"Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" is the debut

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single of British boy band

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. It was released on 16 December 2002, the same day that female winners

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released their single " Sound of the Underground". The two songs were competing for the coveted

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spot on the

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. "Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" reached number two on that chart, beaten to the top by "Sound of the Underground". The double A-side also reached number nine in Ireland. "Sacred Trust" is a

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of a song originally written and produced by the Bee Gees from the 2001 album ''

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''.

Release and reception

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programme '' Popstars: The Rivals''. The concept of the programme was to produce a boyband and a girlband who would be 'rivals' and compete for the Christmas number one single in 2002. The five boys who made it into the group which was to be managed by

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were Daniel Pearce, Matt Johnson,

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, Jamie Shaw, and Anton Gordon. The boy band were managed by Pete Waterman. The two groups competed for the number one position in the Christmas week issue of the UK Singles Chart, and Girls Aloud came out on top with their song " Sound of the Underground". Girls Aloud later released their own version of "Sacred Trust" on the rarities disc of their 2006

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''.

Chart performance

"Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" debuted at number two on the

on 22 December 2002, the same day as their rivals

reached number one with " Sound of the Underground". The single sold 147,000 copies compared to first week sales of 213,000 for "Sound of the Underground". In Ireland it only managed to chart at number nine while Girls Aloud entered the chart at number two. It remained in both charts for six weeks.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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