WonderBoyd89 5,985,718 views The group's expletive-ridden 1992 song Killing in the Name sold more than half a million copies, beating the youngster's cover of Miley Cyrus's The Climb by 50,000 sales. A FACEBOOK campaign has been launched encouraging Rage Against The Machine fans to make the band's 1992 hit, Killing In The Name, the UK's Number One Christmas Single. Jon Morter, 35, a part-time rock DJ and logistics expert from South Woodham Ferrers, near Chelmsford, decided it would be a bit of a giggle to start a campaign to encourage people to buy a record with pretty much the opposite vibe to the X Factor winner's ballad. McElderry is off on an Alpine skiing holiday to ponder his next move. It is simply one of the biggest shocks in chart history. Killing In The Name, an expletive-heavy rock song first released in 1992 by the Californian rock band Rage Against the Machine, won the battle for Christmas top spot on the basis of downloads only. While McElderry urges listeners to "keep the faith", the Rage track is best known for its now-ironic refrain: "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.". Santa Claus is another name for Father Christmas. De la Rocha said the band would perform a free concert in the UK in 2010 to celebrate their chart win. Facebook campaigner Jon Morter on why he set up the battle. ‘Killing in the name’ won number one position in the UK music charts at Christmas. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Live on BBC Radio 5 Live Video Full and Uncensored - Duration: 9:17. Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. 23:05 5th October 2010. The Christmas Number 1 is always the biggest chart of the year. Detractors of X Factor are buying Rage Against The Machine's 1992 single Killing In The Name in the hope of beating the talent show's winner Joe McElderry to the top spot in the Christmas charts. 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. For Cowell, and Sony, and Rage Against the Machine (who, let's face it, originally only got to number 25 in the charts with "Killing in the Name" and will find an ever-appreciated popularity boost in their stocking this year) Christmas … Only Christians celebrate Christmas. He added that proceeds from the single would go to homeless charity Shelter tying in with the Morters' Facebook campaign which includes an online link to give to the charity, raising over £70,000 so far. Most teenage girls will buy Joe's single a bunch of times to make themselves feel special. Despite earlier in the week calling the campaign "stupid", X Factor judge Simon Cowell offered his congratulations to the couple behind it, Jon and Tracy Morter. Killing In The Name is the first download-only Christmas number one, … Historic and controversial Rage Against the Machine live radio broadcast to fight homelessness and Simon Cowell filmed in entirety by DC3 Music Group. So when Joe McElderry won the TV talent contest, he was no doubt confident he would celebrate Christmas at the top of the charts. On December 15, the BBC reported the group had more than 750,000 members. McElderry, 18, praised the campaign, adding: "It's been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they definitely deserve congratulations.". This year it has gone stratospheric.". The last big Christmas battle on a similar scale was between the Spice Girls' Goodbye and South Park character Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls in 1998. He later told BBC Radio One he did not believe the internet campaign was a personal attack. Mutha-fuck-eeeeeerz! Depending on your view, the Rage victory was either a delicious dismantling of the X Factor Christmas No 1 juggernaut or a cynical assault on the festive charts. Have Your Say: What does Rage's victory mean for X Factor? What is going on in the song likely to be at least this year's Christmas Number Two? We've put together the definitive list of every Christmas Number 1 song on The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 - all the way from Rage Against The Answer Machine's 'Killing in the Name' to the most recent Christmas champion. One retailer said it was a "truly remarkable outcome - possibly the greatest chart upset ever". In 2009, it became the Christmas number one; this was due to a campaign to prevent The X Factor winner's song from gaining the Christmas number one in the United Kingdom for a fifth successive year. So say around 1 million people. I'm just delighted to be in the charts.". Guitarist Tom Morello said it had "tapped into the silent majority of the people in the UK who are tired of being spoon-fed one schmaltzy ballad after another". More about: Rage Against The Machine. By the time Paul McCartney and former X Factor winner Steve Brookstein had pledged their support, poor McElderry seemed doomed. 1 single had won the X-Factor. There was, though, some indignation when it emerged both records had links to Simon Cowell, the entertainment industry's favourite pantomime baddy. "We really love music and remember when were were young the charts were really exciting. Killing In The Name sold more than 500,000 copies in the past week while The Climb sold 450,000. 