X Factor versus Rage Against the Machine

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So which one do you want to be Christmas number 1?
I have downloaded RATM.

Ooo I disagree Eyethingy I think Journey was his best song :P

I know the result. Do ya wanna know?

Yes please Matt Bellamy

Rage

just announcing it on R1 now....stringing it out

Half a million sales, a fair bit more than Joe.

Poor Joe

Mwaaa Haaaa!

He still got number 2. Which is pretty good for a teenage talent show winner.

Yeah definitely! Bless him he might get no. 1 next week lol

I'm very pleased with this result.
Cowell rang the Morters to congratulate them on their campaign.

I've not really cared about who's doing what in the charts for years and although I like RATM I'm not a massive fan, but I am so pleased with this. I know Simon Cowell owns part of RATM's label so he's going to do well no matter who got to number 1, but I think it's great that this year people have been exposed to a passionate, emotive song rather than the usual manipulative, bland stuff which comes out of X-Factor. And it's great that Cowell has been beaten at his own game (even if it's only for one week!).

I am very pleased with this result.
RATM sold 50,000 copies more than X Factor.
As Jack Black says in School of Rock 'Stick it to the man!'
The next campaign is to get the Sex Pistols to number 1 for the Queen's birthday
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Apparently a huge number of sales were not counted towards Rage's total because of suspicions of bulk buying. People were warned only to buy one or to copies but I heard Matthew Wright say on his show that he'd bought 9 copies.

Why can't people bulk buy? Surely if you bought the CD in bulk, no one would be any the wiser?

Something about unduly trying to influence the charts. I don't agree with it but them's the rules apparently.