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"Andy Abraham has said that the music industry is not interested in supporting contestants who fail to win The X Factor.  The singer, who was runner-up on the show in 2005, told The Times that he is still performing and trying to build his own &amp;quot;brand&amp;quot; after being dropped by Sony following the release of his second album. Of other losing participants, Abraham said: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ll realise quickly that the industry doesn&amp;#039;t want them. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to understand that the only reason your first single gets to number one is the X Factor brand, and when the costs are all added up, you don&amp;#039;t make any money out of it. Once the show moves on it&amp;#039;s an uphill struggle.&amp;quot; However, Andy Pemberton of that year&amp;#039;s third-placed duo Journey South insisted that he would &amp;quot;never say anything bad about X Factor&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We make four or five times what I was making as an electrician. If it wasn&amp;#039;t for that show me and Carl would still be playing gigs in horrible pubs with our mum and dad sat there,&amp;quot; he added. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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