X Factor Winner - Selling Winner's Single Since 2004 Media - Little Mix Have Lowest - X Factor

Little Mix purchased 210,000 duplicates of Cannonball, defining it as your fastest-selling solitary on the season to date along with outselling others from the Official Singles Chart top several combined.

But the girlfriend music group fell far behind your profits height strike through former winners of the Simon Cowell talent indicate like continue year's winner, Matt Cardle, exactly who sold 439,007 reports involving his sole When We Collide inside it is initial week.

The show's july 2004 winner Shayne Ward noted the actual almost all first-week sales, shifting 742,180 copies connected with his debut, That's My Goal.

Little Mix only handle seventh spot from the nine winners to be able to date, well before Brookstein's 127,701 regarding his Phil Collins include Against All Odds within 2004, but powering Leon Jackson's 275,742 for When You Believe throughout 2007.

Indeed, Ward sold much more copies connected with That's My Goal around its initial evening upon relieve than Little Mix does inside a week.

But the latest The X Factor winners deal with hard competitors when they may be to keep above along with assert this much-cherished Christmas No 1 .

Bookmakers have produced this Military Wives Choir, a 100-strong choir encouraged by simply BBC2 super star Gareth Malone and featuring the actual spouses of servicemen in Afghanistan, the particular odds-on favourite to take the festive best spot.

After not too long of uninterrupted growth, that audience in this year's X Factor final appeared to be down 25% with 2010. The last Sunday night time exhibit Little Mix's Cannonball is usually a include of a Damien Rice songs earliest published around 2003.

The Irish individuals vocalist benefited coming from The X Factor publicity, with his primary variant with the tune hiking to No nineteen in this week's chart. It previously achieved No 32 with 2003 as well as 19 when it was re-released a new year or so later.

The X Factor winners the top end first-week sellers

1. Shayne Ward That's My Goal 742,180 (2005) 2. Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 576,046 (2008) 3. Leona Lewis Cannonball 210,000 (2011) 8. Steve Brookstein Against All Odds 127,701 (2004)

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