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118-544: The Tufts Beelzebubs , frequently referred to as " The Bubs ", is a male a cappella group of students from Tufts University that performs a mix of pop, rock, R&B , and other types of music while spreading their motto of "Fun through Song". Founded in 1962, they have toured in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America, and they competed on NBC's The Sing-Off in December 2009, finishing in second place. The group

236-417: A Christian mean girl. Actor Cory Monteith died during summer before the fifth season was shot; his character, Finn Hudson, died off-screen in the season's third episode, " The Quarterback ". The sixth and final season focuses on Rachel Berry, who returns to McKinley after her television pilot fails. She decides to reconstitute the glee club with all-new McKinley students and with Kurt's help. Will Schuester

354-733: A High Court judge ruled that the show "diluted and tarnished" the reputation of the comedy club chain. In a later ruling in July 2014, the High Court ordered Fox to use a different title for the show in the UK, saying there was a "likelihood of confusion" between the two brands. In February 2016, Fox lost an appeal against the decision. Three soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee 's first season: Glee: The Music, Volume 1 , Glee: The Music, Volume 2 and Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers . Two extended plays (EP) accompanied

472-509: A Jay Leno float." The show's success sent the cast on a concert tour, Glee Live! In Concert! after the first season's wrapup. They visited Phoenix , Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. The cast also recorded a cover of Wham! 's " Last Christmas ", which was released as a single in late 2009 but didn't appear in the show until " A Very Glee Christmas " on December 10, 2010. Morrison, Lynch, Michele, Monteith, and Colfer reprised their roles as Will, Sue, Rachel, Finn, and Kurt respectively for

590-724: A Tony Award, and is a surrogate mother for Kurt and Blaine (who are themselves Broadway stars). Artie has directed Tina in a film, Mercedes is a highly successful recording artist, and Sue has just been re-elected Vice President of the United States . The McKinley auditorium is renamed after Finn. In casting Glee , Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles. Instead of using traditional network casting calls, he spent three months on Broadway, where he found Matthew Morrison , who had previously starred on stage in Hairspray and The Light in

708-538: A balance between show tunes and chart hits , and were produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström . Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, and a series of Glee albums have been released by Columbia Records . The music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over 36 million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series' merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, an iPad application, and karaoke games for

826-510: A cameo appearance in an episode of The Cleveland Show that aired January 16, 2011. Michele, Monteith, and Riley appeared as campers in the twenty-second season premiere of The Simpsons . Lynch, Colfer, Monteith, and Riley appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12, 2010. When Agron, Michele, and Monteith posed for a set of risqué photos for the November 2010 edition of GQ magazine, Parents Television Council (PTC) criticized

944-561: A cappella covers in the second season of the TV series Glee , all of which were released as singles, starting with Katy Perry 's " Teenage Dream ", with lead vocals by Darren Criss , which aired in the episode " Never Been Kissed " on November 9, 2010. The single had sales of 214,000 copies in its first week, the most of any Glee single in the show's history, and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it has since been certified

1062-778: A cappella groups, whether all-male identifying, all-female identifying, or mixed, share similar traits. The groups often benefit from the talent of non-music majors who have significant experience with music, choral singing, or both. Participation in such groups provides both a social and creative outlet for students who are pursuing other academic fields. Groups are generally self-sustaining and often entirely run by students. Some groups receive financial support from their educational institution while others are entirely self-supporting. Unlike professional groups, which typically have four to seven members, collegiate groups typically perform with eight to sixteen members, with full group rosters measuring up to 30 members in some cases. This large roster size

1180-691: A cappella is by far most common in the United States from which it originated; however in recent decades the trend has spread beyond to universities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in Europe as well as up north into Canada and across the Pacific into Australia, New Zealand and a few nations in Asia. College a cappella has grown rapidly since 1980. This growth was fueled in part by stylistic changes that had widespread appeal, and in part by

1298-586: A cappella organization based around their two main competitions, the ICCA (International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella) and the ICHSA (International Competition of High School A Cappella). The South Asian a cappella competitive circuit is governed by the Association of South-Asian A Cappella (ASA), a non-profit organization formed in 2016, with some collegiate teams that compete in both circuits. Collegiate

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1416-628: A cappella. The group flourishes due to a successful and active alumni association. The 1991 album Foster St. abandoned a more traditional methodology and introduced a new style of arranging – especially with the addition of vocal percussion In 2006, the Bubs' CD Shedding swept the CARA awards for collegiate male a cappella winning best collegiate album, best solo, best arrangement, and best song. The Bubs' performance schedule has grown to over 80 gigs per year. The Bubs have toured in Europe (England, France,

1534-407: A couple of things that have happened to me, and then he writes it into the show. Or he'll ask me what song I would want to sing, in this situation or in that situation. I don't think any of us directly try to give input on the character or on the storyline, but they definitely steal things from us." For the second season, a shift toward using more Top 40 songs was seen, in an effort to appeal more to

1652-431: A delinquent in need of direction; and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang , a shy goth who longs to be popular. The main cast was altered throughout the series, including the addition of Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez , a sardonic and cynical cheerleader struggling with her sexuality, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang , a soft-spoken dancer whose parents do not support his dreams, and Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce ,

1770-644: A ditzy cheerleader. The series was created by Ryan Murphy , Brad Falchuk , and Ian Brennan , the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film. The three wrote all of the show's episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the show's main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the first season aired from September 9, 2009, to June 8, 2010. Subsequent seasons aired from September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015. Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain

