Little Mix’s Glory Days equals Official Albums Chart record set by Destiny’s Child

It's reworkings of dance tracks played by an orchestra so it's not a compilation.

hey mate, just saw this article...i'm gonna look back to see which female group had a great run @ #1 on the 200 chart, brb ;)

Awesome! Yeah, please tell me which female groups had the longest BB200 #1s. ;)

to my knowledge, it'd be the spice girls' debut album @ 5 wks @ #1. i looked back on past female groups like wilson phillips, the bangles and bananarama...no #1 albums. even the dixie chicks 'wide open spaces' (12x plat.), tlc 'crazysexycool' (11x plat.) and destiny's child 'the writing's on the wall (8x plat.) never went to #1 :). but back then, the whole top 30 would be flooded with diamond and big sellers.

so, for the spice girls, i think they hold the all time record @ #1 on the 200 chart for a female group :). and that's pretty impressive! i mean, i remember when tlc, the dixie chicks, destiny's child were all over the top 10 on the 200 chart...so, even though i wasn't a big fan of the spice girls back then...that's still an impressive feat :)

So if Little Mix have achieved the same feat in the US, they would have the second longest #1 album ever by a female group? Wow! :D
I don't know what the highest certified albums by female groups are in the UK, but I will check that soon & hopefully let you know later.

well, with groups like 1D and little mix, they have the blessed advantages that prior groups in their genres didn't have. so for example with little mix: today the 200 chart allows streaming and all kinds of stuff, the spice girls didn't have those advantages. and today's chart factors, you obviously don't have to sell the most to get the high spots ;). with the spice girls, their debut album went about 7.5x plat. so, that's a good 7+mill. albums sold and shipped during that year. which is why their 1st album remained a top 10 lockdown for almost 6 mos. straight :D but also why they earned the #1 album of the year :)

but today, i mean as we've both seen with drake and riri, you don't even have to sell 1k albums in 1 week to get the high positions. that's also why i was on 1D's ar$es about better public relations and esp. zayn ;). i know zayn may not have intentionally meant to let things get out of hand, but that was the end result.

Also, I've noticed that most #1 albums in 2016 could fall in performance by 50%, maybe even 80%, in their second week. There were also a lot of albums that spent just one week atop the BB200 last year!
I don't know how long Drake led the streaming albums chart over here, but it was at least 20 weeks, maybe even 25. Little Mix's 'Glory Days' was finally the album to dethrone it! ;)

exactly, lm doesn't have to sell the same volume the spice girls did to do what they did on the charts ;). but lm needs to work on their public appeal..coming to america and releasing a single doesn't guarantee massive success. even if your label crowns you 'the next spice girls'...@ least that's how i saw all that...if all it took was being british, then every uk act could do the same as the beatles, right?

What's their promotion been like in the US then? I think they did a brief tour over there before their 'Get Weird' album was released & even performed with Tay-Tay back then! :)

very poor, esp. while zayn was still in the group. i did find out later from another commenter that lm did have some type of headliner tour with their 'salute' album...but the tour was quickly cancelled. prob. couldn't sell out the shows.

well, ever since zayn first broadcasted that perrie was his girlfriend *and ever since his love declarations on his twitter* she's been public enemy #1 to the u.s. teen girls. it's really too bad zayn didn't hold off on all that until AFTER lm dropped their debut album ;). i'm pretty sure the response would've been very different. but i do remember lm's debut album constantly falling down the 200 chart :/

now, nothing wrong with them being a couple, but when her group is trying to win over the same girls & they're also 1D fans....? zayn would put up pics of her and him kissing each other on his twitter page...and i guess perrie would keep getting more harrassed each time he did things like that.

also, with u.s. radio, if there's not too much public interest in an artist, esp. an established act, there's a good chance you won't get that radio support. whoever was 1D's and lm's public relations people, did a horrible job! and i also hold modest management responsible, they should've stepped in and had a talk with the both of them, esp. with zayn that maybe he was overdoing it ;)

I didn't know Perrie was unpopular like that in the US. I'm surprised considering she wasn't the one that cheated in the relationship! :/
Sorry to change the subject slightly, but where you do think Ed will debut on the Hot 100 for the week after next? I think both songs will be at least Top 5.

yeah she was, esp. during the 4 yrs they were together. that's also why i'm still pi$$ed @ zayn for the way he broke up with her...i mean, not only did she get bullied, but her group also suffered from all that bad public relations.

and the crazy thing? britney and jt were a couple during both their debut albums and jt never broadcasted his business! nobody knew he had a girlfriend :D my younger cousin had the biggest crush on jt during that time and knew everything about him (believe me, i would end up knowing what his fave shampoo and toothpaste was :D) and she never knew he had a girlfriend.

he did confirm britney was his girlfriend AFTER nsync's debut album went diamond and then moved on...and he's always been like that, keeping his private life private. niall continues to do an excellent job following jt's example ;). sure wish the rest of our 1D mates, esp. zayn, also did the same.

well with ed, i really don't know where he'll debut...let's hope juju will finally be kicked out of the top 10 ;D.

Yeah, you had to bring in Zayn in this too. Perrie's relationship with Zayn had brought the group more attention in the U.K than they would've ever gotten. No point blaming him if they aren't charting internationally. They are not popular in the U.S and other countries because not many know of their music (lack of promotion) or they know and prefer 5H better, it's as simple.