99 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 X Factor judge, in her first series on the panel, mentored Little Mix to their 2011 win?

Tulisa, of N-Dubz, 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 drew on the hardships the four faced as X Factor contestants, and they co-wrote it so their first original single would sound like them. It reached number 79 on the US Hot 100.

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

Black Magic led the album Get Weird after the group scrapped most of an earlier batch of songs as not good enough. Its Director X video, shot at the University of Southern California, has passed a billion YouTube views.

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 ever to take it?

British Group had never gone to an all-female act before Little Mix, who used their speech at The O2 to call out white male dominance in the industry and pay tribute to the girl groups nominated before them.

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

DNA started two places above the number-six entry of the Spice Girls' Spice, the old record for a British girl group's debut. Spice later climbed to number one in America, though, while DNA never bettered its first week.

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 had the biggest opening week for a UK girl group's number one since Spiceworld, and took Little Mix to the top after three albums that stalled at three, four and two.

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 within weeks of its release the trio announced a hiatus to follow their 2022 tour. 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 took over after Syco said it would no longer work with the group's management company, Modest, days before their fifth album came out. RCA handled that album's promotion at Simon Cowell's request.

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

The Confetti Tour, delayed a year by the pandemic and two members' pregnancies, closed at The O2 Arena on 14 May 2022 with a night live-streamed 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 sat at number seven that week in July 2021, the same week the group's waxworks were unveiled at Madame Tussauds. Their 100 weeks left the next girl group, Girls Aloud on 61, far behind.

Which ceremony did Little Mix host in November 2020?

The MTV EMAs had only three of the four as hosts that night, after illness ruled one member out the day before. By 2021 Little Mix had also won the show's Best UK & Ireland Act prize six times, more than any other act.

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.

Under which name did Little Mix begin the X Factor live shows, before a children's charity objected?

Rhythmix was also the name of a children's music charity, which pushed back when the show tried to trademark it. A few weeks into the live shows the group became Little Mix.

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.

Little Mix were formed at X Factor bootcamp 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, in 2005, was won by a group called Random. Groups also won in Italy and Spain in 2008, so Little Mix were a first for Britain rather than for the format.

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

Gary Barlow was confirmed on 30 May 2011 after Simon Cowell left to launch the American version, 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 drew on Aml Ameen's own family, and he has said he did not know who Little Mix were when his co-writer put Pinnock forward to play 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 earned Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, who wrote the 1967 Eurovision winner, a writing credit for the sample. It entered the UK chart at number seven, and Jade performed it at the 2025 Brits.

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

Forget About Us was sent to Perrie by Ed Sheeran, and she has said she asked to rework its lyrics with him so the song fitted her own life. Her self-titled debut album followed in September 2025 and reached 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 while topping the sales chart, and a month later Skepta and Jammer's Más Tiempo project put out a remix featuring both MCs.

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

Best Pop Act went to Jade on a night when her debut single was also up for Song of the Year. She tearfully thanked her Little Mix bandmates in her speech, six months before her first album, That's Showbiz Baby!, came out.

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, six months after the track first appeared on Glory Days. WWE later chose it as the theme of its first women's Royal Rumble.

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

Nicki Minaj was the rapper the group say they had always wanted for the song. It reached number two, making Little Mix the first X Factor act with 20 UK top-40 singles.

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

Sean Paul's verse gave 'Hair' a second life: the original had stalled at number 35 in 2015, but the new version climbed to number 11 the following spring.

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

CNCO scored their first UK top ten with the remix, Little Mix's twelfth. The two groups first performed it together on television at the 2017 X Factor final, and it won Best Remix at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.

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

Anne-Marie's song, from her album Therapy, climbed to number ten after a 'Girl Power' remix added Becky Hill, Raye and Stefflon Don. It was Little Mix's nineteenth top-ten single.

Which electronic trio released 'Only You' with Little Mix in June 2018?

