The X Factor winners went straight to the top with their first proper single since their cover of Damien Rice’s ‘Cannonball’ last Christmas.
The girl group sold over 107,000 copies over the past week, and knocked last week’s chart-toppers Sam and the Womp down to second place with ‘Bom Bom’.
“Wooh! Number 1! We want to thank all the Little Mixers who went out and bought the single,” the band said. “You’ve made all our dreams come true.”
“It means a lot because obviously we got a number one at Christmas with ‘Cannonball’, but that wasn’t our song really, so now that we’ve become number one with our own song that we wrote, we’re so proud, best feeling ever. Continue to listen to it and dance away in your bedrooms in your pants!”
Luckily, Harry McFly and Will Best have had some kind of ‘hot-men’s-brainstorm’, rembered that Tulisa has all-seeing eyes, and grilled her about it on 4Music’s The Crush.
“I was involved in that from the start,” Tulisa told them.
“I was the first person that she came to and was like ‘Zayn’s, you know…’ so I was like ‘RIGHT, this is what you need to do, don’t text him back, wait!’ “
She went on to say that Mr Malik was turning on his Bradford Bad Boi charm from the very start, sending Perrie messages asking for a late-night rendezvous. THE CHEEKY THING.
“She was like, ‘He’s asked me to come round his house,’ and I was like ‘What time is it? NO. No. It’s too late!’ “
Really though, let’s not judge, it’s more likely that Zayn spent all evening doing his hair and practicing his ‘smouldering looks’ to seduce Perrie with, and by the time he’d finished coiffing the bells had bonged Ridiculous O’Clock.
Probs.
OOH, this also suggests that Zerrie came into being while Perrie was on The X Factor right? Which, she, er, denied.