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WE SEARCHED ACROSS THE WORLD.

 

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32 HAVE TAKEN THE STAGE.

 

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18 HAVE VOTED.

 

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ONLY ONE WILL WIN.

 

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Results start later today! Who could possibly be out first?

Edited February 22, 201411 yr by Riser

Hallelujah to win this please!

C'MON GIRLS ALOUD

Halleluuuuuuuuuuu-oooo---uuuuu-jaaaaaaah!

32. SCOTTY MCCREERY – I LOVE YOU THIS BIG

American Idol 10 (2011)

Score: 2.90 (6.5 Jonjo/Insomnio, 6 Cameron ---------------- 0 Silver Rocket/Michael!, -1 Riser)

I wasn’t expecting my -1 to actually finish last! The title alone is an eye-roller and the song itself just doesn’t do him any favors. One good thing I’ll say about this is that it marks American Idol’s shift from making generic winners’ songs to something that will be pushed as the contestant’s first radio single. While the numbers weren’t stellar, “I Love You This Big” did get considerably more airplay than the two that won before him (Kris Allen and Lee Dewyze). Now on his second album, Scotty is still doing well and this year finally managed to release a decent single that’s approaching the top 40 in the US. Unfortunately, that won’t take away his new title of Worst Winner’s Single.

 

31. STEVE BROOKSTEIN – AGAINST ALL ODDS

X Factor 1 (2004)

Score: 3.13 (9 Riser, 7.5 Insomnio ---------------- 0 Silver Rocket/152chris, -1 Calum Sande/AdamAloud)

Looks like we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one, Buzzjack. I stand by my score! To be fair, I’ve never really liked “Against All Odds”, especially the Phil Collins original, and then there’s the Mariah Carey/Westlife version, so it’s hard to imagine anyone having too much fondness for this song. I just think it suits Steve’s voice far better than anyone else’s. Anyway, its low placing here is a match with its low sales, with a first-week total lower than any other X Factor champion. Then he had a quick fade back into obscurity. What more can you say?? Sooooo that’s your bottom two! Let’s move on.

I just haven't forgiven Scotty for stealing the win from Lauren :snif:

 

(That and for his terrible song... Rightfully finished last, I kinda expected Random to be last though)

 

Against All Odds isn't actually THAT bad though. I'd still place it near the bottom but it isn't exactly terrible.

30. RUBEN STUDDARD – FLYING WITHOUT WINGS

American Idol 2 (2003)

Score: 3.91 (9 Cameron, 8 Leonardo/Riser ---------------- 0 Silver Rocket/Jonjo/Michael!)

Another song tainted by Westlife? As someone who was barely exposed to them growing up, I only knew “Flying Without Wings” from a Pokémon soundtrack and my 11-year-old self was excited to see the song be a hit in America. This was a great season of American Idol, and Ruben won a very close vote against Clay Aiken, who led the fan voting every week until the finale. Clay’s single “This Is The Night” was released the same week, sold more than Ruben’s and kept him from reaching #1 on the Hot 100. Clay may have had the last laugh, but has since quit music to start a campaign running for Congress. Ruben is at least still recording, having just this month released his 6th album which charted at #46 on Billboard. “Flying Without Wings” was the last cover song used as a winner’s single on American Idol until season 9 in 2010.

 

29. RANDOM – PUT YOUR HANDS UP

X Factor Australia 1 (2005)

Score: 3.94 (7.5 Riser, 6.5 Cameron ---------------- 1 Silver Rocket, 0 Michael!)

X Factor Australia is known for having some creativity, at least by winner’s single standards, typically opting for something upbeat and always using an original song. As you can see, this dates back to the very first series. I thought this might work in Random’s favor here, but “Put Your Hands Up” is very dated 2000s R&B and certainly too generic to earn high scores. Our lack of familiarity with Random prior to this rate doesn’t help either. As Liam said, they're lucky to not be in last! Random's debut album came four months after this single, and it flopped hard at #79 on the ARIA charts. Third-place finisher Vince Harder had an AMAZING dance track called “Everything” which smashed in New Zealand and I highly recommend it. Poor ratings caused X Factor Australia to be put to rest after just one series, but the show has fared much better since its revival in 2010.

I don't even remember listening to these songs

Why is Ruben so low? I LOVE THIS SONG!

Ruben's Standard cover was lame..Westlife's version is far superior than this. I really like this song but it didn't need a boring cover..

"I Love You This Big" isn't the worst song of the list but it's not so good as the rest.

"Put Your Hands Up" sounds "so random".. :P

The only decent song is the cover of "Against All Odds". He has nice vocals but he couldn't beat "Phil Collins"..

