Is The X Factor killing pop?

With the show's charity single ready to secure its dominance into 2010, Simon Cowell's chart stranglehold seems completeSix nights ago, 16.6 million people – more than half of those in Britain watching TV at the time – turned their sets to ITV1 to watch three 18-year-olds battle for their places on The X Factor. Since the previous evening's broadcast, an undisclosed number of people – ITV does not reveal individual episode voting figures, but it is likely to be close to 1 mi...

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