I work in the media. A friend of mine is a successful producer who has worked on, amongst other things, X factor - 3 series (before this one) He has said that in all 3 series, the leona and ray final was the closest and that it was so close, they thought at one point that Ray had won
If that is true then no way can the X factor voters ever be taken seriously and I think it pretty much confirms that the vote is rather sexist.
I work in the media. A friend of mine is a successful producer who has worked on, amongst other things, X factor - 3 series (before this one) He has said that in all 3 series, the leona and ray final was the closest and that it was so close, they thought at one point that Ray had won
The 2006 final was one of the few that the voting figures was actually published and with 8 million votes cast, the voting was heavily in favour of Leona with 60% of the vote.
I work in the media. A friend of mine is a successful producer who has worked on, amongst other things, X factor - 3 series (before this one) He has said that in all 3 series, the leona and ray final was the closest and that it was so close, they thought at one point that Ray had won
The figures were in the Ofcom Report published earlier this year after the ITV phone voting scandals. They released the voting figures for Series 2 and 3 and confirmed that Leon beat Rhydian in Series 4 though didn't release the final figures.
From the report:
Series 2: Shayne beat Andy Abraham by 151,000 votes
Oh for gods sake! Could we all stop thinking so negative! :mad: It p*sses me off!!
The only reason why Alex won’t win is because all you THNINK she won’t. You've all decided that Eoghan will win so you wont bother voting.. What will be the outcome?? Eoghan will win.. Alex will probs come second or third.
Have hope guys! and VOTE! That’s all I can say.
Eoghan WILL NOT win. Alex will I have hope and I'm sure of it
Oh for gods sake! Could we all stop thinking so negative! :mad: It p*sses me off!!
The only reason why Alex won’t win is because all you THNINK she won’t. You've all decided that Eoghan will win so you wont bother voting.. What will be the outcome?? Eoghan will win.. Alex will probs come second or third.
Have hope guys! and VOTE! That’s all I can say.
Eoghan WILL NOT win. Alex will I have hope and I'm sure of it
I always think the worst, can't help it BUT that won't stop me voting for her and it'll probably make me vote more if I feel someone else is going to win.
I work in the media. A friend of mine is a successful producer who has worked on, amongst other things, X factor - 3 series (before this one) He has said that in all 3 series, the leona and ray final was the closest and that it was so close, they thought at one point that Ray had won
How could that be the closest when Leona won by over 60%? The Shayne/Andy final result had about half a percent in it I believe.
Eoghan IS a good singer. Year 3000 was actually a good performance.
People say he's singing out of tune all of the time, which is rubbish to me, because he has mixed results like everyone else - and often times people don't know the difference between strained singing from poor breathing and pitch problems.
People always think I want Eoghan to win, because I end up defending him most often from the relentless and totally biased abuse, but then I've defended Ruth, Diana, JLS, Scott, Rachel, Daniel and Laura at various points, and I didn't even like half of them - I just don't like the hugely biased attacks and silly things people choose to base them on.
I tend to vote who I like most each week and it changes - I don't say I like someone or hate every single week, because they don't sing at the same levels every week. For example, I thought Eoghan good decent this week (average vocal, but liked the songs and performances), but thought he was really poor the week before - but then his 'Anytime you need a friend' was a series highlight for me and it was a good vocal too.
Chances are my vote will go Alex on Saturday since I've liked her ballads for the last couple of weeks, but you never know, I'll see what they all do.
I don't think the final between Leona and Ray was very close. He had only just managed to claw his way there after being the favourite to get eliminated for the few weeks leading up to the final. And I was surprised he had actually managed to secure 40% of the final vote, even though there was a mad rush of money bet on him in the final week but that happens to every finalist.
Last year, they didn't give out the official number of votes each act received. But they did say that there was only 1% between Leon and Rhydian until they performed the winner's song, then Leon opened up a 10% lead.
This year, who knows what will happen.
I feel like Alex should win, but I really don't care that much.
I do not know what the excitement is about regarding the Final this weekend. They will ALL end up with recording contracts. Have read that Laura (who was voted out) has one already and Ruth has been approached so what is all the excitement about winning X Factor????. Look what happened last year it appears that Rhydian is selling a lot more records than Leon although Leon won X Factor!!
