Matt Cardle’s debut album Letters sold 71K in week 1, trails Leona Lewis, Shayne Ward and Alexandra Burke in debut album opening sales, Sami Brookes: ‘Misha B rows due to time of the month’, Sami Brookes: ‘I begged and cried over song choice’, Labrinth: ‘Being on Simon Cowell’s label works in my favour’.
X Factor’s Louis Walsh forced to make grovelling apology to Misha B as Sami Brookes DENIES she was bullied by rival contestant
Louis Walsh stunned millions when he accused contestant Misha B of backstage bullying on X Factor’s live Saturday show.
And less than 24 hours later the 59-year-old was forced to issue a humiliating apology for his inappropriate remark.
Now, in a bizarre twist, Misha’s alleged ‘victim’, now-eliminated Sami Brookes, has declared that ‘there was no bullying going on at all.’
Read more: The Daily Mail
Exclusive: ‘X Factor’ Sami Brookes interview: ‘Misha bully claims are ridiculous’
Sadly for Sami Brookes, despite her best efforts with a Cher karaoke staple, there is no turning back time on The X Factor. The 31-year-old Welsh belter was booted off the show last night by her mentor Louis Walsh after failing to woo the public with her cover of Cher’s camp classic ‘Turn Back Time’.
Digital Spy caught up with Sami this morning to find out whether there was any animosity between her and Louis, get to the bottom of the Misha Bryan bully rumours and find out which act’s hair she’d love to run her fingers through.
Read more: Digital Spy
Exclusive: ‘X Factor’ Sami Brookes: ‘Misha B rows due to time of the month’
Sami Brookes has claimed that the X Factor bust-ups have been caused by “monthly symptoms” shared by the female contestants.
It was revealed over the weekend that Brookes, Misha Bryan and girl group Rhythmix had fallen out behind the scenes and there were accusations in the tabloids that Bryan had been “bullying” the other acts.
Read more: Digital Spy
Exclusive: ‘X Factor’ Sami Brookes: ‘I begged and cried over song choice’
Sami Brookes has revealed to Digital Spy that she “begged and cried” over her X Factor song choices.
Brookes blasted her mentor Louis Walsh for his decision to send her out on Rock Week with a cover of Cher’s ‘Turn Back Time’, describing the track as a “karaoke night” song.
Read more: Digital Spy
All is forgiven! Ousted X Factor contestant Sami Brooks kisses survivor Kitty goodbye (well, she didn’t have much choice)
They were the bottom two contestants after the public vote, which naturally engenders a kind of camaraderie.
But few could have foreseen the means by which Sami Brookes chose to bid farewell to her ex-rival Kitty Brucknell.
31-year-old Sami embraced Kitty in what looked like a pretty forceful kiss at the X Factor studios after she was eliminated last night.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Exclusive: ‘X Factor’ Simon Cowell gives Louis Walsh job safety reassurance
Simon Cowell has reassured Louis Walsh that his position on The X Factor is safe.
The music mogul, who quit the judging panel to focus on the American version of the competition, contacted Walsh after tabloid reports suggested he would be axed to make way for Cowell’s return.
Read more: Digital Spy
Matt Cardle announces UK and Ireland tour dates
Matt Cardle has announced a full tour of the UK and Ireland.
The 2010 X Factor winner brings his debut album Letters to the stage with a 20-date jaunt next March.
Read more: Digital Spy
You’ll need to do more than bickering! X Factor judges fail to win ratings war as Strictly triumphs in head-to-head battle
Not even Mishagate could save The X Factor last night, as ratings for the reality show continue to struggle.
While there was a marginal improvement on last week, the singing series was beaten by Strictly Come Dancing as the shows went head-to-head.
As the shows overlapped for a 15 minute slot between 8pm and 8.15pm, 9.5 million tuned into BBC1, while ITV1 pooled 8.3m viewers at that time.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Is that part of your mentor program? Hands-on X Factor judge Tulisa parties with her acts after elimination show
As her fellow X Factor judge Louis Walsh is accused of not spending enough time with his acts, Tulisa Contostavlos is taking her mentoring duties to another level.
