Some artists don't need to tour, example Susan Boyle. Maybe Rebecca is another.

Preordered her album.

You are comparing David Bowie to some second rate X Factor contestant who no one really gives a shit about

Am I the only one who's lost interest in this girl since the lives? I think all the reports with her and the boy from One Direction just put a different perspective to her personality and turned me off her good girl image, such a shame

Nope I'm not

I'm making the point that you can be an extremely successful recording artist without any stage presence or live ability at all.

Oh she's great in my view i dont care

Because she's dating a guy a few years younger than her that ruins her good girl image.

Well to me it's just the music that matters

I agree.

Matt Cardle is already a no one after just 9 months

Rebecca is so much better

care to back that up with facts? they're in very much the same situation, preparing to launch an album...

Which will probably go down the same route as Joe (before being saved by Popstar to Operastar), Leon, Shayne, launched just in time for the new X Factor when everyone will have forgotten him. The X Factor curse...

Rebecca was my favourite last year by a long way and I hope she does well I loved her voice and do think she had stage prescence, far more so than the strutting about like a chav Cher and the oh so bland *yawn* boring *yawn* Matt *yawn*

if this is so, how is Rebecca going to manage to escape this?



all a matter of opinion and taste of course - I liked Rebecca to begin with but got bored after a while... Matt, on the other hand, I cannot get tired of!

I'm not a fan but I wish her well.

I changed my views a bit on Rebecca when she was dating Zayn but let's see what the album has to offer. She was easily my favourite contestant on the recent series of the X Factor so I'm expecting a lot from this and hopefully they'll include a cover of Show Me Love on the album!

Apparently she isn't with him anyone

I think it will be hard for Rebecca to do this. Adele has obviously been a huge success so it's made the standards harder for anyone to come out with a Pop/Soul album that will be deemed amazing for the public to take notice.

No she's not.

But she did have a lot of tuning issues which was probably down to nerves. Should be a good album, if they don't fill it with covers.

She might also suffer because Syco's promo budget seems to have been blown on Cher. They can't promote more than one act at a time.

Does every album purchased come with a free bag of crisps?

What a ridiculous comment - they are in exactly the same position currently. Recording albums that will be released in the Autumn. Both have 50:50 record deals (Matt Columbia/SyCo and Rebecca EPIC/SyCo).

And as far as it goes with Matt, it would appear that he is being kept under wraps by his label but there have been a few tweets in the last couple of weeks saying that the album is going to be amazing.

The latest was tonight from Mark Boardman:

"@matt_cardle_uk Have heard quite a few music insiders chatting about your album lately (Released 24th October), can't wait to get a copy now!"

That was nice of him to tweet rebecca

It was Mark Boardman tweeting Matt - but I guess you knew that really.

I agree 100%, bibs.

And since the usual Cardle sycophants are demanding the "facts"—

The only real comparative measure on which to judge Rebecca and Matt post-X Factor at this point is the critical response to their performances on the XF tour. And the reviewers for national and regional press alike consistently praised Rebecca and Cher as the most compelling performers on the tour. Even Katie Waissel tended to be ranked above Cardle. His lack of star quality was the common thread in much of the coverage.

I'm all for it, she's fantastic. Took a while to get her album out, or is that just me?

The thousands of fans he gained on FB and twitter over the tour thought he had stage presence and star quality