Christmas Present

MP3 Download Charts @ 20:30 Tue 15th:

Amazon: 1st
Play.com: 1st
HMV.com: 1st
iTunes: 1st

Midweek Chart data:

1. Killing In The Name - 83,276 downloads
2. The Climb - 77,401 downloads

The X-Factor physical CD is released tomorrow, so I expect a surge, but second place is looking pretty solid.
 
Quarter of a million sales so far was announced today, so I'm hoping we're home and hosed DO.
 
From The Irish Times ...

Rage against the X-Factor machine


US band Rage Against the Machine’s song Killing in the Name remains ahead of X-Factor winner Joe McElderry’s The Climb in the race to be the UK number 1 for Christmas although just 4,000 sales separated the two acts this morning.
The internet campaign launched to get the rap-metal’s song – which includes the refrain: “F**k you, I won’t do what you tell me” – to number 1 is an effort to break a sequence of X-Factor Christmas number 1s stretching back to 2005.
It has garnered huge support on Facebook in particular over the last 10 days with over 750,000 people signing up in less than a week.
Official chart data released this morning showed that the two artists – who share the same record label, Sony – had sold around 300,000 copies of their singles by last night. The tracks could sell up to half a million copies by Sunday when the final chart positions are announced.
“The momentum now appears to be firmly with Joe, although the unexpected snowfalls could count disproportionately against him if it stops Christmas shoppers from hitting the nation’s high streets this weekend,” HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo said.
“The internet protest campaign behind Rage Against the Machine is still going strong, though is showing signs of slowing a little, and the band’s expletive-ridden outburst on the BBC yesterday doesn’t appear to have generated much of an extra boost for them.”
Rage Against the Machine yesterday performed "Killing in the Name" live on BBC Radio 5 Live and had to be faded out after they launched into the expletive-heavy chorus, despite being warned by producers, to tone it down.
The campaign has been condemned by the show’s chief judge Simon Cowell and McElderry’s X-Factor mentor Cheryl Cole as unfair and speaking on the BBC this morning McElderry said he would be “disappointed” if he failed to top the charts..
“I’m not really seeing it as a personal attack, because I think if any other person would have won it would have been the same case. And it’s more against The X Factor than the actual winner.
“I would be disappointed if it’s not number one — but it’s out of my hands and there’s nothing I can do about it and I just hope people get behind us and support us and buy the single.”
Cole said she would be “gutted” if McElderry lost out to a “mean” internet campaign. “He put his heart and soul into every single week of The X Factor and I cannot bear to see him lose out to a mean campaign that has nothing to do with his efforts. If that song, or should I say campaign, by an American group is our Christmas number one I’ll be gutted for him and our charts.”
Cowell said “Joe doesn’t deserve to be stuck in the middle of this. A campaign aimed at harming his chart position is unnecessary.”
Paul McCartney disagreed. "I like the idea of this Rage Against The Machine thing that's happening," he told Sky News. "I think that's kind of interesting."
He said he would be pleased to see the band make it to Number 1 "because it's out of leftfield you know. Everyone expects Joe to do it, and he certainly will sell a lot of records. And if he gets to Number One, good luck to him. But it would be kind of funny if a band like Rage Against The Machine got it, because it would prove a point."
 
Down to a best price 1/80 (exc Betfair). Win or lose, it was brilliant to get 7/4!! If it wins, I'll feel Christmas has been paid for.
 
885,000 now. You are talking about 1.5% of the population. The bookmakers never had a chance!!!
 
It is very easy to click and join a Facebook page...imagine the actual number of purchasers are much small than that and they are multiple buyers.

X Factor is 1/7 to be Christmas No 1 now as Joe is around 20,000 clear now and Saturdays sales are likely to put him even further clear.
 
The official rundown is on at the moment but there's been a "leak" which suggests RATM are number one.
 
Feel sorry for Joe. I see the band are gonna donate a large proportion of profits to Shelter. TBH if they had a heart they would donate 100% of profits to Shelter then it would be more acceptable. A stupid rock song denying a young talent the number one, all because of people wanting to go against Cowell. It wouldn't be so bad if they done it with something like Band Aid which would have been appropriate for Christmas & charity. Poor Joe :(
 
I still haven't heard it yet but I wouldn't have minded one little bit if it had been second to Joe. That was the advice, after all.

Christmas is paid for!
 
I've just heard the X-Factor song for the first time tonight. Dear me. I feel like I've done a national service.
 
Dire. All those wasted tv hours from thick Britain. They could have been watching QI or something.

I've been listening to Edith Piaf today - now there was a singer you could pick out in a crowd.
 
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