He might not have had the global success of One Direction or Olly Murs, but that's not to say that Joe McElderry isn't an X Factor success story.
Six years after winning The X Factor, Joe is mid-way through a 39-date nationwide tour of the UK and has won a total - to date - of three reality TV shows.
The singer and skiier caught up with Digital Spy to talk about his evolution and why he'd love to dance to victory on Strictly Come Dancing.
How does this tour differ to ones you've done before?size>
"Well I suppose because it's called the Evolution tour, there's a real story that runs right the way through it. We begin the show with 'Dance with my Father' [his first X Factor audition track], so we go right back to the beginning.
"I also tell stories in between – I don't talk too much in the show because I realise there's nothing worse than when somebody who stands on stage for ten minutes, rambling on about a load of rubbish!
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"But I try to tell little stories along the way so the audience get to hear things about why certain songs were chosen, why certain songs appear on the album and kind of a bit more than what you normally get at a concert, I suppose."
Is it strange going back through your whole professional life in music in one night?size>
"It does feel quite strange because there's a lot of emotions attached to certain songs and I think – certainly 'Dance with my Father' – I was very young and I was an anxious teenager going into something where I didn't know what was going to happen. So when I go back to singing those songs now and I'm singing them on tour, it's a very different feeling. But it's nice!
"I think my voice has changed a lot – in a good way – but I think it's matured a lot. It's really nice because it shows a lot of progression and it shows that I have evolved as a performer and as a singer."
You've said in the past that you'd love to do Strictly Come Dancing. Have they ever approached you?size>
"There have been talks in the past and every now and again it pops up, and then it doesn't and then it does. But there's always a long process with that one and you don't really find out until the last minute if you're going to actually be doing it, so we'll see.
"I'd love to do it. I'd jump at the opportunity. If I could make it work schedule-wise, I'd 100% do it."
You do seem to win every reality show you sign up for. Do you think you could win Strictly, too?size>
"I like to think I'm a good dancer, but I'm a bit of a frustrated dancer. And then when it actually comes to putting all the moves together, I might not be any good.
"But I suppose you see so many people go on those shows and they come out the other end and they're absolutely incredible. I would work really hard on it and I would really go for it, so I think if I do that, then maybe there's a chance."
Would you ever want to take on the role of a judge or a coach on something like The X Factor or The Voice UK?size>
"The X Factor is stressful enough as a contestant, and I think being a judge on it must be even more intense. You're giving your opinion to 15 million people, and nine times out of ten everybody seems to disagree with what the judges say.
"I think it's quite a full-on, tough job – not in the sense of hard work – but I think in the sense of putting yourself out there for a bit of scrutiny. But I'd love to be able to help people and mentor them so I'd definitely love to try it…but I've never been asked."
The Voice UK doesn't have a great track record at turning out successful artists – why do you think that is?size>
"I think people give people such a hard time when they come off the back of these shows – in terms of comparing successes to other people's. For anybody the music industry is a really hard industry to actually get into - whether you've come off a reality show or whether you're Beyoncé.
"I think it's a very hard industry to maintain a career because it's so saturated and it's a very competitive industry. I think if you have one of those platforms – obviously I had a platform and I was very lucky – but it's like anybody's career. You have ups and downs in it and you have periods where you don't know what you're doing.
"I do think I've been very lucky that six years down the line I'm still able to go out on the road and record things and release them, but it hasn't come easy. I've had to put the hard work in and the hard work starts after the reality show, that's when it really has to kick in and you have to take control of the shape of your career."