1888-438: A form of escapism. "There's so much on the air right now about people with guns, or sci-fi, or lawyers running around. This is a different genre, there's nothing like it on the air at the networks and cable. Everything's so dark in the world right now, that's why Idol worked. It's pure escapism," he said. Murphy intended to make a family show to appeal to adults as well as children, with adult characters starring equally alongside

2006-674: A full soundtrack album of the Warblers songs was released April 19, 2011 as Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers . The Beelzebubs were the inspiration for the Barden University Treblemakers in the movie franchise Pitch Perfect , being one of the groups covered by Mickey Rapkin in Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory , the book the movies are loosely based on. The Beelzebubs were originally named "Jumbo's Disciples" after

2124-507: A gold record in the US. Additional covers include Train 's " Hey, Soul Sister ", Destiny's Child 's " Bills, Bills, Bills ", Robin Thicke 's " When I Get You Alone ", " Animal ", P!nk 's " Raise Your Glass ", and Maroon 5 's " Misery ". The ten covers, plus two others recorded with the Bubs that did not appear on the show, were included on an album, Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers , which

2242-398: A great diversity of music arrangements and performances. The costumes and uniforms that the groups display present a message to the audience. They may vary in levels of uniformity and formality. Each group has a "brand" and a "look/style" to their members. Costumes can be whatever a group wants them to be, but aesthetic appearances is a pleasing visual for the audience and, most importantly,

2360-582: A high school show choir , also known as a glee club , in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio . Will Schuester ( Matthew Morrison ) takes over the glee club after the former teacher Sandy Ryerson ( Stephen Tobolowsky ) is fired for inappropriate contact with a student. With a rag-tag group of misfit teenagers, Will attempts to restore the glee club to its former glory while tending to his developing feelings for his co-worker, guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury ( Jayma Mays ), as well as defending

2478-469: A line of Glee -related clothing, and Claire's stock accessories. Halfbrick Studios published a Glee content version of the mobile game Band Stars by Six Foot Kid in collaboration with Fox Digital Entertainment on March 27, 2014, currently available on iOS platforms, but with plans to release to Android . The game is available for free download with some Glee content available immediately including Kurt Hummel and Will Schuester. 12 characters from

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2596-430: A live concert thing." Glee: The 3D Concert Movie , filmed during the 2011 Glee Live! In Concert! tour, was released on August 12, 2011. Glee has featured as many as fifteen main roles with star billing , after starting with twelve. Morrison plays Will Schuester , McKinley High's Spanish teacher, who becomes glee-club director and hopes to restore it to its former glory. Lynch plays Sue Sylvester , head coach of

2714-442: A more pop format for the music, as well as helping to contribute to a standardization of a cappella performance through the founding of CASA. One of CASA's core values in its promotion of the a cappella community is that of innovation, stating "We develop new methods for singers, groups, fans, and educators to sing, learn, connect, and interact with one another." The new style used voices to emulate modern rock instruments, marking

2832-595: A painfully shy Asian American student who fakes a speech impediment as a defense mechanism. Dianna Agron plays Quinn Fabray , Finn's cheerleader girlfriend, who later joins the glee club to keep an eye on him. Mark Salling plays Noah "Puck" Puckerman , a good friend of Finn's on the football team who at first disapproves of Finn joining the glee club, but later joins it himself. Naya Rivera and Heather Morris portray Cheerios and glee club vocalists Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce respectively and were originally recurring actors, but were promoted to series regulars in

2950-519: A perfect score from the Recorded A cappella Review Board. Like Shedding before it, Pandaemonium also swept the four all-male categories of the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award , including Best Album, Best Song, Best Solo and Best Arrangement. The Beelzebubs have received perfect scores from the Recorded A cappella Review Board on every release since. They perform at many schools across

3068-577: A popular cheerleader who experiences a teenage pregnancy ; Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel , an effeminate, openly gay boy; Kevin McHale as Artie Abrams , a boy with a physical disability ; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry , an ambitious performer driven by her dreams of becoming a Broadway theatre star; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson , the school's sometimes-slow-witted star quarterback ; Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones , an aspiring vocal diva whose talents go unrecognized; Mark Salling as Noah Puckerman ,

3186-499: A shift away from the more traditional sounds of jazz or classical ensembles and glee clubs to contemporary a cappella , with groups focusing on modern pop music, complete with complex textures and a driving beat (see vocal percussion ). Today, even some glee clubs have a largely pop-music repertoire supplemented only in small part by the traditional genres. In modern competing a cappella groups, there are several techniques that are making each group more and more distinctive. Beatboxing

3304-405: A show where they were in high school for eight years. We really wanted to be true to that experience." Adult characters played by Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch would remain to provide continuity to the series, though according to Falchuk, some students—Rachel, Finn and Kurt in particular—would likely remain on the show after they graduate. In May 2012, Murphy said that just because a character on

3422-453: A song, rights are cleared with its publishers by music supervisor P. J. Bloom, and music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom rearrange it for the Glee cast. Numbers are pre-recorded by the cast, while Woodlee constructs the accompanying dance moves, which are then taught to the cast and filmed. Studio recordings of tracks are then made. The process begins six to eight weeks before each episode

3540-404: A tribute in season five's third episode, which would deal with the death of Monteith's character, Finn. On July 30, 2013, Mays confirmed that she would depart the show after the fifth season to work on other projects, but stated that she would be open to returning as a guest star in the future. On July 7, 2014, it was confirmed that Rivera and Ushkowitz would be placed on a recurring status for

