{"id":31262,"date":"2025-07-23T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31262\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:15:07","slug":"netflixs-building-the-band-winners-are-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31262\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s ‘Building The Band’ winners are revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kelly Rowland, AJ McLean gush about favorite Liam Payne memories<\/p>\n

Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland and the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean called Liam Payne “a joy” on “Building the Band,” filmed weeks before his death.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: The following contains details from Episode 10 of “Building the Band.”<\/p>\n

Netflix’s experimental music competition show, “Building The Band<\/a>,” has named its first winning group.<\/p>\n

In the Episode 10 finale, which dropped Wednesday, July 23, girl group 3Quency<\/a> won the celebrity judges’ favor and earned the title of winners for “Building The Band” Season 1. The group, comprising Nori Royale<\/a>, Wennely Quezada<\/a>, and Brianna Mazzola<\/a>, took home the $500,000 prize.<\/p>\n

“They have proven to us that they are ready. (They are) a band that has shown so much growth, the band that pulled out all the stops tonight,” Nicole Scherzinger<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The women edged out fellow finalists SZN4<\/a> \u2013 Donzell Taggart<\/a>, Aaliyah Rose<\/a>, Cameron Goode<\/a>, and Katie Roeder<\/a> \u2013 the show’s only mixed-gender group, which was a gamble in a competition that saw dozens of 20-somethings eager to form girl groups and boy bands.<\/p>\n

3Quency’s win comes after judges Scherzinger, Kelly Rowland<\/a>, and the late Liam Payne<\/a> voted off Iconyx (also known as Soulidified)<\/a>, thus advancing 3Quency and SZN4. The trio’s final song was Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby.”<\/p>\n

The win proved Rowland wrong in her prediction halfway through the episode that SZN4 would earn the title after they brought host AJ McLean<\/a> and the judges to tears with their rendition of Rag’n’Bone Man’s “Human.”<\/p>\n

The Season 1 groups that were also formed in the sound booths but didn’t make it to the finale were Midnight Til Morning<\/a>, Siren Society<\/a>, and Sweet Seduction.<\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re amazing dancers, obviously’: Liam Payne pokes fun at One Direction on ‘Building The Band’<\/a><\/p>\n

Liam Payne draws parallels between Iconyx and One Direction<\/p>\n

Payne, who came from a boy band background as one-fifth of “The X-Factor” success story One Direction, was the subject of much fangirling from the contestants. After Iconyx failed to make it to the final performance, he was eager to comfort the four-piece boy band backstage.<\/p>\n

“I’m just going to start here. One Direction came third,” Payne said of the record-breaking group’s fate on the U.K. music competition show.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been stood exactly where you guys are, and I thought it was over. I thought it was done, that was the end of One Direction,” he continued. “It was not. But I believe in you guys.”<\/p>\n

“Building The Band,” Payne’s last TV appearance, was taped in September 2024, just weeks before his death. The 31-year-old singer\u00a0died Oct. 16<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0falling<\/a>\u00a0from a third-floor balcony at a Buenos Aires hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n