Little Mix are a British girl group formed in 2011 during the eighth series of the British version of The X Factor. The group consists of Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock; former member Jesy Nelson departed the group in December 2020. The first group to win The X Factor in the UK, they signed with Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music. The group are known and praised for their strong group vocals and harmonies, as well as their songs about female empowerment, unity, and LGBT rights.One of the most successful acts to emerge from The X Factor in the UK, the group have earned five UK number-one singles: "Cannonball", their winner's single in 2011, "Wings" in 2012, "Black Magic" in 2015, "Shout Out to My Ex" in 2016 and "Sweet Melody" in 2021. Each of their albums, DNA (2012), Salute (2013), Get Weird (2015), Glory Days (2016), LM5 (2018) and Confetti (2020), have peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart, with five of the albums certified platinum to 3× platinum by BPI. Their fourth album, Glory Days, became the group's first UK number one album. It also became the longest-reigning girl group number one album since the Spice Girls' debut album 20 years earlier, and has the highest first week UK album sales for a girl band since 1997. The group have established themselves as the biggest girl group of the 2010s, selling over 60 million records worldwide throughout their career, making them one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.At the 2021 Brit Awards, they became the first girl band in history to be awarded Best British Group. They have also received two other Brit Awards winning British Single in 2017 with "Shout Out to My Ex", and British Video of the Year in 2019 for "Woman Like Me". Their other accolades include six MTV Europe Music Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, one iHeartRadio Music Award, and Six Global Awards. In 2021 they were awarded the Women of the Year Gamechangers in Music at the Glamour Awards. They have also been nominated for ten Brit Awards, a Billboard Latin Music Awards, one Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four iHeartRadio Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award (VMAs), and twelve MTV Europe Music Awards. As of March 2021, Little Mix have five platinum certified albums and twenty-six certified singles in the UK. In the media, Little Mix has appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK, Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2018, on the Sunday Times Young Rich List for four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020.