3658-423: A tricky mix, but that's very important—the balancing of that." According to Murphy, the song choices are integral to script development, "Each episode has a theme at its core. After I write the script, I will choose songs that help to move the story along." In a 2010 interview with Allison Kugel, Chris Colfer noted that "there have been a couple of times when I have gone to Ryan Murphy ( Glee creator) and told him

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3776-574: A year on Prime Video . In the United Kingdom , E4 broadcast the first two seasons of Glee , showing episodes months after they were first aired in the US. Sky 1 broadcast the series starting with the third season, airing episodes two days after their US broadcast. However, the show has come under a trademark dispute in the UK with the Glee Club , a small chain of independent live stand-up comedy and live music venues. In February 2014,

3894-906: Is an American jukebox musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015. It focuses on the New Directions, a glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School, that is located in Ohio, USA. The club competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues , regarding sexuality , gender , race , family , teen relationships and teamwork . The initial twelve-member main cast included Matthew Morrison as teacher Will Schuester , Jane Lynch as scheming cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester , Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury , Jessalyn Gilsig as Will's wife, Terri Schuester . Other main cast members played students, with Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray ,

4012-667: Is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 by Beelzebubs alumni to "awaken in young people a passion for expression and learning through music". The organization consists of alumni and friends of the Beelzebubs dedicated to the Bubs Foundation mission to raise money for the music programs of Boston-area public schools. So far the Foundation has donated over $ 50,000 in grants to 60 area music programs. The Bubs provided arrangement and background vocals for ten

4130-484: Is at the top among them, but tone, sound effects, style, blend, and harmonies are all unique, too. Collegiate a cappella spans many music genres and styles including jazz, pop, jazz-influenced pop, fusion, barbershop, rhythm and blues, madrigals, alternative and hard rock, comedy, Jewish (including Yiddish or Hebrew songs), Christian (including Christian pop and rearranged hymns), and South Asian fusion. Differences in musical styles and individual group preferences result in

4248-469: Is best known for providing song arrangements and background vocals for the fictional all-male a cappella glee club "The Dalton Academy Warblers" on the American TV series Glee , although the Bubs do not play club members on screen. Singles by the Warblers, with series stars Darren Criss and Chris Colfer performing lead vocals, have collectively sold over 2 million copies. Due to their popularity,

4366-488: Is filmed, and can end as late as the day before filming begins. Each episode costs at least $ 3 million to produce, and can take up to ten days to film as a result of the elaborate choreography. In late 2010, Bloom reported the process has been even shorter; "as quick as a few weeks". For the second season, the creators were offered listens of upcoming songs in advance by publishers and record labels, with production occurring even before song rights are cleared. Prior to

4484-594: Is going. They all are. I wanted to do the right thing by all of them." He then continued: "They're all coming back. Anyone who is a regular is coming back. Everyone said yes." On June 28, 2013, the media reported that Morris, Riley, Salling, and Shum would be changing from starring status to guest starring roles for the fifth season, and on the following day that Jacob Artist , Melissa Benoist , Blake Jenner , Alex Newell , and Becca Tobin (who play Jake Puckerman , Marley Rose , Ryder Lynn , Wade "Unique" Adams , and Kitty Wilde , respectively), were all being promoted to

4602-477: Is now coaching rival club Vocal Adrenaline, while Blaine is coaching the Dalton Academy Warblers. All of the new main cast members from the fifth season have returned to guest star status in this final season when they appear, as well as Naya Rivera as Santana and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Amber Riley as Mercedes rejoins the main cast, and Dot-Marie Jones as Coach Beiste joins the main cast for

4720-641: Is often driven by necessity, as college groups tend to see high turnover due to graduation and changing student commitments. A large member count enables a group to maintain continuity over time and it also affects the group's aural aesthetic. For example, a large group may be able to perform arrangements that have more than a dozen separate parts, an impossible feat for smaller groups. Some groups record albums of their music, typically at intervals of two or three years. The quality of such albums has recently improved markedly due to an increased focus on multi-track recording, greater access to home recording technology, and

4838-593: The Late Show with David Letterman and performed at Fenway Park for the crowd at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game . The Beelzebubs were one of eight vocal groups featured on the NBC television program The Sing-Off , which aired in December 2009. The Bubs were selected amongst hundreds of groups to compete. Having survived cuts by the judges in each of the first three shows,

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4956-582: The 18–49 demographic . Murphy was surprised at the ease with which use of songs was approved by the record labels approached, and explained: "I think the key to it is they loved the tone of it. They loved that this show was about optimism and young kids, for the most part, reinterpreting their classics for a new audience." A minority of those approached refused to allow their music to be used, including Bryan Adams , Guns N' Roses and Coldplay ; however, in June 2010, Coldplay reversed their decision, allowing Glee

5074-644: The Dartmouth Aires (1946); the Harvard Krokodiloes (1946); Cayuga's Waiters of Cornell University (1949); and the Jabberwocks of Brown University (1949). The Smith College Smiffenpoofs are the oldest continuous soprano/alto a cappella group, founded in 1936. In recent years, online a cappella communities have come together, allowing for greater involvement in the shaping of modern a cappella music, including stylistic trends. Among

