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Post by Tiarnán on Dec 16, 2012 16:38:17 GMT -5
Hopefully they've learned from Britney that you can't just throw away money on the biggest star out there without taking into account wherever or not they actually have the personality for a show like this.
For UK next year I'm pulling for Louis, Nicole, Mel B/Geri and a younger male. I'm thinking we'll get Rita Ora if they want a younger female than Nicole though.
In the US I'd do like Justin Timberlake to replace LA,but I dunno if a) he'd be up for it (SURELY Idol have offered) and b) Simon would want a male judge who would overshadow him. If Britney's contract is only a one year one then I can't see her being offered nearly as much next year. I'm betting they'd kill for Katy Perry.
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Post by Mutant Couch on Dec 16, 2012 21:05:23 GMT -5
They need Elton John, honestly. He would be so perfect. They really need to just go hardcore into recruiting him and Ke$ha. Oh, and someone should probably tell Demi Lovato and Simon that they need to downplay the fact that they're banging instead of making it really obvious.
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Post by Tiarnán on Dec 17, 2012 8:07:37 GMT -5
I don't think Elton John would ever do it. He was really crotical of the UK version in 2010 (they did a theme night and killed about six of his songs as a means of revenge, although I'm not sure if the second part was intentional). Aiden went home that week.  |
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Post by Brandon on Dec 20, 2012 12:23:22 GMT -5
My favorite performance all season. Dinah and Camilla took us to church.
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Post by Brandon on Dec 21, 2012 10:23:38 GMT -5
 Exactly how I feel about Kiss You. |
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Post by Brandon on Dec 22, 2012 13:25:39 GMT -5
Fifth Harmony, Carly Rose Sonenclar, Emblem3 will get Sony Music deals
Country singer Tate Stevens won on "The X Factor" U.S. in 2012, but he isn't the only contestant from the show who's getting a record deal with Sony Music. Sources say that Carly Rose Sonenclar (second place), Fifth Harmony (third place) and Emblem3 (fourth place) are also getting deals with Sony Music. The announcements will officially be made in early 2013.
Stevens, Sonenclar, Fifth Harmony and Emblem3 will be signed to Syco Music, the record company co-owned by Simon Cowell and Sony Music. Syco will then partner with a larger Sony Music label (Epic Records or Columbia Records) to market and promote the "X Factor" alumni's music.
Sonenclar, 13, was already an experienced entertainer before she auditioned for "The X Factor." She had starring roles in Broadway shows and traveling theater production, such as "Les Misérables," "Wonderland" and "Little House on the Prairie: The Musical." She was a featured actress on the TV series "Electric Company" and has had small roles in several movies, including "The Nanny Diaries" and "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2."
Emblem3 is a male trio, two of whom are brothers: 19-year-old Wesley Stromberg,16-year-old Keaton Stromberg and 20-year-old Dean Chadwick.
Fifth Harmony is a girl group whose members originally auditioned as solo singers: 19-year-old Ally Brooke, 15-year-old Camila Cabello, 16-year-old Normani Hamilton, 15-year-old Dinah-Jane Hansen and 16-year-old Lauren Jauregui.
An insider says, "Simon is determined to prove that he can find the next big girl group in America. He missed out on a chance to sign the Spice Girls and he's regretted it ever since. Little Mix [2011 winner of 'The X Factor' U.K.] might not have crossover success in America, so he's hoping Fifth Harmony can fill what he likes to call 'the gap in the market' for a superstar all-female pop group.
"Emblem3 has always been Simon's biggest priority out of this year's contestants. He thinks Emblem3 can be as big as Hanson was in the late '90s. And with Carly Rose, Cowell wants to use a marketing strategy that was similarly used for ["America's Got Talent" 2010 finalist] Jackie Evancho, who's been very successful for Syco. Carly's first album will be more pop than Jackie's music, which is is more operatic."
And there just might be some Sony Music in-fighting for Emblem3.
"Epic and Columbia both want Emblem3," reveals the insider. "L.A. Reid [chairman/CEO of Epic Records] is hot to sign Emblem3, but don't count out [Columbia Records], because Columbia has One Direction. Syco has an interesting dilemma on which label to choose."
It's an interesting dilemma indeed. On the one hand, Epic so far has not had success getting big hits in the U.S. for any of the "X Factor" U.S. artists who are signed to Epic: Melanie Amaro, Chris Rene, Marcus Canty and Astro have yet to make it onto Billboard's Hot 100 chart. On the plus side, Epic has been successful in helping make "X Factor" U.K. 2010 finalist Cher Lloyd a breakthrough in America, but can Epic make her more than a one-hit wonder in America?
