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

Update from the Telegraph, posted about 2 hrs ago:

Despite predictions that the talent show winner would storm ahead when his CD went on sale yesterday, rap-metal act Rage Against The Machine (RATM) are still in front.

But McElderry has narrowed the gap, with the difference between them now at around 40,000 copies.

Retailers and record company Sony will be rubbing their hands at the chart battle as the two tracks between them have now sold around 470,000 copies so far this week, according to Official Charts Company data.

If sales continue, they could sell upwards of 500,000 copies each by the weekend.

The last big Christmas battle anywhere near this scale was the Spice Girls' Goodbye and South Park character Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls in 1998. The Spice Girls won with 380,000 to the rival's 375,000.

Fans of McElderry were out in force yesterday as his CD single The Climb finally hit shops. It had previously been available only as a download.

The X Factor winner sold more than 100,000 copies of the single yesterday.

RATM's track Killing In The Name has been championed by an internet campaign as an X Factor protest vote because of its anti-establishment sentiment.

Final chart positions will be announced on Sunday.

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said: ''Whilst Joe remains behind in sales to date, the gap is clearly narrowing now that his CD single is out in the shops, and you'd have to say that the momentum lies with him - we think he will still do it, but it will be close.

''However, no one could have predicted the Rage campaign against the X Factor would galvanise so much support, and it could easily keep growing now that its followers realise just how close they could be to causing one of the biggest upsets in UK charts history.''

Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: ''The massive surge of interest in both of these records has set this up to be one of the biggest Christmas chart tussles many of us can remember.

''By the end of the week, we could be talking about more than one million sales across two singles in just a week, which is truly remarkable - and a tribute to the UK public's love of the great British Christmas number one.

Bookmaker William Hill reopened its betting today after suspending Christmas number one bets yesterday.

The latest prices are McElderry at 2/5 with RATM at 7/4.

Spokesman Rupert Adams said: ''The momentum has switched away from Rage and the odds suggest that Joe will be the sixth X Factor winner in a row to have the Christmas number one.''
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...retain-lead-over-X-Factors-Joe-McElderry.html
 
Psypher5 said:
I love it that rage are fully supporting this, and are still so proud of what they stand for :) and so passionate!

Also really good of them that they are donating the money to charity too :D
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Yeah, it's so refreshing to hear a band who are just passionate about music and what they create. Bet the x-factor winner wouldn't know the same passion if it hit him in the face, I suppose for that alone Rage should be nr.1
 
That was the funniest thing I've heard in ages! :D :D :D :D

I like how they tricked us into thinking they weren't going to swear by doing the build up sans swearing, then when it really got going, Zack just absolutely let rip! :cool:

This Christmas has been like a musical revolution. :D
 
People are saying they tricked us... but isn't that just how the song goes?

*dun dun dun* "i wont do what you tell me" (quietly)
*dun dun dun* "i wont do what you tell me"
*dun dun dun* "i wont do what you tell me"
dun dun dun doo doo doo doo F YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
?

I thought so anyway.

edit:
Nope, my bad, i was thinking of "And now you do what they told ya".

Ignore.
 
In less 4 days, Overclockers from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest popular music battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps it's fate that today four days from now, the chart is decided, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from Simon Cowell.

We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the fourth day from now will no longer be known as an Christian holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! 4 days from now we celebrate our Independence Day!
 
AcidHell2 said:
:).. nice.

Shame we aren't getting a few other rock songs into the top 40 charts. I bet 20-40 in the charts is only like 10-20k sales.
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Trouble is, they tell everyone they have to pay for music for it to get into the charts, and not download it in other ways.

And here RATM are possibly at Number 1 with an important christmas message about not doing what we're told.

It's a moral dilemma.
 
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