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"The Wanted have said that they &amp;quot;work really hard&amp;quot; on their music career.  The boyband, who released their debut single &amp;#039;All Time Low&amp;#039; just 17 months ago, said they were surprised and proud of all they had achieved in such a short time.  &amp;quot;So much has happened, we can&amp;#039;t believe it was all in a year,&amp;quot; member Nathan Sykes told the Daily Star. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve done our first tour, the Comic Relief single &amp;#039;Gold Forever&amp;#039;, the Brit nomination and our album went platinum. When we look back we think: &amp;#039;What the hell happened?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Everyone thinks we&amp;#039;ve had it easy but we work really hard, so it&amp;#039;ll be nice to go home at Christmas and chill out and sort things out in our heads.&amp;quot; The Wanted previously admitted to Digital Spy that they feared their sophomore album Battleground would flop.  &amp;quot;We were really worried that it wouldn&amp;#039;t go into the Top 10, because quite a few fellow pop people haven&amp;#039;t done as well as they&amp;#039;d hoped,&amp;quot; Jay McGuiness said. &amp;quot;When we nipped in at number five... we were like, &amp;#039;Oh thank God for that!&amp;#039; It was a bit of a relief and then a celebration afterwards.&amp;quot; They also named touring with Justin Bieber and the &amp;#039;Glad You Came&amp;#039; video shoot in Ibiza as their top moments of 2011.  The Wanted revealed earlier this month that they are on the verge of signing a US management deal.  Watch The Wanted in the video for &amp;#039;Glad You Came&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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