# @popbase on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbT_QQ0Br7o
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T22:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

14 years ago today, Fifth Harmony was formed on X factor

Ally Brooke, Camila Cabello, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane, and Lauren Jauregui were brought together at The Fillmore in Miami to form Fifth Harmony during the second season of The X Factor USA. All five had originally auditioned as solo contestants, but none progressed individually into their respective solo categories — Cabello, Normani, Dinah Jane, and Jauregui fell short in "Teens," while Brooke didn't advance in "Young Adults." Rather than sending them home, judges Simon Cowell and guest mentor Demi Lovato made the call to combine them into a group, qualifying them for the 'Groups' category instead. Initially dubbed "LYLAS" (Love You Like A Sister), the group performed Shontelle's 'Impossible' as their first song together, a moment Cowell later cited as the reason he fell for the concept.

The newly formed group advanced through the competition, eventually reaching the finals and finishing 3rd overall behind winner Tate Stevens and runner-up Carly Rose Sonenclar. During the finale, they performed a memorable duet of 'Give Your Heart a Break' alongside judge Demi Lovato, along with renditions of 'Anything Could Happen' and The Beatles' 'Let It Be.' Despite not winning, their run caught enough attention that roughly a month later, they signed a joint recording deal with Cowell's Syco Music and L.A. Reid's Epic Records — a partnership formed directly out of their X Factor exposure rather than a traditional label signing process.

What followed became one of the most commercially successful outcomes of the X Factor franchise: debut single 'Miss Movin' On' reached the Hot 100 and went gold, their 2013 EP Better Together debuted at number six on the Billboard 200, and their run of albums — Reflection, 7/27 (named for their formation date), and their 2017 self-titled record — spawned hits like 'Worth It' and 'Work from Home.' Their formation date became so central to the group's identity that fans still treat July 27 as a defining fandom milestone, and the group's meteoric rise remains one of the most cited success stories of reality-TV-manufactured pop acts.

#fifthharmony #music #popculture

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