YMMV / The Wanted

• Americans Hate Tingle: While not at the same level as One Direction, The Wanted are a very popular boy band in the UK and Ireland, with two number-one hits and a long string of top 10 hits. Internationally, however, as their rivals became a huge teen phenomenon, The Wanted got steamrolled. Aside from a massive hit with "Glad You Came" (and a moderately successful follow-up "Chasing The Sun"), they have flat-out bombed everywhere else.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: The band bombed in the United States because they were being pushed as a boy band. Unfortunately, their members were all in their early 20s at the time they started to release music there, so they proved to be unable to build up the teenage girl fanbase that helps boy bands succeed. The boy band image also alienated adult listeners, who were also growing tired of the electropop sound dominating the airwaves at the time.
• Award Snub: They're winless at the Teen Choice Awards. To put that into comparison, One Direction are undefeated.
• Fandom Rivalry: The arguments between the "TWFanmily" and "Directioners" can get pretty nasty. And, when you consider how much larger 1D's fanbase is than The Wanted's, these fights can seem extremely lopsided.
• Friendly Fandoms: In contrast, Wanted fans and fans of Ariana Grande (another artist whose following dwarfs The Wanted's) are generally good friends after Nathan and Ariana sang a duet named "Almost Is Never Enough" and later began dating.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: The fandom pairs Jay with everyone.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Most commonly Tomax, Jiva, and Jaythan but they exist for all pairings.
• Spiritual Successor: As a Darker and Edgier British boy band who served as The Rival to a contemporaneous boy band that was much Lighter and Softer (being essentially, the Veronica to their Betty), they can easily be compared to East 17.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • The background "Oh oh's" in "Lose My Mind" are sampled from Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody".
  • The hook of "Chasing the Sun" sound similar to the first set of notes from the theme of The Elder Scrolls.
  • Their single "I Found You" is essentially a musical sequel to their massively successful single "Glad You Came".