The X-Factor USA final 17 were revealed in last night’s nail-biting Judges Houses finale. With 16 contestants originally set to make it through to the live shows, a spanner was thrown into the works when Simon Cowell made a last minute addition to his category (Girls).
Find out who made it through below!
The Girls – Mentored by Simon Cowell
Simone Battle
Drew Ryniewics
Rachel Crow
Melanie Amaro
Tiah Tolliver
The Boys – Mentored by L.A. Reid
Brian “Astro” Bradley
Phillip Lomax
Marcus Canty
Chris Rene
The Groups – Mentored by Paula Abdul
The Stereo Hoggz
The Brewer Boys
Lakoda Rayne
Intensity
The Over 30s – Mentored by Nicole Scherzinger
Leroy Bell
Josh Krajcik
Dexter Haygood
Stacy Francis
It’s fair to say, the vast majority deserved to make it through.
In any case, click here to watch the judges breaking the news to the hopefuls.
The X Factor USA live shows kick off next Tuesday (October 25th)!
uk has far better talents. heck even Australia has better contestants!
Umm why does Simon get an Extra Person….
Uh oh… Once this show ends Nicole scherzinger will be irrelevent! So baby girl you better think of something to keep your self relevent maybe start a sextape that will really keep you in tha spot light for a while longer haha
Brewer Boyz!?!?!
*stops watching the show*
No wonder LA Reid keeps bankrupting labels. He completely SUCKS at choosing artists!! Like, the kid rapper – REALLY??? WTF IS RIGHT. Dude will be lucky to last a single let alone an album in real life. Look what happened to soula boy – a hot mess. This kid will follow the same route.
Bewer Boys??? Completely retarded. Paula get off the AL-AL-ALCOHOL!!! They will be voted off first. What’s with the Glee group she put through with 10 members??? Only Korea and Japan has groups that size and that’s retarded even more. Paula just ensured herself a huge loss as a team leader/mentor.
Nicole almost had a good team except she chose that freakin drug addict mess Dexter. She felt sorry for him cause he’s homeless but that’s not gonna stir america into buying anything from that James Brown/Rick James wannabe… YILCH!!! Should have kept Elaine, who has a really nice soul/rnb/gospel voice.
Simon will win, hands down. He’s got the strongest group despite having that lame kid act. That black “Shirley Temple/Annie” kid should have auditioned for Broadway musical. I dont see her having a lasting career. Plus, she’s fat and looks fat when she grows up. All kids voices changes at 18 and she wont be any different. That blonde Catlyn chic and brunette Disney girl sang better and more marketable than the tyke kid. I think they’re trying to find the female Justin Beiber and it’s an epic fail like Bieber is amongst adult music fans. #EPICFAIL
HELL NO, why jazzlyn little and christa didnt make it? :(((((
WTF? He really picked Rachel and Drew over Jazzlyn! F****** stupid. Both of them are nothing more than cute and incapable of actually having a career. I know if Mariah had been there, she’d be through. This is b*******. And can he stop changing the rules solely to benefit him. It may as well be Simon Factor.
And Nicole, wtf do you see in Dexter.
Simone Battle and Dexter Haygood are wasted places!
Simon should’ve picked Melanie instead of Simone in first place (wtf is his obsession with that substance-less annoying girl?).
Nicole had better people in her category than Dexter (Christa Collins, James Kenney), she has the strongest category, but if she doesn’t focus on her mentoring role her contestants won’t have a great time with her.
I can’t believe Paula kicked 4Shore out and kept The Brewer Boys, but I’m happy she picked Lakoda Rayne, those girls are going to slay everybody!
Even though I wanted Brennin Hunt to go to the live shows, I think L.A. made the best picks, but I have yet to see what’s so interesting about Phillip Lomax…
To all the idiots hating on Rachel, for her age she outsings almost everyone in the competition. If you still think she sucks after hearing her sing If I were a boy, then give up on music because your taste is garbage.
