Simon: "Ben is going to have a top five album this week".
 

Oops.

I've heard its top 5 in Myanmar

lol.

I feel bad for him tbh, he's been managed so badly compared to fleur

he will be lucky if he manages a decent wank this week

Tragic

I agree with this.

Fleur is more marketable and overall is more charismatic and more likely to reach out to a mass audience than Ben is, I do feel sorry for him a bit but at the end of the day I think it's the right decision for Syco to focus more on Fleur than Ben.

Album: Ben Haenow

iTunes:
#3 Mauritius
#9 Botswana
#11 South Africa
#26 Papua New Guinea
#57 United Kingdom
#61 Namibia
#65 Barbados
#83 Qatar
#198 Cyprus

At this point it makes me wonder why any men would want to actually win the X Factor, none of the male winners go on to be successful.

At least hes popular in Mauritius, he'll be happy with that

I bet he'd kill for a career on the scale of Kav

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...4/9ROaEVZ0.jpg

I agree, only the female winners (Alexandra, Leona, Little Mix) have been really successful tbh (ignoring Sam Bailey), whereas the male winners literally only get the Xmas #1 and then are forgot about after that.

Shayne Ward had a successful career but like Alexandra Burke they flopped after their 1st album

I can only remember No U Hang Up tbh

He hasn't a snowballs chance in Hell of making it even into the top 40

But it doesn't beat the fact his first album went platinum but then his career went down hill just like Alexandra's and Leona's

I love hyperbole.

He's better going it alone with his band again now he's got a tiny bit of fame

Leona and Alexandra's successful music careers lasted much longer than Shayne's tbh

At least Mauritius and Botswana are here for him :clap1:

But the big question is what it's doing in Burkina Faso

Excuse me Leona's career never went downhill after her first album

Better then Fluer :hehe:

I meant their careers went down hill in general :laugh:

Leona deserves to be successful.

Shayne's 2nd album did well i guess, #2

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: