"winner Alexandra Burke (""Hallelujah""). On 31 December, it was announced that the track had finished 2012 as the fifth highest-selling single. By February 2013, it had become the second best selling ""The X Factor"" winner's single with 1.25 million copies sold. To date, it has sold over 1.4 million copies in the UK, overtaking Alexandra Burke's ""Hallelujah"" to become the best-selling winners single ever. Arthur's version of ""Impossible"" was also the best-selling single of 2012 in the Republic of Ireland, where it became the 2012 Christmas number one, with ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" peaking at number four. The"
"""Hallelujah"", a cover of Leonard Cohen's song, was Burke's debut release as ""The X Factor"" winner's single. The song, which reached the UK Singles Chart Christmas number-one, broke numerous records including the ""fastest-selling download ever across Europe"" after selling 105,000 digital copies after just two days of release, and 576,000 copies in its first sales week. The song remained at number-one for three weeks, and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. ""Hallelujah"" went on to sell over one million copies in the United Kingdom alone, and was 2008's biggest selling single in the United Kingdom, despite having only"
"X Factor"" and again performed it with Carey herself. On 2 November 2008 it debuted atop of the UK Singles Chart, staying there for three consecutive weeks and becoming the fastest selling single of 2008. The song sold 100,000 copies in the first day of its release and 313,244 copies by the end of the week. It has sold over 770,000 copies and raised over one million pounds for Help For Heroes foundation. Many shops had to order urgent copies of the single due to high demand."" It was listed as the second biggest single of 2008 and the nineteenth"
"December 2008, by Morter on Facebook in an attempt to make the song the 2008 Christmas number one in the UK. The campaign's purpose was to stop the winner of ""The X Factor"" from gaining the Christmas number one spot, thereby ending the show's chain of success. The year's X Factor winner at the time was Alexandra Burke with her winning song being a cover of Leonard Cohen's ""Hallelujah"". The group attracted nearly 30,000 people in its first week active. Campaigners were encouraged to get as many people as possible to download the song from iTunes between 15 and 20"
"of the final four of the series; Jackson, Rhydian Roberts, Same Difference and Niki Evans. However, only the winner's version of the song and video was released. The song ended 2007 as the year's fourth biggest-selling single in the UK and remained number one into 2008. However, it only managed to stay in the top 40 for seven weeks, despite being atop the chart for three weeks. It also soon disappeared from the top 100, and was gone by late February. The music video, like previous ""X Factor"" winners singles, is very simple, with Jackson singing the song in front"
"Christmas songs, including Wham!'s ""Last Christmas"" and ""Fairytale of New York"" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, returned to the chart throughout December. Alexandra Burke won the fifth series of ""The X Factor"" on 13 December, and released her debut single - a cover of Leonard Cohen's track ""Hallelujah"" - on 14 December. The single sold 576,000 copies in its first week of release, and was the Christmas number one single of 2008. The late Jeff Buckley's version of ""Hallelujah"" - originally recorded for his 1994 album ""Grace"" - charted at number two, following a campaign to raise Buckley's version"
"performed the single again being joined by the other X Factor contestants, and at parts she was too moved to sing. The single went on to become the Christmas number one of 2008, holding the top spot for three weeks and selling one million copies. There was also a campaign to take Jeff Buckley's cover of ""Hallelujah"" to the top of the Christmas chart to deny Burke the top spot. The campaign was fuelled by Jeff Buckley fans' dislike of ""The X Factor""s commercialism and the song's arrangement, as well as a desire by this contingent to introduce younger music"
"winner of the fifth series of the reality television show ""The X Factor"", released a condensed cover version of the song as a prize for her victory. It reached Christmas number one on the UK Singles Chart on 21 December 2008. The release of Burke's cover created interest in the previous versions of the song, including a Buckley fan campaign to take Buckley's cover to the top of the Christmas chart and therefore deny Burke the top spot. The campaign was fuelled by Buckley fans' dislike of ""The X Factor""s commercialism and the song's arrangement, as well as their desire"
