The Pussycat Dolls are female burlesque dance troupe who are currently based in Los Angeles, as well as in Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The group was founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995.

Since 1995 the group are known for their sexy and racy performances at 'The Viper Room' and 'Roxy' nightclubs and have earned a reputation as one of the hottest performers in Los Angeles. During the time global stars such as Gwen Stefani, Brittany Murphy, Charlize Theron and Pamela Anderson have performed alongside the dolls and eventually many record companies wanted to sign up the group as full performing artists.

Finally, in 2002, Interscope (home to stars such as Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Pharrell) Chairman Jimmy Iovine signed them which has propelled them everywhere, from appearing on late night television shows and movie soundtracks.
The current lineup of six members include the 'lead' singer Nicole Scherzinger with fellow 'dolls' Jessica Sutta, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt and Melody Thornton.

Nicole has already had success in the past, she was in the all girl group Eden's Crush who scored a Top 10 single and album on the US Billboard Charts. While other members have also had their own moments of fame. Carmit was a 'La Vida Loca' girl on Ricky Martins tour, Jessica is a former captain of the Miami Heat dance troupe. Both Ashley and Kimberly where deemed two of the 'hottest young dancers in Hollywood' and final member Melody was found in an open audition.

The Pussycat Dolls released their debut album PCD in the USA on the 13th September 2005, debuting at number five on the Billboard charts. It has since got Platinum in the US and Double Platinum in the UK was well has having great success in many other global territories. Picking up a few awards along the way.

The Pussycat Dolls are proving to be a recognised female group as MTV Hits (UK) marks them as #1 in Top 10 Female Groups (July 2006) beating #2 Destiny's Child and #7 Spice Girls. Furthermore, securing #1 in VH1's (UK) 'Top 20 Sexiest' #2 in TMF's Ultimate 20 Women in Pop (August 2006) and #6 in TMF's Girls of R&B countdown.

The group won a Billboard Music Award for "Don't Cha" as Top Hot/Dance Club Play Single of the Year. The song was also nominated for Top-Selling Single of the Year and Top-Selling Dance Single of the Year.

In 2006, San Francisco-based company Doppelganger (along with Interscope Records) launched the PCD Music Lounge, an interactive website. Also in 2006, The Pussycat Dolls were also featured in a commercial for Cingular Wireless along with Ludacris and KoRn.

On December 7, 2006 the group received a Grammy nomination in the Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group category for their hit "Stickwitu". Later that month, the group was selected to perform for the introduction for ABC's coverage of the NBA.

In 2006, the Pussycat Dolls performed live shows in North America supporting the Black Eyed Peas. As headliners they toured the UK, Europe and Malaysia.

On August 8, 2006, after a Dolls concert in Kuala Lumpur, their concert promoter, Absolute Entertainment, was charged with flouting Malaysian decency laws. The Malay Mail quoted Culture Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Mohamad Arif Abdul Rahman as saying: "I believe the way the Pussycat Dolls behaved onstage amounted to gross indecency". The charge was settled by paying a fine of RM5000 (US$1358 ).

In the winter of 2006 the group went on their first headling tour where they shared the stage with RnB solo star Rihanna across several dates across Europe, ending up in the UK where the group played to sell out Arenas.

In 2007 the Dolls toured North America as a support act for Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics Tour, they also performed that the "Live Earth" concert series at London's Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000 people. 2007 also saw the first series of their new TV show "The Search For The Next Pussycat Doll". The CW series ended in some controversy as the eventual winner, Asia, never performed with the group, at the end of 2007 it seemed certain that she will never perform with the group and will launch a solo career in 2008.

From 2005-2007 Nicole has been prepared her debut solo album Her Name Is Nicole, due for release in 2008. Since July 2007 she has released two solo singles: "Whatever U Like" and "Baby Love". Both of these singles failed to make any impact on the global charts, her only major success being "Baby Love" which made #5 in Germany. Two other songs from the album, "Supervillian" and Puakenikeni" have been released to iTunes, neither have gained any sales and therefore there has been no promotion of either song to date. Nicole's album has also been subjected to numerous delays for various reasons, the official stance being to avoid clashes with other new major releases, but most people in the media believe this is due to the fact none of her singles have had the impact that Interscope have been wanting. It was reported that in December 2007, Interscope, A&M and Geffin records have had to be merged to recover a $18m debt due to the failure of the new album releases from Will.I.Am and Nicole and Eve.

The group returned to the Music scene on May 27, 2008 with the new single "When I Grow Up" which reached number nine on the U.S. Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play. The song topped several European charts and became a worldwide top ten hit. The follow-up single "Whatcha Think About That" with Missy Elliott failed to enter the U.S. charts only managing number 8 on the Bubbling Under chart but managed to reach top 20 in several other countries including the UK with a limited release.

After a slight delay and with two singles released the album, Doll Domination was finally released as a standard and deluxe edition. The latter featured a disc with a solo song by each of the girls. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, with 79,000 copies sold in its first week beating their debut album by one chart position but selling 20,000 less copies. It only spent seven weeks in the top 100, compared with their debut album which sat in the top 100 for nearly one year. In January 2009 it re-entered the top 100 following several more successful singles. The album in original form spawned two other singles, worldwide top 20 hit "I Hate This Part" and the number-one club song "Bottle Pop" which only received a limited release in the US and Oceania. A world tour titled The Doll Domination Tour accompanied the album and began in Aberdeen, Scotland on January 18, 2009.

In April 2009 Scherzinger confirmed to Billboard that the album would be re-released to give more people a chance to get their music. In Europe the album was re-released with three or four new songs. In Australia a compilation called Doll Domination 2.0 was released with six songs from the original version plus four new songs whereas the UK received a six-song EP called Doll Domination: The Mini Collection, released on April 27, 2009 and featuring four of the original songs plus a remix and a new song. In August 2009 the album was repackaged once more, this time as Doll Domination 3.0 to include all of the previously released bonus songs on one CD with the original album. Its release was limited to Europe and the UK where the group's singles had all reached top 20.

The repackaged versions spawned two more singles: the worldwide number one "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" (featured on the soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire) and euro-pop remix of "Hush Hush" (retitled "Hush Hush; Hush Hush") which reached top 20 internationally. Following Scherzinger's over-emphasis in the release of these two singles there several emotional outbursts to the media including one by Thornton during one of the group's appearances on tour. This led to media speculation about the future of the group.