Music: Girl Power wins the X Factor!
After an awesome yet nail-biting finish to this years X Factor final, Sunday night seen Little Mix become the first girl group to ever win the X Factor!! The four girls who came into the competition as solo singers are tipped to follow in the steps of Girls Aloud and The Spice Girls. Jade Thirlwell, 18, Perrie Edwards, 18, Jesy Nelson, 20 and 19-year-old Leigh-Anne Pinnock beat the opposition - the very talented Liverpudlian Marcus Collins on the final night of the competition at Wembley Arena.
The four-piece are now in the race for the converted Christmas No.1 with their cover of Damien Rice’s 'Cannonball'.
All four girls were in tears including their mentor Tulisa Contostavlos after the vote result was announced. Runner-up Marcus Collins graciously declared "I'm very proud of myself but the girls deserve it - they've been amazing". The girls have now won a record contract worth millions through Syco Music - Simon Cowell's company which is a subsidiary of the Sony Music label.
Throughout the competition Louis Walsh told Little Mix that they were going to be the biggest girl group on the planet by this time next year so there are very high hopes for the little minxes. Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls sent them a bouquet of flowers with a message that read "Good Luck and Remember Girl Power!" It probably is time to have another girl group take over the charts! Fair play to them - they definitely have an audience and they are a great talent by four. Given the right contract along with hard work and a good promotions team behind them, the three runners up including Marcus Collins, Amelia Lily and Misha B could be just as huge!