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Alyson (singer)

American pop/dance singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4738732
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Alyson is an American pop dance singer-songwriter and producer from Los Angeles.

Career

Alyson's debut album Take a Good Look released on her own label, PM Media, was released on May 17, 2005. The album features the hits "Baby Come Back", "What're Your Gonna Do", "Nothin' More To Say", "Feel You", "Take A Gook Look" and "Forever", the fifth song from her debut album to hit the Top 10 on the Hot Dance Club Play and to become Hot Dance Airplay hits, and hit number one on the World Dance/Trance Singles Chart. It also gained Rhythmic, Top 40 and AC format radio airplay.

Alyson's second album, Hey You, was released on March 18, 2008. The title track became the lead single. "Shoobadoo" reached number 2 on Hot 100 Singles Chart. Later, "Sticky Sticky" was number 1 on Top 40 and AC/Hot Charts. "Slip Away" reached 1 for 2 weeks on The Independent Music Network charts.

Her songs became successful on the charts in a few countries such as "Adios Barcelona" "Hey You" hit various spots on the national Hot 100 Radio Chart (Top 40 & AC) in New Music Weekly Magazine.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alyson, singer and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Alyson (singer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.