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If there was no X Factor, would Cheryl Cole have a successful solo career?
Just wondered, as she seems to use it as her own personal plugging machine for her music!
Without the outlet these days of Top of the Pops/Chart show - I suppose these artists need the X Factor for that big push...
I don't have cable/sky/freeview, so I have no idea whether there are any big music programmes on the other channels, apart from music channels, just playing videos...
I miss the old days of Top of the Pops actually - think it could probably make a come-back, with the right re-vamp!
Without the outlet these days of Top of the Pops/Chart show - I suppose these artists need the X Factor for that big push...
I don't have cable/sky/freeview, so I have no idea whether there are any big music programmes on the other channels, apart from music channels, just playing videos...
I miss the old days of Top of the Pops actually - think it could probably make a come-back, with the right re-vamp!
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same, fight for this love would have only have been a mild hit
She essentially owes her fame and fortune to the X-Factor.
That's what I am thinking...I am no particular fan of her's but I'd imagine with Nadine Coyle inserted in the same postition as Cheryl on the show, it would have been her with the success, and Cheryl would have been resigned to the 'mouthy but sexy one' of GA!
Its all about the 'right breaks' in this business, it seems!
I reckon she'd be more successful than Nadine but no where near as successful as she is at the moment. However if the question is she more talented than Nadine, the answer is definitely not!
Tabloid coverage never gave Katie Price and Victoria Beckham music careers. And The X Factor didn't give Leon Jackson and Joe McElderry music careers.
Of course, you could also consider that FFTL wouldn't have the same significance had it not been for Ashley's naughty ways.
Yes, but it was her only hit all over Europe. The rest of the stuff, in almost all other places, was relatively unsuccessful except for the UK and Ireland (where the X-Factor is shown). The same can be said about both of her albums. They pretty much flopped everywhere except for the UK and Ireland (OK, and number 18 in Norway...)
Cheryl got lucky with the X-Factor. She is one of those acts who is known more for who she is than her music. This is why she isn't changing her name back to Tweedy.
Its worth remember its just not her using the XF to help her career. Im sure many artists who performed this and last year wouldnt have nearly as big sales if they didnt perform
Hmmm, I think FFTL would have done very well regardless, but I just think she would be less of a personality/brand without xfactor. I'm not sure if her album(s) would have done well because I'm sure, and this will sound very presumptious, but I think a fair number of people bought her album because she was Cheryl Cole (but then that applies to many artists).
It's a tricky one.
They bought the album because sheeple buy things they hear on the X-Factor. Both albums were released 1 week after the single was performed on the X-Factor (I'm not saying everyone who buys her stuff did because they heard it on the X-Factor, but it was a massive influence in sales, clearly).
Both the first singles from the albums and the albums got to number 1. This would definitely not have happened if she wasn't on the show.
The releases were clearly planned to coincide with the X-Factor so they could get maximum possible exposure, or be that the performances were planned to be done just before the single and album.
Yup
Cheryl was only good as part of Girls Aloud
This. From what I've heard from GA she's by far the weakest vocally. FFTL is a good track but pretty much anyone could have sung it just as well if not better.
She was probably best known because she assaulted that cloakroom attendant which earned the name "Biffa" !!
Then she more or less disappeared until XF
No she was the most well known, 'the fit one' if you will, followed by 'the singer' Nadine.
Kimberley is, and I will take that with me to the grave. Her voice is unbearable.
Before the cheating husband saga, I'd never heard of her before. After that, you couldn't lose sight of her in every newspaper. She then did that solo feature called "Heartbreaker" and things went from there with the solo stuff really. It seemed she (thank god) started to fade back into obscurity again but out of the blue, she's a judge on the crap factor and all of a sudden she's "The nations sweetheart". :rolleyes:
Before all of that, she was "The gobby northern chav who beat up a lady in a nightclub"; nothing more, nothing less.
She auditioned and secured that feature before the cheating came to light. Simon also offered her Britain's got talent in 2007, but she turned him down.