5192-486: The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), which conducts various regional competitions, with winners of regional competitions advancing to a national competition. The South-Asian a cappella circuit, run by ASA, also conducts various regional competitions leading up to All-American Awaaz , their national championship. Glee (TV series) Glee (stylized as glee )

5310-607: The Wii home videogame console. There were live concert tours by the show's cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting; a concert film based on the 2011 tour, and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie , which was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen . During its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritic 's weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on 18 critical reviews. Glee has won many accolades . The season

5428-508: The seventh season of The X Factor on December 5, 2010. In 2020, celebrating the show's 11 year anniversary, Ryan Murphy made an Instagram post about his idea of re-doing the show's pilot with Lea Michele, Ben Platt , and Beanie Feldstein . Murphy eventually deleted the post. In 2021, Fox President Michael Thorn revealed he was interested in reviving past Fox programs, most notably 24 and Glee . In 2022, in an interview with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, Ryan Murphy revealed he

5546-448: The "Cheerios" cheerleading squad, and the Glee Club's nemesis. Mays appears as Emma Pillsbury , the school's mysophobic guidance counselor who has feelings for Will, and Jessalyn Gilsig plays Terri Schuester , Will's wife whom he eventually divorces after five years of marriage and the discovery that she has faked being pregnant instead of revealing she had suffered a false pregnancy . Michele plays Rachel Berry , talented star of

5664-543: The 2009–10 television season. Only the first twenty episodes of the first season were accounted for when calculating the season average due to the final two episodes airing outside the traditional sweeps period. On February 6, 2011, after the Super Bowl , Glee received its highest ever ratings, with over 26.8 million tuning in to see the special episode, with a peak of 39.5 million. In 2011, Glee generated $ 2 million advertising revenue per half-hour. In 2012,

5782-466: The 9:00 pm time slot, and aired after that evening's 8:00 pm music competition "results" shows— The X Factor in the fall and American Idol in midseason. The show was renewed for both a fifth and sixth season at the same time, on April 19, 2013. Reruns were also syndicated to local US stations from 2013 to 2015. Glee has been syndicated for broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Australia , where cast members visited to promote

5900-492: The Beelzebubs appeared in the finals on December 21, 2009, finishing second to Nota from Puerto Rico . The competition's prize was $ 100,000 and a recording contract with Epic Records / Sony Music , and was determined by viewer voting. According to The New York Times The Beelzebubs are also proud of their continuing commitment to give back to the community through the Bubs Foundation . The Bubs Foundation, Inc.

6018-522: The Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. The show was also chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011. In 2013, in the wake of Cory Monteith's death and after his tribute episode " The Quarterback " aired, Murphy announced that the sixth season would be the series' last. After 121 episodes and over 729 music performances, Glee concluded on March 20, 2015. The series centers on

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6136-534: The Glee TV show are available for purchase and download in two separate packs. Pack 1 contains: Rachel Berry, Mercedes Jones, Noah (Puck) Puckerman, Jake Puckerman, Sam Evans, and Quinn Fabray. Pack 2 contains: Artie Abrams, Tina Cohen-Chang, Blaine Anderson, Santana Lopez, Brittany Pierce and Unique Adams. The pilot episode of Glee averaged 9.62 million viewers, and the following eleven episodes attained between 6.10 and 7.65 million. The mid-season finale

6254-819: The McKinley graduates from the third season, notably to the fictional New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts (NYADA) in New York City. The season follows the club through a loss at the Sectionals competition (episode 9) and subsequent reinstatement when the winning Dalton Academy Warblers were found to have used banned substances (human growth hormone) (episode 12) before winning at the Regionals competition (episode 22), which meant they would be attending their third consecutive National show choir competition. In

6372-484: The Netherlands, Greece, and Turkey), Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore), South America (Argentina and Brazil), and North America (Mexico, Canada, and the United States including Hawaii and Alaska). They have performed for many high-profile personalities such as Presidents Clinton and Obama , Sen. Hillary Clinton , Jay Leno , and Gov. Bill Richardson . In 1999, the group made an appearance on

6490-592: The Piazza ; Lea Michele , who starred in Spring Awakening ; and Jenna Ushkowitz , who had been in the Broadway revival of The King and I . During their auditions, actors without any theatrical experience needed to demonstrate that they could also sing and dance. Chris Colfer had no previous professional experience, but Murphy wrote in the character Kurt Hummel for him. Jayma Mays auditioned with

6608-638: The Tufts University mascot, but quickly shed this name and adopted the name "Beelzebubs", a reference from the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton . They were first seen at the Tufts annual Winter Sing in December 1962, and by May 1964 they had already performed with the Boston Pops and recorded their first album. During the 1970s, they began adding popular music to the barbershop, doo-wop, gospel, and jazz standards so commonly associated with

6726-725: The Warblers , and Glee: The Music, Volume 6 were 2011 releases, in March, April, and May, respectively. An EP entitled Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show was released to accompany the Halloween episode, " The Rocky Horror Glee Show ". Two EPs were released exclusively at the Target discount chain: Glee: The Music, Love Songs in the last week of 2010, and Glee: The Music, Dance Party in early September 2011. Glee has been released on several DVD and Blu-ray box-sets. Glee – Pilot Episode: Director's Cut features

6844-580: The alumni's lives in New York City for the remainder of the season, including Rachel's successful Broadway debut. Throughout this season, the club and its alumni deal with relationships, death and mourning , body image , gay bashing , intimacy, and other social issues. Several main cast members dropped to recurring guest stars as of this season: Amber Riley as Mercedes, Mark Salling as Puck, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike and Heather Morris as Brittany. New main cast members included glee club members introduced in

