Rebecca Ferguson named the most successful act from last year's XF by Amazon

[Smithy]

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Rebecca Ferguson has been named the most successful act from last year's crop of X Factor contestants by Amazon.

The online retailer revealed that pre-orders of Heaven surpassed those of winner Matt Cardle, One Direction and Cher Lloyd.

The album beat pre-orders of Lloyd's Sticks + Stones by 571%, Cardle's Letters by 181% and One Direction's Up All Night by 11%.

Amazon's Head of Music Buying Paul Firth said: "Rebecca Ferguson's strong pre-order performance is a good indicator that she is set to follow in the footsteps of the very successful X Factor runners-up in previous years by achieving stronger sales than the ultimate winner.

"Over the past three years we've seen Rebecca Ferguson ahead of Matt Cardle, Olly Murs ahead of Joe McElderry and JLS ahead of Alexandra Burke in the charts and with Rebecca Ferguson, Olly Murs, One Direction and JLS all with albums in the top 20 we're sure that this weekend's runners-up will be pleased to know that all's not lost if they miss out on the coveted win."

Ferguson's album is currently on course to chart inside the top three in the UK albums chart on Sunday.


Y'all can stay mad, she's the real winner http://gagadaily.com/public/style_emoticons/default/flutter.gif

[Jordan.]

Never going to be the most successful when it comes to singles though http://gagadaily.com/public/style_emoticons/default/flutter.gif

[Marc]

LOL doesn't take much to be fair

[Maia]

The album beat pre-orders of One Direction's Up All Night by 11%

Excellent to hear

[CharlieO]

Y'all can stay mad, she's the real winner http://gagadaily.com/public/style_emoticons/default/flutter.gif

:worship:

[Black Dagger]

Never going to be the most successful when it comes to singles though http://gagadaily.com/public/style_emoticons/default/flutter.gif

Some of the biggest names in history wouldn't be able to sell singles now to be fair, she is an album artist.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Alot of people here in the UK have trouble with sleeping, so they bought her album to help

[Callum]

I'm glad, she deserves that title. She was the most talented from last years series by a long mile. I need to buy her album.

[Smithy]

Never going to be the most successful when it comes to singles though http://gagadaily.com/public/style_emoticons/default/flutter.gif
No, that's one direction, they had the fastest selling single of the year, good for them http://i.imgur.com/RBmIo.png
Alot of people here in the UK have trouble with sleeping, so they bought her album to help

That doesn't even make sense :joker:

[Niamh.]

Good for her, she's a very talented

[Niall]

I don't know who she is, but the margin at which she outsold Cher is bloody hilarious :laugh2:

[Locke.]

Only on pre-orders.

[robb]

I don't know who she is, but the margin at which she outsold Cher is bloody hilarious :laugh2:

If she charts top 3, that is excellent......the most talented maybe, but I thought she was in danger of being overlooked with the (relative) success of Cher, One Dimension and Cardle. NOT SO, apparently...good on yer, Becky!! :spin:

[robb]

I'm glad, she deserves that title. She was the most talented from last years series by a long mile. I need to buy her album.

What makes LESS sense is the apparent rush (well, sort of) to buy Olly Murs' album. He fiited in really well with the Muppets on XF last week. You couldn't see the join :joker: Only presume his stint on XTRA factor has won him a few part-time girly fans.....

[Jords]

Her first single is boring but I will get around to listening to the album, has amazing reviews.

Getting my mum it for Xmas too because she loves her voice.

[fruit_cake]

I thought she was the most naturally talented last year

[Locke.]

What makes LESS sense is the apparent rush (well, sort of) to buy Olly Murs' album. He fiited in really well with the Muppets on XF last week. You couldn't see the join :joker: Only presume his stint on XTRA factor has won him a few part-time girly fans.....

Olly has a good fanbase, his first album went double platinum and his new one sold 148,000 in its first week which is 40k higher than the first week of his first album.. So I reckon he will end up going double platinum again.

Dance With Me Tonight is #1 in todays chart aswell 3 weeks after its release, so is probably going to end up being his biggest selling single.

[Mystic Mock]

Im not her biggest fan but well done to her,especially for beating One Direction.

[Marc]

Her voice is awful IMO

[bbfan1991]

Fair play to her, however, I still find her dull and lacking any star quality..

[Brother Leon]

We all know that title truly belongs to the 1D boys :worship:

[Shaun]

just goes to show my favourites are always the best :idc:

[Shaun]

even if my favourite was Paije ¬_¬

[Smithy]

She's in the midweeks @ #3 with 95,396

I feel like a proud mother

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[bbfan1991]

I always like most of the marmite acts. JLS are probably the act I supported who has done the best!:joker:

[Doogle]

Thank goodness, brilliant news. Was so worried she would flop horrifically.

[LaLaLand]

Amazing news, can't wait to buy it.

[SiaSiaSia]

but her single did SO badly?!

[Smithy]

but her single did SO badly?!

It charted at #10, that's not terrible? :conf2:

She's obviously an album seller

[Niamh.]

It charted at #10, that's not terrible? :conf2:

She's obviously an album seller

I never understand why people even bother buying singles, seems like a waste of money to me. Why not just get the whole album?

[Smithy]

I never understand why people even bother buying singles, seems like a waste of money to me. Why not just get the whole album?

90% of the time now, you can buy a single on iTunes then when the albums released, use the "Complete My Album" option, which lets you buy the album with the cost of the single deducted

[Niamh.]

90% of the time now, you can buy a single on iTunes then when the albums released, use the "Complete My Album" option, which lets you buy the album with the cost of the single deducted

Oh really? That's a good idea

[Jordan.]

Only on pre-orders.

And just in time for christmas :idc:

[IheartBB]

Yes, because success as a music artist start and ends with Amazon pre-sales :joker:

1D's first week album sales was 138,000. If Ferguson sold more than this and finished #3 it was a bloody good week for the music industry :shrug:

[Smithy]

It's december sales are always high in december, she'd sold just under 100k by the end of the day thursday and had friday & saturday when sales are generally at their highest during the week

[Smithy]

I won a signed copy

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[Mystic Mock]

I won a signed copy

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That reaction is still a classic.:joker:

[Jordan.]

Sorry to hear that Smithy

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[Jords]

Bought my mum it for Xmas and Ill get around to listening sometime :D

[Smithy]

Im not gonna bump this again -probably will-

But in 2 weeks she's outsold all of last years XF finalists with 224k copies :lovedup:

[fruit_cake]

I'm glad that she's being successful she's got a unique talent