Cheryl Cole: 'I want to break America'

Cheryl Cole has revealed that she wants Girls Aloud to crack America in the future.

The 26-year-old singer confirmed that she would like the girlband to be judged on their own merits across the pond rather than being compared to their Spice Girls predecessors.

Speaking to OK, Cole explained: "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, despite interest from labels there.

At the time, she commented: "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?"

X Factor judge Cole has also been tipped for a TV career in the States in recent months.