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ABOVE LEFT: Snapping at Leona’s heels: Olly Murs is fast catching up with the Bleeding Love singer in terms of UK sales
ABOVE RIGHT: Hallelujah: Alexandra Burke’s is the show’s biggest single in the UK
X FACTOR TOP SINGLES ACTS POS ARTIST LABEL SALES WHERE FINISHED IN X FACTOR
1 LEONA LEWIS Syco 4.4m 1st 2 OLLY MURS Epic 3.9m 2nd 3 JLS Epic/RCA 3.4m 2nd 4 ONE DIRECTION Syco 3.2m 3rd 5 ALEXANDRA BURKE Syco/RCA 3.2m 1st 6 SHAYNE WARD Syco 1.8m 1st 7 LITTLE MIX Syco 1.4m 1st 8 JAMES ARTHUR Syco 1.2m 1st 9 MATT CARDLE Columbia/So What 1.2m 1st 10 JOE MCELDERRY Syco/UCJ 1.0m 1st
The above ranks X Factor acts by number of singles they have sold in the UK up to chart week 32 2013 source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
WHERE X FACTOR RANKS CORPORATELY
SINGLES UNIVERSAL 34.3% SONY 22.1% WARNER 13.9% EMI 11.3% X FACTOR ACTS 2.7%
The above shows share of the singles market between chart week 52 2004 when first X Factor winner Steve Brookstein’s debut single was released and chart week 32 2013. The “X Factor acts” figure represents share of sales over this period by acts who emerged from the show source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
released in May 2005. Those sales are equivalent to The X Factor having around 2.2% of the artist albums market between then and now, a share only inferior to the majors and XL Beggars. This new research comes as the show prepares
next weekend (August 31/September 1) to roll out its landmark 10th UK series on ITV and it puts into some kind of fresh perspective just how an incredible force The X Factor has been on music retail over the last eight years and eight months. The sales tally would be even more sensational if overseas sales were taken into account, too, given the international success achieved by the likes of Leona Lewis (pictured, opposite page) and One Direction, but the study carried out here focuses solely on the UK. One thing our analysis should clearly put to bed
is any suggestions that the programme’s influence is on the wane. Despite viewing figures having fallen in recent years, when it comes to breaking artists and selling singles and albums the show remains hugely successful, most obviously reflected by how well 2012 winner James Arthur’s first Syco single Impossible has performed. It is the second best- selling track by an X Factor contestant of all time with its 1.2 million cumulative UK tally only trailing
ARTIST ALBUMS UNIVERSAL 32.9% SONY 22.7% WARNER 14.4% EMI 13.1% XL BEGGARS 2.5% X FACTOR ACTS 2.2%
The above shows share of the non-budget artist albums market between chart week 19 2005 when first X Factor winner Steve Brookstein’s debut album was released and chart week 32 2013. The “X Factor acts” figure represents share of sales over this period by acts who emerged from the show source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
2008 champ Alexandra Burke’s winning single Hallelujah, which has around 30,000 more sales. Leona Lewis, who won the contest in 2006, has
to date sold an unrivalled 4.4 million singles in the UK, a total that includes more than 1 million takers for Syco-issued Bleeding Love and around 900,000 for her introductory hit A Moment Like This. She is also the franchise’s top albums seller with her three studio releases accumulating just short of 3.9 million sales, more than a million above her nearest challengers JLS who have shifted 2.7 million albums in the UK but are running out of time to add to their total with a farewell Greatest Hits album due out later this year prior to them splitting up. The bulk of Lewis’s album sales are made up of
her introductory set Spirit, which is easily the top seller by an X Factor artist with 3.1 million UK takers to date. This is comfortably more than the next two top sellers combined, JLS’s self-titled debut (1.4 million) and fellow Epic release In Case You Didn’t Know by Olly Murs at almost a million copies. It is Murs who Lewis should be keeping an eye
on over her shoulder as he has already accumulated 2.6 million UK album sales over his first three releases and is arguably more popular than ever with
X FACTOR TOP ALBUMS ACTS POS ARTIST LABEL SALES WHERE FINISHED IN X FACTOR
1 LEONA LEWIS Syco 3.9m 1st 2 JLS Epic/RCA2.7m 2nd 3 OLLY MURS Epic 2.6m 2nd 4 ONE DIRECTION Syco 1.7m 3rd 5 G4 RCA 1.2m 2nd 6 SHAYNE WARD Syco 1.1m 1st 7 ALEXANDRA BURKE Syco/RCA 0.8m 1st 8 REBECCA FERGUSON RCA 0.6m 2nd 9 RHYDIAN Syco/Conehead 0.5m 2nd
10 JOE MCELDERRY Syco/UCJ 0.5m 1st The above ranks X Factor acts by number of albums they have sold in the UK up to chart week 32 2013 source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
X FACTOR TOP-SELLING SINGLES POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
1 ALEXANDRA BURKE Hallelujah Syco WINNING SONG 2 JAMES ARTHUR Impossible Syco WINNING SONG 3 SHAYNE WARDThat’s My Goal Syco WINNING SONG 4 LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love Syco 5 MATT CARDLE When We Collide Columbia WINNING SONG 6 LEONA LEWIS A Moment Like This Syco WINNING SONG 7 ONE DIRECTIONWhat Makes You Beautiful Syco 8 X FACTOR FINALISTS Hero Syco 9 JOE MCELDERRY The Climb Syco WINNING SONG 10 LEONA LEWIS Run Syco 11 ALEXANDRA BURKE FEAT. FLO RIDA Bad Boys Syco 12 OLLY MURS Dance With Me Tonight Epic 13 OLLY MURS FEAT. FLO RIDA Troublemaker Epic 14 OLLY MURS FEAT. RIZZLE KICKS Heart Skips A Beat Epic 15 JLS Beat Again Epic 16 LEON JACKSON When You Believe Syco WINNING SONG 17 LITTLE MIX Cannonball Syco WINNING SONG 18 JLS Everybody In Love Epic 19 LITTLE MIX Wings Syco 20 ONE DIRECTION One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) Syco
The above shows biggest-selling singles in UK by X Factor contestants up to chart week 32 2013 source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
X FACTOR TOP-SELLING ALBUMS POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
1 LEONA LEWIS Spirit Syco 2 JLS JLS Epic 3 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t Know Epic 4 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 5 ALEXANDRA BURKE Overcome Syco 6 OLLY MURS Right Place Right Time Epic 7 OLLY MURS Olly Murs Epic 8 ONE DIRECTION Take Me Home Syco 9 LEONA LEWIS Echo Syco 10 JLS Outta This World Epic 11 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 12 G4 G4 Sony 13 SHAYNE WARD Shayne Ward Syco 14 G4 G4 & Friends Sony 15 JLS Jukebox Epic 16 JOURNEY SOUTH Journey South Syco 17 RHYDIAN Rhydian Syco 18 ANDY ABRAHAM The Impossible Dream Sony BMG 19 LITTLE MIX DNASyco 20 MATT CARDLE Letters Columbia
The above shows biggest-selling albums in UK by X Factor contestants up to chart week 32 2013 source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
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