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POLL: Your opinions on The X Factor UK!
dvrkfire
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The X Factor UK POLL!
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Maybe also they really connected with their fans and have had several strong hit singles unlike basically any other winner apart from Alexandra.
But it's Leona that's sold the most and has the most top 10 hits.
Yes; Leona who benefited from the early days of talent shows and people not being sick of people on them to be able to have one complete smash song ten years ago which she's ridden the wave of for her whole career. Where would her sales and impact be without the smash of Bleeding Love (and to a lesser extent, a winner's song that suited her voice and style of music)?
Sometimes all you need is one good song, and sometimes that's all you get your whole career. Little Mix have gone from strength to strength where Leona started strong but has since fallen off a cliff, so she wouldn't be my pick for best overall X Factor winner. Just my opinion though.
And NO, I'm no teenage girl! They're simply the best out of a bad bunch.
As for Leona holding the most top 10 hits, that argument doesn't hold here. Leona has had 10 top 10 hits in how many years??!! Little Mix have had 8 top 10 hits in under 4 years and they'll probably soon add much more to that list.
It's not enough to have one huge hit that ensures you'll be selling for quite a while and quite a lot. Leona has indeed more money, but the girls have something much more important to be remembered by: a recognizable back catalogue.
Just because you don't like the results, it doesn't mean they're not reflective of the general opinion.
The poll seems to be in accordance with a lot of bigger polls conducted over the years, that were presenting Gary and Nicole as the favorite judges and Simon, Louis and Tulisa as bottom of the list.
Besides, series 8 is ahead of series 7 only by 2 votes - does that mean that someone else, aside from the "Mixers" sabotaged the poll as well?
Last year, Louisa and Reggie n Bollie. The year before, Fleur, Andrea, and Ben. The year before that, The Sam Bailey Show. The year before that, The Nicole Scherzinger show featuring Ella Henderson. The field, for whatever reason, hasn't felt as open.
There's also the fact that XF has been running for 12 years. Perhaps a lot of readers of this fan forum might have started late and only remember back as far as series 8 which is by itself already 5 years ago. How many older and past viewers, fans of series 1-5 are still coming back to comment on a fan forum for a show they only enjoyed distant past series of?