50 Fun Facts About Little Mix

Which Damien Rice song did Little Mix cover as their X Factor winner's single in December 2011?

Cannonball topped the UK chart as the group's first number one, though Damien Rice had no involvement in the cover. It later appeared on the expanded edition of their debut album.

Which N-Dubz singer, in her first series as a judge, mentored Little Mix to their 2011 X Factor win?

Tulisa lost three of her four acts in the opening weeks, yet Little Mix avoided every sing-off and became the first band ever to win the show.

Which Little Mix single, their first original release, debuted at UK number one and went Gold in the US?

Wings reached number 79 on the US Hot 100 and sold 500,000 copies there, the group's first American hit. The group wrote it with production team TMS and songwriter Iain James.

Which Little Mix single held UK number one for three weeks, a girl-group first since Sugababes in 2007?

Black Magic's Director X video, shot at the University of Southern California, has passed a billion YouTube views. The song also reached 67 on the US Hot 100, still the group's best there.

Which Little Mix single debuted at UK number one in 2016 and won British Single at the next Brit Awards?

Shout Out to My Ex was first performed on The X Factor's 2016 results show, with cheerleaders wearing the names of exes on their T-shirts. It sold 95,000 combined copies in its first week.

Which Little Mix single reached UK number one in January 2021, three months after its release?

Sweet Melody was the group's last video to feature all four members, and MNEK has said it was first written at a Demi Lovato songwriting camp three years earlier.

Which founding member announced in December 2020 that she was leaving Little Mix after nine years?

Jesy Nelson announced her departure on 14 December 2020, a month after the group's sixth album, leaving Little Mix to finish their run as a trio.

Which Brit Award did Little Mix win in 2021, the first girl band to do so in its 43-year history?

British Group had never gone to a female act in 43 years before Little Mix collected it at The O2 in Greenwich, at a ceremony delayed to May by the pandemic.

Which Little Mix debut album entered the US Billboard 200 at number four, a record for a British girl group?

DNA sold over 50,000 US copies in its first week, entering behind Daft Punk's Random Access Memories; at home it peaked at number three.

Glory Days was the fastest-selling girl-group number one in the UK since which 2001 Destiny's Child album?

Survivor held that mark for 15 years; Glory Days also posted the biggest first-week UK sales by a girl group since Spiceworld in 1997 and became Little Mix's first chart-topping album.

Which 2021 greatest-hits album marked a decade of Little Mix and added four new songs to 18 singles?

Between Us reached number three in the UK and was the group's first compilation; its deluxe CD closes with their 2011 winner's single.

After leaving Simon Cowell's Syco in November 2018, Little Mix moved within Sony to which label for future releases?

RCA UK and Columbia serviced LM5 days after Syco stopped working with the group's management company; their next release was the first made entirely for RCA.

Which 2022 arena shows, Little Mix's first as a trio, were billed as their last before an open-ended hiatus?

The Confetti Tour closed at The O2 Arena on 14 May 2022 with a show streamed to cinemas and homes in over 143 countries, billed as the last show for now.

Which English-Irish band won Little Mix The Search in 2020 despite ranking third before the public vote?

Since September won the prize of opening for Little Mix on their 2022 farewell shows, plus access to the group's vocal coaches, songwriters and producers.

Which 2021 single with Galantis and David Guetta gave Little Mix their 100th week inside the UK top ten?

Heartbreak Anthem's tenth week in the top ten, in July 2021, made Little Mix the first girl group to total 100 weeks there; it peaked at number three.

Little Mix hold the record for most wins in which regional MTV Europe Music Awards category?

Best UK & Ireland Act went to Little Mix more times than to any other act; their haul also includes three Brit Awards and three Guinness World Records.

Which Kylie Minogue album pipped Little Mix's sixth studio album to UK number one in November 2020 by 5,000 copies?

Disco sold roughly 5,000 more copies than Little Mix's album, which still opened as the fastest-selling album of 2020 by a British act.

