It seems silly, foolish almost, to imagine a time when Little Mix's success wasn't guaranteed. But take yourself back to 10 years ago this week, in the first week of September 2012, and it was a make or break-up moment for Perrie, Leigh-Anne, Jade and Jesy.
Wings, their first original song released as Little Mix and their first since becoming the first group to ever win The X Factor, was about to be unleashed.
The UK was in something of a girlband renaissance during the late 00s and into the early 10s, thanks in large part to the continued critical and commercial success of pop titans Girls Aloud and Sugababes.
But by 2012, the Sugabaes' fourth line-up containing no original members had fragmented and Girls Aloud were still on hiatus (and about to announce a ten-year reunion that November).
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