Very low average score for winners.. :heehee:

28. JAMES ARTHUR – IMPOSSIBLE

X Factor 9 (2012)

Score: 4.14 (10 Calum Sandé/Liam, 9 152chris ---------------- 0 Silver Rocket/Jonjo/Michael!, -1 Aaron./Juranamo)

A surprise early appearance in some ways, but also an expected low placing for obvious reasons. I’d say it’s easy to forget how random this song choice seemed just over a year ago, a brief chart success from the lovely but kinda-forgotten Shontelle. Just three days after James Arthur performed it, Fifth Harmony also sang “Impossible” on X Factor USA which raised the eyebrows of anyone like me who was following both shows. Well this version (James Arthur’s, not Fifth Harmony’s) became far more successful than the original, and also the highest-selling winner’s single in four years since Alexandra Burke in 2008. Plus it reached the top ten in all kinds of countries, which was a first. This was the annual X Factor charity single after the usual one, recorded by all of the finalists, was discontinued. The global impact and million-plus sales were enough to disprove the theory that the winner’s song would sell less and less every year, until the next series of course put this expectation back on track. Despite all of this, James ends up with Buzzjack’s second-worst X Factor single in this rate, only ahead of Steve Brookstein.

 

27. ONE TRUE VOICE – SACRED TRUST

Popstars: The Rivals (2002)

Score: 4.30 (8.5 Insomnio, 8 Riser ---------------- 0 152chris, -1 Michael!)

Yeah I won’t pretend to know too much about this. The second series of Popstars aimed to form a boy band and a girl group, so the top five males became One True Voice and were winners alongside Girls Aloud. Both acts released their debut single the week before Christmas, and this one in particular was a double A-side with a cover of the Bee Gee’s “After You’re Gone”. It famously created an all-Popstars top three for the Christmas chart of 2002, with “Sacred Trust” at #2, “Sound of the Underground” at #1, and the Cheeky Girls’ “Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)” dropping from #2 to #3 in its second week. One True Voice released one more single the following June, watched it debut at #10 and swiftly broke up afterward.

 

Buzzjack. :drama:

Glad Impossible is out! I despise his cover of that song :( I was hoping for a rockier winners single from James....

 

And :lol: at One True Voice

Impossible below One True Voice?!? Wtf, it's one of the best winner's singles ever and is very different to the original which is a change from most winner's singles.

Glad to see Impossible out. I can't stand tbe way he murders the song with his hidious voice. How he even won in the first place is a mistery to me. He ain't got a pleasant voice, not has he got stage presence to back it up.

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26. LEON JACKSON – WHEN YOU BELIEVE

X Factor 4 (2007)

Score: 4.42 (10 Cameron, 8 JosephStyles/Leonardo ---------------- 1 Juranamo/Michael!, 0 Silver Rocket/152chris)

Are all of these songs starting to sound the same yet? They just might after this section here. If you count “Against All Odds” this is the second Mariah Carey cover to appear at the low end of our results, and the second song to receive its highest score from poor Cameron. Leon Jackson’s sales were no match for previous winners Leona Lewis and Shayne Ward, or even the next few winners to come after him. The song itself is no match either, according to Buzzjack’s scores. Leon has since disowned “When You Believe” and vowed to never perform it again. He may have the voice of a mini-Bublé, but it doesn’t fit the song well enough in my opinion. To be fair it was always going to be difficult following Leona’s success, no matter who won!

 

25. TAYLOR HICKS – DO I MAKE YOU PROUD

American Idol 5 (2006)

Score: 4.45 (7.5 Insomnio, 6 Riser/Nick F1/Leonardo ---------------- 1 Liam, 0 Michael!)

Season 5 was another great year for American Idol, giving us Chris Daughtry (lead singer of Daughtry) plus a brilliant final between Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee. “Do I Make You Proud” was the fourth and final winner’s single from American Idol to top the Billboard Hot 100. Previous Idols could rely on topping the physical sales chart by a huge margin, but downloads were making a bigger impact and many artists could sell a similar amount of digital copies to offset that advantage. In fact this single had the shortest chart run of any Billboard #1, at just eight weeks. As for the song itself, it’s definitely one that goes through the motions and doesn’t achieve much besides feigned inspiration. Taylor’s relevance outside the show was equally short-lived, with no further chart hits and only one top-ten album.

Edited February 23, 201411 yr by Riser

Glad to see Impossible out. I can't stand tbe way he murders the song with his hidious voice. How he even won in the first place is a mistery to me. He ain't got a pleasant voice, not has he got stage presence to back it up.

