From X Factor to the record books: Little Mix's debut album enters US Billboard Chart at number 4... higher than the Spice Girls

PUBLISHED: 17:24, 5 June 2013 | UPDATED: 19:54, 5 June 2013

For the last few months, Little Mix have been cross crossing America on a gruelling promotional tour.

But it looks like all their hard work has paid off as their debut album, DNA, has debuted at number four in the Billboard Top 200.

It's a fantastic achievement for Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who were the 2011 winners of X Factor.

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From X Factor to the record books: Little Mix's debut album enters US Billboard Chart at number 5... higher than the Spice Girls

Record breakers: Jade Thirwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson,

The band has sold over 50,000 copies of their album, and are the first ever British girl group to debut in the top 5 with their debut album release.

The Spice girls only managed to score a top 7 when they released Spice in 1997, reaching the number 6 spot.

Last week their debut album climbed to number two in the US iTunes chart, beaten to the top spot by Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.

Performing: Little Mix have been criss-crossing the US on a promotional tour, and it seems to have done the trick

Cementing their growing popularity across the pond, the X Factor winners appear in the latest issue of Seventeen magazine, one of the country's biggest teen publications.

The band will make their US television debut on ABC’s Good Morning America in New York on Friday.

They'll be sharing a stage with Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Pitbull and Selena Gomez.

DNA has done well across the globe, and has entered the top five in seven countries and sold over two million records.

A lot of this is thanks to the girls' dedicated fanbase, who have helped the band clock up 132 million VEVO views, 1.6 million Facebook fans and over 3.2 million twitter followers.

Syco boss Simon Cowell is thrilled for the girls and tweeted: 'Congratulations little mix. Very proud of you. X'

A day (or two) in the life of Little Mix in America