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

Let's not turn the thread into a piracy debate. Here sums it up:

It's not stealing because they haven't "lost" anything physical or monetary.
It is stealing because you're getting it for free and the label/artist/the world has lost out.

There, that saves 10 pages.
 
jas72 said:
My wife says that one of the model designer reality shows in the US was to come up with outfits for Lady GAGA who was to be the next big thing. I'm quite sure her style is not 100% her own but image made up by suits to a certain extent. But there are very few bands in the last couple of decades who can exert control over image and music.

The shows aren't all bad though look at SuBo and Paul Potts.

Like I've said before what annoys me most is that for the last couple of years they can't even be bothered to write a song for the winner.
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People only go on about "SuBo" because they think some one who looks like her should sound how she looks.

In reality, she's not that good, and if she didn't look how she does, there would have been far less fuss made about her.
 
This explains the betting

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091216/tuk-betting-suspended-on-christmas-no1-6323e80.html
Bookmaker William Hill has suspended betting on the UK's Christmas number one after a flurry of bets made the betting "unviable". Skip related content

Rage Against The Machine widened the gap over X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the battle for the top spot, building up a lead of more than 60,000 sales by Wednesday.

A William Hill spokesman said 98% of the bets were for the US rock band - and the firm had to keep adjusting the prices until it became the favourite.

Bets of up to £1,000 were being placed for the expletive-littered song and the company would lose a six-figure song if it tops Sunday's chart.

The Los Angeles band's track Killing In The Name - originally released in 1992 - and McElderry's song The Climb together account for nearly 300,000 sales so far this week.

The surprise contenders praised the internet campaign which has driven their sales and declared: "Let the people decide."

However, the situation could soon change with the release of a CD version of the 18-year-old X Factor star's single. Until Wednesday the track was only available on download but it is thought many people will buy the CD as a stocking filler.

The Christmas sales can buck the overall trend for CDs making up less than 2% of singles sales.

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said on Wednesday: "It's going to be a much closer race than anyone would have predicted a few weeks ago, but we remain confident that Joe will win out in the end to claim the Christmas number one and the fifth in a row for the X Factor.

"More than 1,000 fans braved the wintry conditions to queue outside Joe's home town HMV in South Shields from early this morning in the hope of meeting the X Factor star."
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el_dazza said:
I posted that earlier :p

TurnipHead - some of us were RATM fans before this, me being one of them. Took me by surprise seeing all this, but now I'm on the bandwagon :p
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I've been a RATM fan since I first heard "wake up" at the end of "The Matrix".
 
Turniphead, don't make me use my...
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