6962-558: The club through wins at the Sectionals (episode 9) and Regionals (episode 16) competitions before losing at the Nationals competition in New York City (season finale/episode 22), while its members and faculty deal with relationships, religion , homophobia , bullying , rumors , teenage drinking, death and other social issues. The season's stories revolve around the same Glee club members as first season, with Santana Lopez ( Naya Rivera ) and Brittany S. Pierce ( Heather Morris ) added to

7080-400: The diversity of the cast's backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself: "It's a mix of everything: classic rock, current stuff, R&B. Even the musical theatre stuff is switched up. You won't always recognize it." Jane Lynch was originally supposed to have a recurring role as Sue Sylvester , but was made a series regular when a Damon Wayans pilot she

7198-433: The eighth best television show of the year, commenting: "when Glee works—which is often—it is transcendent, tear-jerking and thrilling like nothing else on TV." Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker ranked it ninth, calling it "Hands down the year's most novel show [and] also its least likely success", Lisa Respers France of CNN wrote that while ordinarily Glee 's premise would have been "a recipe for disaster",

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7316-495: The emergence of professional a cappella production specialists (including arrangers, vocal editors, and mix/mastering engineers). Achievements in collegiate a cappella recording are recognized by awards programs (e.g., the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, awarded by CASA ) and compilation albums, such as the long-running Best of College A Cappella series. Many college groups compete in annual competitions organized by

7434-521: The episode " Born This Way ", which first aired on April 26, 2011, and is included on the Warblers album. The Bubs were featured on the MTV show My Super Sweet 16 . One of the Bubs' previous releases (April 27, 2007) was their highly acclaimed and award-winning twenty-fifth studio album, titled Pandaemonium . Tracks from this album have been selected for Best of Collegiate A Cappella , Sing 4: Good Medicine , and Voices Only 2008 . The album also received

7552-645: The episodes " The Power of Madonna " and " Journey to Regionals ": Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals respectively. Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One , a compilation album featuring all 100 studio recordings from the first season, was released exclusively to the iTunes Store . Five soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee 's second season: Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album , featuring Christmas-themed songs, and Glee: The Music, Volume 4 , were both released in November 2010; Glee: The Music, Volume 5 , Glee: The Music Presents

7670-851: The fictional high school show choir New Directions competing for the first time on the show choir circuit, winning at the Sectionals competition (episode 13) but losing at Regionals (season finale/episode 22), while its members and faculty deal with sex , relationships , homosexuality , teenage pregnancy , disabilities , acceptance and other social issues. The central characters are glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), Will's wife Terri ( Jessalyn Gilsig ), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), and glee club members Rachel ( Lea Michele ), Finn ( Cory Monteith ), Artie ( Kevin McHale ), Kurt ( Chris Colfer ), Mercedes ( Amber Riley ), Tina ( Jenna Ushkowitz ), Puck ( Mark Salling ), and Quinn ( Dianna Agron ). The second season follows

7788-468: The first draft in August 2005 with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies . He completed the script in 2005, but could not generate interest in the project for several years. Mike Novick, a television producer and a friend of Brennan's from Los Angeles, was a member of the same gym as Ryan Murphy, and gave him a copy of Brennan's script. Murphy had been in a show choir in college and felt he could relate to

7906-510: The first not credited to the show's three creators. Adler and Noxon did not return for the show's fourth season and instead House writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner , and Stacy Traub were hired. The series features numerous song covers sung onscreen by the characters. Ryan Murphy was responsible for selecting all of the songs used, and has said that he strove to maintain a balance between chart hits and show tunes: "I want there to be something for everybody in every episode. That's

8024-403: The first season and Criss in the second. For the fourth season, Chord Overstreet , who started as a recurring actor in the second season, playing glee club member Sam Evans , was promoted to the main cast, while Agron and Mays were credited as recurring guest stars. Many of the original characters graduated from McKinley High at the end of the third season. Murphy said, "We didn't want to have

8142-435: The first season by Fox , and the first of these episodes was broadcast on April 13, 2010. These episodes aired on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 pm. On January 11, 2010, it was announced that Fox had commissioned a second season of the show. The second season began production in June 2010. Season two began on September 21, 2010, airing in the 8:00 pm time slot on Tuesdays, and consists of twenty-two episodes. The show

8260-405: The first ten episodes on January 25, 2011, and both Glee Season 2: Volume 2 with the final twelve episode and Glee: The Complete Second Season with all twenty-two on September 13, 2011. All three were released on DVD; only the complete season is available on Blu-ray. Little, Brown Books has published three Glee -related young adult novels , all of which were developed in collaboration with

8378-453: The first time. The cast members deal with gay marriage , gender identity, transitioning and other social issues. The newly reconstituted club wins the Nationals competition, Sue is fired as principal and Will is hired to be the principal of a McKinley High repurposed as a magnet arts school , with Sam as the new director of New Directions. The finale jumps five years into the future: Rachel has married Jesse St. James ( Jonathan Groff ), wins

8496-423: The founding in 1991 of the Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) by Deke Sharon and Rex Solomon, which enabled interaction and collaboration of a cappella groups across the United States for the first time. Sharon, a member of the Tufts a cappella group The Beelzebubs , co-created CASA after two years as the group's musical director. Sharon sought to bring a cappella into the musical mainstream, popularizing

