Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name for Christmas No. 1

[Misawa]

It is indeed out of spite and it's quite sad. It's perfectly understandable to spite Cowell's greed, but why anyone would want to hinder the success of a talented 18 year-old is beyond me.

[untrustus]

I wouldn't mind the rage against the machine attempt by everyone if the song was good, shinobi vs dragon ninja by LostProphets would of been a better choice.

suggesting lostprophets are better than rage is laughable.

Buying music, lol.

you are a ****.

Edited by iAdam (Forum Super Moderator); Please do not be rude to other forum members.

[joshuar]

I'm pleased that it's going so well, I have nothing against the X Factor winner person (apart from the fact he entered the show) but I wanna see Simon Cowell's face when he loses the number 1 spot because of some bloke on Facebook starting up a campaign. He's already loosing his nerve about it and I will be buying the 3 copies I can buy at once from Amazon in support of it.

Plus with Rage donating the money to charity I can't see a better reason not to buy it.

[N!ck]

I'm pleased that it's going so well, I have nothing against the X Factor winner person (apart from the fact he entered the show) but I wanna see Simon Cowell's face when he loses the number 1 spot because of some bloke on Facebook starting up a campaign. He's already loosing his nerve about it and I will be buying the 3 copies I can buy at once from Amazon in support of it.

Plus with Rage donating the money to charity I can't see a better reason not to buy it.

Simon's probably not bothered. Both Joe and RATM are under the record label that he's associated with - Sony.

And the 29p Amazon downloads do count as far as I'm aware (even though it's under the 40p threshold) as apparently Amazon buys them for 40p, making an 11p loss on each track.

[Starburst..x]

I really hope it does get to xmas number one just to spite the whole X Factor thing. I have nothing against Joe - good luck to him! But I just cannot stand the fact that every year X Factor gains xmas number one, and the fact that Simon Cowell is getting all p****d about the fact he might be beaten, as though he has a god given right for xmas number one!
Argghh X Factor should be not get number one, I just don't think it's deserving of it. If anything get an old xmas song to the number one spot.
But that's just my opinion.

[FlyingJesus]

I know that record labels buy hundreds of thousands of copies of their own singles when they need to make sure they get to number one, so there will certainly be some Sony purchases of Joe's single, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've gone out to get a load of RATM as well now to make it appear closer - if people see the campaign "working" they're more likely to join in themselves and go buy it, so now any disabled rock fan with 50p will give it to Sony thinking they're making a difference when Joe is basically guaranteed it. No real chance against it once the shiny plastic's out I don't imagine

[Charlottay!]

I can understand the whole spite thing against x-factor cause it is done purposly. but i am a fan of the song by Joe and i think having RATM as an x-mas number 1 song is just bad. really not a fan of that song

[beth]

i cba to quote but someone called it "mindless" it is clearly not mindless.

thousands of groups get created daily on facebook, none of them create the hype that this has. it is not mindless. don't be silly.

[ifuseekamy]

I don't really think being number 2 on the singles charts = absolute failure.

[kk.]

Especially with the sales volume he'll have lol