Even though the U.K. all-male vocal ensemble Five won't release its stateside debut for several weeks, the group has already crashed the American charts with its debut single, "When the Lights Go Out.

The members of Five first met during an open casting call, but rather than having been pieced together individually -- a la the Spice Girls -- Five actually came together when J, Sean, Abs, Scott and Rich struck up a conversation while waiting, and eventually decided to audition collectively. The management fielding the new pop group was suitably impressed by the lads' solidarity and Five was formed.

Despite the group's massive success in the U.K., Five say that the situation that's currently engulfed the Spice Girls, to whom they've often been compared, has only made them more thankful for the success they've had, as well as served realistic notice about the half-life of today's pop stars.

We're just five young guys having a laugh," J told the MTV Radio

Network, "and we're going to appreciate it until the day it comes to an end, like everybody should. You should never sit there and be complacent and think, 'Yeah I deserve this.'

"Because one day," Sean explained, "it will end. Then you'll be like, 'Where am I now?[500k Quicktime]

So when the band comes to an end," J continued, "and some people always ask, 'Why do you say when?'" Well, it's not like we're saying we can't wait for it to be over, but it's a well-known fact that pop groups end. And when that band is done, hopefully we'll be successful people and then we'll go on and do what we want after that, which is write and produce for ourselves and other people." [600k Quicktime]

Five will release its eponymous

debut on July 14th.