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Well what ever it is its small! HA :dozey:

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OK who is going to be knocked out next? My bet is Ollie.

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I hope and pray its olly, iv voted for stacey and joe twice! lol

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http://www.freestylecreations.com/im...isc/kryten.jpg

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I don't know if everyone is having the same problem as me, trying to vote for Stacey and the line is constantly busy, and Robbie is on at the moment.

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I pressed the red button, i am furious!! im not a happy bunny.

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Why because your TV kept going off.:D:D:D

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:D TV is fine, and the internet hasn't cut off once!, its because Olly got through! eurgh.

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it's been nailed-on for joe to win for ages, simon wants him to win, he can make most money with him lol

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It was a joke!! the old why does my TV go off when I press the Red Button, look at the TV Remote does it have a Red Off button.:D:D:D

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Joe will win, BUT, l think the most money SC and Syco will make, will be with Stacey, she is true to life and will make a fortune.

Joe l feel is too young and won't cope with the pressure of the music industry, as they don't give a dman who you are, they are only after money from you selling records. Olly, l think will go on the stage, but will not make as many records as people think, the ONLY big stars that have made it from XF, are Leona, and Alexandra, Shayne Ward has disappeared, Leon Jackson has been DROPPED from his records label, and Steve Brookstein sand at a pizza place in fron of 30 people.

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Well Moldova i have never heard that joke until now :D

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Well I for one am happy that Olly got through and hope he wins, no way do I want Joe to win and have voted for Olly twice so far...

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I'm soo happy Olly got through, and i've voted twice for him too. Don't normally vote but since it's the final...!

I think Joe is brill but Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Yeah I agree, all he can sing is them slow songs. Sooooooo boring :zzz:

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Hmm...Although, I do like his voice, if he does win I am afraid he will turn into anther Shane Warne, or that other fella no one else can remember.

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Tonights Songs Revealed!



The Winner Single, its one of my favorite songs ever!



Joe To Win!!

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For me it's no contest, Joe to win! I was sorry to see Stacey going , but she took it on the chin, probably because she already had a recording contract in the bag. Olly has these strange manerisims which, once spotted, get increasingly irritating. For me he doesn't have the X factor. Sorry Olly, nice lad, but not got what it takes. Looking forward to finding out who is the winner. Come on Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Where are the christmas songs?!!!!!!

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Is Leona a guest on x factor tonight

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Come on msn!, i know i was expecting some xmas songs :D

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Listen to the real thing here rather John Tracy

Journey - Don't stop believin.

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The final should have been Stacey and Joe after last nights performances.

I hope Joe wins.

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Already got it :D so good

JLS TO WIN! haha

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I wish leona would sing her own songs and not just covers.

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Olly can't sing this song

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That song was like it was made for Joe

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My cable bill is gonna be sky high, 4 votes today and 2 yesterday :O (For Joe)

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wow he actually looks like him

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Olly to winnnnn!!!!!!! 4 votes so far.

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awww im glad ya didn't take the p outa our lil Joe :D

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And the winner is.........................

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Joe!!!!! - Congratz

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Joe Mcelderry is the Winner of The X Factor 2009

Can i be smug now?

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Only one winner - Simon Cowel...

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So true, i don't actually think he cares about the contestants.

Good on ya Joe :D

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I knew Joe would get far from the very beginning!
Very happy he has won!

Now the show has finished Simon can go home and start counting his millions.

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So did my step mum, at first i didn't like him or his voice one bit, but as the show went on i started to love him! :D

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I was disappointed this year they had no Christmas songs and also that they didn't bring on the people who auditioned and were really bad and usually bring a few back for the final to sing a song. I always looked forward to that.

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in a year Joe will be in panto in our local theatre and no one will care that he 'won' 2009 Xfactor.

all he won was the right to be exploited for a few months.

how many of the winners of these type of shows have actually had a career thats lasted anything more than a year?

manufactured disposable popstars for the masses.
and more money in Cowells wallet while the UK falls on its arse

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Which made it a bit unfair, to be honest. Would it not have been better for a song to be tailored either for them both, or different songs, suited to their own individual styles.

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In a weeks time or so we will have forgotton who they all were. I dont like the change of format that they had this year. They should have left it the way it was it was way better

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I agree, having the auditions "unplugged," so to speak, meant the contestants had to work harder.

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Any wanting to download the Rage against the Machine track for just 29p to try and block the X Factor song getting to number 1 click HERE:D:D:D:D:D

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It doesn't count if it's from amazon

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That would be a pity at that price.:D

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According to this site, RATM are #1! I expect Simon is furious considering that Joe got beat by an 18(?) yo song.

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I will be so so happy if he gets beat to the race of no I.

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cimt. Those are download sales only. X-Factor's main advantage was the physical disk in stores. According to some reports X-Factor took over sometime today but not by as much as they would have been hoping for and now it seems quite close. It all depends on how many people buy the track in the next couple of hours (before the chart cut-off).

