Is a Fifth Harmony reunion on the horizon?
On Sunday (Aug. 31), the girl group sent fans into a frenzy after posting on X for the first time in seven years. Fifth Harmony — now consisting of Ally Brooke, Normani, Lauren Jauregui and Dinah Jane following Camila Cabello’s 2016 departure — surprised their 4.2 million followers with a cryptic message.
“#FifthHarmonyFollowSpree,” they wrote, marking their first post since wishing Brooke a happy birthday in July 2018.
Naturally, the mysterious update reignited excitement among the group’s devoted Harmonizers. “Are they hacked again or is this fr?” one fan wondered. Another wrote, “I don’t understand what’s happening… but I think I like it.” A third asked excitedly, “WAITTTT ARE Y’ALL REUNITING LIKE FR? IT WASNT JUST A RUMOR?”
The speculation comes nearly a year after Brooke and Jane teased a possible reunion while walking the red carpet at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music event.
“We’ll see… we’re not sure,” Brooke said when asked about getting the group back together. Jane added, “I love that our fans can reminisce on such good times and I love that we’re getting the credit again. Our music was very impactful at the time and I feel like it was kind of overlooked, to be honest. So now that it’s reviving again on its own it just shows our music speaks for itself.”
Fifth Harmony first formed on the second season of the U.S. version of The X Factor in 2012. They rose to fame with their debut album, Reflection, in January 2015, which featured “Worth It,” their first top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The quintet reached even greater success with “Work From Home” featuring Ty Dolla $ign — the lead single from their sophomore album, 7/27 — which peaked at No. 4 on the Hot 100 in June 2016.
In December 2016, the group announced Cabello’s exit through social media. “After 4 and a half years of being together, we have been informed via her representatives that Camila has decided to leave Fifth Harmony,” the other four members wrote. “We wish her well.”
Cabello went on to launch a successful solo career, most recently releasing C,XOXO in 2024 — her first album under Geffen and Interscope after parting ways with Epic Records, which originally signed Fifth Harmony through a partnership with Simon Cowell’s Syco Music. C,XOXO debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.
Fifth Harmony officially disbanded in 2018, with the remaining members pursuing solo endeavors. In a November 2023 interview with Billboard, Brooke shared that a reunion isn’t off the table.
“We’re women now and we have grown so much and we have done our own thing, gone our own ways and gone our own path. And now we’re together in a different light,” the singer said. “I’m trying to reunite with them, so I think some sort of reunion may happen.”
Check out Fifth Harmony’s teaser post on X below.
