12 Fake Bands From TV And Movies That Are Honestly Better Than Your Favorite IRL Bands (Sorry, Not Sorry)

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These bands walked truthful The Beatles could run.

I person to admit: sometimes, the fake bands successful movies and shows spell harder than the existent ones. Honestly, tin you blasted me? It's not my responsibility they person specified catchy songs...

These groups person fixed america performances truthful good, that immoderate person adjacent gone connected to go real-life bands. Sorry to your favourite stone legends, but I’ll instrumentality a Big Time Rush hook implicit a Rolling Stones riff immoderate day. Here are 12 movie and TV bands that are truthful iconic, they marque existent bands look similar amateurs.

2. The Archies from The Archie Show (1968) were bubblegum popular royalty. Did you cognize that these comic publication characters (turned TV stars) are liable for the deed way "Sugar, Sugar"? It spent 22 weeks connected the Billboard Hot 100 and is still the eventual '60s teen anthem. If your parents haven't heard of this track, I'd beryllium very surprised.

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3. The Cheetah Girls from The Cheetah Girls (2003) were the eventual Disney miss group. Their archetypal movie had a agelong database of achievements: it was the archetypal DCOM musical, and the soundtrack sold 2 cardinal copies successful the U.S. They truly said "world domination"! After the occurrence of the archetypal movie, they launched 2 more, positive aggregate tours. "Amigas, Cheetahs, friends for life" inactive runs done my caput connected repeat.

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4. The Blues Brothers from Saturday Night Live (1978) person 1 of the astir antithetic root stories...Starting arsenic a drama sketch, Dan Aykroyd and Jon Belushi's screen of "Soul Man" deed No.14 connected Billboard. They aboriginal made respective albums and a movie, further cementing themselves successful popular civilization history.

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5. Josie and the Pussycats from Josie and the Pussycats (2001) are coincidentally yet different animal-print miss radical that perfectly ROCKED. The movie was ace campy, the songs slapped, and yet — the movie flopped astatine the time. Honestly, it was conscionable excessively up of its clip — a communicative astir the authorities utilizing subliminal messages successful euphony was A LOT for audiences backmost then. Today? It's a full cult classic! The soundtrack inactive deed its mark, climbing to No.16 connected the Billboard soundtrack charts astatine the time.

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6. The New Directions from Glee (2009-2015) were the eventual glee club, period. Their screen of "Don't Stop Believin" deed No.4 connected the Billboard Hot 100 backmost successful 2009 — and that was conscionable the beginning. The amusement was hilarious, unhinged, sometimes problematic, but ever packed with astonishing covers and archetypal songs. The radical adjacent went connected circuit and had a concert movie. These stars were much than conscionable a TV band, they were a taste phenomenon.

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7. Pink Slip from Freaky Friday (2003) gave america the Lindsay Lohan pop-punk infinitesimal we didn't adjacent cognize we needed. "Take Me Away" is inactive an implicit head-banger, and adjacent made a reappearance successful Freakier Friday (2025), the sequel! The opus was originally by the Australian band, Lash, but honestly? Lohan and Pink Slip made it adjacent better.

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8. Sex Bob-Omb from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) were messy, loud, chaotic, and wholly iconic. It was a container bureau bob-omb astatine first, but overtime it rapidly became a beloved flick by comic, music, and movie fans alike. Fun fact: instrumentalist Beck adjacent helped trade the band's songs!

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9. Big Time Rush from Big Time Rush (2009-2013) started retired arsenic a fake boyband and someway became real. They toured arenas, released three Billboard 200 top-20 albums, and adjacent had Snoop Dogg diagnostic connected 1 of their hits, "Boyfriend." These boys were truthful celebrated astatine the clip that they adjacent had One Direction unfastened up for them. The amusement was hilarious, but the music? Legendary.

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10. The Barden Bellas from Pitch Perfect (2012) fundamentally made a cappella chill again. Every rehearsal, mashup, and contention country was cinematic gold. Their performances had millions of viewers falling successful emotion with amusement choir music, and yes — they adjacent topped real-world charts. This movie single-handedly turned a cappella into a taste moment, and gave the ICCAs (International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella competition) a large uprise successful summons sales.

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12. The Stiff Dylans from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) were virtually each teenage girl's dream. Georgia's crush Robbie played successful this teen pop-rock set with the catchiest opus ever, "Ultraviolet." Were they everyone's favourite? Absolutely. Were they my favourite? Also absolutely.

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From redeeming the satellite to dominating the charts, these bands proved that immoderate fictional euphony groups deed harder than the existent ones. Who's your fave fake set oregon solo act? Let america cognize successful the comments!

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