Squatney Steel is delighted to be backing the campaign.
Set up by some bright sparks on Facebook the campaign to get RATM to Christmas number one instead of the usual pre-packaged X Factor shite. The group now has 604,001 members who are “fed up of The X-Factor’s latest karaoke act being Christmas No.1.”
If every one of those bought ‘Killing in the Name of’ next week then it would make number one and would take internet campaigning (or alternative marketing) into a whole new stratosphere. Members of the group were earlier suggesting that everyone should buy the song three times each.
But probably most of the people in the group have just clicked on it and won’t bother to actually buy one at all and just joined on Facebook.
Well if that sounds like you here is an inspirational video to talk you out of that mindset:
Join the facebook group here.
Don’t forget to buy the song from Monday. That’s when the chart begins to be compiled.
UPDATE: Christmas Number One 2009!
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Have to agree with Cowell, its not him you are ruining its the finalists. I love all the finalisst, but especially Joe for his extra work for Great Ormond Street’s Get Fit – http://bit.ly/8gPfX – so rooting for him tomorrow night and the Christmas number one x
I think the point is more that the race for Christmas number one has been an absolute joke since X Factor et al has taken over Saturday nights, and people are sick of it.
Good luck to the finalists and all that and good on them for any charity work I suppose. The facebook group above does have an appeal for a charity too.
I can’t see them being ‘ruined’ by it, they don’t earn very much money from a cover song after both sets of publishers, the record company and the original writer makes their money and if they are talented enough they will come back with material of their own and make it big.
They’ve made it, No 1 indeed 🙂