I was wondering if the people who vote aren't the same people who are going out the buy the music or download them on itunes.

It's just strange how Fleur got to number 1 on itunes yet still didn't top the votes even with that being her best performance.
But people may have thought she was safe since her name was called out first a number of times.

The DS readers poll have different results

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/...oYBhfrRzkv4xoE


Voting Stats http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/...#ixzz3M3QZ3C3R


Since the runners up or people who don't win seem to do better maybe the people who don't vote go are the ones who are going and buying the music instead?

It's probably a mix - basically Ben was always going to win

You might as well ask where is Lord Lucan.

I think a lot of people realise that there's a huge difference between performing on the show to actually releasing music in the real world. My favourite ever contestant is Alexandra Burke...however, the music she released in the real world away from the show did not match the artist that people voted for when she was on the show. When she was on X Factor, she was incredible and belting out songs by Whitney, Mariah, Christina, Toni Braxton, Beyonce, Donna Summer. She pulled these performances off effortlessly. Yet in the real world, she released a completely different type of music. I don't think people who voted for her on XF would have expected her to be releasing music like she did. That's not her fault though...Syco boxed her into the genre she ended up releasing. I think part of the key to success past your first album is not alienating the XF voters...you need to release music in the vein of what people voted for you to win the show...for example, Leona, One Direction and Olly Murs are today releasing music that you would have expected them to release when people voted for them on the show. You can't expect someone to do well after the show if they're a completely different artist in the real world. This is Simon/Syco's fault though...they treated their artist like puppets...you have to be the artist they decide you will be.

Well I really liked Fluer's performance the week she went to number 1 on itunes but it was the one and only time I did like her so it wasn't going to get her my votes sadly enough. I loved almost every performance of Ben's so there's that. As for the winning single I won't be buying it because the original song happens to be one of my favourite songs and I can't listen to Ben's version without comparing it and I dislike the lyric change etc and the music etc Otherwise I'd definitely be buying his single.

As for why winners don't do as well as runners up, I think that's usually down to the way Syco handles them. Look at Joe McElderry, he is one of the best male vocalists there's been on the show, but the way Syco handled him after the show was awful, there was no way the people who voted for him wanted the type of music Syco had him making. It was ridiculous.

A lot of people probably dont buy the music but I voted for Ben every week and brought all of his Itunes performances including the album with all his songs on and have bought two copies of his single and will continue to buy his material

8million people watch the show , they get a few million votes every week , it only takes a small fraction of that to do well on iTunes

so I would say its fairly obvious there is a difference between voters and people buying the music

It seems most viewers are like myself, just watch but never vote or buy the music. The only winner's single I have ever bought was Leona's A Moment Like This, and that was only because it also had her version of Summertime which I thought was excellent.

I watch and enjoy the show but I don't vote and I've never brought any music by any of the acts.

I'd be the same that I'd watch I don't vote (I can't in Ireland) but even when I could I didn't vote until maybe the final. I will buy the music if I like the song after.

Of course they are. The demographic who buy music on Itunes is completely different to the one that watches and votes.

As I've said before, who buys music these days?! You don't even get anything tangible any more. It's free on the radio and spotify.

I think if you compared the two groups of people - those who vote, and those who buy records post-show the crossover would be very minimal. That's where the fun and games with the producers manipulation starts as they need to discourage voters from voting for the acts with less commercial potential (Sam Bailey, Nicholas McDonald, Andrea etc.) and encourage them to vote for the more commercial acts (Cher Lloyd, Misha B, Stereo Kicks etc.) and if they don't vote for them, they can drag them through countless singoffs instead.

Well i only by CDs, as do most of my friends. There's nothing like having a physical copy of a CD or album.