Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts
BBC
Rock band Rage Against The Machine has won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one.The band’s single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot.
Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one.
One retailer said it was a “truly remarkable outcome – possibly the greatest chart upset ever”.
Speaking on the Radio 1 chart show, Zack de la Rocha from Rage said: “We are very, very ecstatic about being number one.”
He added it was an “incredible organic grassroots campaign”.
‘Sterile pop’
“It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly,” he said.