{"id":1382,"date":"2011-12-09T01:04:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T00:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2012-12-28T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:19:09","slug":"2011-rebecca-ferguson-set-to-out-sell-one-direction-matt-cardle-and-cher-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1382\/2011-rebecca-ferguson-set-to-out-sell-one-direction-matt-cardle-and-cher-lloyd\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Rebecca Ferguson set to out sell One Direction, Matt Cardle and Cher Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"rebecca ferguson\" src=\"\/images\/music\/misc\/rebeccaferguson.jpg\" alt=\"rebecca ferguson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Last year\u2019s X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson was the last of finalist to released a debut album in 2011, but it looks as though the best might have been saved until last.<\/p>\n<p>The young mother of two is on course to break X Factor record sales this year with her debut album \u2018Heaven\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The album was launched this week and online retailer Amazon reported that in terms of pre-sales, she massively outsold series winner Matt Cardle and former finalist Cher Lloyd and even managed to shift slightly more copies of the record than One Direction did with their debut album.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-sales of Rebecca\u2019s \u2018Heaven\u2019 outperformed those of Matt Cardle\u2019s \u2018Letters\u2019 by 181% and Cher Lloyd\u2019s \u2018Sticks and Stones\u2019 by 571 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Firth, head of music buying at Amazon.co.uk, think this is great news for whichever two acts fail towin this year\u2019s X Factor series at the weekend, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Over the past three years we\u2019ve seen Rebecca Ferguson ahead of Matt Cardle, Olly Murs ahead of Joe McElderry and JLS ahead of Alexandra Burke in the charts, and with Rebecca Ferguson, Olly Murs, One Direction and JLS all with albums in the top 20 we\u2019re sure that this weekend\u2019s runners-up will be pleased to know that all\u2019s not lost if they miss out on the coveted win.\u2019<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year\u2019s X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson was the last of finalist to released a debut album in 2011, but it looks as though the best might have been saved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onedirection","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2011\/12\/oned.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}