Good point, everyone who Simon likes will be signed anyway thus in effect, rendering the prize - if not pointless, then not as valuable as it would be.
I don`t think she will.................she is like Rhydian was last year - the "finished article". I think people will vote for the "raw talent" of Eggnog. Voters tend to prefer that to someone who already has star quality.
Sadly, I think it's going to be Egwok, it's the Will and Gareth scenario again, only this time, it'll go in favour of the young teen over the best singer, Alex. The only reason being, Alexandra is a female and she'll not get as many votes. I know Leona Lewis beat Ray Quinn, but Leona was getting the most votes every week, unlike Alex. I hope I'm totally wrong, but I think he'll walk it.:(
I think you may be right. But I, like you. hope I'm wrong. Egg wasn't the worst this year but no way should he have gone before Austin, Laura and Ruth.
If I was solely responsible for judging (lol) I'd have had this year's finalists at:
Winner: Alex
2nd Austin
3rd Laura
4th JLs
5th Ruth
6th Diana
7th Eoghan
8th Rachel
9th Scott
10th Girlband
11th Daniel
12th Bad Lashes
Sadly I think you may be right, but I would love to see an upset and JLS win. They will all 3 get signed though but unlike last year, expect debut albums out within 3 months.............the mums and grannies will by hyperventilating at the thought of an Eggnog album for Mother`s Day :eek::eek:
If Little Bear bought me an Eggnog album for Mother's day I think I'd have to disown her!:D
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If that is true then no way can the X factor voters ever be taken seriously and I think it pretty much confirms that the vote is rather sexist.
The 2006 final was one of the few that the voting figures was actually published and with 8 million votes cast, the voting was heavily in favour of Leona with 60% of the vote.
The figures were in the Ofcom Report published earlier this year after the ITV phone voting scandals. They released the voting figures for Series 2 and 3 and confirmed that Leon beat Rhydian in Series 4 though didn't release the final figures.
From the report:
Series 2: Shayne beat Andy Abraham by 151,000 votes
Series 3: Leona beat Ray by 2.27 million votes
The only reason why Alex won’t win is because all you THNINK she won’t. You've all decided that Eoghan will win so you wont bother voting.. What will be the outcome?? Eoghan will win.. Alex will probs come second or third.
Have hope guys! and VOTE! That’s all I can say.
Eoghan WILL NOT win. Alex will
I always think the worst, can't help it BUT that won't stop me voting for her and it'll probably make me vote more if I feel someone else is going to win.
How could that be the closest when Leona won by over 60%? The Shayne/Andy final result had about half a percent in it I believe.
People always think I want Eoghan to win, because I end up defending him most often from the relentless and totally biased abuse, but then I've defended Ruth, Diana, JLS, Scott, Rachel, Daniel and Laura at various points, and I didn't even like half of them - I just don't like the hugely biased attacks and silly things people choose to base them on.
I tend to vote who I like most each week and it changes - I don't say I like someone or hate every single week, because they don't sing at the same levels every week. For example, I thought Eoghan good decent this week (average vocal, but liked the songs and performances), but thought he was really poor the week before - but then his 'Anytime you need a friend' was a series highlight for me and it was a good vocal too.
Chances are my vote will go Alex on Saturday since I've liked her ballads for the last couple of weeks, but you never know, I'll see what they all do.
If 'people' haven't realised that by now they are hardly likely to in the final are they:rolleyes:
Last year, they didn't give out the official number of votes each act received. But they did say that there was only 1% between Leon and Rhydian until they performed the winner's song, then Leon opened up a 10% lead.
This year, who knows what will happen.
I feel like Alex should win, but I really don't care that much.
The "Raw-egg" Yuk! :eek:
I think you may be right. But I, like you. hope I'm wrong. Egg wasn't the worst this year but no way should he have gone before Austin, Laura and Ruth.
If I was solely responsible for judging (lol) I'd have had this year's finalists at:
Winner: Alex
2nd Austin
3rd Laura
4th JLs
5th Ruth
6th Diana
7th Eoghan
8th Rachel
9th Scott
10th Girlband
11th Daniel
12th Bad Lashes
If Little Bear bought me an Eggnog album for Mother's day I think I'd have to disown her!:D