Nicole scherzinger really shouldn’t be on this show, Dexter isn’t a good singer and he didn’t take any of their advice to stop imitating james brown.
Simon really shouldn’t have put tiah or simone battle through, I can understand why he did for simone, but thia needs a lot of work to advance. caitlyn should have advanced (and did you see her in that red dress? damn I would put a ring on her finger).
L.A. Reid’s only misstep is putting lomax through, I don’t think he’s THAT good of a singer to advance although I like his style.
Brian a.k.a. Astro is great even though im biased because he comes from my city. I knew him way before he got on this show and he killed it at the judges house audition. But of course people don’t think a rap act should belong on this singing show because theyre idiots. Also he’s 1000x better than soulja boy so get that comparison the hell out of here. His song is about his mother and how shes too good for the men that hit on her. That’s called having substance….
If I Were A Boy showed exactly why she shouldn’t be on there. She couldn’t handle that.
And Simone Battle- future stripper. He thinks who can he turn into the next pop tart and who he wants to f***
I crossed my fingers for Stacy. She was amazing on Judge’s Houses part.
But what happened with Brennin? He looks very good and he have a big potential to be a country star.
OMG, i could not BELIEVE that Jazzlyn Little and Caitlyn did not make it through, Simone & Rachel?!?!?!!! REALLY SIMON???!!!
& PAULA ABDUL OMFG SHE IS A BAFOON!!!! THE BREWER BOYS??!!!!! WTF!!!! AND THE 10 PERSON GROUP, A TOTAL #FAIL…
I LOVED NICOLE B4 THIS SHOW. NOW SHE GETS ON MY NERVES!!!! SHE WAS SUCH A HATER ON THE AUDITION SHOW AND SHE ONLY GOT WORSE ON THE JUDGE’S HOUSE EPISODES. HER WITH THE MICHAEL/JANET JACKSON VOICE WAS KILLING ME AND SHE’S STUPID. HOW IN THE HELL DID SHE KEEP DEXTER’S FORGET THE LINES NO SINGING SELF OVER JAMES KENNEY OR EVEN CHRISTA COLLINS. JAMES WAS REALLY THE BOMB!!!! SOMEONE IS GOING TO SIGN HIM ASAP!!! SHE’S A TOTAL IDIOT!!! THIS SHOW IS A CAREER ENDER FOR HER……………..JENNY JONES!!!!
It,s just all a BIG fix like the Uk version ! If people would open there eyes and see the bigger picture then they would realise that it,s all about making money for the Tv channel showing the program and Simon Cowell and his producer partners. If you do some research on the Uk version then you would see that most of the finalists who have every won it have been dropped by Simon Cowells label within the first year and have come to nothing. At the end of the day Cowell and his counterparts don,t care who wins it and whether they become a popstar or not cos they have already made there money through advertising etc etc. And if you think that my comment is a little over the top then just look at the 17 that got through…. half of them shouldn,t have even made it to the judges houses…. the most talented of them didn,t get through. Maybe Simon Cowell should consider changing the X to an F… F meaning Fix… I rest my case.
Absolutely loved James Kenney Cannon believe that Nicole chose others above him. Totally agree with comments above about the Brewer Boys and Dexter I wont be watching anymore.
There’s some seriously good talent on the show. Luvving it!
I don’t like Brian ‘snob’ Bradley. I think Jazzlyn Little, Christa Collins and James Kenney deserved to go the live show. Sorry for them 🙁
I guess Simon did this show not to find new talent but to find his mistress…WHY Tiah and WHY Simone?!
I’m glad Drew and Melanie made through though.
Kick off those two mistress and put Jazzlyn in !!!
Kick off Dexter and put Christa in !!!
No offence to the little “Annie” Rachel but I’d rather see Catlyn on live show…
Also I cannot see anything good in that little rapper boy Astoro……Go Chris!