Sam Bailey List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 10)



sam bailey (born 15 october 1977) former prison officer leicester. lives husband craig pearson , 2 children. report sun claimed bailey had misled public claiming have had no previous singing experience, when in fact had been performing on cruise ships, in clubs , @ music festivals several years. bailey defended herself in interview leicester mercury, stating: have been totally honest have sang 20 years never made it. s problem that?


bailey sang listen in room audition , s loving in arena. again sang s loving shelley smith , katie markham @ first stage of bootcamp , clown @ second stage. performed have nothing , without @ judges houses.


by week 3, bailey last on 25 left in competition, following eliminations of lorna simpson in week 1 , smith in week 2. on 8 december, made final—making first female on 25s contestant ever achieve feat—along nicholas mcdonald , luke friend. on 14 december, duetted x factor judge scherzinger , progressed second stage of final. following night, sang skyscraper demi lovato , later announced winner, having received 53.4% of overall vote. second on 25 win x factor , first since steve brookstein in 2004. when weekly voting statistics revealed after final, showed bailey , mcdonald had been 2 popular contestants every week; mcdonald won 3 weeks bailey second , bailey won other 7 mcdonald second.


after winning, skyscraper released bailey s debut single. on 22 december 2013, after selling 149,000 copies in first week, song debuted atop uk singles chart , became christmas number one, making bailey first x factor winner achieve christmas number 1 spot since matt cardle in 2010. bailey s debut album power of love released on 24 march 2014 , debuted @ number 1 on uk albums chart. marked first time in 5 years x factor winner had had number-one album.









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