The 23-year-old took her budding superstars out to party last night to celebrate the fact they were still in the competition.
After surviving the elimination show, which saw Sami Brookes kicked off, Tulisa joined her remaining groups, The Risk and Rhythmix at Whisky Mist in Mayfair, London.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Labrinth: ‘Being on Simon Cowell’s label works in my favour’
Labrinth has said that being signed to Simon Cowell’s record label has been a good thing for his career.
The producer and songwriter was asked by Metro if he would have been better off being affiliated with ‘something trendier’ than Cowell’s Syco.
Labrinth said: “It’s worked in my favour. He’s a big guy in the music business and a great businessman.”
He added: “I’m doing my own thing. I’m releasing music as I want to, producing it how I want to and getting the videos how I want them.
“They don’t get too involved in what I do and they’re very supportive. It’s good to have people who are great at business being involved.”
Read more: Digital Spy
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Music Week – UK Music Sales Report (from Buzzjack) – Numbers:
Singles
Kelly Clarkson – Mr. Know It All – 47, 910 (#6, debut)
Matt Cardlle – Run For Your Life – 15, 507 (55, 170) – falls 6-23
Matt Cardle – When We Collide – 987, 657 (total sales since release in December 2010)
Outspoken on many issues, 44 year old Gallagher has recently been taking shots at The X Factor, so it must be very satisfying for him that High Flying Birds easily won the tussle for chart supremacy with the TV talent show’s reigning champion Matt Cardle, whose introductory album Letters lags far behind.
28 year old Cardle’s introductory single When We Collide topped the chart for three weeks at the turn of the year, and has thus far sold 987, 657 copies but follow-up Run For Your Life has been less successful, and descends from its debut position of number six to number 23 (15, 507 sales) this week. Its performance has doubtless impacted Letters, which sold 70, 896 copies last week to secure its number two debut. Three of the six previous X Factor winners opened at number one, and four of the six had higher first week sales than Cardle. In order of release, the roll of honour: Steve Brookstein (Heart & Soul debuted at number one on sales of 50, 989), Shayne Ward (Shayne Ward, number one, 201, 266), Leona Lewis (Spirit, number one, 375, 872), Leon Jackson (Right Now, number four, 37, 197), Alexandra Burke (Overcome, number one, 132, 065), and Joe McElderry (Wide Awake, number three, 39, 405). We should note that Wide Awake is the lowest selling debut album by a winner of the competition – the 238 copies it sold last week raise its overall tally to 100, 040, just short of the 105, 016 copies that Brookstein’s album has sold – but McElderry has been significantly more successful with second album Classic since its release nine weeks ago. Dipping 24-26 (6, 162 sales) on the current chart, Classic has already sold 177, 530 copies.
Albums
1 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – 122, 530
2 Matt Cardle – Letters – 70, 896
Joe McElderry – Classic – 6, 162 (177, 530)
Joe McElderry – Wide Awake – 100, 040 (to date)
Steve Brookstein – Heart & Soul – 105, 016 (to date)
Matt Cardle trails Leona, Burke, Ward in ‘X Factor’ album sales
Matt Cardle has placed fourth in a list of first week album sales from an X Factor winner.
The singer failed to exceed the massive sales of fellow previous champions Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke and Shayne Ward with his debut LP Letters.
Read more: Digital Spy
Beating the X Factor: Noel Gallagher beats Matt Cardle to the top of the charts with his first solo album
Noel Gallagher has scored a point against brother Liam, shooting to the top of the Official Charts with his first solo album.
The former Oasis guitarist and songwriter flew into number one with his aptly-named debut release Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Brother Liam’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye peaked only at number three when they released Different Gear, Still Speeding last year.
Read more: The Daily Mail
