RATM Killing in the Name Christmas No.1??

scudzilla · 13-12-2009 8:59pm #1

The odds for Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name' to get to Number One spot ahead of this year's X Factor winner, has dropped from 100-1 to 3-1.

The Facebook group which is urging members to download the song on December 13, has got bookmakers worried.

"The X Factor has had a monopoly over the Christmas number one but there is a real buzz about 'Rage Against The Machine'." William Hill's Rupert Adams said. "We might just have the biggest upset in Christmas chart History!" He added.

The campaign, which currently has over 645,00 members, has already seen X Factor judge Simon Cowell brand the campaign as "Stupid" and "Cynical".

http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48847

scudzilla · 13-12-2009 9:00pm

Well i'm gonna be downloading it, be awesome to watch Top of the Pops on Christmas day and just be hearing "Fuck you i won't do what ya tell me"

Otis Driftwood · 13-12-2009 9:04pm

If Jeff Buckley couldnt do it last year then what hope does this have?

Nada.

Atavan-Halen · 13-12-2009 9:25pm

Why Killing in the name of out of all the songs ever?

tony1kenobi · 13-12-2009 9:36pm

atavan-halen wrote: »

Why Killing in the name of out of all the songs ever?

They had a meeting and decided Wake Up was less Christmassy...Killing In The Name has a cowbell......which is all kinds of Christmassy.

glaston · 13-12-2009 10:37pm

Any way we can but this and make the purchase add to the UK chart?
If I buy it on iTunes it goes towards the Irish Chart right?

ADTR · 13-12-2009 10:50pm

Not gonna happen.

evad_lhorg · 13-12-2009 11:31pm

nedtheshed wrote: »

If Jeff Buckley couldnt do it last year then what hope does this have?

Nada.

cause he's rubbish.

Catari Jaguar · 13-12-2009 11:42pm

atavan-halen wrote: »

Why Killing in the name of out of all the songs ever?

RATM have an album Evil Empire, which is symbolic of on Simon Cowell's evil empire (Syco recordsand the X Factor franchise)

They want a protest song in protest of the rubbish synthetic pop music crammed down the publics throats by Simon Cowell

The lyrics: "**** you I won't(buy)what you tell me"

And the tag line is "Rage against the X Factor"

"No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now..."

Take the power back etc.

The hilarity works on loads of levels!

RonMexico · 14-12-2009 1:04am

It would be hilarious if it went to Number 1 in the UK & Ireland.

Otis Driftwood · 14-12-2009 12:09pm

evad_lhorg wrote: »

cause he's rubbish.

IN YOUR OPINION

He has a helluva lot more fans throughout the world then Rage do so its pretty safe to assume this will never happen in a million years.

RayCon · 14-12-2009 12:13pm

scudzilla wrote: »

The Facebook group which is urging members to download the song on December 13,

Irony lost on the group ? Considering the main refrain is "**** You I Won't Do As You Tell Me" ?

moldypeach · 14-12-2009 1:03pm

http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?members&gid=231784611232#/group.php?gid=231784611232&ref=mf

Thats the link for the irish effort

Roar · 14-12-2009 1:05pm

nedtheshed wrote: »

IN YOUR OPINION

He has a helluva lot more fans throughout the world then Rage do so its pretty safe to assume this will never happen in a million years.

do you have a source for that? or are you just basing it on the fact that you like Jeff Buckley?

egan007 · 14-12-2009 1:11pm

Very Achieveable in Ireland where a few K will get you number1

Takk · 14-12-2009 1:50pm

Killing In The Name is #3 in the Irish itunes chart but only purchases from Dec 18th count towards the Christmas #1 sales here.

UK Christmas #1 sales started from yesterday, Dec 13th. Currently, Rage are #2 and the X-F***** song is #1.

Catari Jaguar · 14-12-2009 8:34pm

egan007 wrote: »

Very Achieveable in Ireland where a few K will get you number1

Indeed, and many of the X Factor viewers were in support of John and Edward so who will buy Joe's single? hmmm

waltersobchak · 15-12-2009 12:09pm

looks like its possible!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8413557.stm

MetalDawg · 15-12-2009 12:18pm

I'd love to see this happen. Apparently Cowell isnt happy with this, http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48854, so result!! Even if this just severely annoys the botoxed polo necked **** it'll be something.

Angron · 15-12-2009 1:09pm

RayCon wrote: »

Irony lost on the group ?

Irony? What's that?

but yeah, that is pretty ironic

blastman · 15-12-2009 1:45pm

Can't bring myself to install iTunes even to support this, but by God I hope Rage wins...

aphex™ · 15-12-2009 2:21pm

Takk wrote: »

Killing In The Name is #3 in the Irish itunes chart but only purchases from Dec 18th count towards the Christmas #1 sales here.
.

Oh dear, bit of a failure in communication, some wasted downloads there

blastman wrote: »

Can't bring myself to install iTunes even to support this, but by God I hope Rage wins...

Then try ie.7digital.com

Takk · 15-12-2009 4:04pm

aphex™ wrote: »

Oh dear, bit of a failure in communication, some wasted downloads there

Then try ie.7digital.com

I don't think 7digital counts towards the Irish charts.

From the Irish RATM Facebook Group creator:

Paul Hannon wrote:

7 DIGITAL DOES NOT COUNT TOWARDS TO IRISH CHARTS

Yesterday at 12:38pm

aphex™ · 15-12-2009 5:27pm

Takk wrote: »

I don't think 7digital counts towards the Irish charts.

From the Irish RATM Facebook Group creator:

They're on the list here, though http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/musicvideo/music/retail/index.jsp

Takk · 15-12-2009 5:34pm

aphex™ wrote: »

They're on the list here, though http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/musicvideo/music/retail/index.jsp

Cheers for that. I wasn't sure myself.

bubonicus · 15-12-2009 5:39pm

RATM are on Epic records which is owned by Sony BMG, The X factor person is also on Sony BMG.

So all this campaign is doing, is putting even more money into the hands of people like Simon Cowell.

Well done.:D

Takk · 15-12-2009 5:52pm

bubonicus wrote: »

RATM are on Epic records which is owned by Sony BMG, The X factor person is also on Sony BMG.

So all this campaign is doing, is putting even more money into the hands of people like Simon Cowell.

Well done.:D

All money goes somewhere.

fits · 15-12-2009 5:53pm

Who cares about the money. Its all about the sentiment.

I couldnt give a flying fcuk where the money goes. It sends out a message that a sizeable amount of people cannot stick the mediocrity of which x factor is an embodiment.

bubonicus · 15-12-2009 5:55pm

fits wrote: »

Who cares about the money. Its all about the sentiment.

I couldnt give a flying fcuk where the money goes. It sends out a message that a sizeable amount of people cannot stick the mediocrity of which x factor is an embodiment.

lol, I don't think Simon Cowell cares about sentiment or where his money is coming from either.

Roomic Cube · 15-12-2009 6:38pm

its number one on the uk amazon which counts towards theirs, you never know!

The Frayed Ends · 15-12-2009 8:08pm

bubonicus wrote: »

RATM are on Epic records which is owned by Sony BMG, The X factor person is also on Sony BMG.

So all this campaign is doing, is putting even more money into the hands of people like Simon Cowell.

Well done.:D

I don't understand why people keep saying this. It's got nothing to do with the aim.

All that people want is to stop the x factor song getting to number one. Its not about what money goes where

bubonicus · 15-12-2009 8:19pm

The Frayed Ends wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep saying this. It's got nothing to do with the aim.

All that people want is to stop the x factor song getting to number one. Its not about what money goes where

What I don't understand is, why you can't understand that your aim is counter productive to your goal.

EKRIUQ · 15-12-2009 8:21pm

I tried to download it from amazon.co.uk but no go, I don't live in the UK. Anywhere I can download it that will count towards the UK charts?

Cianos · 15-12-2009 8:31pm

The Frayed Ends wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep saying this. It's got nothing to do with the aim.

