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Facebook:1 Simon Cowell:0 ?
The syntax in the headline is common outside the US. eg: http://livescore.com/
I'm sure Simon is crying all the way to the bank over this.
I think the real point is that it puts the next series of xFactor in jeopardy. It's a signal that a lot of the public are sick to death of the formulaic rubbish tossed out by these reality shows. So if I was Simon, I'd be pretty worried now.
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Strange how this explanation changes a flagged post into a genuinely interesting one.
If the submission can't be understood within its own context, then the title should indeed have been more explicit.
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The syntax in the headline is common outside the US. eg: http://livescore.com/
It's used in score listings, so that you can read down a colum of numbers side by side, but I don't remember ever seeing it used in prose. I'm quite sure it is normally "foo: 1, bar: 0"...
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I think the real point is that it puts the next series of xFactor in jeopardy. It's a signal that a lot of the public are sick to death of the formulaic rubbish tossed out by these reality shows. So if I was Simon, I'd be pretty worried now.
It still sold about 10 times as many as the single at the number three spot...
Compare that with the Tour, the advertising income from the next series of xfactor, etc.
Why we might care: for the last several years the winner of Cowell's reality TV show has been propelled immediately to #1 in time for the culturally-significant-for-Brits Xmas Top 40. This year a backlash campaign to shove 'Killing in the Name' above it took off on Facebook and, in an unlikely outcome, the people who joined the group actually followed through and bought the RATM track during the correct time window.…
"the culturally-significant-for-Brits Xmas Top 40" You've just made an entire storyline from Love Actually make more sense to me.
I'm sure Simon is crying all the way to the bank over this.
I think the real point is that it puts the next series of xFactor in jeopardy. It's a signal that a lot of the public are sick to death of the formulaic rubbish tossed out by these reality shows. So if I was Simon, I'd be pretty worried now.
edit: it's rare for UK tv shows to exceed 10m viwers