Cheat Codes, a Los Angeles trio, share the writing credit with Digital Farm Animals. The video tells a same-sex love story, and the track was later added to the deluxe edition of LM5.

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

Machine Gun Kelly was added for the single and raps in a video that restages the film Coyote Ugly, with the group in stetsons dancing on a bar and taking on a mechanical bull.

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, helped by a video in which LeVar Burton plays a detective trying to arrest the band. Little Mix's cover reached number six in the UK for Sport Relief.

'Woman Like Me' made Little Mix the final winners 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 joined the group to sing 'Oops' at the 2016 X Factor final. Though never issued as a single, by 2022 it was their biggest-selling non-single in the UK.

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 drew level by winning three awards at the 2021 ceremony, the night Little Mix took Best Group for their sixth win from ten nominations.

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

Race, Pop & Power arrived on iPlayer in May 2021 and was shortlisted for Best Authored Documentary at the National Television Awards. It ends with Pinnock announcing The Black Fund, a charity backing groups that support the Black community.

Little Mix spent early 2017 as an opening act on which American singer's North American arena tour?

Ariana Grande took Little Mix across North America on her Dangerous Woman Tour from February to April 2017, weeks before their own Glory Days Tour began a run that grossed $42 million.

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 five weeks later the run ended with three nights at The O2 in London, the last of them live-streamed as The Last Show (For Now...).

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

Super Bass was the group's American pick for the opening 'Britain vs. America' week on 8 October 2011, sung under a name they announced they would change before the month was out.

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 drawing on Pinnock's Barbadian and Jamaican roots, two years after she signed to Warner.

Footage released in 2022 showed which X Factor judge alone picked the four singers for Little Mix?

Kelly Rowland put the four rejected soloists together at bootcamp, though a different judge went on to mentor them to victory.

Little Mix co-wrote 'Pretty Girls', a 2015 duet with Iggy Azalea, for which American pop star?

Britney Spears released the song in May 2015, the same month Little Mix put out the lead single from their own third album.

Which mountain did Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock climb for Comic Relief in 2019?

Kilimanjaro was the challenge: the two Little Mix singers joined a team of British celebrities on the Tanzanian peak to raise money for Red Nose Day.

Perrie Edwards of Little Mix was engaged from 2013 to 2015 to which fellow X Factor alumnus?

Zayn Malik became engaged to her in August 2013; they broke up two years later, a few months after he had walked away from One Direction.

Little Mix began The X Factor under which name, dropped after a Brighton music charity objected?

Rhythmix was already the charity's name, and the singers gave it up mid-series to spare it any difficulty, with no legal requirement to do so.

Perrie Edwards of Little Mix was named after Steve Perry, the singer of which American rock band?

Journey gave her a name by way of their frontman, and Perrie later listed him among her musical influences beside Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson.

Which attraction marked ten years of Little Mix by unveiling likenesses of all four original members?

Madame Tussauds dressed its four waxworks in the outfits from the 'Bounce Back' video, and kept the singer who had quit months earlier in the line-up.

Little Mix spent February to April 2017 touring North America as an opening act for which pop star?

Ariana Grande took them and Victoria Monét on the North American leg of her Dangerous Woman Tour, and Little Mix began a headline tour of their own that May.

Which pop star brought Little Mix on stage as special guests at her 2015 concert in Santa Clara?

Taylor Swift had them sing their recent UK chart-topper with her on The 1989 World Tour, on a night when Joan Baez and Julia Roberts also walked out.

Jade Thirlwall began her third X Factor run, in 2011, by auditioning with a hit by which band?

The Beatles' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was her choice; she had first tried out at 15 with a Whitney Houston ballad and was cut at bootcamp.

Little Mix and Fifth Harmony were both opening acts in 2014 on a concert tour by which American singer?

Demi Lovato's Neon Lights Tour put two X Factor girl groups on one bill, and added Cher Lloyd and a magician, Collins Key, as further openers.

Perrie Edwards married which English footballer in Portugal in 2026, four years after their engagement?

