X Factor winner Joe McElderry career betting odds

Poor X Factor winner Joe McElderry lost out in the battle for the Christmas number one to Rage Against the Machines infamous “Killing in the Name” song due to a campaign that was engineered on the social networking site Facebook.  Joe lost out by around 50,000 sales, with Rage clocking in at an incredible 500,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded song in the UK ever and the first ever download only number one single. Following this upset to the X-Factor apple cart the bookies Paddy Power believe that this event could have put a scupper on the career of poor Joe.

Joe McElderry Success Specials

• 1/8 – Simon Cowell to drop Joe from his record label before 2013
• 7/4 – Simon Cowell to drop Joe from his record label before during 2011
• 9/4 - Joe’s debut album to be the biggest selling Album of 2010 in the UK
• 12/1 -Joe to have the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and Ireland

However it is believed that next week Joe’s fans will be out in force next week and he will get his number one single after all. How long this lasts for and how many more songs he will get to the top spot remain to be seen as winning the X – Factor never guarantees long term success.

Odds on how many number 1′s Joe have in 2010?

• 8/11 – One Evs – None
• 8/1 – Two
• 16/1 – Three
• 33/1 – Four or more

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