Perdita
24-04-2013, 06:31
JLS ave announced that they are to split.
The chart-topping boyband told The Sun that they have decided not to sign a new record deal and will bow out with a farewell tour in December - five years after finding mainstream success through The X Factor.
Aston Merrygold said: "It's just that time. We are still best of friends and always will be, but this is the end.
"The question was asked, 'Can you do this together for another five or so years? Can you see that happening?' Between the four of us, there was no definite 'Yes' in the room. We had to dig deep and find the right solution.
"We haven't fallen out. We leave with some amazing successes under our belt, and we can say goodbye in style."
Marvin Humes added: "It's an emotional time. There's no getting away from that. We have been through so much together. But we have to be mature and look at this decision as a celebration of what we managed to achieve.
"We wanted to finish on a high. We're finishing with an arena tour - our third arena tour - and that is a massive achievement. The last five or so years have been nothing short of incredible. It has been an incredible journey."
Humes, who is due to welcome his first child with wife Rochelle in four weeks' time, added: "We are the first X Factor act to finish a five-year recording contract. If we wanted to carry on and sign to another label, it was going to be another three, four or five albums.
"So we all thought about it for a few months, and it sort of made sense to say we were moving on with our lives."
JLS rose to fame after finishing in second place to Alexandra Burke on The X Factor in 2008. The group have topped the UK singles chart on five occasions, have sold over ten million records and are multiple Mobo and Brit Awards winners.
"They say all good things come to an end and for us it just felt like it was the right time to move forward and pursue different ventures," Oritsé Williams said. "We have all become so close, as have our families, so that has been quite hard to deal with.
"Breaking the news to them was hard, but my mum was proud we did it, and we are calling it a day as friends."
JB Gill added that the group will honour their commitments to charitable organisation the JLS Foundation.
"We've all made a commitment on paper that no matter what we're doing, wherever we are, whatever happens from here on, we will commit to the Foundation," he said. "We're already in a partnership with Cancer Research UK - we're committed to them for two years, and we want to raise £2 million."
The chart-topping boyband told The Sun that they have decided not to sign a new record deal and will bow out with a farewell tour in December - five years after finding mainstream success through The X Factor.
Aston Merrygold said: "It's just that time. We are still best of friends and always will be, but this is the end.
"The question was asked, 'Can you do this together for another five or so years? Can you see that happening?' Between the four of us, there was no definite 'Yes' in the room. We had to dig deep and find the right solution.
"We haven't fallen out. We leave with some amazing successes under our belt, and we can say goodbye in style."
Marvin Humes added: "It's an emotional time. There's no getting away from that. We have been through so much together. But we have to be mature and look at this decision as a celebration of what we managed to achieve.
"We wanted to finish on a high. We're finishing with an arena tour - our third arena tour - and that is a massive achievement. The last five or so years have been nothing short of incredible. It has been an incredible journey."
Humes, who is due to welcome his first child with wife Rochelle in four weeks' time, added: "We are the first X Factor act to finish a five-year recording contract. If we wanted to carry on and sign to another label, it was going to be another three, four or five albums.
"So we all thought about it for a few months, and it sort of made sense to say we were moving on with our lives."
JLS rose to fame after finishing in second place to Alexandra Burke on The X Factor in 2008. The group have topped the UK singles chart on five occasions, have sold over ten million records and are multiple Mobo and Brit Awards winners.
"They say all good things come to an end and for us it just felt like it was the right time to move forward and pursue different ventures," Oritsé Williams said. "We have all become so close, as have our families, so that has been quite hard to deal with.
"Breaking the news to them was hard, but my mum was proud we did it, and we are calling it a day as friends."
JB Gill added that the group will honour their commitments to charitable organisation the JLS Foundation.
"We've all made a commitment on paper that no matter what we're doing, wherever we are, whatever happens from here on, we will commit to the Foundation," he said. "We're already in a partnership with Cancer Research UK - we're committed to them for two years, and we want to raise £2 million."