All Rise is the debut studio album by English boy band Blue, released on 26 November 2001 in the United Kingdom.

[3] In May 1999, Lee Ryan and Antony Costa met at the ages of 15 and 17, respectively, when auditioning for a boy band on ITV's This Morning, with Simon Cowell putting the group together.

[4] Ryan made it into the band, as did 21-year-old Will Young (who would go on to win the first series of Pop Idol in 2002), although Costa was not chosen.

In 2000, Costa and another one of his friends, Duncan James, decided to form their own band, and they were soon joined by Ryan.

When I asked them if they had anyone in mind to work with, they said they had a friend, Lee Ryan, whom they wanted to invite to join their band.

Following this, the band went to New York City to film the "If You Come Back" music video, and while there, they witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center.

The following month, Blue were being interviewed by British newspaper The Sun and Ryan commented that "This New York thing is being blown out of proportion" and asked "What about whales?

This caused a media backlash that resulted in Blue losing a record deal in the United States and campaigns to sack Ryan from the group.

A music video was recorded and was later used to promote the group's compilation album, Best of Blue.

Sharon Mawer of AllMusic gave the album three and half stars out of five and noted, "The vocals were sung as if there was some real feeling, and that maybe is what separated Blue from their peers.

"[9] Andre Paine of the NME gave the album five stars out of ten stating, when describing some of the tracks that "All of these are fine, but so as not to alienate a single teenage girl, there's also the traditional boyband slop; 'If You Come Back' ...the ballads and various Backstreet Boys rip-offs.

"[1] The album All Rise was released in time for Christmas and reached number one, eventually selling in excess of 1.3 million copies in the UK.