 

This!

 

He is ATROCIOUS :puke2: and he runs around talkin bout how 'credible' he is. Uh, no, your first single was a Shontelle cover and then you bragged about that getting to no.1 over Britney and Will.i.am for a week :lol: SHould have released that awful cover without X Factor, see how well it'd do then. No? Ok then!

 

Also I've appeared in the lowest marking people nearly every time :lol: Maybe I should've given James Arthur the -1 after all, hmm

24. CANDICE GLOVER – I AM BEAUTIFUL

American Idol 12 (2013)

Score: 4.73 (8 Mike Sugafan, 7.5 Insomnio ---------------- 2 JosephStyles, 0 Michael!)

Candice can take credit for ending the five-year streak of WGWG (white-guy-with-guitar) American Idol winners, but then again the top five last year was all girls so it would have happened regardless! “I Am Beautiful” is by far the floppiest song in this countdown, as its midweek release and lack of momentum led to a debut and peak of #93 on the Hot 100 last year. Candice Glover’s debut album Music Speaks just released last week and is estimated to have sold a whopping 17,000 copies. Sam Bailey’s situation doesn’t sound so bad anymore! I’ve listened to a few tracks on Music Speaks and they’re quite nice. I voted for Candice every week but in hindsight should have supported third-place Angie Miller. Her winner’s single probably would’ve been her original “You Set Me Free” which slayed everything else on that show and could have been MASSIVE. It has more views on Youtube than any video of Candice!

 

23. LEE DEWYZE – BEAUTIFUL DAY

American Idol 9 (2010)

Score: 4.80 (7.5 Liam, 6.5 Cameron ---------------- 3 Michael!, 1 Silver Rocket)

Coincidentally, this is the second-most-floppiest song here chart-wise, peaking at #24 on its debut. I don’t have much commentary for this song, so here’s a fun fact: Lee DeWyze had three of his other performances chart that week, at #44, #66, and #88! If only “Beautiful Day” had reached two places higher to be #22! That pattern would have been his biggest post-Idol accomplishment, sadly. Lee had plenty of talent and potential when he started on the show but week by week it descended into sameness, getting votes based on his looks much like Kris Allen the year before, and ended with this uninspired U2 cover. Thankfully American Idol has done only originals since then.

I had THE biggest crush on Lee DeWyze at the time :wub: Gorgeous isn't the word. I loved him on the show for his performances too, but Crystal is one of my fave Idol contestants ever so it was a shame he won thanks to people voting with parts of the body other than the brain :lol: The song is better than the original though which I've always hated.

 

Always thought Angie should have beat Candice, Candice has an amazing voice but I saw her flopping a mile off.

Crystal is one of my fave Idol contestants ever so it was a shame he won thanks to people voting with parts of the body other than the brain :lol:

Mine too! Crystal was excellent :wub: I was very pleased with the final two that year!

 

 

22. JOE MCELDERRY – THE CLIMB

X Factor 6 (2009)

Score: 4.83 (8.5 JosephStyles/Insomnio, 7 Calum Sandé/Jonjo/Mike Sugafan ---------------- 2.5 Juranamo, 0 Silver Rocket/152chris)

Back to X Factor now and someone who’s only nine days apart from me in age. To think Joe McElderry recorded a Miley Cyrus track nearly four years before Cher did! He’s so ahead of his time lol. Actually, his victory over Olly Murs quickly turned for the worse, as his cover of “The Climb” lost one of the most intense Christmas chart battles ever. It couldn’t stop the campaign for Rage Against The Machine in the week that mattered most, but held up the following week to claim #1 and uphold the show’s chart-topping streak for another year. One wonders how things might be different if Olly had won instead. Likewise, I remember wondering at the time if Joe’s cover of “Don’t Stop Believin’” had a chance of being his winner’s single.

 

21. ALTIYAN CHILDS – SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD

X Factor Australia 2 (2010)

Score: 5.00 (9 Insomnio, 8 Riser ---------------- 3.5 Liam, 0 Silver Rocket/Michael!)

In 2010, The X Factor returned to Australian TV screens after a five-year break. For this time only, a ballad became the winner’s single. I like “Somewhere In The World” the most among the five from Australia, but so far the Aussie winners have appeared in chronological order. Believe it or not, three of the five winners have been in the over-25 category, with Altiyan Childs being the first to do so. Since his victory, Childs has had some issues with the law as well as with drugs. Besides this track he only has two singles to his name, which both flopped, and no album other except for one with songs he performed on the show.