Tbf to Simon he was basing it off the midweek sales when Ben was at number 5 in the Albums Chart.

Considering he had no promotion from Simon his actually not done too bad, especially for a male Over.

It's just sad that Simon favours Fleur on such an Olly level that it builds resentment towards them as would they have finished 2nd in their respective series without Simon's pimping? And would they have had more success in the charts than the winner without Simon's pimping?

Well done to Fleur, it's just a shame that Simon cheapens her achievements by not actually making it a competition when it's to do with her.

Every singer has more charisma than Ben Haenow, but Fleur doesn't really have much either hence why she uses dance routines to cover up her poor performing skills and vocals, ironically like a Robbie Williams/Olly Murs figure in female form.

Yes but what about Fleur

She's just going with the.

Fluer failed to chart in Burkino Faso :hmph:

I didn't realise they even had music in Qatar :O

They clearly don't if he's that high

Clocked!

Qatar still has Womanizer at #9 :clap1:

And Alanis Morissette's in the top 10

Excuse me, I'm moving to Qatar

One of the reasons for X Factor's ratings decline has got to be that viewers see the competition doesn't count for much anymore. They just sign up whoever they think will do best commercially.

Midweek charts on a Monday, he said that on Sunday js

Welp it's dropped from #10 last week to #29 this week.

(His sales are less than a third of what Sam Bailey's album of covers managed last year)

X Factor winner debut album first week sales


Leona Lewis (1)-375,872
Shayne Ward (1)-201,266
Alexandra Burke (1)-132,065
Sam Bailey (1)-72,644
Matt Cardle(2)-70,896
James Arthur(2)-63,995
Little Mix (3)-53,314
Steve Brookstein (1)-50,989
Joe McElderry (3)-39,405
Leon Jackson-(4)-37,197
Ben Haenow(10)-18,130

Untouchable Leona :love:

James Arthur being 6th despite the homophobic diss Rap.:joker:

Overcome deserved more