How has Ella Henderson managed to break the X Factor female soloist curse and maintain a successful music career beyond her debut album? Ella first released Chapter One in 2014, which included hits like "Ghost" and "Glow." Six years later, she scored another hit with "Let's Go Home Together" featuring Tom Grennan. From 2022 onwards, she achieved four top ten hits with "Crazy What Love Can Do," "React," "0800 Heaven," and "Alibi." Unlike many of her peers (Alexandra Burke & Leona Lewis), Ella has defied the X Factor curse, sustaining a thriving music career for over a decade.

 

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She has the x factor and the other ones stopped trying quicker.

 

Leona didn't release a single thing since 2015  i don't think she is in the game anymore 

 

 

Did she tho? I mean those hits you speak of are all DJ collabs, and judging by the amount of OUT-OUT songs she's had between those songs I don't think their success has anything to do with Ella

 

I think she is very talented and every song of hers I've heard from Chapter One is fantastic, once again Syco dropped the ball

define "successful" and "thriving"

She gave us this bop. Why did she take a four year break for.

 

She took the easy route and started releasing throw away dance-house songs. 

just lucky on timing and right moment to scoop each hit and back being faceless radio fodder girl. her last album is decent tho gave her that

 

 

She just became a faceless EDM voice that DJs pass around 

1 hour ago, Bindi said:

She just became a faceless EDM voice that DJs pass around 

It's better than not having a career at all.

Olly Murs?

She makes faceless EDM drivel which get played to death on Capital FM and doesn't make any noise outside of the UK

 

She might have had more longevity than Leona but she'll never have a song as impactful and huge as Bleeding Love 

Well, as someone of you above mentioned - it's better to have a career like this, than have no career. But it's sad - because she's vocally talented, and she became faceless EDM background vocalist for random DJs.

5 hours ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

i don't think she is in the game anymore 

she toured at christmas (one more sleep has become an annual hit now) but i don't think she's put anything out for years

Her solo stuff never does well, she only gets hits with DJ collabs (that one Tom Grennan song being the exception).

 

I liked a few songs off her last album though, at least her label let her put something out, presumably because the DJ feats have done well.

 

5 hours ago, Topaz said:

Why did she take a four year break for.

She was still signed to Syco up until 2018 and recorded a second album while with them. I imagine they didn't let her release during that time. She did keep some of the songs though (Let's Go Home Together and Ugly)

I love Ella but it is only because she is a rent-a-voice for DJ collabs. It's unfortunate songs on her own without a DJ attached do not do well.

She's a faceless feature at this stage.
 

Ghost is still the standard for XF singles though, phew 

8 hours ago, Nazareth said:

She took the easy route and started releasing throw away dance-house songs. 

You gotta do what you gotta do! Glad she's been hard at work. Love Alibi

She is really one of the most successful. The streams she gets on her singles seem to out-do most X Factor UK contestants, including the LM girls.

 

Syco definitely messed up though and she deserves to be bigger. Her only era was literally a #1 hit, multiple Top 10s, a #1 album and one of the best selling of the year in UK... and from that she went to just not being able to release?

She is really one of the most successful. The streams she gets on her singles seem to out-do most X Factor UK contestants, including the LM girls.

 

Syco definitely messed up though and she deserves to be bigger. Her only era was literally a #1 hit, multiple Top 10s, a #1 album and one of the best selling of the year in UK... and from that she went to just not being able to release?

She did what needed to be done to keep her career going 

I feel like she is kinda going the Rita Ora route

At least she is not lazy like the others 

3 hours ago, Kamil24 said:

She is really one of the most successful. The streams she gets on her singles seem to out-do most X Factor UK contestants, including the LM girls.

 

Syco definitely messed up though and she deserves to be bigger. Her only era was literally a #1 hit, multiple Top 10s, a #1 album and one of the best selling of the year in UK... and from that she went to just not being able to release?

period! the entire crowd STANNING this classic omg

 

 

ghost was such a smash and so was her debut  it's crazy how syco refused to use that momentum for a sophomore…im not super happy with her career as a dj collab vocalist but it's better than her quitting