First week song choices.

REBECCA:  CRY ME A RIVER ..................... JULIE LONDON
CHER:  LE FREAK          ..................... CHIC
MATT:  HI HI HI          ..................... WINGS
BOYS:  TWO OUT OF FIVE AINT BAD .............. MEATLOAF
GIRLS:  HOW LONG   ........................... ACE
AIDEN:  I CLOSE MY EYES ...................... JOSEPH
JOHN:   MR BOJANGLES    ...................... SAMMY DAVIS
KATIE:  I WHO HAVE NOTHING ................... SHIRLEY BASSEY
NICOLO: CAMPTOWN RACES   ..................... ?
MARY:   ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART ............... CILLA BLACK
STORM:  ONE MORE NIGHT ....................... PHIL COLLINS
FYD:    WHO ARE YOU .......................... THW WHO

MR BOJANGLES is an abysmal song, but it is one of Cowell's favourite 8 songs of all time so he's probably trying to help John.

CRY ME A RIVER is great for Rebecca.

Henry

I think Mr Bojangles by Sammy davis is just fantastic.  Youtube a live version by him and watch.  Great entertainment.

LOL lou - very good.

if only they were the song choices!

I was being too dismissive of Mr Bojangles just because it's not the easy melody that XF audiences are used to (and singers other than Sammy D.J. and Nina Simone tend not to sing it well imo).

However if John does it well I'm sure he'll get huge judges' praise. Difficult song.

Henry you are a twatte

Well I never go in big till the end, and treat it all as a bit of fun till then.

Matt - When Love Takes over.

That's the only one I've found so far. And I doubt that's true

Heard it Disimal Spy so not confirmed that the songs to be are:

MATT:  DOWN DOWN ................ STATUS QUO
REBECCA:  MAGIC MOMENTS ......... PERRY COMO
BOYS:  WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS .... WHAM
CHER:  CRYING ................... DON McCLEAN
AIDEN: COOL FOR CATS ............ SQUEEZE
BELL AMIE:DO YA THINK WE'RE SEXY? THE RODFATHER
JOHN: WONDERFUL WORLD ........... SATCHMO
KATIE: ALL BY MYSELF ............ ERIC CARMEN
NICOLO: LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT .. SINATRA
MARY: DREAMING .................. BLONDIE
STORM: THE NAME OF THE GAME ..... ABBA
FYD: DOWN DOWN .................. STATUS QUO

I wouldnt take much notice of that list Lou

Not sure how solid this is so make of it what you will.....

"With the first live show of The X Factor 2010 kicking off in just under 48 hours now, the rumoured song choices for this week have leaked. With a broad theme of simply ‘Number One Hits’, there’s plenty of variety as the 12 live finalists compete to win your votes!


First up for the boys is Matt Cardle, who will be singing Kelly Rowlands’ ‘When Love Takes Over’. Aiden Grimshaw is singing ‘Mad World’, while Nicolo Festa is performing Lady Gaga’s hit ‘Just Dance’.

For the girls, Cher Lloyd is performing ‘Just Be Good To Me’, Katie will try to complete ‘We Are The Champions’ and Rebecca Ferguson is hoping to win votes with 1988 hit ‘Teardrops’

For the groups and FYD kick things off with ‘Billionaire’. New girl group Belle Amie perform BoB’s ‘Airplanes’ and 1 Direction will be singing Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’.

Finally for the Over 28s, Storm Lee is set to perform ‘We Built This City On Rock On Roll’, Mary Byrne is singing ‘This Is A Man’s World’ and John Adeleye completes the line up with Mariah’s ‘One Sweet Day’."

Taken from: http://xfactor.tellymix.co.uk/2010/news/19742-live-show-week-1-song-choices-...

Did Teardrops ever get to no.1?

Whatever, it's extraordinarily dull

Live Show Week 1 Song choices revealed - The X Factor 2010
October 9th, 2010 | Posted in Live shows, News by Josh Darvill

WARNING: This article may contain spoilers
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With the first live show of The X Factor 2010 kicking off in just under 48 hours now, the rumoured song choices for this week have leaked. With a broad theme of simply ‘Number One Hits’, there’s plenty of variety as the 12 live finalists compete to win your votes!

First up for the boys is Matt Cardle, who will be singing Kelly Rowlands’ ‘When Love Takes Over’. Aiden Grimshaw is singing ‘Mad World’, while Nicolo Festa is performing Lady Gaga’s hit ‘Just Dance’.

For the girls, Cher Lloyd is performing ‘Just Be Good To Me’, Katie will try to complete ‘We Are The Champions’ and Rebecca Ferguson is hoping to win votes with 1988 hit ‘Teardrops’

For the groups and FYD kick things off with ‘Billionaire’. New girl group Belle Amie perform BoB’s ‘Airplanes’ and 1 Direction will be singing Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’.

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Finally for the Over 28s, Storm Lee is set to perform ‘We Built This City On Rock On Roll’, Mary Byrne is singing ‘This Is A Man’s World’ and John Adeleye completes the line up with Mariah’s ‘One Sweet Day’.


Read more: http://xfactor.tellymix.co.uk/2010/news/19742-live-show-week-1-song-choices-...

Katie last to perform according to some resident expert just interviewed on BBC.

and being a Freddie Mercury / Queen fan, given one of her favourite songs too?

Interesting if true, another leg up for Katie from Cowell

The public will just go 'meh'

Bellamy to go for me

who's Bellamy GB?

Teardrops got to number 3, so dunno about this report

Oh Belle Amie, sorry

Me too George - just hoovered up that 9.5

FYD match bet @ 5/4 vs Bellamy well worth a look too gents

I think Adeleye, FYD and possibly Storm Lee are equally vulnerable

The way John is shortening suggests to me he has something impressive up his sleeve

strange that he is as that's a terrible song

The whole thing looks suspect mind

shocking choice for my 1st bet, Bellamy :(