Not a lot to say so far really - think I agree with the order of those 3 stinkers. “You Are Not Alone” is horrific. “Barry Islands In The Stream” is at least not taking itself seriously. “The Climb” wasn’t such a bad choice for an X Factor cover really as the original was a decent song but not exactly a classic, and I do like Joe’s voice.

'The Climb' is not a song I like by whoever has done it.

I feel sorry for Joe, he didnt deserve to be the one to take the proverbial x factor hate bullet, so was probably a a blessing in disguise that olly came second (even though it seemed he was nobled to lose with the climb potentially being his winners single too)

Not a bad song , but Joe certainly released better in his less successful career, really enjoyed ambitions and his classic era (suprised as someone that really doesnt like classical music Joe really made me like his)

On the subject of Stacey coming third I was very shocked she didnt release anything at all (except the christmas cover and a song years later) considering she was so good on the show and probably would of had a better career too if she struck whilst the iron was hot

3 out of 3 awful songs so far, I agree with the order as well.

30 Tinchy Stryder feat. Amelle - Never Leave You

1 week in August 2009: {1}-2-3-5-8-12-19-24-31-40-52-61-68->13

Kept off #1: none

#51 in EOY 2009

If the three already out were rather easy targets, then here is where the order starts to get interesting. Ghana-born British rapper Tinchy Stryder had been part of grime collective Roll Deep before he had his solo breakthrough, which hit new heights in 2009 when 'Take Me Back' with Taio Cruz went to #3. His next two hits were #1s, of which this was the second, and he went on to have a further four Top 10 hits (kudos if you can name them all without looking them up). Having already reached, oh alright then, "Number 1" with his previous single (more on that later on of course), on its follow-up to trail the release of his second album, he enlisted Amelle Berrabah to appear on the track. Amelle was at that time a member of Sugababes in their "mk 3" line-up alongside Keisha Buchanan and Heidi Range, having joined them in December 2005, and when this song debuted at #1 with sales of 71k, it made her the only member of the group, past or present, to top the singles chart outside of the group. This apparently caused some friction within the group, as she alluded to in the BBC documentary covering all-female groups last year, and although the full details aren't relevant to this rate, Jade Ewen replaced Keisha for a Sugababes "mk 4" line-up the following month.

Without focusing too much on this single's impact on Sugababes' line-up changes, at the time it did seem like it could have been a soft launch for a potential solo career for Amelle in a similar way that will.i.am's 'Heartbreaker' had been for Cheryl Cole, but whether that was the intention or not, the song didn't do much to showcase her vocals towards convincing that she could be the group's breakout star. In Tinchy's case it worked out in teeing up a #2 debut for his album Catch 22 as well as this single reaching #1, so it did the job in the short term, but for him too it's not a performance that lives long in the memory - his style of flow doesn't lend itself as well to this kind of slow jam as it does to his higher bpm hits which preceded it. It has a big string-heavy production like his previous #1, again not quite as memorable, and even if it may still have popped up on a few TV soundbeds, it does sounded rather dated now, like much music of the time in a similar genre does. One thing the song does have going for it however is the Fibonacci sequence of its 1-2-3-5-8 descent of the Top 10 - if only it had dropped to #13 rather than #12 the following week!