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and Phillip Wilcher, who all met while studying early childhood education at an Australian university. Field and Fatt had been members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, so when it was time to do a school project, they turned to music. Reworking some Cockroaches tunes and incorporating principals of childhood development, The Wiggles recorded their first album in 1991 and soon after went on their first tour. Through the rest of the 1990s, The Wiggles maintained a busy recording and touring schedule, releasing multiple albums and home videos, and performing to increasingly large audiences in Australia and New Zealand. The band gained popularity in the United States in 1998 when Lyrick Studios, the producers of Barney & Friends, began distributing Wiggles videos in the US and advertising them in their other videos. During their US tour, The Wiggles performed during the intermission of Barney Live. In 1997, Twentieth Century Fox produced a feature-length film, The Wiggles Movie, which became the fifth-highest grossing Australian film of 1998. Since their inception, the group has had other regular characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog) and a troupe called "The Wiggly dancers" who have toured with them and appeared in their CDs, DVDs, and television programs. The group have become so successful, they have franchised their concepts to other countries, developed Wiggles sections in amusement parks in Australia and the US, and won several recording industry awards and honors, including seventeen gold, twelve platinum, three double-platinum, and ten multi-platinum awards for sales of over 17 million DVDs and four million CDs.



Now known as "your child's first rock band," The Wiggles have achieved worldwide success with their children's albums, videos, television series, films and concert appearances. By 2002, The Wiggles had become the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) most successful pre-school television program. The Wiggles were named Business Review Weekly's top-earning Australian entertainers for four years in a row and earned AU$45 million in 2007. Now, that's something to wiggle about.