Cheryl Cole wants US success for Girls Aloud

CHERYL COLE said she would really like Girls Aloud to be big in the States.

The singer said she would like her band to crack the US but be judged on their own merit and not be compared to the Spice Girls.

Speaking to OK,said said: "I think any artist would like to break America. If you break there, you can break anywhere.

"It's a big, big deal and a lot different to us. I'd like the success of breaking in America, but we're not the Spice Girls - we're not musically like them, we don't look like them."

Last year, Cole's bandmate Nadine Coyle claimed that the group are reluctant to try for success in the US.

She said: "Labels want to sign us. But we're asking ourselves whether we really want to start off from scratch doing all the crap to work our way up again or are we happy at the level we're at now - where we have a safe haven in the States where no-one knows who we are or what we're doing?"