All that people want is to stop the x factor song getting to number one. Its not about what money goes where

Who cares what is at number 1? And if that's the aim, why pick RATM? If it's about metal, there are other better known metal bands. Because if it's about being rebellious or anti establishment, RATM are as hypocritical as it gets. The Sony suits are laughing their asses off at all the fools downloading RATM essentially doubling their profits for the Christmas period.

The Frayed Ends · 15-12-2009 8:45pm

Cianos wrote: »

Who cares what is at number 1? And if that's the aim, why pick RATM? If it's about metal, there are other better known metal bands. Because if it's about being rebellious or anti establishment, RATM are as hypocritical as it gets. The Sony suits are laughing their asses off at all the fools downloading RATM essentially doubling their profits for the Christmas period.

Obviously some do. I couldn't care less. I highly doubt it's about metal and from what I can tell the only reason that song was chosen is because of the whole "**** you, I won't do what you tell me". Which is a bit ironic itself that people are now downloading and buying the song after being told to buy it but anyway yeah.

And Killing in the name of is basically a song even people that don't like metal enjoy. Lot of people probably don't even know what sort of song it is. It just sounds good.

I'm not going to buy the song, I don't like RATM they pretty much bore me to death and the X Factor song getting to number 1 doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Big Nasty · 15-12-2009 8:49pm

I hate Christmas songs, I hate X-Factor / Boy Band / Girl Band fabricated ****e! I don't care if you are a fan of RATM or not, if we can make this happen it will ROCK!

Power To The People!

Useful.Idiot · 15-12-2009 8:53pm

If Rage are No. 1 it would be the best Christmas ever. X-Factor can suck my balls.

Ciaran500 · 15-12-2009 8:55pm

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I tried to download it from amazon.co.uk but no go, I don't live in the UK. Anywhere I can download it that will count towards the UK charts?

www.hmv.co.uk

Cianos · 15-12-2009 9:00pm

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I hate Christmas songs, I hate X-Factor / Boy Band / Girl Band fabricated ****e! I don't care if you are a fan of RATM or not, if we can make this happen it will ROCK!

Power To The People!

Eh, how much of RATM's songs are fabricated dyou think, being on a label such as Sony? You just happen to be part of a different target audience, contributing to the same bottom line. Power to the people my arse.

Takk · 15-12-2009 9:01pm

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I tried to download it from amazon.co.uk but no go, I don't live in the UK. Anywhere I can download it that will count towards the UK charts?

Ciaran500 wrote: »

www.hmv.co.uk

I'd imagine you'd need to have/fake a UK IP address for it to count towards the UK chart.

Big Nasty · 15-12-2009 9:05pm

Cianos wrote: »

Eh, how much of RATM's songs are fabricated dyou think, being on a label such as Sony? You just happen to be part of a different target audience, contributing to the same bottom line. Power to the people my arse.

Is this not the Rock & Metal forum? Even if you don't like RATM are you trying to tell me there would not be a smirk on your face if it was the Christmas #1 as opposed to the X factor ****e or in fact most other ****e you hear on pretty much every radio station bar Phantom?

RonMexico · 15-12-2009 9:53pm

http://www.facebook.com/groups.php#/group.php?gid=231784611232

Join the Irish Facebook group.

I couldn't give a **** whether RATM are on the same label I just want to see all the x-factor crowd crying into their Christmas dinner

120_Minutes · 15-12-2009 10:13pm

currently no 1. (or joint first) in the UK

brendansmith · 15-12-2009 10:35pm

I hear that if it is number one that the queen is going to play the solo instead of doing her speech.

RobertFoster · 15-12-2009 10:45pm

Takk wrote: »

I'd imagine you'd need to have/fake a UK IP address for it to count towards the UK chart.

Don't buy anything through a proxy, they're not secure at all.

Mozzeltoff · 16-12-2009 4:39am

It would be funny to see RATM at the number one spot but I think it's abit sad to be honest!why should anyone really care whose in the charts?Even if ye think ye are sticking it to X factor and Simon Cowell I doubt he will lose any sleep over it anyway...