As for Columbia Records, One Direction is an obvious success story, since the group has now become the biggest worldwide seller of any act to emerge from "The X Factor." Under Columbia's guidance, One Direction also became the first British group to have its first two albums debut at No. 1 in the United States. But does Emblem3 want to go with Columbia, where Emblem3 will be overshadowed by One Direction? Or will Emblem3 go with Columbia precisely because the record label has a proven track record in making an "X Factor" music group a hit?
We'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, a record deal with a major label does not always guarantee success. It remains to be seen if any of the contestants from "The X Factor" U.S.'s second season will have any big hits in America. So far, the contestants from the show's first season (which got higher ratings than the second season) have yet to have a big breakthrough hit in the United States.
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Exciting!  I'll totes by a 5H album.
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Post by Burke on Dec 22, 2012 13:52:08 GMT -5
Lol, the music version of Tough Enough. The losers all get deals anyway and the winner fades away and is never heard from again.
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Post by Brandon on Jan 10, 2013 21:01:57 GMT -5
Britney to X-Factor: I Quit, Y'all!Britney Spears will NAWT be a judge on X-Factor next season - and it's entirely her doing, TMZ has learned.
We have unimpeachable sources who tell us Britney loves the show but wants to focus on her music... which she is doing right now. Britney is in the studio recording her 8th album, with some help from Will.i.am and producer Hit-Boy, the brains behind Kanye and Jay-Z's "N****s in Paris."
One of our sources tells us... "Britney loves Simon, she likes Demi Lovato, but her thing is music."
We're told after she completes the album, Britney is seriously considering going on tour again.
Walking away from $15,000,000... yeah, she's that rich.Source
We know da Queen topped Forbes' list as the highest earning female musician ( beating out Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Beyoncé) recently, so the $$$ was never that big of a concern ( for her). I'm just glad she finna churn out some new bops and now X-Factor can be cancelled lol <3
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Post by Brandon on Jan 10, 2013 21:06:37 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon on Feb 19, 2013 1:59:01 GMT -5
Khloé won't be back either.
X-Factor is done.
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Post by Burke on Sept 10, 2013 15:02:23 GMT -5
Simon Cowell Says Britney Spears 'Couldn't Talk' On 'X Factor'
'She was just uncomfortable,' Cowell said of Spears' failed 'Factor' tenure
"X Factor" boss Simon Cowell sat down with Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show on Tuesday (September 10) to talk about lots of things, including opening up about his impending fatherhood and why his experiment with Britney Spears on "Factor" was a bust.
You might recall the hype that surrounded the addition of Spears to the "Factor" panel last year. "There was a time where I think everybody was trying to up themselves in terms of who could find the biggest known star to be on a panel," Cowell said, naming "American Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez and the "other one ... blondie" on "The Voice," in reference to Christina Aguilera.
"And so we thought, 'well, we'll take Britney. And she was fine, but I think she found it very uncomfortable," he said, perhaps explaining Spears' GIF-worthy series of odd faces, bland platitudes and lack of engagement during her single-season run.
"She's not a big talker," DeGeneres offered. "I didn't realize that," Cowell admitted with a laugh. "I kind of booked someone who couldn't talk, which is a bit of a problem when you want someone to judge." Cowell further explained that Spears was also not comfortable giving negative critiques and was even less at ease with sassy contestants who talked back to her.
"She was just uncomfortable ... I liked her ... so we decided to change it this year and I thought, 'I'll work with three girls,' because I like working with girls," Cowell said, by way of explaining why he filled Spears' and departed judge L.A. Reid's spots with Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio.
After remaining mostly silent about Spears' tenure, Cowell began speaking out about the failed experiment last month
at the Television Critics Association panel, saying it was a flop from day one. "It's like having a dinner party. You invite people for dinner and sometimes it's a fun night, and other times it's not as fun as you hoped it would be," he said. This season, however, he promised a much more fun dinner party.
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Post by Brandon on Sept 10, 2013 16:08:42 GMT -5
The Spearleaders are probably the only reason X-Factor wasn't cancelled last season.
Is Paulina Rubio a tennis player?
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Post by Brandon on Sept 12, 2013 22:53:40 GMT -5
X-Factor Ratings PlummetFox premiered the third season of singing competition show The X Factor to a 2.1 rating with adults 18-49 on Wednesday, a drop of 36% from last year's premiere (which was two hours), according to Nielsen overnight numbers. The show was down 22% from last year's 8-9 p.m. hour.
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