Joe McElderry’s “The Climb,” had a hard climb through the UK Christmas Chart.
This year, Joe McElderry, the winner of the X Factor was expected to score an easy win his single “The Climb,” a cover of a song by Miley Cyrus, however campaign started on Facebook to stop McElderry from topping the UK Christmas Chart this year.
Jon Morter, a 35-year-old logistics expert and music fan, started a Facebook group and encourage support for the Rage Against the Machine single “Killing In The Name.”
Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” sold more than 500,000 copies in its most recent week of release to McElderry single “The Climb” which sold 450,000 to take the top spot on UK Christmas Chart.
In recent years, the British charts have been routinely topped at Christmas time by the winner of “The X Factor,” a singing competition produced by Simon Cowell, the “American Idol” judge.
It is being hailed as one of the biggest shocks in the history of the U.K.’s music charts — and a slice of humble Christmas pie for pop mogul Simon Cowell.
All in all i would like to put this whole news in this way – Winner of X Factor, Joe McElderry’s single “The Climb” had a hard climb on the UK Christmas Chart because RATM’s “Killing In The Name” killed McElderry’s race in the name of killing the run of Simon Cowell’s backed artists topping the Christmas Chart.
Are you surprised by the chart list or was it expected?
[Source: New York Times]
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