Fans claimed that the Facebook page campaigning for Rage Against the Machine to beat the X Factor as this year’s Christmas number one has been sabotaged, although it reappeared at stages throughout the day.
The campaign has divided music critics and fans alike. Even betting on the UK’s Christmas number one have been reported to be suspended after a fulrry of bets made the betting “unviable.”
According to a leaked of the midweek charts compiled by the Official Charts Company, ‘Killing In The Name’ had been downloaded 175,163 times, compared to 109,726 times for ‘The Climb’.
However The X Factor winner McElderry’s single, a cover of a song by Miley Cyrus, is released physically today (16), with physical sales expected to give it a huge boost in the chart.
Simon Cowell has slammed the Facebook campaign, calling it “stupid”, “cynical” and “very Scrooge”. Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello has publicly given the campaign his backing.
Meanwhile, a YouTube video of The X Factor finalists ‘singing’ the lyrics to Rage Against The Machine’s song “Killing in the Name.” posted by a tech-savvy YouTube user calling himself MrRageism.
We would like to know your stand on this, though it doesn’t matter on which side you stand. Who do you think is going to take the no.1 in the UK Christmas Chart?
