Louisa Johnson’s X Factor winner’s single charts at number nine

Louisa Johnson’s cover of Bob Dylan song Forever Young is the lowest charting X Factor winner’s single of all time.

Although the low placement will no doubt come as a surprise to Simon Cowell, not all hope is lost: the Christmas number one will be revealed next Friday (the fourth time the announcement has ever been made on the day itself).

If Johnson’s single fails to reach the top spot at all, it will go down in history as the only winner’s single to have never reached number one.

However, it wouldn’t be the first time an X Factor winner hasn't been top of the charts on Christmas Day.

The talent show’s first winner Steve Brookstein failed to make Christmas number one with his version of Against All Odds back in 2004 despite topping the charts the previous week (it got knocked off by Band Aid 20), while Joe McElderry was famously kept from the feat by Rage Against the Machine song Killing in The Name in 2009. It rose to number one the following week.