Not looking good for Sam Bailey.
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This is a shame really, but always likely to happen i guess. http://tellymix.co.uk/reality-tv/the-x-factor/206596-x-factor-2013-winner-sam-bailey-about-to-be-dropped-by-simon-cowell.html
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I honestly despise Syco. She won the show fair and square yet they have the audacity to lump her with a covers album, which against all odds shot straight to number one, then a re-released covers/Christmas album! It's ridiculous. Yet Tamara is apparently getting the all star treatment.
Run for the hills Sam. You've got you're exposure, now run
You are right with this to be fair, as financially she should be in a good position, and maybe someone else might take her on.
I'm not sure an X Factor winner is set for life. According this article, if they get offered a recording contract, then:
Winner gets £150k advance, 2nd gets £75k, 3rd £50k and 4th £10k.
Out of which they must pay their own expenses.
http://dailydoseofziam.tumblr.com/post/67760705856/about-x-factor-record-deals-and-management
Best of luck to Sam in the future,i just hope she gets to make a second album and i am also delighted she is not the lowest selling winners album.
Syco are a business not a charity. Like all businesses, you make a great contribution and you stay you lose the company money and you are out. All music labels are the same just syco is more high profile
Yeah, Leon Jackson and Steve Brookstein are set for life.
Yes, while I agree with women being able to have children whenever they want it wasn't the greatest idea.
Forgive me for saying this, but having a daughter myself not planned, these things happen. She wouldnt have planned it, was deffo a career stopper but it's not a life sentance she will get other work.
Sam Bailey doesnt know about protection? What are you excusing? She had a career to think of and she had children already.
She wouldn't be able to do anything in this line of work at all, if it weren't for syco
Yeah exactly. When someone is offering you literally the chance of a lifetime after you've invested months of your life in it, and it's something you really want.... why be careless with your family planning at such a critical time.
Woah, Erm Im not excusing, but if you read back she said she had problems with her ovaries so maybe she didnt think it would happen or she was drunk I dont know. However yeah it wasnt great timing but life is life.
Her pregnancy and maternity leave would not have stopped her singing in a studio or performing on TV - singing isn't like a normal job where you are working full time in an office or shop or whatever.
This, there was nothing stopping them getting her in the studio, Lots of pregnant singers still work - the sad truth is Simon didnt want her to win, hes turned his attention to Tamera,
I think most people know how businesses operate
Thing is, there's no way they've lost money on Sam. She sold 200k plus of her album - an album consisting of covers so therefore was relatively incredibly cheap to produce. Little Mix's last album has done 100k plus, but would have been vastly more expensive to produce with the creation of original material. Maybe with streaming, single sales and merchandise LM's album will have proved as profitable ultimately, but without looking at the books it's impossible to know.
Cowell's propensity for dropping acts is much more to do with personal disinterest on his part than it is actual hard profitability, which is why it's so easy to predict who he'll drop. He might have all the money, but he craves credibility. Sam's not going to help him get that, and she's not going to sell Adele numbers, so she's disposable.
Syco is a terrible record label, nobody seems to stay with them for all that long. Even Leona dumped them because they tried to make her do an album she was uncomfortable with.
How many winners are still with them?
Steve .. no.
Shayne .. no.
Leona ... no.
Leon ... no
Alexandra ... no
Joe ... no.
Matt ... no
Little Mix.. Yes!
James ... no
Sam... not for much longer..
Ben.. He's only just joined!
Tell me about it, Simon always seems to put more effort into runner ups
Having said that he does like Ben so, he'l give him a better shot.