X Factor 2015 champ Louisa Johnson reckons it’s okay to have missed out on the Christmas Number 1.
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But back to the poor sales of Louisa’s X Factor winner’s single, and are you surprised that it’s evidently something of a “flop”, or did you expect that the track wouldn’t make the Christmas No1 spot, given the competition from the likes of the NHS track?
As part of her victory, the 17-year-year old released the winner’s single this week, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young”.
Last year, Ben Haenow snagged it with “Something I Need”. Previous winners have traditionally faired extremely well in the Christmas charts with Matt Cardle, Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis among those to reached the top of the festive charts.
But The X Factor has given a boost to One Direction’s single History, which reached its highest position of number 11 after their performance of the song on Sunday’s final.
Ellis Stevens, who reportedly split from the singer when she began the X Factor process earlier this year, is said to be gutted about her relationship with recruitment worker Daniel Elliott. As weekly chart positions are determined by sales from Friday through to midnight on Thursday, and Forever Young did not go on sale until Sunday night, she has had less than a week to score top sales as the charts.
Adele’s 25 is set to become the fastest album to sell two million copies in United Kingdom chart history. His previous single “Sorry” holds at Number 2 and a third Bieber track is at number 6.
It has now nearly certainly hit the two million mark – having sold between 46,000 and 61,000 copies a day for the past week.
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The Canadian star is now the first artist to spend four weeks at numbers one and two at the same time.