8614-404: The fourth season: Melissa Benoist as Marley Rose , a kind teenager who develops an eating disorder ; Alex Newell as Unique Adams , a shy, nerdy teenager who becomes more bold and glamorous after coming out as transgender ; Blake Jenner as Ryder Lynn , a dyslexic teen; Jacob Artist as Jake Puckerman , a biracial teen struggling with anger issues ; and Becca Tobin as Kitty Wilde ,

8732-475: The glee club whose ambition sometimes causes her to be insensitive toward others. Often bullied by the Cheerios and football players, she grows closer to them as the show progresses and begins an on-and-off relationship with Finn Hudson starting in season one; they become engaged in season three. Monteith played Finn, star quarterback of the school's football team who risks alienation by his friends after joining

8850-404: The glee club's existence from the conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester ( Jane Lynch ). A major focus of the series is the students in the glee club: their relationships as couples, their love of singing and desire for popularity coming into conflict due to their membership in the low-status club, and the many vicissitudes of life in high school and as a teenager. The first season features

8968-463: The glee club. Also in the club are Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones , a fashion-conscious diva who resents having to sing back-up but eventually finds her place in the choir; Colfer as Kurt Hummel , a fashionable gay man countertenor who is often bullied by the jocks in the school; McHale as Artie Abrams , a guitar player and paraplegic who longs to be seen for his personality rather than only his physical injuries; and Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang ,

9086-468: The importance of microphones. Whereas groups at schools with older campuses find themselves with arches and naturally acoustically accentuated spaces in which to perform, many groups find themselves lacking spaces such as these. Individual microphone use for each member of an ensemble has risen in popularity, allowing for, as Mike Chin of the A Cappella Blog states, a "big,...clear,...crisp" sound in an otherwise acoustically dull performance space. In addition,

9204-557: The irreverent attitude found in modern collegiate a cappella. For example, the second-oldest continuously performing a cappella group (and oldest all-male group) is Yale's Society of Orpheus and Bacchus , or "SOB's". The first a cappella groups at other American Ivy League universities include Notes and Keys of Columbia , which were founded in 1909, the same year as the Whiffenpoofs; the Princeton Nassoons (c.1941);

9322-443: The judges. Within the ICCA and ICHSA is a point system. Each group is judged based on several things, some of which including sound, blend, harmonies, choreography, and many more. Choreography is a big factor in determining how many points a group will get, and how clean and precise their movements are is also vital. An "arch sing" is a casual, public performance, often held in an archway for reasons of acoustics and shelter from

9440-452: The main cast were Mike Chang ( Harry Shum Jr. ) and transfer student Blaine Anderson ( Darren Criss ), while Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester was written out of the series and Mike O'Malley as Burt returned to recurring status. The McKinley High class of 2012 graduates at the end of the season. The fourth season continues in Lima with a new generation of students but also follows some of

9558-510: The main cast, along with Kurt's father Burt ( Mike O'Malley ). The third season follows the club through wins at Sectionals (episode 8) and Regionals competitions (episode 14), before they win the Nationals competition (episode 21) in Chicago . The characters deal with gender identity , adoption , domestic abuse , teenage suicide , bullying, disabilities, texting while driving , college and other social issues. Glee club members added to

9676-478: The meantime, Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel navigate NYADA and their lives as aspiring performers, plus their relationships with Finn and Blaine. Issues during the season include sex, bulimia , gender identity, child molestation , dyslexia , school violence , and pregnancy scares . Former main cast members Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) and Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) were credited as guest stars, while previously recurring glee club member Sam Evans ( Chord Overstreet )

9794-531: The most prominent online a cappella presences are the A Cappella Blog, Varsity Vocals, and CASA (The Contemporary A Cappella Society). According to The A Cappella Blog's information section, "The A Cappella Blog was founded in January 2007. Since that time, the site has reviewed over 40 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella competitions. Similarly, the Varsity Vocals compose an international

9912-409: The others. Brennan writes most of Sue's material, and Falchuk frequently writes the scenes between Kurt and Burt Hummel, though Murphy contributes a great deal to Kurt. Starting with season three, a writing staff of six was hired: Ali Adler , Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa , Marti Noxon , Michael Hitchcock , Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell. The season's fourth episode, " Pot o' Gold ", was written by Adler,

10030-429: The person "who's taken the lead in story breaking or who wrote a draft". Brennan noted that the writing process is "fast and loose, with the emphasis on fast", and quotes Murphy as having said, in terms of their roles in episode creation, "I'm sort of the brain. Brad's sort of the heart. Ian's sort of the funny bone", which Brennan says "is true in a lot of ways". Some of the characters are written more by one writer than by

10148-436: The pilot episode and a preview of the second episode, " Showmance ". Glee – Volume 1: Road to Sectionals contains the first thirteen episodes of season one, and Glee – Volume 2: Road to Regionals contains the final nine episodes of the first season. Glee – The Complete First Season was released on September 13, 2010. Three boxed sets were released for the second season: Glee Season 2: Volume 1 containing

10266-420: The rights to their catalog. Adams posted on his Twitter account that the producers of Glee had never requested permission from him and urged them to "pick up the phone". Composer and musician Billy Joel offered many of his songs for use on the show, and other artists have offered use of their songs for free. A series of Glee soundtrack albums have been released through Columbia Records . Songs featured on

