MacMillan and Nicholson remaining and adding Charlie Smith drums and David Nicholson guitar. This lineup scored a U.S. singles chart entry and U.K. Top 40 hit with "Gonna Capture Your Heart" and recorded the third album Another Night Time Flight 1977 and the fourth album Fool's Party 1979, after which Blue broke up.

A Swedish indie band from the early 90's was also called Blue. They released two albums on the Skellefte label A West Side Fabrication, "Blue" 1993 and "Sitting on a Sofa" 1994.

Another band with the same name is a project of Chris Mann and Paul Darking from the UK. They play a mix of Dub, Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop and other electronic styles.They released three official albums Resistance, Mexican Church and Nightwork, one mini album Corrosion, some EP's and do appear on some compilations. Last activity was in the year 1999.

Another rock band that shares this name is the one that released in 2003 the album 'Voice of Reason'.

There's also a world music band with this name that have released in 2002 'Indigo Soulstice' and in 2004 'Stay Gold'.

Yet another rock band that comes from Japan shares this name, but has a rich discography: four LPs Since, Breath and Misty all released in 1999 and 2000's Birth album and a best-of compilation, "Best 1997-2001" released in 2001.

There's also an electronica artist with this name that released in 1999 2 album called "Loosing Control" and "Intentisy" on the label Fast Moving.

Also, there's a singer Blue that sings blues. His discography includes four albums: "Holly's Song" 1999, "The Lion And The Pride" 1994 - live recording, "Alive in the Valley, Dead in the Water" 1993 and "Something Borrowed Something" 2002.

There are also at least four other artistsbands named Blue that don't have any album released.