This is really good news for Leona and the X factor team. I hope she manages to maintain staying in the range of the top ten best sellers chart for at least a good few more weeks yet, time enough to become established. Giving Leona a fighting chance of keeping her dream.

On the X factor front the programme needs to have an artist last the test of time. As so much hype and build up has been created around LEONA, if LEONA failed to last and sell and become as big as the show has predicted, there’d be little encouragement for future contestants.

So whether people like her or loathe LEONA as a singer everyone needs to get behind her.

I have always been positive about reality TV talent shows in what they can achieve marketing and promoting wise etc and the value of that package alone is totally unaffordable by any up and coming artist, hence another good reason why LEONA should be in the top ten slots over the next few weeks. This allows the record company the television company and LEONA to reap the benefits of so much advertising marketing etc, which does not come cheap.

MAUREEN
NEWCASTLE.