"of ""Impossible"" fell to 233,770 copies as it dropped to number two behind ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" from The Justice Collective, the Christmas number one single of 2012. In its third charting week, ""Impossible"" reclaimed the number-one position; with sales of 183,660 copies. As of 29 December, ""Impossible"" had sold 896,990 copies, enough to overtake series 3 winner Leona Lewis (""A Moment Like This"") and make it the fourth highest-selling single of the nine ""The X Factor"" winners; behind series 7 winner Matt Cardle (""When We Collide""), series 2 winner Shayne Ward (""That's My Goal"") and series 5"
"after she won, and sold over 100,000 copies to become the Christmas number one on 22 December. This made Bailey the first ""X Factor"" winner since Matt Cardle in 2010 to gain the Christmas number one (series 8 winners Little Mix and series 9 winner James Arthur both released their winners' singles two weeks before the Christmas chart, thus avoiding the Christmas number-one battle, although they both charted in the top three of the Christmas chart regardless). On 24 November, it was revealed that the winner's single, like Arthur's, would be a charity release to raise money for Together for"
"making Arthur the fastest-selling winner in ""X Factor"" history. By the end of the week, the track had sold over 490,000 copies, enough to debut at number-one on the UK Singles Chart; achieving the largest first week sales of the year. After eleven days, ""Impossible"" had become the seventh biggest-selling debut single from any ""X Factor"" contestant, with sales of over 622,000; enough to overtake the lifetime sales of the debut singles of series 8 winners Little Mix (""Cannonball""), series 5 runners-up JLS (""Beat Again"") and series 4 winner Leon Jackson (""When You Believe""). In its second charting week, sales"
"2008's ""The X Factor"" winner Alexandra Burke charted with ""Hallelujah"". ""Run"" re-entered The Official UK Top 40 at 32 on 15 March 2009. As of January 2014, the song has shifted 832,000 copies. ""Run"" became Lewis's fifth UK Top Five single; it follows ""A Moment Like This"" which peaked at number one in 2006 and ""Bleeding Love"" in 2007. In 2008, the double A-side ""Better in Time""/""Footprints in the Sand"" peaked at number two, while ""Forgive Me"" peaked at number five. As of December 2013, Lewis holds the record for British female solo artist with the most UK Top 5"
"Grammy Awards. At the 2008 Brit Awards it was nominated for Best British Single. It is Lewis's biggest hit in the US to date, is still her only single to reach the top ten of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and remains her most successful single worldwide. In 2006, Lewis entered third series of the British reality singing competition, ""The X Factor"", and after performing and competing against other aspiring hopefuls, the British public voted her the winner on 16 December 2006, receiving 60% of the final vote. As the winner, Lewis received the prize of a £1 million recording contract"
"date, making it the lowest-selling"" X Factor"" winner's single. It has sold fewer than half the copies of Leon Jackson's ""When You Believe"" and Little Mix's ""Cannonball"", a third of Joe McElderry's ""The Climb"", a quarter of Leona Lewis's ""A Moment Like This"", and a fifth of those of Matt Cardle's ""When We Collide"", Shayne Ward's ""That's My Goal"", James Arthur's ""Impossible"" and Alexandra Burke's ""Hallelujah"". The next fewest sales from a winner's song was Sam Bailey's version of ""Skyscraper"", which had first-week sales of 149,000 copies, 26,000 more than ""Against All Odds"". However, Louisa Johnson, Matt Terry and Rak"
"X Factor"" winner Leon Jackson in December 2007. The single was available to download from midnight after the result of the show on December 15, 2007, and a CD was rush-released mid-week, on December 19, 2007. This was unusual as most new singles were released on a Monday to gain maximum sales for the UK Singles Chart the following Sunday. Exceptions included the previous two ""X Factor"" winners whose were singles released in this fashion, in order for them to compete to be the Christmas number-one single, which they all became. A video for the single was made by each"
"""X Factor"" judge Nicole Scherzinger. The following night, she sang her winner's single, a cover of ""Skyscraper"" by Demi Lovato. Later, having received more than 1 million votes over the course of the weekend, she was announced as the winner. When the voting statistics were announced on ""The X Factor"" afterwards, Bailey was revealed to have received the most public votes seven times out of ten. As the winner, she received a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music and the opportunity to support Beyoncé on the UK leg of The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in February 2014. Bailey"
