THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on December 20, 2009, 03:47:08 PM
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London, England (CNN) -- Rage Against the Machine has claimed the prestigious No. 1 spot on the British singles chart on the last Sunday before Christmas, marking the first time in five years the winner of Simon Cowell's "X-Factor" has not won.
Joe McElderry's "The Climb" came in second, beaten by a huge online swell of support for "Killing in the Name," backed by a Facebook group with nearly 1 million members.
It was the first time a group had ever won the top slot based on downloads alone, BBC's "The Chart Show" said.
Tracy Morter, one of the founders of the Facebook group backing Rage, said her response was "shock, really."
"You don't actually think it's going to happen, and we just want to make sure Joe knows it wasn't personal against him and hope he has a wonderful Christmas," she said.
The Facebook group also raised about 63,000 pounds ($101,829) for the homeless charity Shelter, she said. The group had "nearly a million people -- we're 3,000 off a million," she said.
The group vowed to download "Killing in the Name" starting earlier this month to make it the No. 1 single in the country on the Sunday before Christmas.
It might seem like a frivolous contest, but hundreds of thousands of pounds -- and a place in history -- are at stake. A Christmas No. 1 enters the history books, exciting passion, disgust, joy and, yes, rage.
... Read about this earlier in the week. Pretty awesome. Seeing people leverage their buying power over manufactured crap is pretty awesome! :rock
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Simon Cowell apparently is one of the least popular voice options for GPS services in the UK.
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There is a Simon Cowell GPS? :lol
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They couldn't pick a better Rage song like Bulls on Parade? Which would actually make sense regarding Joe?
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http://www.joemcelderry.com/index.php/board,1.0.html
Joe McElderry's forum was pissed off. :teehee
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I think this is bullshit. We all know that Paul McCartney has had the number one Christmas song for thirty years in a row.
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http://www.joemcelderry.com/index.php/board,1.0.html
Joe McElderry's forum was pissed off. :teehee
It will never happen - this whole RATM thing will be all forgotten by the New Year....mean while Joe will be working on recording his album which will go straight to number one on release. RATM is just a flash in the pan...ignore it all I say!
:lol
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Yeah, this was pretty awesome. I'm glad they took No. 1, go Internet!
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Nothing happened, it's always been this high. :smug
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http://www.joemcelderry.com/index.php/board,1.0.html
Joe McElderry's forum was pissed off. :teehee
It will never happen - this whole RATM thing will be all forgotten by the New Year....mean while Joe will be working on recording his album which will go straight to number one on release. RATM is just a flash in the pan...ignore it all I say!
:lol
This is a sad outcome for music in general, it shows that anybody can start a campaign and rule the music chart, just pick a song and watch the sheep come flooding to the flock, this is no statement about the charts it's a statement about mob rule.
I hope joe will not be affected by the revolting way people have treated him, in this so called vote against x-factor.
my best wishes to you Joe ;-)
The ironing is delicious.
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Only one laughing here is Sony, who owns both songs.
Great marketing stunt.
That was pretty much my first thought too. Way to go, rebels. ::)
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I didn't even think of that. :lol
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I wonder if the same could be done in the US but with a really obscure song.
This would be the only time I'd support Animal Collective, is if America banded together to make one of their shitty songs No. 1 in spite of all that American Idol trash.
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I wonder if the same could be done in the US but with a really obscure song.
This would be the only time I'd support Animal Collective, is if America banded together to make one of their shitty songs No. 1 in spite of all that American Idol trash.
That'll work. I was going to suggest that song Nickleback did for Spider-Man.
How is that a obscure song? That's a massively popular song.
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Do you even know what obscure means green man?
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looooooool
also, it's fun to see a ton of these people clearly have no idea who RATM are/were.
Of course they don't:
Fans of a 17 y/o boy covering a song by a 17 y/o girl that was chosen as the winner's song for show with teens as its main demographic DON'T know who the hell RATM are. Which makes the bands success in topping the chart much more delicious.
Killing in the Name is older than most of McElderry's fans, lol.
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I think my English skills are failing. :duh
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The weird.thing is that a lot (maybe most) of these downloads would have been done by fans who already had this song in some form.
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Some Gawker editor was all condescending about how RATM is on Sony and how pointless they are because Los Angeles doesn't have slums. He was REALLY butthurt over people being able to out-do manufactured pop.
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Would've been great if they'd done this with the Christmas song from Fucked Up instead, which is a charity song for Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, DTES Power of Women Group, and Sisters in Spirit.
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(featuring Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, Yo La Tengo, David Cross, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene, Tegan & Sara, Andrew W.K., Bob Mould, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, and GZA)
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It's pretty ironic that you hate that song. :smug