Where to buy x factor songs

Female founders. Billion dollar opportunities. Celebrating Success. Founders helping founders. Meet the team. Portfolio Highlights. In , that man Andrea brought it back while caked in bizarre gold paint — whether the spray job was full body, we'll thankfully never know. The worst was Sam Callahan , with a version that was cheesier than Wallace and Gromit's larder. Quick, we need a poppy ballad for our boys to sing! Throw 'em this Robbie Williams standard. A surefire winner for teary-eyed mums everywhere, Robbie himself even gave 1D a helping hand in , but it wasn't enough to make them winners.

The Scottish MacDonald Brothers' attempt was blander than old porridge , and what the hell happened to Futureproof? A Simon Cowell favourite from the early years, the Simon and Garfunkel classic has been brought back for the previous two editions. If you need a safeish power ballad, this is a goodun. A Motown favourite for mums and nans everywhere, this Jackson 5 classic has intriguingly been dusted off more times in the last few years than the early series.

It's already been performed this year by Matt Terry, who'll be hoping he can follow previous winners Leona and Alexandra, who also gave it a go.

Simon Cowell is a big fan of pop divas, and none come bigger than Whitney Houston. In , a year after streaming figures were incorporated into the Official Singles Chart, Louisa Johnson became the first X Factor winner to miss the top five. After that, the show never produced another number one. Around the same time, artists like Taylor Swift, Drake and Billie Eilish redefined pop music, with an emphasis on introspective, diaristic songwriting. A TV show designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience couldn't replicate that style without losing viewers.

Nor could it survive without engaging the dominant mode of pop music. There was nowhere for it to go but down. The musical conceit wasn't the only element of the show that had reached its sell-by date. Changing attitudes to mental health made the idea of laughing at deluded contestants seem increasingly uncomfortable. Cowell's barbed comments could border on cruelty, too. The music mogul told one hopeful he looked "half dead" and another that her mouth was "far, far too big" when she sang.

A would-be girl group was dismissed as looking like the same person "before, during and after Weight Watchers". Fellow TV critic Emma Bullimore agrees there is "a trend for a much nicer kind of programming" these days, with shows like The Great British Bake Off a stark contrast to Cowell's "brutal" put-downs. Aware of the shift, the show tried to get nicer, but by that stage it had already been "going off the boil for quite some time," Bullimore adds.

Semi-successful attempts were made to freshen up the format, bringing in new judges like Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, and introducing tension-inducing rounds like the six-chair challenge - but it had already "lost that power" to provide the "water cooler" moments of old, says Bullimore. While many X Factor alumni still appear in the charts hello, Harry Styles!

Their claims have included allegations of sexual assault, mistreatment and bullying. Misha B, who appeared in the series, said the show had "created this narrative of me being over-confident because I'm black", which led to her being accused of bullying another contestant on live television.

She said the experience had left her with suicidal thoughts and post-traumatic stress. Waissel told the BBC News channel on Thursday she was "hoping for a brighter and more safeguarded future" for the next wave of reality TV show stars. She confirmed she was now advising the government, with the help of other former reality TV stars, in how to implement measures to protect "future generations" of participants.

The singer also hopes her efforts will provide "comfort" to former contestants, in the knowledge that "their voices have been heard and used for greater change". Another former X Factor star, Rhydian Roberts, told BBC Radio 5 Live this week that he remained "utterly grateful" for his time on the show, but admitted he and others found it tough going at times. Was it bullying?