[Harry!]

Is Louis well known at all in the USA?

[BBfanUSA]

Originally Posted by Harry!

Is Louis well known at all in the USA?

I don't think so. But I think on the show they'll say

"For Kansas City, Bronchitis kept Simon at bay. So he called up Louis, a good friend and X Factor UK judge and flew him out to KC in judge in his place with LA, Demi, and Britney."

[Callum]

Originally Posted by big brother usa fan

I don't think so. But I think on the show they'll say

"For Kansas City, Bronchitis kept Simon at bay. So he called up Louis, a good friend and X Factor UK judge and flew him out to KC in judge in his place with LA, Demi, and Britney."

Actually a lot of people were asking for his autograph and wanted to speak to him at the auditions. Probably One Direction fans who've seen him on YouTube. He is more well known than Cheryl Cole was, anyway.

[BBfanUSA]

Originally Posted by Callum

Actually a lot of people were asking for his autograph and wanted to speak to him at the auditions. Probably One Direction fans who've seen him on YouTube. He is more well known than Cheryl Cole was, anyway.

you're probably right. I mean people were probably looking up clips of XFUK just to get a feel of what XFUSA could be.

Though even when the show was about to start and I'm sure it's going to happen again this year people were asking "WTF is X Factor?" here in America.

[Callum]

Originally Posted by big brother usa fan

you're probably right. I mean people were probably looking up clips of XFUK just to get a feel of what XFUSA could be.

Though even when the show was about to start and I'm sure it's going to happen again this year people were asking "WTF is X Factor?" here in America.

Probably but I really think this year it will be a hit. I mean how can it not be with two A-listers who have millions of fans around the world as the new judges!? I can see it easily beating The Voice when they go head to head and it may even get ratings only the likes of Idol have seen before. I would go as far as to say that Britney Spears is the biggest name ever to become a judge on one of these types of shows, she will bring in the viewers.

[BBfanUSA]

Originally Posted by Callum

Probably but I really think this year it will be a hit. I mean how can it not be with two A-listers who have millions of fans around the world as the new judges!? I can see it easily beating The Voice when they go head to head and it may even get ratings only the likes of Idol have seen before. I would go as far as to say that Britney Spears is the biggest name ever to become a judge on one of these types of shows, she will bring in the viewers.

The Voice is also going to be on at the same time as XF. I think both will benefit from idol's fails and also it's Xtina vs Britney round whatever (She's a coach on the US version along with Maroon 5's lead singer,Ceelo Green, and a country singer) Though The Voice only gets 12 million an ep, it's on NBC and it's the biggest show on NBC. It's either that or they're going to both fall flat on their faces.

Also in America people are getting tired of predictable singing shows which Idol has become because of the same type of guy winning every year, which is why Idol suffered last year, because The Voice was unpredictable and some thought it had better talent.

There are people who are tired of singing competitions too as well and that's growing because people think that The Voice and X Factor are just lame ripoffs of Idol (in fact Idol's creator sued X Factor which is why it took til now to get XFUSA up and running.)

Idol this year admitted that one of the reasons why the ratings were down was because of The Voice.

Also Simon has had proposed a ultimate singoff between the winners of Idol, The Voice, and X Factor. I think they should, they could raise alot of money for charity because people would eat it up like pie.

I think because the voice is on NBC. It doesn't get the ratings it deserves, because NBC is in the cellar of American networks.

The Voice was also on as the same time as US SCD which kind of limited the ratings of The Voice since Dancing's a hit show.