RBD is a Mexican pop music group that grew popular from a prime-time telenovela on Televisa called "Rebelde" (hence the name). This telenovela has been picked up for a second season, which is uncommon for its genre, highlighting the show's success. The script was originally written in Argentina called "Rebelde Way" which emerged the Argentinean Pop sensation - Erreway, but it was remade and revised to make it appeal more to the whole Latin American market. RBD includes six of the most popular characters (or rather, the actors who played them) from the show, who peform all of the music used on the show, including its opening theme. The group (and show) is particularly popular among high school students, but is widely watched by the young masses. The group's members are: Anahí, Dulce María, Maite, Alfonso, Christopher, and Christian.
OCESA (a Mexican entertainment company) released a list of the fastest selling concert tickets in Mexico in 2005. Almost all of the artists were American and European, RBD was the only Mexican group to make the top 5 list.
- The Cure - Sing To The Dead Tour(2004)
- Britney Spears - Dream Within a Dream Tour (2002)
- Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue Tour (2001)
- RBD - Generación Tour (2005)
- Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Tour (1998)
Their 6 concerts at Palacio de los Deportes (capacity 18,000) at Ciudad de Mexico sold out.
RBD also declared in a mexican talk show "No Manches", that they would be giving a tour around the United States going to cities such as Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Dallas, and Puerto Rico. RBD is truly a phenomenon. RBD recently were surprised with a Diamond Album for their extremely huge sales of their first Album "Rebelde", it's sold 500,000 copies only in Mexico.
Albums
On September 22 of 2005 they launched their second CD, called Nuestro Amor, which debuted at #1 in Mexico and at #3 In US: Latin, Wich in just 7 hours it gained a Plantium certification for more than 126,000 copies of it sold in Mexico. Also on 'Premios Juventud', in Miami, they obtained 5 of the 11 nominations. Stepping up to Billboard to number #2 on the Latin Chart with their single "Sólo Quedate en Silencio". Lately, RBD is releasing their portuguese version of Rebelde in Brazil, which contains 7 of the 11 songs in portuguese and the spanish album as well. The album is already proving to be a real success, since most of brazilian sale websites run out of the album in its first week of its release. They are also releasing Fique Em Silêncio, portuguese version of Sólo Quedate En Silencio there.
The sum of their three records sold worldwide is estimated in 1,000,000 copies.
List:
- Rebelde (2005) #1 Mexico, #2 US: Latin, #95 US: Top 200, #17 BRA
- Tour Generación RBD (live) (2005) #1 Mexico, #22 US: Latin
- Nuestro Amor (2005) #1 Mexico, #1 US: Latin, #88 US: Top 200
- Rebelde (Brazilian Release) (2005) #10 BRA
Singles
- From Rebelde
- "Rebelde" (2004) #1 Mexico
- "Sólo Quedate En Silencio" (2004) #1 Mexico, #2 US: Latin
- "Salvame" (2005) #1 Mexico
- "Un Poco De Tu Amor" (2005) #2 Mexico
- From Rebelde (Brazilian Release)
- "Fique Em Silêncio" (2005)
- From Nuestro Amor
- "Nuestro Amor" (2005) #4 Mexico; #1 Los 40 Principales Mexico
DVDs
Tours
- Tour Generacion RBD (2005)
- Nuestro Amor Tour (2006)
External link
- Official Website (in Spanish)