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Simon Cowell : X Factor helping music industry

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As the final of the X Factor approaches, judge Simon Cowell said that the show had made people interested in music again.

Speaking to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba, he claimed the show was helping the industry by "sending people into record stores".

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