rage against the x-factor - Outcome: RATM is the Christmas Number One!

"andy" said:
lol wut

surely theres 100s of places you can buy singles without DRM. i cant even remember the last time i bought DRMd music
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Play doesn't use DRM and it's 320 Kbps.

Anyone else buy from play.com and get an email asking to complete a survey? I did and I got a £1 for my trouble!
 
yes but i live in belgium so it doesnt count....

Can you get over the ego of cowell.

cowell said:
X Factor judge Simon Cowell has criticised the internet campaign, calling it "stupid".

Prior to the final of the ITV talent show, he said: "I think the campaign's aimed directly at me."
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Firstly he calls anyone not buying a terrible cover of hanna montana song "stupid" then he think they are really aiming the campaign at him, it's not a personal vendetta it's against freedom to choose. Win or lose at least people are getting to hear about a real band for a change which is a good thing.
 
excellent, i don't care about the charts but to have RATM as UK number one would be amazing.

It will be amazing to hear the radio in the morning: 'and now for the UKs Christmas number one.... Rage Against The Machine with Killing In The Name...... **** YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA <PLEASE GOD LET THIS HAPPEN!>
 
Just had an email from Amazon informing me that I have a £2 credit for purchasing a CD from there recently.
I doubt I'd use it any other way so have just bought 6 copies of Killing In The Name.
 
Keltik THC said:
excellent, i don't care about the charts but to have RATM as UK number one would be amazing.

It will be amazing to hear the radio in the morning: 'and now for the UKs Christmas number one.... Rage Against The Machine with Killing In The Name...... **** YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA <PLEASE GOD LET THIS HAPPEN!>
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They would cut out that entire bit. :(
 
Haircut said:
Just had an email from Amazon informing me that I have a £2 credit for purchasing a CD from there recently.
I doubt I'd use it any other way so have just bought 6 copies of Killing In The Name.
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Buying multiple copies could be counter productive.

If lots of people do this the single could be disqualified.
 
seek said:
Buying multiple copies could be counter productive.

If lots of people do this the single could be disqualified.
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It should just go on number of sales regardless of who buys them.
Anyway, I suspect Amazon has some mechanism preventing duplicate MP3 purchases as I've only actually got an email confirming one of them.
 
skippi90 said:
So, stats people, what can you throw at me?

Current sales for each?
Percentage of online sales last year?
Single sales in disc format 2008?
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unfortunately i have no stats according to the newspapers RATM is number 1 at the moment but the xfactor rubbish releases his hard copy in shops tommorow and i worry that musically challenged philistines out-number us.

But my point is that you have to remember this is not about who has sold the most last year, this year or in any year. This is about sales for this week alone.

EDIT: and if you are really trying to up there sales make your multiple purchases from different outlets, i.e. Play, amazon, itunes etc..
 
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seek said:
If lots of people do this the single could be disqualified.
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Why on earth would it be disqualified? This isn't a 'vote for your favourite' contest it's just a ranking of record sales. Nobody cares if you buy it to listen to or to set on fire - a sale is a sale.
 
Keltik THC said:
unfortunately i have no stats according to the newspapers RATM is number 1 at the moment but the xfactor rubbish releases his hard copy in shops tommorow and i worry that musically challenged retards out-number us.

But my point is that you have to remember this is not about who has sold the most last year, this year or in any year. This is about sales for this week alone.
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I looked into it a little and found this:

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Retail sales of singles by format
 
                                Physical               Digital                   Total Sales
2002                       43.9m                   -                              43.9m
2003                       30.8m                   -                              30.8m
2004                       26.5m                   5.7m                      32.2m
2005                       21.4m                   26.4m                    47.8m
2006                       13.9m                   53.0m                    66.9m
2007                       8.6m                     77.9m                    86.5m
2008                       4.9m                     110.2m                 115.1m
2009 YTD              1.6m                      116.0m                 117.6m
 
Source: The Official Charts Company.

Which was produced on the 23rd October.

So by guesstimation, I'd suggest 300k more CD single sales between that date and the end of this year.
 
Why does anyone care what's number one at Christmas? Anyone with half a brain already knows that RATM will be remembered and respected long after x-factor guy has had his 15 minutes.
 
fini said:
Why on earth would it be disqualified? This isn't a 'vote for your favourite' contest it's just a ranking of record sales. Nobody cares if you buy it to listen to or to set on fire - a sale is a sale.
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Because it's already happened before...

(Link to relevant news article posted earlier in the thread).
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Why does anyone care what's number one at Christmas? Anyone with half a brain already knows that RATM will be remembered and respected long after x-factor guy has had his 15 minutes.
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Yes, but it's just a bit of fun. :)

It's not like a not-very-Christmassy track hasn't been no.1 before.


Remember Mad World? :p
 
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