RATM vs X-Factor

I'm loving this idea and definitely getting involved. Not really something you guys can contribute to down there, but thought you may all be interested.

Basically, the X-Factor winner for the past 4 years has become the Christmas single no 1, so a couple of people started a campaign to make RATM's 'Killing In The Name Of' the number one. The video below shows that 576,000 copies of the X-Factor single were sold last year - the Facebook group is up to nearly 655,000, so hopefully they can pull of an upset.

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States on the group that the people who started it have no affiliation to Sony or RATM, and I don't suppose we could be sure, and I know the money is going to another corporate, but fuck it, I would rather it be RATM than some manufactured singer.

Bookmakers slash odds of Rage Against The Machine being Christmas Number One

I reckon that's a pretty cool idea.

lol no idea why, but i this just doesn't read like something you'd ever say

Totally agree... Haha

Fuck that! I won't do what they tell me.

According the Metro the tracks are neck and neck, with X-Factor just leading. Fuck I hope it doesn't win, it's a song written for a Hannah Montana movie.

Rockers Rage Against The Machine in chart battle with Simon Cowell

A 1992 Rage Against the Machine rock anthem is in good shape to top the UK Christmas charts after 860,000 people joined a Facebook group to derail music mogul Simon Cowell and The X-Factor's winning single.

This week, anthemic 1992 rock song Killing In The Name had sold 253,476 units compared to Joe McElderry - who won British reality music show The X-Factor  -  with his single The Climb making 216,795 sales.

The group, which has called itself "Rage Against The X-Factor" has become the most frequented Facebook site in the UK.

Cowell,  whose company owns X Factor and who is also a judge on the series. has labelled the campaign "stupid", "cynical" and "very Scrooge".

In a Twitter post, Rage Against the Machine Guitarist Tom Morello mentioned that fearing the will of the people, X-Factor may pressure stores to lower the price of the song to boost sales. In turn he asked Rage fans to make multiple purchases of Killing in the Name in response.

All money raised from sales of the song in the UK will go to Youth Music, a scheme to help young musicians in the UK. The campaign also raises money for the homeless charity Shelter.

Yesterday, the band played the song - including the swear-filled chorus ("F.... you, I won't do what you tell me" four times) live on UK radio and slammed The X Factor and Cowell. Producers subsequently faded the band out as they continued to play, despite promising the BBC show they would not swear.

During the interview Morello criticised X-Factor and Cowell for spoon feeding people "one schmaltzy ballad after another".

As the week rolls on, more and more celebrities are voicing their support for the group that is putting the power back into the hands of the people.

Foo Fighter's frontman Dave Grohl told UK radio that he would be buying the song in protest to the reality television series single.

"There's some music that I question its intention," he said.

"When people rise up and decide, `Hey man, I'm sick of this, let's derail this other thing for something real' I'm all for it."

That's awesome! This is only for UK sales right?

This is cute, especially considering both RATM and X-Factor recordings are owned by Sony.

This is really "sticking it to the man", isn't it?

It's about not being spoonfed music, not about where the money goes - is the glass always half empty for you Julian?

Rage Against the Machine incited mass panic at a British radio show this morning -- when the lead singer unleashed a string of f-bombs during a live on-air performance.

It all went down on UK's Radio Five Live's Breakfast Show during a performance of "Killing in the Name" -- after the band was asked to cut the curse words from the song. According to the DJ, the band obliged before the performance -- but apparently had a change of heart once they went on the air.

After a series of f-bombs, a female DJ can be heard scrambling to cut the audio -- saying, "Get rid of it!" Obviously, Rage was not allowed back on the air.

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Getting support from a few places

Sir Paul McCartney, who performed on the final show:

Dominic Howard from Muse even buying a copy despite his band being on the chart:




Latest update from NME doesn't bode too well though:




 Face Palm

All RATM profits from UK sales are going to charity. So, yes I suppose.

So Rage Against the Machine wasn't spoonfed to the masses in 1992? Sony never had an agreement with Triple J to play them, for example???

Do a bit of research about Rage. For all their posturing, they're just as commercial as Avril Lavigne.

Call me jaded, but I just think there are far better songs by far more independent groups not tied to major labels that deserve support over the Sony produced 15 year old song...


If you read Tom Morello latest, it's "part proceeds"...

http://musicispower.youthmusic.org.uk/blog/87/rageagainstthemachineabigthankyoutotommorello/

Every bit counts I suppose... After all, even Hitler did some good...

That may be true, but are there hundreds of thousands of other people out there who would also think the same and make what is currently happening possible?


Ahh, well that's not quite so good, but better than nothing I guess.

Not in the X-Factor way no. At least the music was their own and appealed to people because of that. I listened to it because a friend gave it to me and I liked it, not because it was playing on the radio.


Never said they weren't, but it's not really about them is it.


Jaded.



Exactly, not many other songs would be able to do it. Right song, right time.



FFS Julian it's a bit of fun to try and knock Simon Cowell's manufactured singers off the top spot, go back to being funkyj somewhere else.

But how many of those songs would have anywhere near the profile, respect or fanbase of KITNO to actually have a chance of knocking off the x-factor winner?

FunkyJ, please double check for us all that you do not actually have a vagina. You complain about everything so much so that I fail to believe that you are not suffering extended bouts of PMS.

You would think that on just the one occasion he could actually see the fun in something.

What. A. Knob.  Face Palm

It worked!!!! boh

RATM said they would play a free UK gig if it won too.

 Tis the season!

Apparently it sold 200,000 copies across Friday and Saturday.

I can't believe his comments either. The mere fact that a 17 year old track is competing with an X-Factor winner for number 1 should have probably been a fair indication to him that this "dreadful" song, has built up a massive fanbase across the globe and has stood the test of time. His hard work involves winning a fucking talent contest, and I use the word talent very loosely, covering a song (a crap one too) that was originally released THIS YEAR and not even written by the original person who performed it. How is that hard work? Perhaps he'll realise that slagging off people who are far better than you isn't such a good idea as he fades away to being a nobody again.

Yea, exactly.

It's funny now that he's lost, he's completely changed his tact trying to look civil, saying congratulations to the organisers and that he was happy just to have won X-Factor and have a debut single.

Well Like someone else said, I would rather hear that they are on top of the charts... And theyre profits are going to charity...


At least in 10 years people will know who RATM are, do you remember the first aussie/american/uk idol winner??

I dont

guy sebastian b2b kelly clarkson innit

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 Some of the profits!

yeah well better some of the profits going to charity rather than to Simon Cowells new lamborghini

 laugh Yeah, that Kelly Clarkson is really struggling though.


Which are also more than made up for by maintaining a consistent and, though obviously niche, highly marketable image through such perfunctory acts.


You are aware that with Sony owning the rights to RATM distribution, and royalties being such a tiny cut of the actual profits, Simon will likely make more money than the charities from KITNO, aren't you?

Yeah I know... but they are still going to charity...

IE this is RATM ''all the money we get from this goes to charity, not in our pockets''

obviously itunes and beatport and sony and everything else is going to take their cut of the profit, cept for RATM...

Simon Cowell would be like "I can skin 1000 poor kids for my new lounge... "