Day26

• Genre: Contemporary R&B

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Day 26 is Brian Andrews, Mike McCluney, Qwanell Mosley, Robert Curry and Willie Taylor, five guys picked to live in a house, fetch cheesecake for Diddy and find out what happens when people stop being nice -- oh wait, sorry. Wrong reality show. Here's what Day 26 are: five winners of MTV's Making the Band 4, handpicked by Sean "Diddy" Combs and named after the day (August 26) he picked 'em; the R&B vocal group behind the single "Exclusive (No Excuses)" (written by MTB judge Brian Cox) and an eponymous debut album released on Bad Boy Records; the all-male counterpart to MTB3 winners Danity Kane. Here's what Day 26 are not: home to Donnie Klang, the sixth winner of MTB4, who was instead offered a solo contract with Bad Boy. And here is what Day 26 might be: the post-millennium New Edition and maybe, just maybe, the group (along with Danity Kane) to break the reality contest band jinx.

- Rachel Devitt