Danyl Johnson’s X-Factor audition

Danyl Johnson, the 27-year-old teacher hit the show X Factor last Saturday and now the internet. The X Factor is a British television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is said to be the British counterpart for American Idol. Since his first performance on the show (he performed the famous Beatles’ classic “With a Little Help from My Friends”), the item “Danyl Johnson video” became one of the hottest searched items. And the name Danyl Johnson became famous. On Monday, the official clip on YouTube had registered about 600,000 views since the weekend. Twenty-four hours later, the count had doubled to almost 1.2 million.
In the days since his performance, the British press has been reporting exhaustively on Johnson's personal history, just as it did following Boyle's appearance on "Britain's Got Talent" in April. The 27-year-old is a schoolteacher from Reading, England, who has fallen short in other attempts to make it big as a singer. According to The Daily Mirror, he has been in two boy bands, Upfrunt and Streetlevel, but neither of them ever caught on. The paper also reported that Johnson performed on television with a rock band called Empty Spaces and has auditioned for "X Factor" three times.
Apparently this time the judges were highly impressed and virtually blown away with his superb performance., Cheryl Cole said he is a natural performer and I would take you in my category any day and Simon Cowell gave a standing ovation and said “That was single-handedly the best first audition I have ever heard, He could be one of the best contestants we’ve ever had.” Undoubtedly these are pretty highly comments.
Danyl Johnson quickly shot to frontrunner status, raising questions about whether he'd become the next incarnation of Scottish chanteuse Susan Boyle. Certainly Danyl won the hearts of many audiences and largely recognized as a Susan Boyle-like YouTube sensation, while some people may take a negative opinion towards this. Some people hold the view that he only did the theatrics to take attention away from the fact that his voice wasn't that good. Here is a comment after one of the related posts, Danyl definitely has a powerful voice, but he definitely didn't hit every note. There have been lots of people on "Idol" who would have done just as well with that song. BTW, maybe the writer could have bothered mentioning this was a cover of Joe Cocker's version of the song. (to the author: if somehow you have problem towards this, please leave me a message, I will remove it first time )
Anyway, every person has his preferences.
What’s your opinion? Take a look at the video.