The X Factor: The Band is due to come to an end on Sunday night, as the newly formed girl band and boy band go head to head for the series title.
Following this week’s auditions the six lucky hopefuls who made it into the girl band are Kellimarie Willis, Jess Folley, Luena Martinez, Seorsia Leagh Jack, Virginia Hampson and Halle Williams.
Meanwhile the boy band consists of auditionees Boaz Dopemu, Caius Duncome, Fred Roberts, Harrison Cole, Jed Thomas and Reece Wiltshire-Fessey
They’ll be taking to the stage in Sunday night’s showdown – but just what prize awaits the winning band?
Here’s what you need to know…
What do the winners of The X Factor: The Band get?
The prize on The X Factor: The Band is pretty much the same as on the main show – with the victorious band nabbing themselves a ‘life-changing’ record deal with Simon Cowell’s label Syco.
It’s been reported they’ll also score a £150,000 advance on their debut album.
Simon previously admitted he had sought inspiration from this series from K-Pop, and the massive levels of Western success achieved by its bands in recent years.
When he announced the audition process, he said: ‘Right now K-pop, you could argue, is ruling the world – now it’s time for UK-pop.
Where is the final of The X Factor: The Band and what time is it on?
The live final will take place at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham.
It kicks off on ITV at 8pm and runs for two hours ahead of the ITV News at 10pm.
The show has been put together in a matter of weeks – following X Factor: Celebrity – with Simon Cowell admitting he launched the format early to get in ahead of Little Mix’s BBC One talent show The Search.
‘We’ve always decided to do a group show in the UK so we’d agreed with ITV that we were gonna do X Factor Groups in 2020,’ he explained on Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston’s Heart Breakfast show.
‘So that was all fine and then we were going to do the All Stars version this year and then when we found out that the Little Mix show was gonna go out in 2020, I didn’t want to follow that show since we’d already planned it years ago. I thought, well we’ll just bring it forward.
‘And it wasn’t like some grudge against Little Mix or whatever because you know I owe those girls a lot, you know. Even though we gave them a launch pad, they sold a lot of records. I thought their idea was a great idea. Sometimes you wanna be the first one to do it in a certain country.’
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