You Me At Six versus Little Mix in 'biggest number one race'

11 January 2017

You Me At Six could take the top position from Little Mix in the album charts on Friday.

If they're successful in the first major chart battle this year, it will be their second consecutive number one.

With a smile on his face, You Me At Six's frontman Josh Francesci said: "It's probably the biggest number one race there's been a while."

"I think it's great to see, a British rock band and a British pop band fighting for the number one."

In the mid-week charts the band's fifth album Night People is 1,800 copies ahead of Little Mix's Glory Days.

And both fan bases are fighting hard to convince people to help get them to number one.

You Me At Six and Little Mix: Head to head

Twitter followers:

Little Mix - 8.39 million

You Me At Six - 515,000

(A clear winner here with Little Mixers following everything the band does on social media)

Year formed:

Little Mix - 2011

You Me At Six - 2004

(Longevity rules for the band from Surrey)

Studio albums:

Little Mix - four

You Me At Six - five

(They both have one album - so far - that's reached number one)

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Top 10 singles:

Little Mix - 10

You Me At Six - zero

(Another clear winner but Lived A Lie by You Me At Six did get to number 11)

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Little Mix have been number one for four weeks with their fourth album.

It features their number one Shout Out To My Ex as well as new single Touch.

Max from You Me At Six describes their chart battle as "rock v pop" while Josh says "it'll go down to the wire".

"[It's] a great accolade to have because you work tirelessly to create something and you want people to buy it."

The Official Chart Show with Greg James is broadcast on Fridays from 4pm.

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