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Perhaps you may have already heard about this but why the hell not give it another little push:

In recent years, the Christmas number one single in the UK has gone to the winner of the X-Factor from that year - mainly because of the publicity generated by the show & the fact that the single is released about 2 weeks before Christmas.

Now - for those of us who don't like the manufactured pop purveyed by Simon Cowell - which is more an act of marketing than anything else, this has been a continual source of annoyance. I don't care too much what is number one - as long as it is actually something good - not just what the marketing people sway everyone into buying.

Anyway... This year looks as though it may have a chance of being different - There is a facebook group : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228594104
There's a link to the story in NME, for people who can't access Facebook:
http://www.nme.com/news/rage-a...st-the-machine/48727
Trying to get as many people as possible to buy Rage's Against The Machine's song "killing in the name" in the week before the Christmas number 1 is announced, in an attempt to correct this imbalance.

Although I'm not entirely sure if International meddlers in the UK charts work or whether or not you like RATM, it's worth a small amount of money on i-tunes, to see if it is possible to unexpectedly change things from what everyone is expecting and even more amusing for thos outside the country to willfully meddle in one of our traditional [now ruined] aspects of Crimbo!

[Jackson]

Aye, but if you go on to read this http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

The campaign is just gonna fill Sony BMG's coffers even more. I hate xfactor so hard it makes me want to urinate, but I dont want to make the problem worse.

[Dokescoonse]

Aye, but if you go on to read this http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

The campaign is just gonna fill Sony BMG's coffers even more. I hate xfactor so hard it makes me want to urinate, but I dont want to make the problem worse.

I'm sure the Sony corp really struggle around Christmas time anyway. That guy seems to have a problem with a choice of a 17 year old song? It's a classic track. I doubt anyone will remember any X-factor song in 17 years, certainly one that isn't even original, It's flippin' cover!
Funny thing is I didn't even know bookies had had to introduce a betting category so you can bet on the Christmas #1 without the X-factor being taken into consideration because they have it sown up. If even the bookies are having to change the game to get the punters to have a flutter you know it must be bad!

I was much like you, last year I bought Malcolm Middleton's 'We're all going to die' which aside from the title was a really great Christmas song, is was life affirming. But it was a wasted attempt, didn't even dent the top 20. As a Christmas song 'Killing in the Name' makes no sense, but who'd have thought 'Fairy Tale of New York' would be often cited as the greatest Christmas song in festive polls, but it is! However when people are out fighting in wars perhaps it makes perfect sense?

I don't care if I'm posting my hard earned money to Sony HQ, so long as the X-Factor gets a reality check, they are not the the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world and as they say' all that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing'.

[SzefciuCba]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8423340.stm

"Speaking on the Radio 1 chart show, Zack de la Rocha said: "We are very, very ecstatic about being number one."

Also: Fairytale of New York was playing from a children's grotto kind've thing in Liverpool One while I was Christmas shopping last week...It was weird as hell seeing all these happy kids running in and out while Shayne McGowan was singing about an old slut on junk, lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed. :|

[Dapnoinaacale]

I love Rage Against The Machine! If it fucks Simon Cowell up, why not!