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder, had been with her since early 2017, and the couple had two children by the wedding.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock married which English-born Jamaica international footballer in Jamaica in June 2023?

Andre Gray met her in 2016 and proposed on their fourth anniversary; the pair had twin daughters two years before the wedding.

Jade Thirlwall's partner from 2020 to 2026, Jordan Stephens, found fame in which Brighton hip-hop duo?

Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens was first seen with her at a Black Trans Lives Matter rally in London in July 2020, and confirmed their split on a podcast in 2026.

Little Mix's 2019 single 'Bounce Back' samples 'Back to Life', a 1989 hit by which British act?

Soul II Soul's club classic turned 30 the summer the single came out, and the producers Stargate built the new track around its hook.

Little Mix's 2013 ballad 'Little Me' samples the Pavane by which French composer?

Gabriel Fauré's tune runs under a song the group chose as a single because, they said, it was written with their fans in mind.

Which group's 'Don't Let Go (Love)' did Little Mix sing in X Factor movie week and again in the final?

En Vogue's song topped the public vote for them in week seven, and they performed it again at the National Television Awards weeks after winning.

Perrie Edwards auditioned for The X Factor in 2011, aged 17, with a hit by which singer?

Alanis Morissette's 'You Oughta Know' got her through the first round, though she then failed the opening bootcamp challenge as a soloist.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock auditioned for The X Factor in 2011 with a hit by which of her two biggest influences?

Rihanna's 'Only Girl (In the World)' was the song, and the Barbadian star shares a heritage with Pinnock, who has Barbadian and Jamaican ancestry.

Which 2013 Little Mix album, their second, was made with the production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis?

Salute also carried work from TMS and Future Cut, and the group said they were far more involved in writing it than they had been on their debut.

Which Little Mix single led off their second album in 2013 and peaked at number three in the UK?

Move was co-written with the group's vocal coach, Maegan Cottone, and had its first play on BBC Radio 1 six weeks before its British release.

Which 2015 Little Mix single, a retro homage to doo-wop, was also released in a festive Christmas mix?

Love Me Like You, the second single from Get Weird, was sung by the group at the 2015 Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Which Glory Days single did Little Mix sing acoustically for One World: Together at Home in 2020?

Touch reached number four in the UK and was later remixed with a guest verse from the American rapper Kid Ink.

Which 2020 Little Mix single got a semi-animated video after the pandemic cancelled the planned shoot?

Break Up Song, a synth-pop nod to the 1980s, got a video that mixed felt-textured animation with clips the group filmed at home.

Which third single from Little Mix's debut album did the group perform on Children in Need in 2012?

Change Your Life peaked at number twelve in the UK, and the group also promoted it on Dancing on Ice and The Graham Norton Show.

Which American rapper joined the 2021 remix of the title track from Little Mix's sixth studio album?

Saweetie's remix came with a video in which the trio squared up to male doubles of themselves, with drag queens Bimini, Tayce and A'Whora also appearing.

Which DJ teamed up with Little Mix for 'No Time for Tears', a single released in November 2020?

Nathan Dawe's collaboration came out days after the group's publicist said one member was stepping back for medical reasons.

Which rapper claimed in 2018 that Little Mix's 'Woman Like Me' was sent to her before its eventual guest?

Cardi B said the track reached her first; the group replied that both rappers were approached, but the one they had long dreamed of working with was asked first.

Whose ballad 'Falling' did Little Mix cover in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in September 2020?

Harry Styles's song was blended with a burst of Joel Corry's 'Head & Heart' at the end, in a session where the group also sang their own 'Holiday'.

Which London venue hosted Little Mix's last show before their hiatus, streamed live to cinemas in May 2022?

The O2 Arena show was billed as The Last Show (For Now...), with part of the proceeds going to Child Poverty Action Group and Choose Love.

Which city's OVO Hydro arena gave Little Mix a plaque in 2022 for playing the most dates of any band?

Glasgow's arena also credited the group with its highest all-time ticket sales, and with the most tickets sold for a single all-seated show.

