"eliminated. The semi-final did not feature a final showdown and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Ben Mills, was automatically eliminated. Winner Leona Lewis's debut single was ""A Moment Like This"", and was released on 20 December 2006. Contestant Ben Mills reportedly claimed that the contest had been fixed for Lewis to win, as the winner's song was more suited to a female vocal. This rumour subsequently proved to be unfounded and show bosses said that they had made arrangements for the song to fit any singer's voice. The X Factor (UK series 3) The X Factor is"
"""The X Factor"" winner, Leona Lewis. It was also revealed that an additional song, ""Start Without You"" leaked on 8 June 2010, a day before she would confirm that the song was, in fact, the first single from the upcoming re-release of ""Overcome"" on her official blog. Burke said that the leak had come from within the label and that the suspects were ""two little boys in Germany, on work experience."" However, Burke did not lament the leak, stating, ""It's a shame when music gets put out there when it's not ready, but at the end of the day, it"
"the top by Take That's album Beautiful World. These remained on top of the charts for two more weeks. During this time there were hit singles from Emma Bunton's Official Children in Need song Downtown, Chris Cornell's You Know My Name which was used in ""Casino Royale"", Cliff Richard's 21st Century Christmas and Wind It Up from No Doubt front woman Gwen Stefani. ""The X Factor"" was won by Leona Lewis, beating former child actor Raymond Quinn in the final. She became the first female winner of the show. Her debut single ""A Moment Like This"" was chosen for whomever"
"first series of ""X Factor"" began in October 2006 and ran to February 2007. It was not as popular as Idols. It was won by Sharon Kips. The second series, running from January to May 2009, was more successful. It was won by Lisa Hordijk. The third series was won by Jaap van Reesema. Rochelle Perts won the fourth series. The fifth series was won by Haris Alagic. The show is primarily concerned with identifying singing talent, through appearance, personality, stage presence and dance routines are also an important element of many performances. The single most important attribute that the"
"The X Factor (UK series 6) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The sixth series started on ITV on 22 August 2009 and was won by Joe McElderry on 13 December 2009. Cheryl Cole emerged as the winning mentor for the second consecutive year, the first time in the show's history that a mentor has won back-to-back series. The show was presented by Dermot O'Leary, with spin-off show ""The Xtra Factor"" presented by Holly Willoughby on ITV2. McElderry's winner's single was a cover version of Miley Cyrus's ""The Climb"". Public auditions by"
"Slimani, ""X Factor"" contestant. Called ""Chico Time"", it displaced Madonna from the top of the chart. It has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK. """" was screened in the UK during the week of May 29, 2006. Hudson was recruited to reprise his coaching role, this time with celebrities who performed in a week long once-a-night version of the show, raising money for their chosen charity. The show was won by Lucy Benjamin, actress; runner up was Matt Stevens, England Rugby International. The British public voted for their favourites as Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, and Simon Cowell sat in"
"Leona Lewis Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model and activist. She was born and raised in the London Borough of Islington in London, where she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of ""The X Factor"" in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's ""A Moment Like This"", peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and it broke a world"
"""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"
"Rebecca Ferguson (singer) Rebecca Caroline Ferguson (born 21 July 1986) is a British singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in 2010 when she became the runner-up of the seventh series of ""The X Factor"", losing to the winner that year, Matt Cardle. She subsequently signed a joint record deal with Syco Music and Epic Records in the UK. She later signed to Columbia Records in the US. Ferguson's debut album, ""Heaven"", was released in December 2011 to commercial and critical success. The album sold 128k in its first week and peaked at No. 3 in the UK Official Charts,"
"takes the stage to sing and perform the song. Clips of her singing on ""American Idol"" and getting emotional when she won the competition are also shown. CD DVD In December 2006, the song was recorded as the UK debut single by British singer Leona Lewis, the winner of series 3 of ""The X Factor"". The single was rush-released on Wednesday, December 20, 2006. This is unusual as most new singles are released on a Monday to gain maximum sales for the UK Singles Chart the following Sunday. The late release of ""A Moment Like This"" was because Lewis was"
"Jenkins simultaneously held the number 1, 2 and 3 positions in the UK's Classical Chart with her three albums. Her fifth album, ""Rejoice"" including four songs produced by Per and David, was released on 19 November 2007. It entered the UK's Pop Charts at No 3. In 2006 more than 100,000 hopeful ""artists to be"" applied to the auditions for The X Factor season three, the previous season won by Shayne Ward. Leona Lewis was crowned winner on 16 December, soon breaking sales records with her first single. Decided however not to push the young singer's debut album release, Lewis"
"on Sunday 6 August 2006. It featured the following celebrities: EP = Episode S = Swing, P = Pop, R = Rock, M = Movies/Musicals, R&R = Rock & Roll, N1 = Number Ones, B = Ballad, D = Disco, C = Country, PR = Professional Hit, R&B = R&B, FA = Fast, SL = Slow, J = Journey. Erika Heynatz and her partner David Hobson were eventually declared the winners, defeating Sarah Ryan and her partner, Guy Sebastian. This chart is based on the celebrities averages and not their place in the competition. The second series premiered on Tuesday,"