1" is a Facebook buycott campaign that made Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 radical protest song "Killing In The Name" the top-selling single in the UK during Christmas in December 2009. The battle for Christmas Number 1 raged on through the week but when the final whistle went, it was Rage Against The Machine who finished in front, selling an incredible 502,000 copies to … "McElderry took his defeat graciously, saying: "Fair play to the guys who have organised the Facebook campaign – it's been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they definitely deserve congratulations. BBC Artist Page: Rage Against The Machine, Just Giving: Rage for Christmas number one, Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir. The rap metal group snatched the Christmas number one on Sunday with the help of an internet campaign on Facebook. It sold about 500,000 copies last week, about 50,000 more than The Climb, McElderry's earnest ballad. From the years 2005-2008 inclusive, every artist with a Christmas no. Rage Against The Machine are signed to Epic Records, which is part of Sony Music, the same label as McElderry. If anything, last year was fun. 4. When the Guardian broke the news to Morter that he had won, he was initially lost for words. "It's been such an incredible couple of months and I got the best Christmas gift I could ever have asked for in winning The X Factor.". He said: "It's more against the show than me and I think if any other person had have won, the same thing would have happened, because the petition was going on before the winner had been announced.". "I am proud of Joe - he worked really hard this week, but he has a great year ahead of him.". Please turn on JavaScript. But arguably the real victor here was a rock fan from Essex who started a Facebook group a month ago with the (then) pie-in-the-sky idea of usurping the X Factor winner from the no 1 slot. Killing In The Name Of Christmas Number One. "It took something really strong and forceful to get people behind it.". Most Popular Now | 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. McElderry's song was only released digitally after his victory in the X Factor, giving it less time to rack up sales than Rage Against The Machine. Killing In The Name, an expletive-heavy rock song first released in 1992 by the Californian rock band Rage Against the Machine, won the battle for … They hoped to prevent the winner of The X Factor, a televised singing competition, from achieving the UK Christmas number one for the fifth year running. "Umm. no," he said. The Los Angeles rock band's hit also set another record: it has achieved the biggest download sales total in a first week ever in the UK charts. A husband and wife team decided to set up a … Killing In The Name sold more than 500,000 copies in the past week while The Climb chalked up sales of 450,000. This chart shock is right up there with Spiller's 'Groovejet' derailing the start of Victoria Beckham's non-Spice Career in 2000 or crooner Engelbert Humperdinck ending The Beatles' run of 11 number ones in a row. True False 8. True False 6. Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one. This year the corporate might of Simon Cowell has been defeated by a husband and wife's Facebook campaign. "RATM For Christmas No. Rage Against The Machine have won the battle for Christmas Number One ahead of The X Factor ‘s Joe McElderry. 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. The Spice Girls won with 380,000 to their rival's 375,000. Alexandra Burke, the 2008 X Factor winner, won that battle, but having succeeded in propelling Astley to "the lower echelons of the chart", Morter was emboldened to try again. He added it was an "incredible organic grassroots campaign". True False 7. Anyone who thinks RATM is going to get to the number 1 spot needs to wake up. Killing In The Name was not available as a single on CD and is the first download-only Christmas number one, and achieved the biggest download sales total in a first week ever in the British charts. After a Facebook campaign against Simon Cowell's chart domination, music fans celebrate their victory, Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine performing at the Reading Festival. His wife Tracy said: "It was one of those little silly ideas that make you laugh in your own house. This is not the first campaign the Morters have launched to try to influence the charts - last year they attempted to get Rick Astley to the top spot. Over the weekend, Facebook and Twitter were collectively gripped by the hormonal, door-slamming spirit of Kevin the teenager, as a … It seems to almost go without saying that people these days expect it to be the X Factor winner (we’re backing Olly in case you wondered). "Oh bloody hell," he said, as the consequences of what he had done became clear. Thanking all the fans who bought his single, he said: "This time last year I never thought for one minute that I'd win The X Factor, never mind about having a debut single out, so I'm just delighted to be in the charts. Simon Cowell has suffered a rare setback after rap metal act Rage Against The Machine snatched the Christmas number one from his X Factor winner Joe McElderry. If enough people are with you, you can beat the status quo. This concert was a thank you to Rage Against The Machine's UK fans who, through a canny Facebook campaign, had kept the X Factor record off the Number 1 spot by getting 'Killing In the Name' to the UK Christmas Number 1 in 2009. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites, How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire, Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit, BBC News Updated every minute of every day. This time last year I never thought for one minute I'd win The X Factor, never mind having a single out. On Friday the band's lead was just 9,000 copies, but sales then soared by 200,000 to secure victory. In early December 2009, English DJ Jon Morter and his wife Tracy launched a group on the social networking site Facebook encouraging people to buy the song in the week before Christmas. He had tried a similar wheeze last year, when he attempted to get Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up to the top of the Christmas charts. The alternative contenders for the Xmas top spot... Robert Leedham. Band Aid 20: Do They Know It's Christmas? We just thought, wouldn't it be funny if that song got to number one? "It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly," he said. In recent years, it had become as predictable as elections in North Korea – singer wins X Factor, singer's debut single goes to No 1. Two other points; this could become an annual event, the public deciding on a track with which to take on the X Factor winner. "I called Jon on Saturday to congratulate the two of them that, win or lose, they turned this into a very exciting race for the Christmas number one. Despite Cowell giving some pseudo-grumpy interviews, he phoned Morter on Saturday night to congratulate him on the campaign. At the end of the day he has had a Christmas no 2 with his debut single, which is still a phenomenal achievement. Composing himself, he said: "I think it just shows that in this day and age, if you want to say something, then you can – with the help of the internet and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. A Christmas cracker is a type of dessert. So, not long until the Christmas number 1 single of 2009 will be upon us. Photograph: Chiaki Nozu/FilmMagic.com, Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still. ", Morter, a big Iron Maiden fan, said the choice of a relatively obscure Miley Cyrus cover for McElderry's single helped the Rage campaign: "If he had released Don't Stop Believing [the Journey song McElderry sang in an X Factor heat] we would have been dead and buried. "He commended us on how we had marketed the campaign, and said if we won, he would be the first to congratulate us," Morter said. Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. The common belief was that the race for Christmas number one had been destroyed by the X Factor. Speaking on the Radio 1 chart show, Zack de la Rocha from Rage said: "We are very, very ecstatic about being number one.". ", But doesn't he feel guilty about denying McElderry his first No 1? Rage Against the Machine 's 1992 single " Killing in the Name " outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign against this trend. This made them the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download-only single, and resulted in the most download sales in … Whereas 10 million people voted on the X Factor. "Not really. Rage Against the Machine have pledged to give all profits of the single to the homelessness charity Shelter, and will perform a free victory gig in the UK to thank those who bought their single. Media requires JavaScript to play. 700,000 people signed up, plus a couple of odd hundred thousand who are jumping on the bandwagon. This time, he was helped by the comedian Peter Serafinowicz, who on 15 December urged his 268,000-plus Twitter followers to join in, and it snowballed from there. Secondly there is still every chance Joe will reach number one next week. ⠀⠀ This band generated energy so intense that you could cut it … Despite losing out on the single top spot, Cowell kept a hold on the album chart, with Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream remaining at number one for a fourth week. The campaign to get Rage Against the Machine's song Killing in the Name to number one in the UK charts began earlier this month. The Rage Against the Machine campaign was designed for one week only so Joe could get the top spot, saving him the indignity of being the first X Factor winner not to hit number one with their debut single. Christmas music, for the most part, tends to be both non-offensive and fairly generic- two things you can’t really say about the song, Killing in the Name by rap metal band, Rage Against the Machine, which somehow managed to become the 2009 UK Christmas #1 thanks to the efforts of a couple who was really annoyed with the coveted spot being dominated by whoever won the UK X … "When this year came around I just thought, let's have another go. The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X … Mr Morter, 35, said he learnt "how the charts work" from that experience, and "what you can get away with". And the profits are no doubt mounting. The band topped the chart with their 1992 hit Killing In The Name … "; 2001: Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman: Somethin' Stupid, 2002: Girls Aloud: Sound of the Underground, 2003: Michael Andrews feat Gary Jules: Mad World. True False 5. He said: "I am gutted for Joe because a number one single meant a lot to him but I have to congratulate Jon and Tracy, who started the Facebook campaign. Alas for the 18-year-old from South Shields, it wasn't to be: a song almost his own age denied him the top spot after a successful online campaign. It doesn’t always snow at Christmas in Britain. The past four Christmas number ones have all been by X Factor winners; Alexandra Burke's version of Hallelujah last year was one of the biggest selling festive singles ever. 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