[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I don't know. If Susan Boyle can do it, so can Sam and she has a much better voice.

Susan Boyle though has a likely totally different audience Vanessa.
She came from BGT and I know lots of people who watch that but not X Factor.

Susan Boyle was just there at the right time and didn't have to compete week after week.
She has an older audience and I don't mean that offensively to her, but she has somehow struck a chord with enough of that audience to secure regular chart success BY them buying her albums,much as Daniel O'Donnell has.

X Factor is supposed to be looking at presenting one of the next big International hit making machines and I don't see Sam Bailey as that I'm afraid.
If she does win it,she will have the investment from the deal initially, once she fails to make the top 10 with anything, then she will be dropped.

If she doesn't win then I can even doubt, outside of her debut album, that she will even likely get started really.
She'll make a good living for a time out of it but I just cannot see massive things for her myself.