RATM will finish on top of the download chart, it's just a matter of it they would have done enough to fight of the sale of the CDs. I imagine they wont but they are now 3/1 to do so, lower than any other time this week!

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It does count apparently.

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When is it offically announced who is no 1

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Actually it would make more of a mockery of the charts than it is at the moment.They would have reached number one based on the marketing campaign surrounding them, not because of the music. There was a reason why it reached only number twenty-five in the charts in nineteen ninety-two; it was crap. Why is this more deserving than any other song?

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Tomorrow on the BBC Radio 1 Chart Show with Reggie Yates between 16:00 and 19:00 you can listen live on www.bbc.co.uk/radio1, on UK Radio 97-99FM or on Sky, Freeview, Virgin Media or Freesat :)

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I would rather have any other song reach the Christmas Number One than this total Christmas takeover that we have had to put up for the last few years because of this programme.

Before this crap format was envisaged singers and bands actually used to vie for the Christmas number one.

Now none of the big hitters bother because they do not want to face being pipped to the top slot by a marketing ploy.

Now because of this show everyone just assumes that the winner must get to be the Christmas Number One by default.

Anyone that wants to spend 65p trying to ensure that the X Factor song only gets to Number 2 please click HERE

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Which one do you prefer?

Miley Cyrus - The Climb

OR

Joe McElderry - The Climb

I prefer the Miley one :)

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And X-Factor has reached No 1 because of an overwhelming Juggernaut that is the 'marketing campaign' surrounding it. The idea that this campaign makes a mockery of the chart and is somehow unfair is nuts.

X-Factor has had 12 weeks of having the prime time slot every Saturday, and every Sunday, on ITV. All of it planned to end on the Sunday before the week of the Christmas no 1 and RATM are the ones benefiting from a marketing campaign? :erm:

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Anyone know yet who is no 1

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It has always been the last song on the Chart Show which finishes at 7pm, so not yet.;)

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Thanks Moldova. Only another hour to go so and the race is over. I'v my fingers crossed as I type that Joe dont make it to no 1 :)

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Favorites are RATM tho :D

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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...n-ireland.html

He has taken the top spot here in Ireland :(

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http://www.sheamus.co.uk/ratm-xmas-number-one

Joe didn't make it to no 1

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The people behind the campaign also asked people to donate to Shelter here:


http://www.justgiving.com/ratm4xmas


£66,000 so far :O

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The link wont open for me

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Why? If the winner of the x-factor/pop idol/popstars (any year) gets to number one after all the exposure they get (be it on TV, Radio or the press), is it because they are genuinely talented, or because they have been massively hyped? I suppose one way to find out is to see how many of them have No. 1s a couple of months after the series finishes.

I think you'll find it a lot less than number of people who have won those shows..

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Why? If the winner of the x-factor/pop idol/popstars (any year) gets to number one after all the exposure they get (be it on TV, Radio or the press), is it because they are genuinely talented, or because they have been massively hyped? I suppose one way to find out is to see how many of them have No. 1s a couple of months after the series finishes.

I think you'll find it a lot less than number of people who have won those shows..

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Rage against the Machine WIN!!!

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Woot!

I wonder how close it was?

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50,000 copies

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really? It was only 9000 copies on Friday. That's on hell of days sales

The first download only Christmas number one though

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This is a total mockery of music in this day and age, whoever gets to that No1 spot should be down to cds sold in the shops, and not down to downloads,

When the shops close, obviously you are going to get more downloads and that will go onto win, that horrible song should NOT be No1, Christmas is a time for good music and the festive season, terrible result, but there again there was this internet war by stupid people who wanted revenge of reality shows.- people should grow up.

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and a reality show should pre-determine the Xmas number one slot.

i dont care about Rage or the song (never liked it first time, thought it was childish) but anything that keeps X-factor off the top is fine with me.

fed up of these manufactured flybynight 15min popstars.

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Why should it only be down to CD sales? That would be stupid because why would people want to buy discs just to put them on their iPod and then put them away forever, at least if it's a download it's not a waste of buying a CD. The Climb is not a Christmas song, it's just some silly song from a Disney film, what gives that the right to be number 1 over any other song. Exactly, NOTHING!

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Absolutely brilliant news and a kickstart for commonsense maybe now the public will not be led like sheep by the Simon Cowell gravytrain.

Why should the battle for the Christmas Number One be left to whoever wins the X Factor, maybe this will stop this musical charade happening again.

I bought a copy of the Rage against the Machine single in the hope that it would win and it came up trumps.

If the is another X Factor aimed a Christmas next year then I will buy the rival track once again.

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The came arguement could have been applied to Vinyl and CDs.. There are still a lot of people around that don't consider CD to be a good medium for music (the reproduction is too cold and too clinical, apparently).

My own opinion is that while I don't think downloads are necessarily a good thing for the economy (local record shops did employ a *lot* of people, and have been hit hard by both the supermarkets and downloads), they are a valid way of determining what people like.
Christmas isn't (and has never been, IMO) a time for good music. Even the so called classic christmas songs (Rockin around the christmas tree, Slade etc) are not actually good songs.

