X Factor UK post results show news, Kelly Clarkson sold 26K albums, X Factor UK guest performers for the next two weeks revealed.
‘Misha B wants this more’: An unwell Kelly Rowland sends Sophie home after her two hopefuls went head-to-head
She was described as being as ‘dull as dishwater’ last night and it seems that the public agreed as Sophie Habibis became the latest contestant to be voted off the X Factor tonight.
The 19-year-old former barmaid found herself up against Misha B, also 19, in the sing off but it was a no brainer as all of the judges chose to send Sophie home.
Even Kelly Rowland – who has remained in the U.S. due to being ill – was present to cast her vote.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Glad to be back: Cher Lloyd looks excited but nervous as she returns to the X Factor stage a year later to perform her new single
She may not have won the competition last year but last night Cher Lloyd returned to the X Factor stage and proved she’s still got what it takes to be a star.
The 18-year-old was welcomed back to the show as a guest star where she sang her new single, With Your Love.
Cher made it to the final of the singing competition and has enjoyed a year of success since being voted off the show.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Is Cowell’s crown slipping? Hype can’t save X Factor as viewers waltz off to Strictly
For years, he has been the undisputed king of Saturday night television.
But Simon Cowell’s crown appears to be slipping, after the crisis-hit X Factor was beaten in the ratings by its BBC1 rival, Strictly Come Dancing.
Despite a week of well-publicised rows between the singing show’s judges –which saw one temporarily replaced by a former winner about to launch a new single –The X Factor suffered its first defeat by the Corporation’s flagship entertainment programme for four years.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Come back, Wagner! All is forgiven
Doom doom doom, doom doom de doom. DOOM DOOM DOOM, DEWAH WAH, DOOM.
Every weekend, the X Factor music thunders forth like a death knell, a herald of increasing catastrophe, a shrieking harbinger of horrors untold.
On Saturday and Sunday, it was accompanied by the traditional panic-stricken basso profundo voice-over; a lunatic at the bottom of a well bellowing edited highlights of the backstage shenanigans to date.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Tulisa’s heavy metal style: Herve Leger dress worn by The X Factor judge weighs more than a stone
If the weight of expectation is heavy on the shoulders of new X Factor judge Tulisa, it would be nothing compared with one of the dresses she wore on the show, which tipped the scales at a hefty 1st 3lb (7.75kg).
It was a black, floor-length Herve Leger bandage number with silver chains sewn in to provide a womanly hour-glass shape.
The label has long been loved by celebrities — including Elle Macpherson, Cheryl Cole and Elizabeth Hurley — due to the way the frocks cling to curves and pull any more ‘fleshy’ parts up and in.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘A robotic effect was used’: X Factor bosses admit digitally altering Kitty Brucknell’s voice for Halloween performance
X Factor bosses have admitted digitally altering Kitty Brucknell’s voice during her Halloween performance.
But they have stopped short of saying she had been autotuned, calling the vocals a ‘robotic effect’.
Viewers vented on Twitter after Kitty’s rendition of the Eurythmics classic Sweet Dreams on Saturday night’s live show.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘She’s worth waiting for’: Kitty Brucknell’s boyfriend Derek Gorman says he is in no rush to take the next step with the X Factor star
X Factor diva Kitty Brucknell’s boyfriend has come out of the woodwork, with some shocking revelations about the singer.
Banker Derek Gorman, 31, is engaged to Kitty, whose outrageous antics have seen her steal headline after headline since her first audition for the show.
And it appears that though she certainly isn’t shy of being provocative on stage, the blonde is rather more reserved in private.
Read more: The Daily Mail
The provocative outfits are just for the stage… we haven’t even had sex yet, reveals Kitty’s boyfriend of six months
X Factor diva Kitty Brucknell’s boyfriend has come out of the woodwork, with some unexpected revelations about the singer.
Banker Derek Gorman, 31, claims that he and Kitty haven’t had sex yet, despite the fact that he has proposed, and they have been dating for six months.
However his portrait of a shy and retiring Kitty makes an odd contrast with the her wild antics last week, when she straddled a dancer at The Shadow Lounge club in Soho.
Read more: The Daily Mail
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X Factor UK Music Release Schedule Update
Albums
Jedward (Victory) – August 5 in Ireland (2nd album) (#1 Ireland)
Joe McElderry (Classic) – August 21 (2nd album) (#2)
Will Young (Echoes) – August 21 (5th album) (#1)
Matt Cardle (Letters) – October 17 (debut) (#2 in the UK, Ireland)
Ronan Parke (Ronan Parke) – October 24 (debut) (#22)
Cher Lloyd (Sticks + Stones) – November 7 (debut)
Susan Boyle (Someone To Watch Over Me) – November 7 (3rd album)
JLS (Jukebox) – November 14 (3rd album)
One Direction (Up All Night) – November 21 (debut)
Olly Murs (In Case You Didn’t Know) – November 28 (2nd album)
Joe McElderry (Classic Christmas) – November 28 (3rd album)
Il Divo (Wicked Game) – November 28 (8th album)
Rebecca Ferguson (Heaven) – December 5 (debut)
Leona Lewis (Glassheart) – March 26 2012 (3rd album)
Singles
JLS – She Makes Me Wanna (feat. Dev) – July 24 (#1)
Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger – July 31 (#1)
Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks) – August 21 (#1)
Will Young – Jealousy – August 21 (#5)
Leona Lewis/Avicii – Collide – September 4 (#4)
One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful – September 11 (#1 UK, #1 Ireland)
Matt Cardle – Run For Your Life – October 9 (#6 UK, #12 Ireland)
Cher Lloyd – With Ur Love (feat Mike Posner) – October 30
JLS – Take A Chance On Me – November 6
One Direction – Gotta To Be You – November 13
Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight – November 20
The X Factor Finalists 2011 – Wishing On A Star – November 20
Rebecca Ferguson – Nothing’s Real But Love – November 27
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Week 5 and 6 X Factor guest performers, according to X Factor Updates:
Week 5 (11/6): JLS, Florence + The Machine
Week 6 (11/13): One Direction, Lady GaGa
I think it’s safe to assume Olly Murs and this year’s finalists will perform in week 7 (11/20) and Rebecca Ferguson in week 8 (11/27).
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Music sales – NUMBERS:
Singles
1 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande – Read All About It – 153,007
2 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah – Earthquake – 115,530
3 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – We Found Love – 85,453 (total sales: 372,268)
4 Kelly Clarkson – Mr. Know It All – 53,307 (total sales: 101,217)
5 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – Moves Like Jagger – 50,483
Albums
1 Coldplay 208,343 (debut)
2 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 70,837 (total sales: 193,367)
3 Michael Buble 53,736
4 Bruno Mars 31,447
5 Kelly Clarkson 29,233 (debut)
6 Matt Cardle 26,443 (97,339 in 2 weeks)
7 Ed Sheeran 25,441
8 Adele 23,029
9 Steps 20,581
10 Tom Waits 16,074
Total sales:
Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted 191,953
Kelly Clarkson – Thankful 148,461
Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway 1,556,554
Kelly Clarkson – My December 147,862