"by previous ""X Factor"" winner Leona Lewis, with regard to ""The Silence"" and the title track ""Overcome."" Upon the release of ""Overcome"", ""The Silence"" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 95 in the chart issue dated 31 October 2009. Upon its release as a promotional single in December 2010, it re-entered the singles chart at number 126 on 11 December 2010, and leaped to its peak of number 16 the following week. In the chart issue dated 25 December 2010, the song fell twenty positions to number 36. ""The Silence"" leaped from number 125 to number 13 on"
"large portion of the new country artists in the popular scene along with solo singers Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert. One of the most commercially successful country artists of the late 2000s and early 2010s has been singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Swift first became widely known in 2006 when her debut single, ""Tim McGraw,"" was released when Swift was only 16. In 2006, Taylor released her first studio album, ""Taylor Swift"", which spent 275 weeks on Billboard 200, one of the longest runs of any album on that chart. In 2008, Taylor Swift released her second studio album, ""Fearless"", which made"
"the liveshows. In the liveshows she was one of the favorites. She placed third overall. Sharon Kips Sharon Kips (born 17 November 1983 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is the winner of the first edition of the Dutch ""X Factor"", 24 February 2007. She was praised highly throughout the show, with high compliments from three of Holland's music experts Henk Temming, Marianne van Wijnkoop and Henkjan Smits. She beat contestants such as X6, Richy and Anja to become the eventual winner in February 2007. Her first single Heartbreak Away reached #1 in the Dutch Top 40 in the first week. In 2010"
"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"
"Stacey Solomon Stacey Chanelle Claire Solomon (born 4 October 1989) is a British singer, TV presenter and personality. She rose to fame on the sixth series of ""The X Factor"", coming third overall on the show. She gained a number one single on both the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart when she and her fellow ""The X Factor"" finalists released a cover of ""You Are Not Alone"". Solomon won the tenth series of reality television show ""I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"" and was named ""Queen of the Jungle"". Her debut single, a cover of"
"""Do I Make You Proud"" was released as Hicks' first single and McPhee's was ""My Destiny"". Despite being eliminated earlier in the season, Chris Daughtry (as lead of the band Daughtry) became the most successful recording artist from this season. Other contestants, such as Hicks, McPhee, Bucky Covington, Mandisa, Kellie Pickler, and Elliott Yamin have had varying levels of success. The sixth season began on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. The premiere drew a massive audience of 37.3 million viewers, peaking in the last half hour with more than 41 million viewers. Teenager Sanjaya Malakar was the season's most talked-about contestant"
"top ten and the first to win the event: Season one's Audrey de Montigny was the first to reach the top ten, Steffi DiDomenicantonio in season four, Khalila Glanville in season five and Katherine St-Laurent in season six. Hours after her victory, Avila signed with the Sony BMG Canada record label and released her first single ""Meant to Fly"", which debuted at number one on the Canadian singles chart, a position it held for a huge nine weeks. The single was eventually certified double platinum. On 5 October 2006, the CTV television network reported that Avila has signed a modelling"
"2002 in the United States. In 2006, the song was recorded and released by British singer Leona Lewis, the winner of the third series of ""The X Factor."" Her version was the Christmas number one for 2006, outselling the rest of the top 40 combined. Lewis' version has sold 914,000 copies as of 2015. The song was co-written by Jörgen Elofsson and John Reid (of dance act Nightcrawlers) and produced by Stephen Ferrera and Steve Mac. It was written to be the first single for the winner of the first season of ""American Idol"". As a result, the four remaining"
"of seven. With a career starting in 2006, Lewis is the second best-selling act from ""The X Factor"" franchise, behind One Direction, having sold over 20 million records worldwide. Lewis has won two MOBO Awards, an MTV Europe Music Award, and two World Music Awards. She is also a six time Brit Awards and three time Grammy Award nominee. Lewis is known for her expansive four octave vocal range, power, technical control and, in particular, her frequent use of the falsetto register. Aside from her musical career, Lewis is a philanthropist and an animal welfare campaigner for World Animal Protection"
"to land a contract. That's why I decided to audition for ""The X Factor"". It's programmes like these which provide the best place to showcase fresh new talent."" Lewis auditioned for the third series of ""The X Factor"" in 2006, singing ""Over the Rainbow"" for judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and guest judge Paula Abdul. She was placed in the 16-24 category, with Cowell as her mentor. Throughout the course of the show, Lewis was compared with artists such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, performing songs by all three of them. Lewis defeated Ray Quinn"
"and several hits on both the country charts and the Billboard Hot 100. Singer-songwriter Unknown Hinson became famous for his appearance in the Charlotte television show ""Wild, Wild, South"", after which Hinson started his own band and toured in southern states. Other rock stars who featured a country song on their albums were Don Henley and Poison. In 2005, country singer Carrie Underwood rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of ""American Idol"" and has since become one of the most prominent recording artists of 2006 through 2016, with worldwide sales of more than 65 million records"
