 | | Before releasing her debut album in 2009, Selena Gomez began her career as a child actress. Born in 1992, she grew up in Texas and got her first break as a cast member on the kids TV show Barney and Friends. |
 | | Raised on a steady diet of Jackson 5, teen pop, and Glee, six-piece Sacramento, California-based family band Cimorelli became Internet stars with their a capella rendition of Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA. |
 | | The younger sibling of former child actor Haley Joel Osment, actress/vocalist Emily Osment launched her career at a young age, having landed a role in the 1999 film The Secret Life of Girls when she was only seven years old. |
 | | Actress/vocalist Demi Lovato began making a name for herself after starring alongside the Jonas Brothers in the 2008 Disney Channel movie Camp Rock. |
 | | Teen performer China McClain is known for her work on family comedy Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Disney Channel series A. |
 | | Teen performer Bella Thorne (born Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne) first gained recognition in the music world for her role on the dance-oriented Disney Channel series Shake It Up. |
 | | Canadian pop singer Alyssa Reid rose to the top of the charts in 2010 with the hit single "Alone Again," which riffed off of Heart's 1997 smash "Alone" and featured rapper P. |
 | | Before she released her debut album in 2011, Christina Grimmie entertained fans via the Internet, where she became one of the highest viewed musicians on YouTube thanks to her scaled-down performances of contemporary pop hits. |
 | | Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen spent her formative years absorbing pop culture in her hometown of Mission, British Columbia. |
 | | Rachel Crow, a native of the small Colorado town Mead, auditioned at age 13 to appear on The X Factor. |
 | | Miley Cyrus became an overnight sensation in 2006 as the star of Hannah Montana, a popular Disney Channel television series whose success allowed Cyrus to launch her own recording career several years later. |
 | | Pop singer Justin Bieber was barely into his teens when he released his platinum-selling debut, My World, and became one of 2009's youngest success stories. |
 | | Formed in 2006 around the talents of Kate Cabebe (drums), Katie Cecil (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Shelby Cobra (lead vocals), Sophia Melon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Shae Padilla (lead guitar), Los Angeles-based pop/rock outfit KSM (the name was derived from the copious amounts of K's and S's in the bandmembers' names, with the "M" representing "music") craft hook-filled teen pop that blends the polished grit of pioneering girl groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles with the wide-eyed wonder of contemporary pop groups like the Cheetah Girls and the Jonas Brothers. |
 | | When Glee aired its first episode in May 2009, the TV show only attracted a fraction of the viewers who tuned in for American Idol, which was shown on the same channel just one hour prior. |
 | | Following in the footsteps of older sister Lindsay Lohan, Ali Lohan is an actress, model, and singer. |
 | | Going from a series of books about a girl pop band to a series of Disney TV movies about a girl pop band to an actual, touring girl pop band, the Cheetah Girls began as fictional characters in Deborah Gregory's 16 novels for young-adult readers. |
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 | | Pop singer and actor Jesse McCartney was a child performer dynamo, singing on Broadway and landing an acting gig on All My Children before even joining his first boy band, a feat that came at the age of 12. |
 | | Georgia-born singer/songwriter Jordan Pruitt began her singing career at the age of four, harmonizing with her father's group in church. |
 | | The girl group the Gemz were formed after Sammi-Jack, Margaux, Sarah, Carlie, and Samantha were seen in a regional production of The Sound of Music in Coral Gables, FL, by a team of local talent producers. |
 | | Hailing from Southern California, sisterly pop duo Savvy & Mandy began their professional careers acting and modeling in commercials, catalogs, and print ads. |
 | | Argentinean pop quartet Erreway(R Way) were introduced to South American youth audiences as the four protagonists on the popular TV series Rebelde Way. |
 | | A teen pop sister act, the PreZcotts make original pop and dance-oriented music and also cover various pop hits of the '70s, '80s, and '90s. |
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 | | Whether they were slinging bouncy, Hanson-esque teen pop or synth-driven indie rock, Tiktak managed to hold their own as a staple of Finnish Top 40 radio in the early 2000s. |
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 | | Celebrity in the 21st century had no patience for hopefuls who opted for a single career. That's one of the reasons why it wasn't a stretch for child actress Brie Larson to record an album for Universal -- like Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan, she was only doing what was required of tween stars in the early 2000s. |
 | | Twin sisters Carmen & Camille have been performing together since the age of five. Two, their debut album, was released in October 2006. |
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 | | Only a year after forming, Austria's Tie-Break were performing and competing at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest held in Istanbul. |
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 | | Best known as a member of the all-male pop group Backstreet Boys, singer AJ McLean is a singer/songwriter and performer in his own right. |
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 | | German pop singer Sarah Engels came to national prominence after landing a spot in the Top Ten on the 2009 season of the Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, being eliminated and then being brought back and eventually finishing as the runner-up. |
 | | Classically trained pianist, singer/songwriter, and pop rebel Bonnie McKee spent her formative years in California. |
 | | Vocalist Hope Partlow grew up singing gospel and country songs in her native Tennessee. While still in her early teens, she began making self-produced demos with her family, one of which made its way to an aunt working as a songwriter in Nashville. |
 | | A student of voice, acting, and choreography since his eighth year, by 12 Stevie Brock was ready to make a play for teen pop stardom. |
 | | Teen heartthrob Mitchel Musso began his career as an actor, playing Oliver "Smoken" Oken on The Disney Channel's Hannah Montana before adding a music career to his résumé in 2009. |
 | | Teenage actress Miranda Cosgrove launched her music career in 2007, when she scored a hit with the theme song to her own TV show. |
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 | | A singer and songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky, Casey Jame revealed her penchant for singing at the age of two, and by the time she was nine years old, she was performing on-stage in front of audiences. |
 | | Following the success of JLS and the Wanted, X-Factor contestants One Direction were the next group of heartthrobs to help revive the previously dying concept of the boy band. |
 | | Best known as Austin Moon on the Disney Channel original series Austin & Ally, Ross Lynch is a singer, dancer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. |
 | | After the rise and fall of Take That, Spice Girls, and Boyzone, the U.K. didn't hold back with churning out signature pop artists. |
