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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!