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number of celebrities have also guest-performed with the group. The dancers
perform in lingerie and old-fashioned pin-up costumes. The group has become
internationally popular and has been featured in magazines, television specials
for MTV and VH1, ad campaigns, and movies. Carmen Electra has been the group's
lead performer for many of these magazine articles and television appearances,
and she has been featured on stage with the Pussycat Dolls most frequently of
all the celebrity performers. Nicole Scherzinger (a.k.a. Nicole Kea), a former
member of the American Popstars winners Eden's Crush, has now become the group's
lead singer. Other past and present members of the group include Carmit Bachar,
Cyia Batten, Kasey Campbell, Kaya Jones, Ashley Roberts, Rachel Sterling,
Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, and Kimberly Wyatt.They opened the MTV Asia Awards 2004. In 2005 they congratulated themselves with their first hit Don't Cha (featuring Busta Rhymes, originally recorded by Tori Alamaze) in 2005 by performing it in a club for their fans. It has peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached #1 on the Pop 100 and Hot Dance Music/Club Play singles charts. It has also reached #1 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and debuted at #1 on the official UK Singles Chart on September 11 2005. More recently, Stickwitu reached the No.1 spot in UK charts on 12/11/05.
The Pussycat Dolls on the cover of their 2005 debut album, PCD.The Pussycat Dolls released their debut album, PCD, on September 13, 2005. It debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 selling over 99,000 copies.The album slipped down to number 15 on its second week, 23 its third week, 36 its fourth week, but returned to the top 30 thanks to the new single "Stickwitu".The album has been doing great on sales, since its release it has sold over 1.2 million copies, achieving platinum certification. It continues to receive attention, spending its 20th week at number 20. The album features tracks produced by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland, Rich Harrison, Sean Garett, and Ron Fair. Will.i.am produced and rapped on "Beep", while Timbaland produced and rapped on "Wait A Minute".
In 2005, the group appeared in the mobile game Asphalt: Urban GT 2 which was published by the French software company Gameloft along with a MIDI file of Moby's single "Lift Me Up".
In November 2005, they appeared at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, where host Borat (in reality comedian Sacha Baron Cohen) infamously introduced them with "Please prepare yourself for masturbation because next are international singing prostitutes, Pussycat Dolls".
In December 2005, the band won a Billboard Music Award for "Don't Cha" as Top Hot/Dance Club Play Single of the Year, the song was also nominated for Top-selling Single of the Year and Top-selling Dance Single of the Year.
In January 2006, the album PCD continued to gain success. In February 2006, they released the news that they would be going on tour with the Black Eyed Peas. They also released their latest single Beep featuring the lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas, Will.I.Am Later that week MTV News released information on the group's next single, Buttons featuring Snoop Dogg.