"this album was released in the beginning of January 2013. In short time it reached number 4 in the Dutch iTunes Charts. Lisa Lois Lisa Lois (born 22 June 1987 as Lisa Hordijk) is a Dutch singer who rose to prominence after winning the second season of talent show ""X Factor"". In 2009, she changed her stage name to Lisa Lois and released her debut album ""Smoke"". Lois was born in Wageningen, Netherlands. She studied at the Rock Academy in Tilburg and at the Utrecht-based Herman Brood Academy. After winning the X-Factor, she released her debut single, a cover of"
"by former auditioners, and celebrity cameos by Kenny G, Rascal Flatts, David Hasselhoff, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, George Benson, Billy Preston, Babyface and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The winner of the competition was Carrie Underwood, who would eventually become the second ""Idol"" winner to sweep all three major music awards (American Music, Billboard, and Grammy Award) in a single season (for 2006-07). In a nod to the ""Diana knew she'd been eliminated by the performance order"" controversy of ""Idol 3"", neither contestant sang the winner's single, ""Inside Your Heaven"", before the results were announced. Underwood's first single, ""Inside Your Heaven"", debuted at number"
"by Take That. 2006 in British music charts This is a summary of 2006 in music in the United Kingdom including the official single and album charts. In January, X Factor winner Shayne Ward held on to the top spot in the single chart with his debut ""That's My Goal"" for three weeks. Ward later went on to top the charts with his debut album in April, on the back of his reality TV show success. Meanwhile, The Strokes and HARD-Fi both got their first number one albums in January, the Strokes previously having two number twos. Arctic Monkeys were"
"she was doing, and then she came in and it was kind of one of those things where people were like, 'Whoa! She just changed pop music.' And she did! There's no denying it."" Cher Lloyd Cher Lloyd (born 28 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter, and model. Lloyd rose to fame in 2010 when she finished fourth in the seventh series of ""The X Factor"". Following the seventh series finale, she was signed to Syco Music. Lloyd's debut single, ""Swagger Jagger"", was released in July 2011 and entered at number one on the UK Singles Chart. Her second"
"Leona Lewis discography British singer Leona Lewis has released five studio albums, sixteen singles, one video album, and sixteen music videos. Following winning the third series of British television talent show, ""The X Factor"" in 2006, Lewis released ""A Moment Like This"" in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which became the fastest selling single ever by a female artist in the UK. Her follow-up single, ""Bleeding Love"" reached number one in 34 countries, and was the biggest-selling single of 2008 worldwide. Lewis's first studio album, ""Spirit"" was released to follow the single; it became the fastest-selling debut album of all"
"2006 in British music charts This is a summary of 2006 in music in the United Kingdom including the official single and album charts. In January, X Factor winner Shayne Ward held on to the top spot in the single chart with his debut ""That's My Goal"" for three weeks. Ward later went on to top the charts with his debut album in April, on the back of his reality TV show success. Meanwhile, The Strokes and HARD-Fi both got their first number one albums in January, the Strokes previously having two number twos. Arctic Monkeys were the big story,"
"the grand final decider show on 20 October 2014, Punzalan was announced as the winner of the sixth season, becoming the first contestant from the Girls category to win. denotes a performance that entered the ARIA Singles Chart. denotes week in the bottom two. denotes winner. After winning ""The X Factor"", Punzalan's debut and winner's single ""Stand by You"" was made available to download on the iTunes Store. She also received a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. Four days after release, ""Stand by You"" debuted at number two on the ARIA Singles Chart. It was certified platinum by the"
"25 June 2017, Solomon appeared as a guest on ITV2's ""Love Island After Sun""; a chat show companion show to ""Love Island"". She also took part in a celebrity edition of ""The Crystal Maze"" on Channel 4. In January 2018, she participated in ""And They're Off!"" in aid of Sport Relief. Stacey also launched a clothing range with Primark on 11 October 2018. Stacey Solomon Stacey Chanelle Claire Solomon (born 4 October 1989) is a British singer, TV presenter and personality. She rose to fame on the sixth series of ""The X Factor"", coming third overall on the show. She"
"CTV also carried and which ABC announced would debut September 12. Eva Avila took the title in the closest final vote to date; CTV announced that 3.3% -- which amounted to 131,000 votes—separated her from Newfoundland's Craig Sharpe. On Saturday, September 16, 2006, a day prior to the public announcement of the ""Idol"" results, Sony BMG Music Entertainment began offering Avila's version of the first single, ""Meant to Fly"", for sale on the website . Although the page was subsequently blanked, the artwork for the single can currently be located within the image files of the webpage. This occurrence led"
"an eBay competition on behalf of Comic Relief, which encouraged people to bid to become Vickers' Twitter ""best friend"". Diana Vickers Diana Vickers (born 30 July 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer, who initially came to public attention as a semi-finalist on ""The X Factor"" in 2008. In 2009, Vickers signed a record deal with RCA Records and after touring with her fellow finalists from ""The X Factor"", played the title role in a West End revival of ""The Rise and Fall of Little Voice next event. Vickers' 2010 debut single, ""Once"", charted at number one"