The salient points

• Joe McElderry won The X Factor in a year that featured a lot of people who seemed more like proper popstars.


• His biggest song so far has been a cover of a dreary Miley Cyrus ballad, but don't hold that against him.


• Because: things appeared to take a swift upswing in the direction of amazing, with this cover of Donkeyboy's 'Ambitions'.


• Let's watch that again shall we?


• After that things looked like they were going to go a bit 'tits up' for Joe when Syco dropped him.


• But then Joe signed to Decca Records in 2011 and is now an 'operastar'


• And one more time for 'good luck'.

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