"never made it. What's the problem with that?"" An ""X Factor"" executive producer also revealed that Bailey had auditioned for the show's fourth series in 2007, but did not get past the first producers' round. Bailey's winner's single ""Skyscraper"" was released via digital download on 16 December 2013, the day after she won the show. On 18 December 2013, the single received a physical release, which features three of Bailey's best ""X Factor"" performances – ""The Power of Love"", ""Make You Feel My Love"" and ""No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"". On ""The Xtra Factor"" after the final, judge Gary"
"song, which have a tendency to be horrifyingly embarrassing."" ""Home"" debuted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at No. 10, the first time in four years a coronation single from an ""American Idol"" winner has reached the top 10. David Cook's single ""The Time of My Life"" debuted at No. 3 in the week ending May 25, 2008. ""Home"" sold 278,000 the first week, the biggest digital sales week ever for a winner's coronation song, surpassing David Cook's ""Time of My Life,"" which had first week sales of 236,000 in 2008. It is also the second-best digital sales week ever for"
"one single since their debut ""Sound of the Underground"" (although the charity singles ""I'll Stand by You"" and ""Walk This Way"" both peaked at number one). ""The Promise"" sold 77,110 copies in its first week, making it Girls Aloud's second best first week, beaten only by ""Sound of the Underground"" back in 2002. The single became the fastest selling single of 2008 until ""Hero"" - a charity single by the finalists on ""The X Factor"" - sold in excess of 100,000 copies two days after release, and 313,244 copies overall. Cheryl Cole, who was also on ""The X Factor"", joked,"
"2007. With ""Bleeding Love"" reaching number one, Lewis became the first contestant from ""The X Factor"" to achieve two number-one singles. It was reported to be outselling Take That's ""Rule the World"" by three-to-one in chain store Woolworths, and Britney Spears' ""Gimme More"" by ten-to-one. It went on to sell 218,805 copies in its first week, gaining the biggest one-week sales in 2007, a feat it maintained until ""When You Believe"" by Leon Jackson was released in December 2007. In its second and third weeks on sale the single sold 158,370 copies, and 111,978 copies respectively, bringing the total sales"
"the 2008 Brit Awards. Follow-up single ""Better in Time"" also fared well, charting in the top ten in thirteen countries and reaching number eleven in the US. After a well received performance of Snow Patrol's ""Run"" whilst promoting ""Spirit"", Lewis recorded a cover version for the re-release of the album, titled ""Spirit – The Deluxe Edition"", which was released as a download-only single in the UK, where it charted at number one, going on to be the third Platinum-selling single from ""Spirit"", following ""X Factor"" winner's single ""A Moment Like This"" and ""Bleeding Love"". In December 2006, Lewis won the"
"became the fastest-selling ""The X Factor"" winner's single so far, reaching 255,000 downloads within 48 hours and over 490,000 by the end of the week. The single topped the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. After 11 days, it was the seventh biggest-selling debut single from any contestant from ""The X Factor"", with sales of 622,000. In its second week, the single dropped to number two, but reclaimed the number one spot in its third week, and stayed at the top for a further week. After three weeks, it was the fifth best-selling single of 2012 with"
"sold on the single. He said, ""I support the efforts being made by the ""X Factor"" contestants and in recognition of that I'm proposing effectively to waive the VAT on the sale of these singles. We will do that by making a donation equivalent to the value of the VAT."" Following the single's release, the music video was sent to music channels on November 8 before the fifth live show, when the finalists (excluding Diana Vickers, absent because of illness) sang it again. All the finalists appeared in the video, which also showed still images of soldiers in Iraq. The"
"but could not prevent ""The X Factor""-related single ""Skyscraper"" by tenth season winner Sam Bailey from making it to number 1. AC/DC were also outsold in that week by One More Sleep, a Christmas single from Leona Lewis, a former ""X-Factor"" winner and Happy by Pharrell Williams from the 2013 movie ""Despicable Me 2"". Alongside the campaign, funds were raised from donations to a JustGiving page went to the charity Feel Yourself, to raise awareness about the importance of self-checking for breast and testicular cancer. Prior to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Jon's then wife Tracy was asked"
"June 2005, it reached number 160 in the UK Singles Chart. The single was re-released in the UK in December that year. It reached number one on 18 December 2005, selling more than double the copies of their closest competitor, Westlife. It eventually won the duo an Impala Platinum award recognizing sales of over 500,000 copies of the song across Europe in 2007. Dermot O'Leary gave the track extensive airplay on his BBC Radio 2 show. Some bookmakers put it in the running for Christmas number one but the winner of ""The X Factor"", Shayne Ward's début single, ""That's My"
