[Headie]

Fleur East has apologised to Mark Ronson after the release of his new single 'Uptown Funk' had to be brought forward.

East shot to number one on iTunes with her version of the song on The X Factor this weekend, which prompted the music producer to release the song five weeks early.

Speaking to Newsbeat, 26-year-old East said: "Yeah I'm really sorry, but all I can say is it's props to all their creative hard work because it's an amazing song.

"I think straight away they were like, 'Oh wow, what's happened here?' So they had to speed up the release date."

She also added that if 'Uptown Funk' were to become the Christmas number 1, she would rather it was Ronson's version.

"It would be a shame in many ways, obviously because it was their song and they created it, it would only be right that theirs got to number one," she added.

The Ronson version is sung by Bruno Mars and was previously due to be released in the UK on 11 January.

'Uptown Funk' serves as the first single to be lifted from Ronson's new album Uptown Special, which is released on January 26.

It is the producer's first album in four years, and follows 2010's Record Collection, which peaked at number two in the UK.

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Lol she doesn't need to apologise... if anything she gave them the best possible promo they could get, not to mention it could hold on for Xmas no.1 if it's still selling.

[Gstar]

She has given them immense promo, all she needs to do is say "don't believe just watch", turn around and walk away

and when she turns around I want her hair to hit them in the face

[LeatherTrumpet]

like it was her idea.

she is a singing mop head

[Shaun]

how gracious of her

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Germyle

She has given them immense promo, all she needs to do is say "don't believe just watch", turn around and walk away

and when she turns around I want her hair to hit them in the face

Originally Posted by YaFilthyAnimal

how gracious of her

[Mystic Mock]

Simon gave her the song to sing so shouldn't he be the one apologizing.

Although imo Mark Ronson sounds very ungrateful to me as the performace on the show has given his song huge publicity.

[LeatherTrumpet]

yes simon

no simon

are we in americar yet

[Headie]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

Simon gave her the song to sing so shouldn't he be the one apologizing.

Although imo Mark Ronson sounds very ungrateful to me as the performace on the show has given his song huge publicity.

Agree with this tbh

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

Simon gave her the song to sing so shouldn't he be the one apologizing.

Although imo Mark Ronson sounds very ungrateful to me as the performace on the show has given his song huge publicity.

careful anyone would think you were sticking up for Fleur !!!
but dont worry we all know you dislike her

[erinp5]

Oh how very feckin noble of her .....

[Ninastar]

he should be thanking her

poor fleur

[LeatherTrumpet]

lets hope Andrea wins and not that mess

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

careful anyone would think you were sticking up for Fleur !!!
but dont worry we all know you dislike her

I always try to be fair, sometimes it can be hard but I still try to do it.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

lets hope Andrea wins and not that mess

You'll be giving him a Poison Chalice if he wins though, Simon has designed it that way this year.

[Shaun]

the time some artists take to release a single is pretty daft, really, I mean he was planning to do it in 2015... after performing the bloody song on SNL?

Musicians (and, more specifically, labels) have no business in waiting 3 months between us first hearing a song on radio and it going on sale. It's just ****ing idiotic.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

You'll be giving him a Poison Chalice if he wins though, Simon has designed it that way this year.

fluer is all that is wrong with uk music. she is the embodiment how how the youth have been arse fecked by USA marketing departments

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

I always try to be fair, sometimes it can be hard but I still try to do it.

im not even going to try and understand you Mocker

But i read a weird old post form you where your supporting fleur & steph and you reffered to them as "chocolate delights"
why are you obsessed with race ??? plus you dont even like Fleur anyway ! or did your opinion of her just change?

you even made out people were against Lauren on facebook because she's "white"
which makes no sense when Lauren was a strong contestant because she had fans and was a good singer

why does skin colour have to be an issue you should like somebody because of their talent it shouldn't matter what their heritage/race is

[Cal.]

She shouldn't be apologizing.

