An interesting tidbit about Little Mix‘s Sweet Melody: it was written for Demi Lovato and offered to a load of other artists before it finally found its way to the girls.

Speaking to Gay Times late last year, MNEK – one of its co-writers – said he wasn’t even too crazy about it himself until Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock started getting excited about visuals and such.

Imagine firing out so much grade-A material that you can just casually pen Sweet Melody and be like, ‘meh, that one?’

“I wrote Sweet Melody with Tayla Parx, Peoples and Rissi. Funnily enough, we wrote it about three years ago and it was for this Demi Lovato writing camp that we went to,” he said.

“We were told that she was going to be there, and she wasn’t, whatever.”

“We wrote a bunch of songs in a few days and Sweet Melody was one of them,” he continued. “After a while, it was doing the rounds. We sent it to Selena Gomez, JoJo and Hailee Steinfeld.”

Would any of them have aced it? It might have been an interesting new route for Hailee but I just can’t imagine her voice on it.

MNEK added: “Then, Taylor was in with with the girls, with Jade and Leigh-Anne, and they’d written Not a Pop Song from Confetti and Tayla also played them Sweet Melody. They loved Sweet Melody and they were like, ‘Oh, this sounds like something MNEK would do!’

“I liked Sweet Melody, but I wasn’t crazy about it, and the same goes with Wasbai as well. I think that when they were given visuals or a proper layout, that’s when I got them.

“I’ve been in the room with the girls, and when I play them music, they’re already thinking about the video. They see all the potential of the song before we do.

“I love the girls and I love all the stuff that I have in common with them, and just continuing to make parts of their musical history and the journey.”

Sweet Melody is the frontrunner to finally hit No1 in the UK singles chart today, though it’s been a close race all week.

If it succeeds, it’ll be the girls’ first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.