"""The X Factor"" fifth season finale with winner Alexandra Burke, the album moved up to number nine on December 27, 2008. Due to the success of its singles in the United Kingdom, particularly ""Sweet Dreams"", ""I Am... Sasha Fierce"" rose from number five to its highest peak of number two in its thirty-ninth week on the chart, which was the week of August 16, 2009. It's her best-selling album in the United Kingdom, having sold over 1.5 million copies. In Australia, ""I Am... Sasha Fierce"" debuted at number nine on November 24, 2008 and peaked at number eight on January"
"2008 on downloads alone, following the formation of a 110,000-strong protest group on Facebook to get it above (winner of ""The X Factor"" 2008) Alexandra Burke's version for the Christmas number one. Another consequence of the chart rules is that in the event of a new album release by a well-known artist, all (or most) of its tracks could appear on the singles chart due to buyers downloading individual songs rather than the complete album. There was no significant example of this until early October 2007, with the cast of ""High School Musical 2"" placing six of its songs in"
"In October 2013, Alexandra Burke recorded a cover of Cyndi Lauper's ""Girls Just Want to Have Fun"" for The Happy Egg Company in the United Kingdom. In April 2016, Burke was announced as the ambassador for Slimfast. This endorsement has continued throughout 2018.<ref> Alexandra Burke Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke (born 25 August 1988) is an English singer, songwriter and actress. Burke won the fifth series of British television series ""The X Factor"" in 2008. She has been signed to Epic Records, RCA Records and Syco Music. After winning ""The X Factor"", Burke released the winner's single ""Hallelujah"", which became"
"entering ""The X Factor"", Mastin had already recorded an EP. He eventually reached the live shows and was mentored by Guy Sebastian. On 22 November 2011, Mastin was announced as the winner and received a management contract and a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. His winner's single ""Good Night"" was released shortly after, via digital download. ""Good Night"" had sold over 30,000 units within 24-hours of its release. On 24 November 2011, the song sold an average of one copy every 2.7 seconds, becoming the fastest selling digital single by an artist signed to Sony Music Australia. ""Good Night"""
"a million copies by early 2006. Mariah Carey also had success with her Greatest Hits album. Madonna also launched another successful comeback, spending three weeks at number one with her single ""Hung Up"". The coveted Christmas number one spot was taken by The X Factor winner Shayne Ward, who comfortably beat surprise contenders Nizlopi and the charity re-release of ""Fairytale of New York"". His single, ""That's My Goal"", became one of the quickest selling songs ever, with over 742,180 copies sold in just four days. Eminem continues to dominate in the albums chart with ""Curtain Call: The Hits"" reaching #1"
"announced that he had become an ambassador for UK mental health charity SANE. James Arthur James Andrew Arthur (born 2 March 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. Arthur who won the ninth series of ""The X Factor"" in 2012. His debut single, ""Impossible"", was released by Syco Music after the final and debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. Since then, it has gone on to sell over 1.4 million copies in the UK, making it the most successful winner's single in the show's history and has sold over 2.5 million"
"singing competition, ""The X Factor"", having previously entered in 2005. The singer received 58% of the final public vote. Burke's prize was a £1 million recording contract with Syco Records, a subsidiary of Sony BMG, including a £150,000 advance payment. Burke's debut single, a cover of Leonard Cohen's ""Hallelujah"" was released as the show's ""winner's single"". Upon winning the show, Burke remarked: ""Thank you so much for making my dream come true. I'm the happiest girl alive."" Burke's album was originally scheduled for a March 2009 release in time for Mother's Day. However, following the success of fellow ""X Factor"""
"was available for download from 25 October 2008, after the finalists performed the song live on that night's show. It was released in stores on 27 October, and Simon Cowell predicted it ""will go straight to the top of the charts"". In the first week of its release it went straight to number 1 and sold 313,244 copies, more than the rest of the top ten combined. Viewing figures for series 5 were, at the time of airing, the highest ever for any ""X Factor"" series, about 20% up on the previous series. This, however, was beaten by the sixth"