The X Factor 2010

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Olly Murs - wht a very good idea Tammy!!

[Perdita]

SNOOTY music fans have launched a campaign to stop this year's X Factor winner topping the charts at Christmas - they want SILENCE to hit No1 instead.

They are urging record buyers to snap up John Cage's pretentious sound-free "composition" called 4' 33" as soon as the talent show winner's single is released.

It is hoped the ploy will be as successful as last year's campaign, which saw X Factor champ Joe McElderry kept from No1 by Rage Against The Machine.

American Cage, who died in 1992, wrote the four minute, 33 second piece in 1952.

It is meant to be "played" by musicians who do not touch their instruments - so the audience listen to incidental noises around the room, like raindrops falling on the roof.

More than 3,000 people have so far backed the campaign on Facebook.

Last year, the ITV1 hit's boss Simon Cowell, 50, initially called the anti-X Factor Christmas campaign "spiteful".

But when the rebels won the top chart position ahead of Joe, 19, he congratulated them.

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[Perdita]

Simon Cowell is reportedly planning to release tracks of the live X Factor performances each week.

Cowell wants each contestant's performance to be available for immediate download after seeing the success and chart domination of Glee, according to the Daily Star Sunday.

A source said: "Simon is determined to make this year’s show the biggest and the best yet. And he knows the best way to do that is by making each week’s live performances available for fans to download.

"The X Factor could potentially have the number one spot every week for more than three months. In theory, they could take up every spot in the top ten for the majority of the run.

"There’s talk of having 16 finalists this time around instead of 12. And even when it gets down to the end of the show, the singers perform twice, making more songs available for fans. It would make it incredibly hard for any new acts to have an impact on the charts. Even the major artists would think twice about releasing singles in the lucrative run-up to Christmas.

"Nothing has been confirmed or decided at this stage. There’s a lot of things that need to be agreed and arranged before they can pull this off. But Simon knows it would make The X Factor an even bigger machine than it is at the moment.

"The danger is it could start an out-and-out war with people boycotting the show."

[Perdita]

Brian Friedman has been accused of being biased toward X Factor hopefuls FYE.

The choreographer, 33, tweeted about the boyband after their performance at Boot Camp, describing them as "truly inspired".

His comments about the five-piece, who were backing dancers on last year's show, have been criticised by rival acts

"FYE were communicating with the choreographers via Twitter," a source told the Daily Star Sunday. "It smacked of favouritism. People were not happy. It looked like certain people were given preferential treatment."

An X Factor insider added: "Brian Friedman has been silly but has learned his lesson."

FYE are among the acts rumoured to have reached the Judges' Houses stage of this year's competition.

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X FACTOR boss Simon Cowell has formed TWO new groups from star solo acts at this year's boot camp - to boost the category Cheryl Cole is tipped to mentor.
The music mogul, 50, has made four female soloists into a girl band and five single males into a boy band.

He was helped by stand-in judge and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, 32, and long-time judge Louis Walsh, 57.

Their aim is to provide Geordie Cheryl, 27 - recovering from life-threatening malaria - a pool of talent with which to work if she's up to taking on the bands.

Bosses on the ITV1 hit also want to see if Cheryl - who has won with the girls and boys categories - can work her magic on the groups.

An insider said: "Nothing's finalised about who gets which category but if Cheryl's up to dealing with the groups they want to give her the best people to choose from.

"It's a difficult category to get right, but not impossible as JLS showed two years ago."

Cheryl could have her work cut out because the bands, with Louis as mentor, flopped badly last year.

She'll have to mould the brand new boy band - Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, and Harry Styles.

The girls - Rebecca Creighton, Esther Campbell, Geneva Lane and Sophia Wardman - are also certain to need a lot of work.

Cheryl and new mum Dannii Minogue will be back for the judges' houses stage.

Eight acts will be entered, instead of the usual six, but only three in each category will go through to the live finals.

Cheryl's illness has seen her miss boot camp and some auditions but she is expected to discuss this year's hopefuls with the other judges soon.

Dannii, at home in Oz with baby Ethan, will also be briefed and sent DVDs of all her acts' auditions before she meets them at the judges' houses stage.

The insider said: "The situation hasn't been ideal this year, but both Cheryl and Dannii are dedicated to the show and their acts.

"There's no way they'll let things slide. Both hate the idea of Simon winning."

X Factor returns later this month.



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[lizann]

I think his each mentor should get a group

[Perdita]

X Factor producers have come under fire for reportedly signing a deal to guarantee one act safe passage through to the live shows.

A member of the girlband Husstle told other contestants at London's Boot Camp round that her group had already been promised a place in the studio finals, according to The Sun.

A fight is believed to have broken out after the singer apparently claimed that her band's manager Spike Dawbarn, who used to be a member of boyband 911, got a guarantee from Simon Cowell and show producers that the group would make it past both Boot Camp and Judges' Houses.

A source said: "This girl was boasting and winding everyone up about it. They had already been swanning around the place acting like top dogs, so when one of them said they were told they'd be in the final line-up it all kicked off.

"People were screaming and jabbing fingers at each other and some girls even burst into tears. The row got so nasty that producers had to rush in and cool it down."

Cowell's spokeswoman insisted that the claim was "total rubbish".

[Abbie]

They always create groups out of the other entries

[Perdita]

THE X Factor is set to be axed from our screens.

And the Daily Star can exclusively reveal the show is not being planned into the 2011 schedules.

Auditions will not start in the spring, as they usually do, and they will not be screened next August, when they normally are.

Instead boss Simon Cowell, 50, has ordered a big X Factor shake-up.

This is because he is launching a US version of the show.

X Factor USA is set to air in September 2011 and bosses are desperately trying to avoid clashes with the TV schedules.

The news will anger fans who are so far completely in the dark about the changes.

A show source said: “Every summer viewers look forward to seeing the oddballs and freaks on telly. This is a major blow.”

While the X Factor upheaval was being discussed yesterday Simon was on a sunshine break in northern Italy splashing about on a jet-ski with his fiancée Mezhgan Hussainy, 36. Last night an insider explained: “The plan is for Simon to oversee the US version of X Factor first and foremost.

“He will be based in the States for the auditions in the late spring, which will be broadcast in America in September.

“Simon will fly back to the UK and he will preside over the auditions here next autumn, but they probably won’t be screened for a while.

“The plan is to hold off and launch the British X Factor in 2012. If they do run any episodes in 2011 it will be to trail some auditions before Christmas as a teaser. It’s going to pose a major headache for ITV.”

The show has made stars of the likes of Leona Lewis, 25, Alexandra Burke, 21, and Joe McElderry, 19.

Last night a spokeswoman for Cowell’s company Syco TV said: “We are currently focusing on this year’s series.

“Plans for next year are still being discussed.”

And an ITV source added: “There are many different ways the two shows can co-exist. But the plans are still being thrashed out.”

[Abbie]

It will be odd without the X factor for a year