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Old 15-10-2012, 22:24
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I was looking at YouTube clips from the weekend and noticed that the number of views seemed to tally with my own perception of their popularity (and was also better at predicting who was going home than the betting odds)

Here are the current figures:

Ella Henderson 576,346 21%
James Arthur 322,270 12%
Rylan Clarke 322,009 12%
Lucy Spraggan 266,608 10%
Jahmene Douglas 234,702 8%
Union J 218,716 8%
MK1 170,732 6%
Jade Ellis 164,054 6%
District 3 145,300 5%
Kye Sones 140,015 5%
Chris Maloney 117,441 4%
Melanie Masson 114,418 4%

Now, obviously YouTube rankings are not the same as phone votes (e.g. Chris wasn't in the bottom two this week, and I'd expect Rylan is likely to be much lower in the actual votes) but I wonder if this gives us a fairly accurate sense of who is doing well.

How close do you think these will be to the actual voting shares?
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Old 15-10-2012, 22:27
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How close do you think these will be to the actual voting shares?
Not very.
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Old 15-10-2012, 22:29
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Ella's first live show performance got 2m views that's ridiculous.
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Old 15-10-2012, 22:31
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Well according to last year's figures the youtube "views and likes/dislikes" combinations were VERY good indicator of the actual voting %.
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Old 15-10-2012, 22:32
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the over and outs aint doing too well :P..
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Old 15-10-2012, 23:01
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In order of likes:

Ella Henderson 9,578
Union J 8,251
James Arthur 7,843
Lucy Spraggan 5,865
Jahmene Douglas 5,026
Rylan Clark 4,308
MK1 3,569
District 3 3,559
Jade Ellis 2,880
Kye Sones 2,317
Christopher Maloney 2,082
Melanie Masson 1,793

Pretty accurate, let's not forget District 3's ranking will be higher because they have a younger fanbase more likely to watch their videos.
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Old 15-10-2012, 23:09
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http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1616196
Here's the comparisons I did for last year's lot, I think Youtube is a much better indicator than the likes of Twitter and some of the online polls.
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Old 15-10-2012, 23:25
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interesting!!
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Old 15-10-2012, 23:34
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All overs out by week 4 would be pretty hilarious.
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Old 16-10-2012, 00:33
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All overs out by week 4 would be pretty hilarious.
Although I do like Kye i'd love to see this happen, just to see Gary's face.
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Old 16-10-2012, 00:41
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I don't think it's that accurate; someone could have perhaps heard someone say "Oh you should have seen *so and so's performance* so that person would go look just out of interest.


Friday by Rebecca Black got something insane like 20 million views and that was awful!
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Old 16-10-2012, 00:44
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Friday by Rebecca Black got something insane like 20 million views and that was awful!
If Rebecca Black sang that dreadful song on TXF I dare say she would be in the top half of the voting, people would vote just to see what happens next week.
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