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"Marcus Canty has become the ninth act to be eliminated from the Top 12 of The X Factor USA&amp;#039;s first season. The 20-year-old, who has consistently fallen into the bottom two in recent weeks, was eliminated during Thursday night&amp;#039;s live results show after it was revealed that he had scored the lowest number of public votes following Wednesday&amp;#039;s semi-final. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m okay, this is not the last you&amp;#039;ll see of me, I&amp;#039;m going to keep going. All my family and friends out there crying, stop crying. It&amp;#039;s all right!&amp;quot; Canty said following his elimination. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not over yet!&amp;quot;      &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; USA poll results: Josh Krajcik rules the semi-finals His mentor LA Reid added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not happy to see you go. I think you&amp;#039;re a big star, a great singer and I think you&amp;#039;ve done great and will continue to do great. You&amp;#039;ve got my support.&amp;quot; On Wednesday, Canty performed Boyz II Men&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll Make Love To You&amp;#039; as his Pepsi Challenge song, later returning for an uptempo version of George Michael&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Careless Whisper&amp;#039;.  There was no sing-off during the broadcast. Instead, Canty&amp;#039;s elimination was a direct result of the American&amp;#039;s public&amp;#039;s preference.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; USA top 4: Semi-final performance night in pictures The acts remaining in the competition and who will take part in The X Factor USA final next week are Chris Rene, Melanie Amaro and Josh Krajcik.  Tonight&amp;#039;s episode also included a performance from Florence + the Machine with an exclusive premiere of her track &amp;#039;Spectrum&amp;#039;, while judge Nicole Scherzinger also took to the stage to perform her new single &amp;#039;Pretty&amp;#039;. The X Factor USA continues on Wednesday (December 21) at 8/7c on Fox. Watch Marcus Canty performing during The X Factor USA semi-finals below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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