Glory Days (Little Mix album)

Glory Days
Standard edition cover
Studio album by
Little Mix
Released18 November 2016 (2016-11-18)
Studio
  • The Hide Out Studios, London
  • Tileyard Studios, London
Genre
Length42:51
Label
Producer
Little Mix chronology
Get Weird
(2015) 		Glory Days
(2016) 		LM5
(2018)
Singles from Glory Days
  1. "Shout Out to My Ex"
    Released: 16 October 2016
  2. "Touch"
    Released: 9 December 2016
  3. "No More Sad Songs"
    Released: 3 March 2017
  4. "Power"
    Released: 26 May 2017

Glory Days is the fourth studio album by British girl group Little Mix, released on 18 November 2016 by Syco Music and Columbia Records.[3] When released it was met with acclaim from critics, with lyrics that addresses themes on sexuality, sexual relationships, female solitude, and other topics.[4] Little Mix worked with various producers including MNEK, Freedo, Matt Rad, all of whom had worked with them on previous releases.

The album's lead single "Shout Out to My Ex", peaked at number-one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's fourth number-one. Its second single "Touch" reached number four, while its third single "No More Sad Songs", with Machine Gun Kelly, reached number fifteen. Its final single "Power", with Stormzy, peaked at number six, while a fifth single "Reggaetón Lento" with CNCO, was released after the reissued edition of the album. The album's lead single won British Single of the Year at the Brit Awards in 2017. In 2018, Glory Days received two Brit Awards nominations for British Song of the Year and British Video of the Year.

Glory Days showcased the best first-week sales so far in Little Mix's career, selling 100,000 copies in its first week. It had the highest first-week UK album sales for a girl group since the Spice Girls' Spiceworld (1997) and became the fastest-selling number-one album from a girl group since Destiny's Child's Survivor (2001). It set a new chart record for the most weeks spent inside the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for a girl group album, spending 89 weeks on the charts. It also became first album by a girl group to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify and has since reached over 2.5 billion streams on the platform.[5] It is included on the list of best-selling albums of the 2010s in the United Kingdom.

In Ireland it became Little Mix's second consecutive number-one album, and peaked at number-one on the Scottish Albums Chart and UK Albums Chart. It spent five consecutive weeks at number one, becoming the longest reigning number one album by a girl group since Spice (1996). It entered the top ten in Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, and Spain, and charted in other regions including Italy, Germany, and the United States, where it peaked at number twenty-five on the Billboard 200. As of 2017, Glory Days, has sold 1.6 million copies worldwide.

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  3. ^ "Glory Days by Little Mix: Amazon.co.uk: Music". Amazon. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Listen to Little Mix and Nicki Minaj's new banger Woman Like Me". GAY TIMES. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Most streamed female group on Spotify". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 10 July 2022.