And she'll probably beat them to Christmas number one with her winner's single anyway

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

im not even going to try and understand you Mocker

But i read a weird old post form you where your supporting fleur & steph and you reffered to them as "chocolate delights"
why are you obsessed with race ??? plus you dont even like Fleur anyway ! or did your opinion of her just change?

you even made out people were against Lauren on facebook because she's "white"
which makes no sense when Lauren was a strong contestant because she had fans and was a good singer

why does skin colour have to be an issue you should like somebody because of their talent it shouldn't matter what their heritage/race is

Are you on about the looks thread? Finding Fleur and Steph attractive doesn't mean that I have to like them as singers, and the Chocolate Delight comment I can understand why people might take that offensively but it was my OTT way of saying that Steph was attractive.

And race does seem to be a big issue on Reality shows, on BB if you're a black girl you're hated no matter how the individual behaves, and if you're a pretty white girl on TXF they get the boring tag no matter how good or bad they maybe.

It bothers me, I know that it makes me look like a racist or whatever you think that I am, but when I notice a pattern appearing I will try to stop it if I feel that it's prejudicial.

[Benjamin]

Where are people getting that Mark Ronson was/is pissed off with the early release?

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

Are you on about the looks thread? Finding Fleur and Steph attractive doesn't mean that I have to like them as singers, and the Chocolate Delight comment I can understand why people might take that offensively but it was my OTT way of saying that Steph was attractive.

And race does seem to be a big issue on Reality shows, on BB if you're a black girl you're hated no matter how the individual behaves, and if you're a pretty white girl on TXF they get the boring tag no matter how good or bad they maybe.

It bothers me, I know that it makes me look like a racist or whatever you think that I am, but when I notice a pattern appearing I will try to stop it if I feel that it's prejudicial.

we all know racism still exists!!!
but your theory is messed up because Fleur is hugely popular and has never been in the sing off and might even win the show!

plus previously Alexandra won! who also was never in the sing off
and Leona Lewis won aswell and once again never in the sing off

Mocker you seem to take a few facebook comments or ds messages as the entire british public you made a huge deal about that when you said Lauren was supposedly bad mouthed on facebook because she's a young white girl?

when online there's always ugly troll comments and you cant take that as fact especially when you know how popular Lauren was and its only towards the end her fanbase wasn't as big

your making it seem like theres issues with race and gender

[Mystic Mock]

I think it all comes down to the production, BB's production seems to not like black girls very much so they edit them a certain way to make the public not like them, and Simon clearly has it in for young pretty white girls, they always get early time slots, branded boring at some point, great song choices to begin with but they turn horrible towards the end.

Also it's quite convenient that the only white female winner we have had was unattractive, a bit chubby, sung all TXF cliched song choices, and was not in the girls category so the teenage girls could connect with her more, and the older women could as well as she was someone from their age group.

[Headie]

Originally Posted by The Mockerdeer

I think it all comes down to the production, BB's production seems to not like black girls very much so they edit them a certain way to make the public not like them, and Simon clearly has it in for young pretty white girls, they always get early time slots, branded boring at some point, great song choices to begin with but they turn horrible towards the end.

Also it's quite convenient that the only white female winner we have had was unattractive, a bit chubby, sung all TXF cliched song choices, and was not in the girls category so the teenage girls could connect with her more, and the older women could as well as she was someone from their age group.

Ella Henderson and Cher Lloyd have done well after the show, that makes your point invalid.

If I were you I'd just stop trying to make excuses for why she is out. The simple reason is, she had the 4th biggest fanbase out of all the contestants, hence why she finished 4th (which is pretty good).

[Kizzy]

I think she landed on her feet having Simon as a mentor, it's the staging, the promotion, the styling, the positioning and the stealing of other peoples hits that have thrust her into pole position.
A poor mans Emile Sande at best...

[Strictly Jake]

I love Fleur to bits. But I think it was a little bit in her favour at the weekend. I think the unplugged theme was pulled just so she could sing that particular song. If you think of the other 3 acts song choices they fit the unplugged theme and were the songs that they were going to do. It was just changed simply for Fleur. That said she did brilliantly and I would like to see her or Ben go on to win