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Killing In The Name Of...
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According to iTunes, as I type, it's outselling the X-Factor single.
This pleases me.
This pleases me.
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http://www.livehits.co.uk/ for downloads at least
Obviously it has to be way ahead on downloads to win it, because it's not available on CD.
It's number 1 and 3 in the Amazon chart, because there's a clean version too.
If you needed another reason.
Apparently that doesn't count, because it has to cost 40p or more to be counted, or something. According to the facebook group. So there's no point buying it on Amazon.
Surely they can't beat Joe though? The CD single is being released today, and most of the gimps who buy X Factor releases are likely to be the kind of people who are too technologically inept to download it, so will have been waiting to buy the CD version.
Why not? if everyone on the original FB group actually bought a copy it could be, seeing as it was getting close to a million members ebfore it started crashing/disappearing all the time.
Let's assume that not everyone who joined the facebook group will buy a copy. Seems a fair assumption, since many people will have joined the group just because one of their facebook friends invited them to, or whatever. You've got to be massively optimistic to think even half the members of the group will buy it.
Let's also assume that not everybody who voted for Joe to win X Factor will buy the single.
Suppose the proportions are roughly the same of these people; roughly the same proportion of members of the group will not buy RATM, as voters for Joe will not buy his single.
Nonetheless, the facebook group has 1 million members. 10 million votes were cast for Joe.
Even if a far smaller proportion of Joe's voters buy singles, on this logic he still has a lot of leeway to still get to number 1.
I can't work out why anyone cares, anyway. You'd think there was some golden era when Christmas number 1s were amazing and culturally significant. That's just false.
ETA: Alexandra sold 650,000 singles last year. That requires 2/3 of the members of the group buying the single, and I can't see that happening. Plus, this campaign is likely to encourage the teenyboppers that love Joe to buy more singles than they might otherwise have done.
Might it be that the facebook group was perchance set up by someone from Sony BMG rather than a well-meaning rock fan with slight anarchistic tendencies, and the former are now sitting back and rubbing their hands together with glee at all the money they're making? :chin:
I love what this stands for, and you can't argue with the money it's making for charity, but I smell a rat.
At end of the day it's a bit of fun, and the campaign has ended up raising a load of money for charity, even if inadvertently. Already read soemwhere else where this has been suggested and couple interviewed who set it up turn out to eb geniune.
Even if not, it'd still rather hear RATM on the radio than x-factor shite.
But is the best way to undermine and piss off the corporate bigwig record execs to buy hundreds of thousands of copies of a tune that they own, while inadvertently fuelling sales of another tune that....they own?
That's the dealer price, not the retail price. The X-Factor single is on there for 29p too, and I doubt they'd allow it to be sold for too little to count towards the chart, since that's the whole point of the single.
Last year the aim was to get Leonard Cohen's original (and much better) version of Hallelujah to number one ahead of Alexandra Burke's. They didn't make it, but it did chart at number 2, which was a pretty good effort.
Anyway, just my 2p.
Fair enough, I was just quoting what I had read on the facebook group.
I have no intention of buying either, since one is a pile of wank, and I already own the other.
Killing in the Name has also been getting some Radio 1 play over the past few days.
Of course it was!
I did know that originally. This body co-habiting thing is making me stupid
Winter Winds should be number one on music merit (not by xfactor marketing or a facebook campaign)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY