Its no coincidence that both new judges coming toThe X Factorthis season are women: Creator Simon Cowell says he wanted the panel to reflect the current state of the music industry.Its a girls world in the musicbusiness, so many girls are doing so well in the charts, we thought the panel should reflect it,Cowell said yesterday at the Television Critics Association meetings in Los Angeles,Reutersreports.
After disappointing ratings last season, Cowell decided to bring innew judgesKelly Rowland and Paulina Rubioto replace Britney Spears and L.A. Reid. Rowland and Rubio will join Cowell andreturning judge Demi Lovatoon the judges panel.
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Collectively, the three new judges will bring a range of styles and experience to the panel. Rubio said her years in the industry will assist in her judging.Im an artist that has been in the limelight for many, many years, and Im going to transmit that knowledge, she said.
The show has also reduced the prize money offered to the winner of the competition from $5 million to $1 million, but the winner now also gets a record deal with Epic.We got to a point where the idea was to raise attention, but. . . it was almost too much, we want artists who really want to be artists, Cowell said.