After the tour supporting 'Reflection' was complete, Fifth Harmony decamped to the recording studio to begin work on their second album, which was given a provisional release date of 20 May 2016. It was to be named '27/7', after the date that they were formed on The X Factor, and in keeping with this theme of '27', it was later announced that the album's release had been pushed back a week to 27 May. The lead single, 'Work From Home', which featured American singer Ty Dolla Sign, was released in February 2016, and it peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's highest-charting single in the United States. As announced, '27/7' was indeed released on 27 May, and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, as well as achieving their first chart appearances in Japan and South Korea. A tour supporting the record started in June, and covered South America, North America and Europe, with supporting artists Victoria Monét and JoJo. The group's last performance of 2016, and as a quintet, was on the previously taped 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve', during which they performed 'Worth It', 'Work From Home' and 'That's My Girl'. On 18 December 2016, the group announced that Camilla Cabello had left, and that the remaining four members would continue as a four-piece. As before, while recording songs for the '27/7' album, they taped more than they needed, and while some were later added to exclusive Japanese pressings of the album, or given away by Napster, others have yet to make an official appearance, so I've added those unreleased tracks to the Japanese and Napster rarities for one last album by the original five-piece Fifth Harmony. They made one further recording as a quartet, with the eponymously titled 'Fifth Harmony' album being released in 2017, but this time they kept a tighter rein on the out-takes, and although we know the titles of some of the rejected songs, most of them are yet to make an appearance online, apart from one solitary track 'Better With You', which I've slotted in here so as not to waste it. On 19 March 2018, the group announced their decision to take an indefinite hiatus to pursue solo projects, so this is the final post from the girls, although out-takes from some of those solo projects will make an appearance in the future.
Track listing
01 Girls Like Us
02 No Way
03 Feel So Right
04 PSA
05 Voicemail
06 1000 Hands
07 Come Get It
08 Better With You
09 Monies (feat. Tory Lanez)
10 Big Bad Wolf
11 All Again
12 Ladder
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