Why aren't boy and girl groups as popular in the U.S. as they are in the UK?

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The Spice Girls, over a decade ago, were probably the last Girl Group that was popular in the US.

Destiny's Child was very popular from about 1998 until 2005 or so. The Pussycat Dolls were also very popular for a very brief time in 2008.

Boy bands were always more successful though. No girl group, except perhaps the Spice Girls, ever came close to reaching the sheer magnitude of fame that Nsync or Backstreet Boys reached in the late 90s/early 2000s.

That time passed for us. Around the mid 2000s America's love affair with the boyband seemingly died. It does seem to be experiencing a minor resurgence right now though. One Direction, Five Seconds of Summer, and The Vamps are all pretty popular here right now.

Solo women have pretty much dominated the American music landscape for the last six years or so though. A couple years ago, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and more recently, Demi Lovato, Megan Trainor, Fifth Harmony, and Ellie Goulding absolutely dominated the waves here.

Right at the moment it seems to be a pretty random mix though.