10384-449: The script. Murphy and his Nip/Tuck colleague Brad Falchuk suggested that Glee be produced as a television show. The script was entirely rewritten, and was picked up by Fox within fifteen hours of being received. Murphy attributed that, in part, to the network's success with American Idol . "It made sense for the network with the biggest hit in TV, which is a musical, to do something in that vein," he said. Murphy and Falchuk became

10502-473: The second episode's premiere, Glee 's cast went on tour at several Hot Topic stores across the nation. The cast sang the U.S. national anthem at the third game of the 2009 World Series . Macy's invited them to perform at the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , but host broadcaster NBC declined because Glee aired on a rival network. Ryan Murphy commented on the cast's exclusion: "I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing

10620-595: The second season. Mike O'Malley , who plays Kurt's father Burt Hummel , also became a series regular on season two. Gilsig and O'Malley no longer appeared on the list of starring actors at the beginning of the third season, though O'Malley was a recurring guest star in at least six episodes during the season. Two actors were promoted to series regulars as of the third season: Harry Shum Jr. as football player and glee club member Mike Chang and Darren Criss as former Dalton Academy Warbler and new club member Blaine Anderson , both of whom started as recurring actors, Shum in

10738-498: The show are available for digital download through iTunes up to two weeks before new episodes air, and through other digital outlets and mobile carriers a week later. Glee music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom have begun to add original music to the show, including two original songs, " Loser like Me " and " Get It Right ", on the March 15, 2011, episode. Glee is choreographed by Zach Woodlee and features four to eight production numbers per episode. Once Murphy selects

10856-453: The show graduates high school does not mean that they are leaving, "A lot of people have been writing Dianna's off the show, Amber's off the show — they're not off the show. I think Amber was talking about that bittersweet feeling of, 'I'll never be in the choir room with that exact group of people.' At least that's what she told me ... When I read that [tweet,] I said, 'I think people will misconstrue that.' She's excited about where her character

10974-499: The show has "such quirky charm and bravado that it is impossible not to get swept up". Reviews for subsequent seasons on Metacritic, reflecting their initial episodes, were not quite as good—the second season's score was 76 out of 100 from eleven reviews,r and the fourth season received a score of 73 out of 100 from six reviews. Even with these stellar reviews from a multitude of critics, Glee's later seasons lost millions of viewers. Nancy Gibbs of Time magazine wrote that she had heard

11092-517: The show is filmed at Paramount Studios and Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood. Murphy has said that he has never seen a High School Musical film, to which Glee has been compared, and that his interest lay in creating a "postmodern musical", rather than "doing a show where people burst into song", drawing more heavily on the format of Chicago . Murphy intended the show to be

11210-656: The show prior to its September 2009 debut on Network Ten . Midway through season four, Glee was moved to Network Ten's digital channel Eleven due to poor ratings. It also airs in Canada on City and, previously, Global , New Zealand , Fiji , and Trinidad and Tobago . It is broadcast in South Africa , where Fox beams the episodes directly to the M-Net broadcast center in Johannesburg rather than delivering

11328-452: The show was the fourth-highest revenue earning show of the year, with US$ 2.83 million ad revenue per half-hour, behind Two and a Half Men , The X Factor and American Idol . Glee received a Metacritic score of 78 out of 100 in its first season, based on reviews by eighteen critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". It was praised by several critics in year-end "best of" reviews in 2009. James Poniewozik of Time ranked it

11446-534: The show's executive producers and showrunners, Brennan became a co-executive producer and Novick a producer. Brennan, Falchuk and Murphy started by writing "all the episodes". Glee is set at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio . Murphy chose a Midwest setting as he himself grew up in Indiana , and recalled childhood visits to Ohio to the Kings Island theme park. Although set in Lima,

11564-560: The show's main cast. On July 13, 2013, Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver , British Columbia , after failing to check out. Staff were sent to his room where it was then that his body was discovered. An autopsy completed on July 15 indicated that he died of alcohol and heroin overdose . On July 20, 2013, Ryan Murphy said in various media outlets that Cory would have

11682-583: The show's producers and writers. All three have been written by Sophia Lowell; the first, Glee: The Beginning , was released in August 2010 and serves as a prequel to the events of the television series. Subsequent novels include Glee: Foreign Exchange , released in February 2011, and Glee: Summer Break , released in July 2011. Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have plans for a line of Glee -related merchandise including games, electrical products, greeting cards, apparel and stationery. Macy's carry

11800-455: The show; PTC president Tim Winter commented that Glee has many young fans, and that "by authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show's direction. And it isn't good for families." The promotional posters for the first season have the show's stars using their right hands to make an "L" to fill in the L of the word Glee . The second season's promotional posters have

11918-556: The sixth and final season. On August 28, a website revealed that Amber Riley would once again become a regular along with Dot-Marie Jones while Jayma Mays would be on a recurring status. Ian Brennan conceived Glee based on his own experience as a member of the Prospect High School show choir in Mount Prospect, Illinois . He initially envisioned Glee as a film, rather than a television series, and wrote

12036-442: The song " Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me " from The Rocky Horror Show , while Cory Monteith initially submitted a tape of himself acting only, and was requested to submit a second, musical tape, in which he sang "a cheesy, '80s music-video-style version" of REO Speedwagon 's " Can't Fight This Feeling ". Kevin McHale came from a boy-band background, having previously been part of the group Not Like Them . He explained that

