Rihanna's 'We Found Love' was the most-heard track on this year's X Factor auditions.

Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh, Tulisa Contostavlos and a rotating group of guest judges heard nearly 500 acts on the nationwide tour earlier this summer.

Other popular choices from the acts included 'At Last' by Etta James and tracks from Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran and Adele.

Gary Barlow complained last year that he got sick of listening to Adele because of the number of auditionees covering her songs.

Some of the most amusing excuses from disappointed contestants on this year's show included "I've got a sore throat", "I haven't had time to learn the words" and "My microphone was too loud".

The X Factor returns this weekend on ITV1.
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Impact.

It'd be so dumb to perform WFL in a singing contest, I mean the song is basically music

I can't wait to hear people going out of pitch during the chorus

I hope they show a ton of GaGa songs

Oh this is X Factor UK

personally not a song i'd even consider suitable to sing at a singing contest like this but i guess each to their own

It's easier to learn the lyrics

I wonder how many people still didn't know the words considering it has like 3 lines.

And they're humming through the music part?

3 lines and it smashed worldwide only rihanna

Not really.

That's still 2 more lines than RTW though

Yeah. I mean I'd rather sing WFL because the lyrics you can learn in 5 minutes than to sing something more vocally/lyrically challenging like Vision of Love. It's easier to impress the judges

A song with so little lyrics? I can't wait to see this disaster.

I think they sang it like a ballad ! I need to see performances