20 Million tune in to see the X Factor final (Article from last night)
 

Move over Kevin Keegan – Tyneside has a new messiah, at least for the time being. In front of a television audience of 20 million, Joe McElderry, from South Shields was last night named the winner of the talent contest The X Factor . As the host Dermot O'Leary announced the result, McElderry, an 18-year-old performing arts student, was embraced by his mentor, fellow Geordie Cheryl Cole, and demonstrated what must be an X Factor first: no tears ... not one.

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These are probably the early figures, a more definate figure will be out tommorow

Woah, XF really got big this year.

wow.

T'was to be expected after the ratings its sister show (BGT) got

I wonder if Americans watch XF on Youtube hmmm

Jedward were on the american news.

Ratings haven't been released yet. All the early Joe winning news reports said 20 million. Either just a guess or PR put out by ITV. Probably won't be as much as that.

Vile series.

Yeah.

Deffenatly very over rated.
Should not of got the attention and ratings it got.

Series 5 deserved it more than Series 6.

Leoan Jackson > Joe..

Thats how bad it was..

omg!

The article was close enough I guess

The 5 min peak was 19.1m and the 1 minute peak was 19.7m, so a 30 second peak would have peaked at 20m.

aww yayy good for Joe =) <3

LMAO. That towers over Big Brother's final ratings of around 2m :eek:!