How many UK number-one singles did Little Mix score from their 2011 winner's single to January 2021?

Five chart-toppers came alongside 44 UK chart entries, 19 top-ten hits and more than 28 million singles sold in Britain.

Which 2018 outing, Little Mix's first in stadiums, ran for 15 shows with Rak-Su and Germein in support?

Summer Hits Tour was announced in November 2017 with 15 stadium dates, after an arena era in which their 2016 run was honoured as the year's highest-selling UK arena tour.

Which former Eton Road singer joined Amelia Lily and Little Mix as the third finalist of The X Factor 2011?

Marcus Collins had joined boyband Eton Road after their 2006 X Factor run; after the 2011 final he released a cover of Seven Nation Army and toured in Hairspray.

At the 2011 X Factor bootcamp, Little Mix were assembled from two members each of which pair of rejected groups?

Faux Pas and Orion were among six groups the judges built from failed soloists, then trimmed to a four-piece that reached judges' houses under a name the show later had to drop.

Little Mix's 2011 win was the UK X Factor's first by a group; which country's version had already crowned one?

Australia's first X Factor series was won by a group called Random, making Little Mix only the second group to win anywhere in the franchise at the time.

Which Take That singer took Simon Cowell's seat on the X Factor panel in the series Little Mix won?

Gary Barlow was offered Cowell's chair in May 2011, days before Dannii Minogue also quit, and sat beside Louis Walsh and two fellow newcomers, one of them Little Mix's mentor.

Two of Little Mix's four members grew up in which Tyneside town, where one later opened a cocktail bar called Arbeia?

South Shields raised two of the four; one was granted the freedom of the borough there in 2025, and the other spent part of her childhood in Weymouth before moving back.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock made her acting debut in which 2021 Christmas romcom, written and directed by Aml Ameen?

Boxing Day was the first British Christmas romcom with an almost entirely Black cast, and Pinnock also recorded original music for it as pop star Georgia.

Which 2024 Jade Thirlwall single, her solo debut, samples Sandie Shaw's Eurovision winner 'Puppet on a String'?

Angel of My Dreams entered the UK chart at number seven and earned a Song of the Year nomination at the 2025 Brits, where Jade performed it.

Which April 2024 single launched Perrie Edwards's solo career and peaked at number ten in the UK?

Forget About Us arrived two years after the hiatus began, and Perrie's self-titled debut album followed in late 2025, reaching number three.

Which June 2023 single, released through Warner, was the first solo release by Leigh-Anne Pinnock?

Don't Say Love entered the UK chart at number eleven, and a remix a month later added verses from Skepta and Jammer.

Jade Thirlwall's 2025 Brit Award, her first as a solo artist, came in which category?

Best Pop Act went to Jade at a ceremony where her debut single was also up for Song of the Year, seven months before her first album That's Showbiz Baby! reached number three.

Which grime MC, shown having a haircut in the video, featured on the 2017 single version of Little Mix's 'Power'?

Stormzy's verse took 'Power' to number six in the UK, the group's eleventh top-ten single, a year after the track first appeared on Glory Days.

Which rapper features on Little Mix's 2018 single 'Woman Like Me', co-written by Ed Sheeran and Jess Glynne?

Nicki Minaj's verse helped 'Woman Like Me' reach number two, making Little Mix the first X Factor act with 20 UK top-40 singles; producer Steve Mac shared the writing credit.

Which Jamaican dancehall star was added to Little Mix's 'Hair' for its 2016 single release from Get Weird?

Sean Paul performed 'Hair' live with the group just once, at Capital's Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium in 2017; the remix peaked at number 11.

Which American singer wrote his own verse for Little Mix's ballad 'Secret Love Song', later recut without him?

Jason Derulo was sent the finished song and liked it enough to write a verse; 'Secret Love Song, Pt II' without him appears on the deluxe edition of Get Weird.

Which rapper's verse was added to Little Mix's 2013 single built on Curiosity Killed the Cat's 'Name and Number'?

Missy Elliott raps her verse down a telephone in the video before cutting the cord; the 'How Ya Doin'?' chorus was co-written by All Saints' Shaznay Lewis.

Which Latin boy band's 'Reggaetón Lento' got a 2017 English-language remix with Little Mix, a UK top-ten hit?

CNCO's first UK top ten came with the remix, also Little Mix's twelfth, and the song went to number one in Romania and Bulgaria.

Which British singer's 'Kiss My (Uh-Oh)' teamed her with Little Mix over a Lumidee sample in 2021?

Anne-Marie took the song from her album Therapy to number ten in the UK, Little Mix's nineteenth top-ten single and one of their last before the hiatus.

Which American-British electronic trio released 'Only You' with Little Mix in June 2018, a UK number 13 hit?

Cheat Codes' members share the writing credit with Digital Farm Animals, and Little Mix regular Maegan Cottone co-produced the track.

Which American rapper features on the March 2017 single remix of Little Mix's 'No More Sad Songs'?

Machine Gun Kelly's remix reached number 15 in the UK, the group's sixteenth top-twenty hit, and came out as the third single from their fourth album.

Which American funk band's 1986 hit 'Word Up!' did Little Mix cover as the Sport Relief single in 2014?

Cameo's original was their first US top-40 hit and spent three weeks atop the R&B chart; Little Mix's version came out through Syco and Columbia for the charity.

Little Mix's 'Woman Like Me' clip was the final winner of which Brit Award, retired after the 2019 ceremony?

British Video of the Year went to Little Mix in February 2019, the night they performed the song with rapper Ms Banks, and the category was then dropped.

Which American singer duets with Little Mix on 'Oops', a Glory Days track that charted at 41 without a single release?

Charlie Puth's duet was never pushed as a single, yet 'Oops' still reached 41 in the UK on downloads and streams alone.

Little Mix The Search, the 2020 show in which the group built and mentored new bands, aired on which channel?

BBC One carried the series from autumn 2020, after the pandemic pushed back a planned April start, with the final on 7 November.

As of 2021, Little Mix shared the record for most Global Awards wins, six, with which British solo singer?

Dua Lipa and Little Mix each had six wins from the radio-group awards, Little Mix from ten nominations, including Best Song for 'Woman Like Me' in 2019.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock's 2021 BBC documentary, an NTA nominee, carried which three-word subtitle after her name?

Race, Pop & Power arrived on iPlayer and terrestrial TV in May 2021 and was shortlisted for Best Authored Documentary at the 26th National Television Awards.

The Glory Days Tour, the highest-grossing girl-group tour of the 2010s at the time, took roughly how much worldwide?

$42 million remains Little Mix's biggest tour gross, and the 2017 run ranked as the sixth highest-grossing female tour of that year.

Which city's WiZink Center hosted the opening night of Little Mix's LM5: The Tour in autumn 2019?

Madrid opened a 40-date, all-sold-out European run that grossed over $27 million and closed at The O2 with a show filmed for a concert movie.

Which American singer's verse was added to 'Think About Us' for its January 2019 single release from LM5?

Ty Dolla Sign answers the group's verses near the end, singing that the insecurity cuts both ways; the remix peaked at number 22 in the UK.

Little Mix's farewell arena run in spring 2022 opened at the SSE Arena in which city?

Belfast hosted the 9 April 2022 opener, and roughly a month later the run ended with three nights at The O2 in London.

Which 2011 rap hit did Little Mix perform, under their original name, on the first X Factor live show?

Super Bass, a 2011 top-three hit for its Trinidadian rapper, opened the group's live-show run on 8 October 2011, nine weeks before they won.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock's short 2024 project, released on 31 May ahead of a debut album, was titled what?

No Hard Feelings bundled the single 'Stealin' Love' with four other tracks Pinnock said fit together in their own world, two years after she signed to Warner.