The winner in the first season of The X Factor USA has just been announced- and it turns out that most of the American viewers voted for Melanie Amaro over Josh Krajcik and Chris Rene. In the tightly-fought three-corned battle of singers, Melanie's supporters including her fellow church members back home proved to be the more dedicated texters and tweeters that eventually pushed her on top of the vote rankings.
Simon Cowell must be beaming proud for his latest talent find and righfully so. Indeed, Melanie showed her vocal prowess, despite her young age, is way above ready to capture audiences throughout America and worldwide.
So our congratulations goes to Mr. Cowell, producer of The X Factor and to Melanie for this $M5 feat.
That said, SSV maintains its Star Value Ranking for each of the three (former) contestants; Melanie Amaro, Josh Krajcik and Chris Rene.
In our final star value rating, the trio scored an almost even score to land them all within the "Seasoned Star" league. However, in our rating system, it is Chris Rene who comes up with the slightest of star value score advantage over voting winner Melanie and more distinct artist Josh Krajcik.
And despite the results of the voting in the show, SSV is publishing their star value scores as is, not to challenge or downplay the victory of Melanie and Simon for that matter but to further test the strenght and scope and reliability of our Star Value Rating System.
Because everyone in the know would agree, the genuie battle for Star Value had only just begun for Melanie, Josh and Chris.
SSV wishes the trio well as they navigate their individual professional singing careers amidst the much tighter competition outside of the X Factor stage.
And we offer our Star Value Rating System to these artists as an added aid to their accomplishing that journey and becoming that star that Melanie, Josh and Chris are meant to be.
But how exactly does the star value rating system help the artist or producer for the matter?
It provides, among other things, an objective look at where the artist is at the moment, career-wise, and where the artist could be headed.
Taking the results above as an example, our Star Value Rating System suggests that while the three are almost evenly situated- all are within the "Seasoned Star" league and all three have enough talent and opporrtunities in their way to make it in the music industry as individual artists, it is Chris Rene who is poised to reach "Top Star" level quite faster than Melanie or Josh would.
A solid measure of this view would be the comparitive sales of the albums of Melanie, Josh and Chris (if and when all three come up with an album).
Excluding other factors such as date of release and quality of songs among others, as far as their current star value scores are concerned, the star value scores suggests that that Chris Rene will make more album sales than the two. That is, IF Chris Rene remains in his elements and continues to grow as an artist and as a performer, then he is set to reach his star quite faster than his two opponents in the show.
And that is the bigger challenge.