It's been known in the past for people releasing singles that may not be musically the best, but are often quite fun and at least vaguely linked to Christmas. Now it seems to have become a cash cow for Simon Cowell.

Sorry, but I don't buy that he isn't cashing in on Xmas. While he stated that the timing of the Xfactor final and single release is entirely co-incidental, I cannot believe that. TV schedules are planned in great detail and months ahead. He would have known months ago that the x factor was due to end around Christmas, and I'd be staggered if, as the owner of the rights to one of ITV's most watch programmes, he didn't have at least some say in when it started..

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Years ago, Christmas No1's were hit by a mad rush of groups and singers who tried there hardest to get that special spot, you could go to any record dept and buy the disc, and thats how it was determined.

And getting that spot was great, but now it has gone loopy, and all companies want to do is get revenge on the ITV show, what about the actual singer, or doesn't that count, its like not buying a record of Jami Cullam becuase he won the show on BBC. and look how famous he is now.

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Gone Loopy? Cowell has had it for the last 4 years! That destroyed the Christmas No 1 excitement until this year

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Dunno what your getting so excited about Arthur as Joe will still have his 5 minutes of fame before he goes back to the dole queue.

And Rage will probably drop out of the charts next week since the point has been made.

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Get with the times, Arthur!!

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;) another we agree on lol

well back off to finding a game on here i can get my 10 first places back with ;)

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Actually the song that won is an anti corporate protest song..It may not be Christmasy but I'd like to point out that very many of Christmas number ones of the past 50 years have not been anything to do with Christmas.

Everyone of the 5 Christmas hits the Beatles achieved had no reference to any Christmas elements what so ever and they are all classic rock songs.

Now it's not cost effective to go and buy a number 1 record.Vinyl has gone and not many want a CD for one single.Downloading one MP3 that you can replay on your PC or MP3 player is where technology has taken us.Cannot see anything wrong with that myself.;)

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Absolutely. Oh... you're not talking about The X Factor?

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I actually thought he'd be number 1! oh well.

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Have a pic instead
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You and your pics! :rolleyes:

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You could make him your Number One.:D

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Oh Moldova oh no hes definitely not my type, i could make Danyl my number one ;) haha

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I am rather pleased that we gave the X Factor a bloody nose and ruined their attempt at dominating the Christmas Number One slot for the foreseeable future.

When the 2010 series rears its ugly head I will support a similar campaign to prevent the winner once again from reaching the number one slot at Christmas.

Maybe next year the record labels will fight back and let some of their major stars release tracks at Christmas and we will have a proper race for the number one slot as we did before reality music shows such as this arrived on the scene.

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X-Factor will most likely win though. This year was a success because Cowell chose a really bad song.

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Pity that Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" didn't beat whateverhernamewas last year.

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ratm4xmas has now raised over £70,000 for Shelter (the homeless charity), plus RATM are also going to be donating proceeds from the single to charity.

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Yes. Fantastic! Technology has progressed so we all enjoy inferior audio quality :rolleyes:

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All the previous X Factor songs have been pretty dire or badly sung.:D

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But, by running a campaign based on what amounts to bullying, is hardly the best way to achieve this goal. The song really is utter crap; it was in nineteen ninety-two and it still is. Why not have a proper competition with a decent song and great artists, to prove that it is the song and not the publicity that should win? I am not particularly a fan of the X-Factor's results, I watch it for it's entertainment value. Some of the auditionees are either very good, stark raving bonkers, or just deluding themselves and it makes for a good diversion. However, this year I actually liked the song and I think that Joe McEldery made a good bash of it (although I did like Olly Murs as well). It was not his fault that Simon Cowell was ripe for a bashing, but he was robbed of what would have been quite an achievement.

If other artists were serious about achieving a Christmas number one, then they should try harder to produce decent music. I recently heard N-Dubz's Playing With Fire and I thought that had merit.

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Give me a break. There is no way this campaign amounted to Bullying. Despite what you may think, it's not a human right for the X-Factor winner to be No 1.

Decent Song? Great Artists? Have you seen a list of previous No 1s? Publicity, Gimmicks, Campaigns, these are all part of the Christmas No 1 race.

If they sold as much as they did last year, they would have won. The problem is they chose an awful song. He was not robbed either, your comments are a great example of why people did this campaign. The expectation that he should have won and in not doing so it was 'bullying' and 'robbery'.

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This is what the world has been waiting for....

Jedwards "Debut" Single!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MIAO...ayer_embedded#

LOL

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Nooooooooo Derek! :p:

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Well it's bad enough being blind - if I listen to that noise again I'll probably go deaf too ;)

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God I wish I was both if I have suffer them again. Trust me Thomas, you are the lucky one :D

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Justice?

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Get out now Louis, while you still can and save yourself anymore indignation and rescue any self-respect you have left.

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As you are talking about Louis Walsh then the above does not apply.:D