Little Mix headlined the GRLS! Festival in March 2020 in which South American country?

Brazil's festival, held in São Paulo, came weeks before the pandemic forced the group to cancel their own summer tour.

Little Mix visited which West African country in 2014 to see projects funded by Sport Relief?

Liberia was where the group saw the work paid for by donations, in the year their cover of a 1980s funk hit was the appeal's official single.

Which stately home hosted both Little Mix's 'Woman Like Me' video shoot and their 2020 virtual concert?

Knebworth House staged Little Mix Uncancelled in August 2020, where the group gave 'Holiday' its live premiere after their summer tour was scrapped.

Pollstar's top-grossing female tours of 2000–2019 put Little Mix behind only which other girl group?

Spice Girls alone ranked higher among girl groups, even though Little Mix had done all their headline touring in the list's last seven years.

Which boy band joined One Direction and Little Mix's fellow X Factor finalists on 'Wishing on a Star'?

JLS and the others covered the 1978 Rose Royce hit for the children's charity Together for Short Lives, and it entered the UK chart at number one.

A singer from which American girl group co-wrote and guests on 'Red Planet' on Little Mix's debut album?

TLC's T-Boz is the featured voice on the track, and the trio were among the acts Little Mix named as their musical influences.

Which label, later Perrie Edwards's solo home, signed Little Mix for North America in 2013?

Columbia put out the group's American debut single the following month, and a decade later gave Perrie her own recording contract.

Which autobiography, published by HarperCollins in August 2012, was the first book by Little Mix?

Ready to Fly tells the four singers' stories from their solo auditions onwards; a second group book, Our World, followed in 2016.

Before The X Factor, Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix worked as a waitress for which restaurant chain?

Pizza Hut was her day job in the years when she was posting her own songs on MySpace and Facebook.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock, daughter of a champion boxer, was born in which Buckinghamshire town?

High Wycombe was her birthplace; she was raised in a Caribbean household and became head girl at her school in nearby Hazlemere.

Which charity did Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix launch in 2021 with her fiancé and her sister Sairah?

The Black Fund backs existing charities and groups that serve Black communities, and in 2022 it co-funded two scholarships for young creatives in Tokyo.

Which Nigerian singer features on 'My Love', the second solo single by Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock?

Ayra Starr joined her on an Afrobeats track whose video was praised for paying homage to Nigerian culture.

Which actor delivers a spoken-word verse on 'Midnight Cowboy', a 2024 song by Little Mix's Jade?

Ncuti Gatwa, the Scottish star of Doctor Who, teased the song on his own Instagram page before its release in September 2024.

Which 2025 debut solo album by Jade Thirlwall of Little Mix entered the UK Albums Chart at number three?

That's Showbiz Baby! arrived in September 2025 to critical acclaim, and a deluxe edition subtitled The Encore added seven new songs that December.

Jade Thirlwall was a guest judge in 2022 on the first UK vs. the World series of which show?

RuPaul's Drag Race suited a singer who calls herself a fan of drag culture and once threw a drag-themed 25th birthday party to raise money for Stonewall.

Jade Thirlwall of Little Mix won a 2021 Stand Up to Cancer celebrity special of which TV contest?

Bake Off's charity spin-off, The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off, was in its fourth series when she was named Star Baker in March 2021.

At which festival in June 2025 did Jade Thirlwall premiere 'Gossip', her song with Confidence Man?

Glastonbury came a month before another landmark: she headlined the first televised BBC Proms concert held outside London, in Gateshead.

Which singer helped Little Mix's mentor pick her acts at the X Factor judges' houses in Mykonos?

Jessie J was the guest adviser in Greece, the stage at which the newly formed four-piece sang two songs to win a place in the live shows.

Which 2019 documentary about online abuse won a National Television Award for a member of Little Mix?

Odd One Out followed the singer's struggles with body image and bullying on social media, and took the Factual Entertainment prize at the 25th ceremony.