Pick the winner then

[Star]

So now we have the final three, predict the winner!

I'm sure I can guess the result of this poll already

[Rachey]

JOE.

Do we know what the winners song is?

[Star]

Yes - that song Joe sung in Rock Week.

[Diddy]

I thought that was in the bin and they are doing The Climb now?

[RobotBoy]

WISHFUL THINKING VOTE FROM ME.

[Diddy]

I thought that was in the bin and they are doing The Climb now?

Ooh I hope it IS Don't Stop Believing though, it will mean my 2009-rate can go ahead with minimum nuisance as there's already a performance of it to link to!

[WiDGe->]

Olly
Stacey
Joe

in that order.

[WiDGe->]

WISHFUL THINKING VOTE FROM ME.

BLESS

[Johnkm]

Joe
Stacey
...
...
...
Olly

[cwej]

I've got a bad bad feeling

[lolly]

1 Olly
2 Joe
3 Stacey

[Kevin]

I think Joe will win (and I wouldn't mind), but I hope Stacey can pull it off. I just love her.

[cwej]

1 Olly
2 Joe
3 Stacey

snap

[Rhythmbandit]

Hopefully: Stacey
More than likely: Joe

[The Anti-Dubs]

Much as I want to champion Stacey, it's not going to happen

Gareth Gates Mark II here we come.

[Define Life]

I said it would be Joe from the beginning, wish I had done that bet on William Hill now

Yes winners song is 'the climb'

[tcamen]

I think Olly might win, but I'd like Stacey to.

[funky]

from Yahoo...

Joe McElderry is the odds-on bookmakers' favourite to win the ITV talent show and be given the opportunity to release his own cover version of Disney teen sensation Miley Cyrus's ballad The Climb.

But a poll for online bingo site 888ladies.com revealed that 66% are unhappy that the X Factor winner will release the song as their first track and it will almost inevitably become the Christmas number one.

McElderry, from South Shields, is the 2/5 favourite, according to William Hill, which predicts that £10 million will be bet on the X Factor this year.

The bookmaker doubled its staff in the run-up to the final and expects to take up to 500 bets a minute at the peak.

The X Factor finalists - McElderry, 18, single mother Stacey Solomon, 20, and 25-year-old Essex boy Olly Murs, recorded five potential songs for the winner's single and recorded the video for the chosen song this week, although it has not yet been officially confirmed that the winner will release The Climb.

McElderry is so popular with fans that he has significantly boosted sales for all the tracks he has covered on the show, according to online retailer Amazon.

In the semi-final last week, he performed Open Arms - previously released by Journey and Mariah Carey - as his second song, which prompted sales of the track at the amazon.co.uk's MP3 store to rise by 5,600%.

Sales of songs performed by McElderry on the show in previous weeks - including No Regrets, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me and Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - also saw a sharp rise.

Amazon said sales rises for his songs were almost double those of second favourite Solomon.

[VoR]

At what point did Alexandra become favourite last year?

[David]

At what point did Alexandra become favourite last year?

I'd say at about final 5, if she ever did.