On 22 November 2013, the Vamps announced that their second single would be "Wild Heart". On 19 November 2013, the band announced that they would release their debut album around Easter. " Can We Dance" was released on 29 September 2013 and debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 6 October 2013 beaten to number one by OneRepublic's " Counting Stars", which sold 1,250 copies more. On 6 August 2013, they released the music video for their debut single " Can We Dance", which received over 1 million views within two weeks. On 22 July 2013, the band uploaded their first original song, "Wildheart" (later re-titled " Wild Heart"), onto their YouTube account the video received over 46,000 views within the first two days. By October, they were being described as a new boy band, with special attention given to their YouTube performance of One Direction's song " Live While We're Young". In mid-2012, the band started uploading cover songs to their YouTube channel. The trio then met Connor Ball via a mutual friend. In 2012, Simpson and McVey met Tristan Evans through Facebook. Together, the pair wrote songs towards the later months of 2011, with Simpson later becoming the lead singer. Deciding he wanted to form a band, McVey subsequently discovered Bradley Simpson in 2011 through YouTube. James McVey was already managed by Richard Rashman and Joe O'Neill of Prestige Management. They have continuously toured worldwide since their debut in 2012, and they are the first band to headline London's O2 Arena five years in a row. In 2018, guitarist McVey participated in the eighteenth series of I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here! and finished in fifth place. The first act signed was American band The Tide. The Vamps have also launched their own record label, Steady Records, and they are working in partnership with EMI/Universal. Their first two albums, Meet The Vamps and Wake Up are both certified Gold in the UK. In 2017, they had their first number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with Night & Day (Night Edition). They formed in 2012 and signed to Mercury Records (now Virgin EMI Records) in the November of the same year. The Vamps are a British pop band consisting of Brad Simpson, James Brittain-McVey, Connor Ball and Tristan Evans.
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