I fully appreciate what a twat this makes me, but I couldn't resist. ITV have released the weekly voting percentages for this year's X-Factor. I just stuck them in Excel because I love a good graph.
Turns out that Janet Devlin's annoying Irish warbling was remarkably popular for all the initial weeks until Amelia was thrust back onto the scene to stand legs akimbo and shout at us all. Seems the tactic of "comeback kid" works remarkably well. Whereas we all got bored of the ginger one, the pink haired one seemed fresh winning over a quarter of the vote on her reappearance. Shows how us humans like new shiny things, but then lose interest quick - she was a poor third to the finalists.
Remarkably, Johnny and Habibas even had little blips of popularity. They fall into the passing novelty category though. Misha B was robbed with the bullying scandal, but was never going to win.
Its good to see that ITVs plan to get rid of Cocozza fucked up spectacularly in week 5. They must have clocked that he was consistently in 3rd last place each week, just missing out on elimination. So they upped the ante to get rid of two acts in the fifth week - which should have dragged him in - but he snuck somehow into 4th worst spot with 8.7% of the vote. That put him ahead of Johnny on 8.3%, Kitty on 7.6% and surprise exit, The Risk on a lowly 7.2%.
Marcus was never once the most popular. He just trundled along in mid-table safety, which seems like a grand tactic for us all to follow. Middling obscurity for the win! It was Little Mix who were the inevitable winners from week 7 onwards as the following percentage of total vote shows.
Anyway. It's over now. We can all forget about them and not buy their records. Please.
*I've been pointed in the direction of SofaBet who seem to be doing a much better analysis job than me.*
Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing these graphs.
I've been writing a blog predicting the outcome of the X Factor public vote using Twitter (and then placing bets on it). I got it right 6 times out of 9. It doesn't completely match the public vote - but it's not too far off either:
http://twittertoldmeto.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/x-factor-betting-a-summary/
Posted by: KatyKing2 | December 17, 2011 at 01:04 PM