Facebook campaigns have started showing up in support Gamu Nhengu, whose rejection scene was air last Sunday on X Factor.
18-year-old Gamu Nhengu was trailed as an early favorite to win, but was rejected by Judge Cheryl Cole last Sunday.
The decision angered many fans and shocked many, who turned to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to raise their voice.
Among the many Facebook Pages and Groups, a Facebook page entitled Gamu should have gone through has already attracted more than 122,000 fans and comments of dejection, encouragements, and anger fills the page wall, as well as some dubious accusations of racisms.
Obviously millions of viewers are shocked. However there are reports that Gamu will soon be returning to the programme as a ‘wild card’ entry.
And yeah! we got a Page on that too 
, called The Twist on X-Factor is Gamu Nhengu is coming back.
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]
