inyourroom - they were announced in order! You could still vote for each girl until they were announced as being in the group, meaning Cheryl's line got closed first as she had the most votes!

I knew that, maybe I didn't make myself clear enough. (And I promise I won't drag this on any longer after this.)

My point was, just because she was #1 in the final, she wasn't necessarily the most popular one from day 1. Just two weeks earlier, she ranked #6 out of 7 (very narrowly beating Aimee), and two weeks before that, she was #3 out of 4. Not that it matters too much now, and she obviously became the most popular quite soon after the programme (maybe not immediately, but soon). And although she wouldn't have been my first choice, I don't mind the way things turned out, she's clearly very good at being popular (which is much more than being just likeable).

Oh I never said she was the most popular overall, I referred to the final only, sorry if that wasn't clear.

So as of the Tuesday midweeks, she's only 6k ahead? :unsure: Wondering if there's an error in the mids there at all as surely she'd be waaaay higher if she pushed Ed right down to ~0.6?

I reckon they haven't counted either the Clean or more likely the explicit version. A similar thing happened with The Vamps in their first midweek a couple of weeks ago. I can't see that being correct.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that! Oh Cecilia was outside the top 30 in the first midweek :lol:

Yes I don't want to worry too much and everything in this update would indicate that they didn't count the explicit version.

If it's a real update then she'll need some kind of miracle to get the #1, but if it's not then things look OK. I would have expected the top version to outsell Ed by more than that but she does have the clean version and who knows if the EP is counted, etc.

I definitely think something hasn't been counted, I can't believe that a) it's so close and b) the sales are that low.

As expected, Cheryl had data missing yesterday and actually has a 18k lead.

Fantastic *.* #1 looking pretty safe now :D

It would've been great if she'd got Alan Carr on Friday to give it that extra push to seal the deal almost.

 

Omg I've turned into Lee!

59p? :kink:

Only as a very last resort Joseph! :lol:

Does anyone know if there is a video of her on the X factor anywhere? I can't find a video of the performance on youtube?

 

There you go! ^_^

Okay, I hadn't seen it but having watched that (sorry to bring it up again!), she really doesn't even do that much dancing, it's mostly just walking. I actually don't agree that she can't sing, so therefore, I'm sure she could've put in a competent vocal and actually show she CAN do it whilst putting on that exact same performance.

Exactly! The thing I also don't get with her (and Britney as well) is that their voices wouldn't exactly be hard to replicate live either, so why do they do it?

Maybe it's a confidence issue? Particularly with Britney.

If it's a confidence issue wouldn't they have the resources available to try and overcome it?

She sang live on pop stars the rivals for weeks on her own though. Then years with Girls Aloud. I think it's because she knows she'd be pitchy and wants to make sure the song is sold properly. It might not even have been her choice.