12154-603: The stars throwing slushies at the camera in pairs. The third season's promotional posters have the stars getting dodgeballs thrown at them by Sue Sylvester. While the cast concert tour, Glee Live! In Concert! , began on May 15, 2010, and presented concerts in four cities in the US that month, the second edition, with an almost-entirely new set list, toured for four weeks in the US and Canada from May 21 through June 18, 2011, and followed with twelve days in England and Ireland, from June 22 through July 3, 2011. The cast also performed on

12272-564: The tapes. Asian countries that broadcast Glee include Bangladesh , the Philippines , India , Malaysia , and Singapore and Myanmar. All the episodes of the series were announced to be arriving on Disney+ in Latin America in February 2021. In the United States, the series was made available on Disney+ and Hulu starting on June 1, 2022, following its December 2021 departure from Netflix after over seven years, as well as

12390-436: The teenage leads, and as of October 2009 he had already mapped out plans for the series covering three years of broadcast. The three creators—Murphy, Falchuk, and Brennan—plan the stories together. For the first two seasons, they were the only writers, and after taking joint credit for the pilot episode and the episode that opened the fall 2009 season, they began rotating taking a single auctorial credit, based in large part on

12508-588: The tradition of Gregorian chant . A cappella music as a form joined this early form with a later Puritan style, known as shape-note singing, which further extended into the American Gospel tradition. Further permutations leaked into the American pop landscape. Today, by some accounts, there exist as many as “twelve hundred collegiate a cappella groups in the United States alone.” The RPI Glee Club of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , established in 1873,

12626-400: The use of individual microphones allows for added effects to be applied to a group's live vocals, such as adding a digital lower octave (or "octavizing") the bass vocalist to produce a tone that is outside the natural range of most singers. The integration of these technological advancements continues to shape the sound of modern a cappella music at the college level and beyond. Most collegiate

12744-442: The weather. Typically, one or more a cappella groups will perform for a small audience, either as a concert or to promote upcoming concerts. The term is also sometimes used to describe similar casual, outdoor performances not held under arches. In recent years, with the advent of more advanced audio equipment and the ability of a cappella groups to attract income with live performances for pay, there has been increased exploration into

12862-422: The world and have even coached students at the schools, teaching them various singing methods. With over 300 members around the world, The Beelzebubs celebrated their 55-year anniversary in 2018. Collegiate a cappella According to the nonfiction book Pitch Perfect , a cappella music is one of the oldest forms of music in existence, "the kind made without any accompaniment at all," and descended from

12980-420: Was chosen by Fox to fill the coveted timeslot that followed the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011, and the network originally planned to move the show to the 9:00 pm time slot on Wednesdays following the post–Super Bowl broadcast. However, Fox later revised its schedule, leaving Glee on Tuesdays in order to concentrate on building up its weaker Wednesday and Thursday line-ups. A third season

13098-462: Was interested in re-examining the series as a brand through a reboot or a Broadway musical. The first season of Glee consists of twenty-two episodes. The pilot episode was originally broadcast on May 19, 2009. The series returned on September 9, 2009, airing an additional twelve episodes on Wednesdays in the 9:00 pm timeslot until December 9, 2009, for a total of thirteen episodes. On September 21, 2009, nine more episodes were ordered for

13216-606: Was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , six Satellite Awards and 57 other awards, with wins including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy , and Emmy awards for Jane Lynch , guest-star Neil Patrick Harris and Murphy's direction of the pilot episode . In 2011, the show once again won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively, and Gwyneth Paltrow won

13334-500: Was one of the earliest known collegiate a cappella groups. The longest continuously operating group is thought to be The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University , which was formed in 1909 to create a musical group with a more "modern" sound than that of the Yale Glee Club , and named for the lyrics to Little Nemo , a popular Broadway song at the time. Such names, normally intended for comedic effect, have come to define in some part

13452-400: Was ordered by Fox on May 23, 2010, before the end of the first season. The early renewal of the show allowed the production team to cut costs and to plan ahead when writing scripts. The third season broadcasts remained in the show's Tuesday 8:00 pm time slot, and began airing on September 20, 2011. The show's fourth season changed both date and time of broadcast: it moved to Thursdays in

13570-466: Was promoted to the main cast. The fifth season , unlike previous seasons, continues the school year begun in the previous season. The season shows the reigning champion glee club finishing second at Nationals competition ( episode 11 ) before the club is permanently disbanded by Sue Sylvester, now school principal, for budgetary reasons ( episode 12 ), leaving the focus on graduation. The show then jumps several months forward in time and deals entirely with

13688-511: Was released on April 19, 2011, and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 , selling 86,000 copies in its first week. A thirteenth song on the album by the Warblers did not involve the Bubs: " Blackbird " by The Beatles was covered by Chris Colfer with other background vocalists. The last cover to air during the season was Keane 's "Somewhere Only We Know", which was broadcast during

13806-464: Was watched by 8.13 million viewers, with the show returning in April 2010 to a season high of 13.66 million viewers. The following six episodes attained between 11.49 and 12.98 million viewers, falling to 8.99 million for the penultimate episode "Funk". Viewing figures rose to 11.07 million viewers for the season finale, giving Glee the highest finale rating for a new show in

13924-408: Was working on for ABC fell through. The cast is contracted for a potential three Glee films, with their contract stating that "[The actor] hereby grants Fox three exclusive, irrevocable options to engage [the actor] in up to, respectively, three feature-length motion pictures." Murphy said in December 2010 that he wasn't interested in doing a Glee movie "as a story", and added, "I might do it as

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