GlesgaKiss

Yesss!!!

Glad I did my bit now. Bought the single on itunes even though I already own the album.

barnes_2k7

cant stand the xfactor, misses loves it! glad rage are number 1

Xx-IAN-xX

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...umber-1-a.html
read em and weep

GlesgaKiss

How much?

Snazy

lol I read something somewhere suggesting Cowell had connections to both.

Well done to everyone who wasted money on either of them, suckers! lol

GlesgaKiss

Well he could be considered connected by the fact he's associated with Sony? He doesn't have anything to do with Rage's sales though.

Snazy

Well, all I can say is well done to all the talented, and talentless people who have become rich (some again) over Xmas through peoples dedication to buying these songs.

Lets be honest, everyone who was gonna buy Joe's single, still did
The only financial losers are the ones who bought a record for the sake of stopping another record getting to No1 haha

Win win..... for the record companies, and artists.

Nice to see Dont stop Believing back in the charts though lol

dpb

youve all been used

The Dogs B******s

Just heard this song/track whatever you want to call it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,what a crock of sh*t

GlesgaKiss

Was happy making a point thanks.

I somehow saw you as an alternative music fan with the tattoos etc? You think you know people...

Snazy

My sentiments exactly.

Next week I am launching my own one. Beat Oxfam to No1 charity donated to over Xmas, I will be sure to make sure I make my own bank details for anyone who wants to throw more money away.

lol I could not agree more. More to the point.... WHO chose it to the THE contender

I wonder what percentage of people who spent their 30p (or whatever it was) on buying the track will listen to it more than once.

Snazy

lol I do like alternative music,.... not "an alternative TO music"

How judgemental of you I also have a Blackberry

im just playing, each to their own, but I would not waste 1p on buying something like that to change something as crap as Xmas No1

AndyC_772

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...and which track do you think anyone will still remember by this time next year?

GlesgaKiss

What if it was going to decide the battle in a Terminator Salvation style situation... would you spend the money then?

Snazy

Honestly??

Neither. But I do think Joe will still be selling records this time next year

lol Alan, if it dont involve dogs, tattoo's or Blackberry, my money stays in my pocket

f1_fan

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Neither, they are both dreck and frankly the singles charts are maeningless these days!

Quasi Modo

Could be worse, it could be Band Aid again, snow in Africa my RS.

Boro

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The public are dumb!

hodgy0_2

all a bit childish (and churlish) imo

RATM -- they will be swearing on live radio next, wtf

Boro

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Would be interesting to know how many record sales it "normally" takes to get a xmas number and how many more records have been sold because of this so-called battle for no1. Clever marketing and dumb public = more record sales for both acts i think.

GlesgaKiss

RATM were a landmark band, hence why what they stood for was remembered all these years on and why Killing in the Name was picked to go against the X Factor etc.

Snazy

My sentiments exactly.

Alan, thats some deep thought mate, but I am 99.999999% sure Boro has the truth behind it.

J4CKO

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I think its a rather ill conceived ploy to keep another anodyne Xfactor winner off the Number one slot at Christmas after a few years of them making it their own, it get s bit f*cking predictable hence the campaign, ok Killing in the Name isnt very Christmasssy but its better than the turgid w4nk that Xfactor would turn out for the Bobble hat wearers of the UK and I for one think however misguided and contrived its less so than the alternative and RATM is a damn decent track from back in the (angry) day, I have the album languishing in the loft somewhere.

I am sure Joe McWhasit is a great singer but he doesnt deserve the Christmas number one just because he won Xfactor, it happens every year now so this is a good example of public choice, i.e. people objecting to the sheep just buying it and it winning because it wa on Xfactor, its the end of that, good look to Joe whasit but earn your crust first mate, make some good tunes that stand the test of time not just have Cowell bash one out (fnarr fnarr) 2 weeks before Christmas.

I sincerely hope this reminds the young of this country that working hard is the main thing not just winning a competition that makes you rich and famous, that there are shortcuts but even they take work, Cowell is a clever bloke but he needs to remind himself who and what he is, he isnt god, he is a record promoter that got lucky.

unclebuck

Best result since Gary Jules - Mad World in 2003 beat The Darkness to the Christmas number one slot.



F*ck X Factor, and f*ck Simon Cowell...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

J4CKO

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Look at this for evidence,

List of Christmas number one singles (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2003 for the last wildcard, again not a Christmas tune but a superb and atmostpheric song.

YouTube - Mad World - Gary Jules

Snazy

Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This

One million copies of the winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's first single "A Moment like This", were pre-ordered by stores, although at the time, the winner of the show had not been announced and it was unknown who would be releasing the single. On 24 December, "A Moment like This" was crowned the 2006 UK Christmas number-one single, having sold 571,253 copies, beating Take That's single "Patience", and outselling the rest of the Top 40's sales combined. It has been reported that one chain was "shifting more than 100 of her CDs a minute". The single became the biggest downloaded song in 2006, beating Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". The single stayed at number one for four weeks, and also stayed at the top spot in the Irish Singles Chart for six weeks. It went on to sell in the region of 1,000,000 copies.

Leon Jackson - When You Believe
On December 23, 2007 it debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the coveted Christmas number one with sales of over 275,000 copies. The song has sold 490,000 copies in the UK as stated by the Official UK Charts Company

Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah
It sold 576,000 copies in its first week, becoming the fastest selling single released by a woman in the UK, to become the Christmas number one

unclebuck

Ha - beat you to it....

just....

You're quite right though...

RA Dunk

Personally i think RATM song is pish, but its good to know that the xfactor crap didnt get it, hopefully people will see sense soon and stop watching it and appreciate that its nothing but commercial tat that lines simon cowels pockets

Funny vid on you tube (another Hitler one) but funny all the same

YouTube - Hitler Finds out Killing in the Name is the 2009 Xmas number 1

J4CKO

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Agreeing with UB, its like playing football with the Germans and sharing chocolate on Christmas day in WW1

Moley

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Spot on