U2 topped the list for the top grossing tour act of 2011.

1st: U2 – $231.9
2nd: Take That – $224.0
3rd: Bon Jovi – $148.8
4th: Taylor Swift – $104.2
5th: Roger Waters – $103.6
6th: Elton John – $102.7
7th: Rihanna – $90.0
8th: Kenny Chesney – $84.6
9th: Sade – $83.3
10th: Paul McCartney – $79.2

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U2 headlining at this years Glastonbury

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2: Icicle Works – Love Is A Wonderful Colour

3: Bourgie Bourgie – Breaking Point

4: The Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town
5: Associates – Party fears two
6: China Crisis – Wishful thinking
7: Lotus Eaters – The First Picture of You
8: Mental As Anything ~ Live It Up
9: Swans Way – Soul Train
10: The Kane Gang . The closest thing to heaven

Janet Devlin topped the voting for the first four weeks,it was only the introduction of Amelia Lily that stopped her winning run as she then went on to top the next two weeks votes,Little Mix topped the voting for the first time in week 7,followed again by Amelia Lily in week 8,Little Mix topped the voting in both the semi final and final,runner up Marcus Collins never topped the voting once,in fact up until the semi final he only once finished in the top two and that was in week 5.

Week 1

Judges vote.

Amelia Lily,James Michael,JonJo Kerr and 2 Shoes sent home by their mentors.

Week 2

Janet Devlin: 23.6%
The Risk: 10.9%
Sophie Habibis: 8.9%
Little Mix: 8.7%
Misha B: 7.8%
Craig Colton: 6.9%
Marcus Collins: 6.8%
Johnny Robinson: 6.5%
Sami Brookes: 6.2%
Kitty Brucknell: 5.9%
Frankie Cocozza: 5.2%
Nu Vibe: 2.6%

(Nu Vibe sent home by the judges)

Week 3

Janet Devlin: 17.2%
Johnny Robinson: 17.1%
Misha B: 11.8%
Marcus Collins: 11.2%
The Risk: 8.3%
Little Mix: 6.0%
Frankie Cocozza: 6.0%
Craig Colton: 6.0%
Sophie Habibis: 5.8%
Sami Brookes: 5.6%
Kitty Brucknell: 5.0%

(Sami Brookes sent home by the judges)

Week 4

Janet Devlin: 14.7%
Little Mix: 13.7%
Craig Colton: 13.0%
Kitty Brucknell: 12.9%
Johnny Robinson: 12.2%
Marcus Collins: 10.1%
The Risk: 7.2%
Frankie Cocozza: 5.7%
Sophie Habibis: 5.4%
Misha B: 5.1%

(Sophie Habibis sent home by the judges)

Week 5

Janet Devlin: 18.0%
Marcus Collins: 16.0%
Misha B: 12.2%
Little Mix: 11.9%
Craig Colton: 10.1%
Frankie Cocozza: 8.7%
Johnny Robinson: 8.3%
Kitty Brucknell: 7.6%
The Risk: 7.2%

(The Risk eliminated by public vote,Johnny Robinson sent home by the judges)

Week 6 (vote back in after Frankie Cocozza was removed from the show)

Amelia Lily: 48.8%
James Michael: 26.7%
JonJo Kerr: 13.2%
2 Shoes: 11.3%

Week 6

Amelia Lily: 27.4%
Janet Devlin: 17.4%
Little Mix: 15.3%
Marcus Collins: 12.9%
Craig Colton: 10.6%
Kitty Brucknell: 8.4%
Misha B: 8.0%

(Kitty Brucknell sent home by the judges)

Week 7

Little Mix: 26.1%
Misha B: 22.5%
Janet Devlin: 14.8%
Marcus Collins: 14.4%
Amelia Lily: 11.3%
Craig Colton: 10.9%

(Craig Colton sent home by the judges)

Week 8

Amelia Lily: 23.8%
Little Mix: 22.4%
Marcus Collins: 21.0%
Janet Devlin: 18.3%
Misha B: 14.5%

(Janet Devlin sent home by the judges)

Semi Final

Little Mix: 34.4%
Marcus Collins: 24.0%
Amelia Lily: 21.4%
Misha B: 20.2%

(Misha B voted out)

The Final (Part 1)
Little Mix: 39.0%
Marcus Collins: 34.5%
Amelia Lily: 26.5%

(Amelia Lily voted out)

The Final (Part 2)

Little Mix: 48.3%
Marcus Collins: 42.8%
Amelia Lily (carried over from before the freeze): 8.9%

Little Mix win the X-Factor.

Little Mix are this years x-factor winners,after beating off Marcus Collins in the final vote,they are the first group ever to win the x-factor.

Girls groups traditionally don’t do very well on the x-factor,so Little Mix have broken the mould,the group,Jesy Nelson,Leigh-Anne Pinnock,Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall auditioned individually but were then put together as a group at bootcamp,after which first time x-factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos became their mentor.

Final night performances

Silent Night

Don’t Let Go – En Vogue

The Winners Single – Damien Rice – Cannonball

The X-Factor final was held at the Wembley arena and with only 3 acts left and no obvious winner this year,anyone from Marcus,Little Mix or Amelia could of gone out first,but unluckily for Amelia it was she that was voted off,being a latecomer to the live shows probably didn’t help her after getting voted off initially in week one by her mentor Kelly Rowland,so how ironic after Frankie Cocozza’s removal from the show and Amelias reinstatement that it was she rather than the 3 Kelly chose who ended up duetting with Kelly tonight in the final.

The songs Amelia sang in the final.

Aint no other man – Christina Aguilera

River Deep ,Mountain High – Ike and Tina Turner

Duet with Kelly Rowland.

What the other two sang.

Marcus Collins

Hey Ya! – OutKast

She’s Always a Woman – Billy Joel

Duet with Gary Barlow.

Little Mix

You’ve Got The Love – The Source Ft. Candi Staton

Empire State Of Mind and I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys

Duet with Tulisa Contostavlos.

I predicted here that Marcus would win and even though i got the top 3 order wrong with Amelia eliminated,i still stand my prediction of Marcus winning.