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Originally posted by Witch_Privilege
By "charting low in multiple countries" do you mean the TWO (South Korea and Japan) they haven't gone Top 40 in (yet)?
Let's check out LM's SMASH HIT Black Magic:
Oh look. All the countries they charted in fit in one screenshot.
Sit your ass down.
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All you've done here is prove what I was saying though. Fifth Harmony have had some successful singles, congrats to them, but they aren't album sellers in the slightest. I'll say it again: how can a girl group be the "biggest in the world" when they can't sell more than 150k in their home country? It's silly.
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Originally posted by Swim
Literally no one in the US knows who Little Mix are. Same for the other groups mentioned in this thread. He didn't lie.
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Little Mix have two Top 10 albums in the US. Can we stop like the US = the entire world, please? It's ignorant.
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Originally posted by Witch_Privilege
Yeah, their debut didn't sell a lot because it came out months before Worth It put them on the map. They had to work way harder for their success, too, coming 3rd on X-Factor in the US, which wasn't popular, and no previous acts had done well from. LM won X-Factor, which is huge in the UK, and has produced many stars from.
LM have been great at selling albums.....in the UK. Let's see how 5H does with 7/27 domestically, and globally now that they're actually popular.
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I'm sorry but when has it ever been easy for a UK girl group to break America? The only actually successful
X Factor UK winners are Little Mix, Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis. The rest either had mediocre success or flopping dramatically.
Also they're great at selling albums, period. They have still sold 200k+ in the rest of the world, which is more than 5H sold in their home country. Whether or not the album came out before or after "Worth It" is entirely irrelevant. The whole purpose of singles is to the sell the album, which it clearly didn't do despite being a huge hit.
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Originally posted by Witch_Privilege
LM had a bigger advantage/fanbase coming out of X-Factor in the UK, which they won, and has a WAY bigger following.
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The majority of
X Factor UK winners and contestants are flops, despite the show being big in our country. Winning the show does not guarantee success. They have worked damn hard for their success, as their stellar sales and tour stats prove.