Campaign to stop X Factor getting Xmas #1!!!
 

http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48727

Good on them, hope it gets somewhere! :thumbs:

I was waitng for something like this to come along.

Pathetic.

If Joe wins I'll be the first person downloading RATM

But I'd rather people campaigned with something Christmassy!! Like Fairytale of New York! Start a campaign for that :)

Yeah good luck to them with that.....

No matter how hard anyone tries,nothing is gonna beat X Factor to Christmas Number 1 ,it's too powerful.

Care to elaborate? I think it's a nice gesture. Do you personally enjoy one man having a personal monopoly on the Christmas charts? Do you believe it healthy for the creative state of the music business or inspiring to young artists?

This'll be the last (Christmas) No. 1 of the entire decade, and I do NOT want Simon Cowell reigning the charts for a 5th year running.

Let's hope we're in for an epic big surprise this Christmas! :shocked:

45,000 members? lmfao the single gets that amount of downloads within hours of it being up for download.

There is also the Joke Xmas song
Scouse 'Calm Down'

Lol! Yeah I would find it hilarious if Rage Against the Machine, or any other artist beat X Factor to number 1 :D Just something different and would be funny to piss on Mr Simon Cowell's parade!

Do not worry about SonyBMG Simon Cowell
he can not enter your home.

**** you i want do what you tell me!

Rage against the machine hehe...I would love it, it'll never happen tho

100% agreed.

I don't think anybody expects it to happen TBH, it's a more a tongue in cheek gesture. Even if it gets somewhere in the charts it will be funny seeing it there!

for the kids who dont know this masterpiece!

Now up to 53,000. They have a week to get about another 150,000 members, otherwise some bright spark might come up with the idea of everyone downloading it 2-3 times. Then it will probably get #1.

X Factor will probably get about 200,000 sales

i'm sorry but there's no way this'll get to number one. if only artists like alexandra burke and cheryl cole have topped sales of 200,000 this year, there's no hope for these guys.

and alex sold 500,000 first week last year. it should be at least 300-400,000 this year.

No doubt some people with a vested interest in the state of music and money to burn like a mothafucka will buy stock boxes full of the song.

The only thing I imagine people will have difficulty with though is the fact that you will have to order it by digital download. I can't imagine they still print copies of this 1992 single, and I highly doubt HMV are going to stock it anytime soon like they are going to do with the X-Factor single.

I know physical purchased count for nought these days, but still :confused:.

^physical will be the main winner in this battle considering the winners single usually makes a mammoth amount in pre-orders alone.

I don't think this years winner will come close to Alexandra tbh

I think 300,000 at a complete push

It's pointless but I do hope it does well, the winner's single is always soulless and disappointing as it's basically a mould nobody can really make it their own. They might as well release the same song every year.

Apparently Shane Ward is releasing his 3rd albulm next year!

And also considering the huge amount of ... well ... young children who buy the X-Factor single have to buy it physical because internet ordering is a little outside grasp.

and the fact it's a miley cyrus song will only drive them out in droves. ;)