No, it doesn't distort anything...it reflects the power of TV.

Over the years, Nick Berry, Benny Hill, and a whole lot more chart toppers have used the power of TV to have big hits....Cowell is simply another one of those, only in a more polished way.

I am not getting angry about it Angry Pirate I am just taking part in a public protest, which is something everyone should support the principle of,if not the aim.

I am not asking you to support it as that is your choice,but isn't great that it has got so many people talking and interested on both sides for whatever reasons.
Thats whats great about our country.

At the end of the day its abit of harmless fun.

Bring back Robson and Jerome.

Exactly right lets enjoy it's Christmas !

There we go then. Power to the people.

RATM have got number one.

The campaign of HOP's [i"Jump Around" [/ifor New Year Number One starts here...

Bob The Builder was a great christmas number one

Mr Blobby?

The examples you quote did not get thirteen weeks of prime-time Saturday night exposure for their coming single. Indeed, rightly-or-wrongly Berry was told by his Beeb bosses not to record any more songs! Final proof of the 'distortion' is that, for X Factor, the unknown single by the unknown artist was available for pre-order in advance!!

Good luck to Simon Cowell, he's a showbiz genius nonetheless.

I might have missed this but exactly why was this RATM track picked to be the one used for this 'campaign'?

oops...

n/t

Best. Christmas. Ever.

For the lyrics at the end, I thought

Christmas 2009 the year Rage defeated The X Factor, I'm proud to have been apart of it.

Rage were obviously chosen because the band name nicely works - Rage Against The X Factor - and Killing In The Name was obviously chosen because the lyrics work - F*** you we won't buy what you sell us.

It's not hard to work that out.

Personally when I first heard about the campaign I liked it but thought they'd have absolutely no chance doing it with Killing In The Name as it was too controversial and divisive. I would have chosen Fairytale of New York as it's a much loved Christmas song, universally respected by more serious music fans and enjoyed by casual listeners alike. It also never made Christmas number one on it's original release so it would be an opportunity to right a wrong so to speak. I thought the campaign would have had far more chance of success with that.

BUT they went for it, took the gamble with Rage and it worked. Brilliant.

Likewise. Credit to Rugbychick too as her passionate posts about it on here, along with similar by a couple of like-minds on a Liverpool forum I use were what finally convinced the cynic in me that it really was possible, leading to my eleventh hour purchase of a song I already own on Saturday night!

I think it's brilliant. I really do. Love the song always have done. Saw them at reading last year and was apprehensive but they were brilliant. Nice to hear they are now going to put a massive free gig on for us all next year.



[urlhttp://www.ratm.com/[/url

But rather than simply not buy the X Factor single, you bought a song you already own. Superb.

I bought 5 copies of it from iTunes, Amazon etc etc and I had the album on CD. It was about the principle of not having the Xmas No1 dictated to us, not the song ownership.

You are missing the point by some margin.

Music has changed hands from the record lable to the concert promoter (conveniently for some!) which has got people like cowell making ready made flops so they can also take them all on tour for six months then drop them like a stone the year after.

It's great that people have come together and acheived something that you would not have believed possible a month ago. It could have been any song, that's not what matters here. It's the face that we don't want X Factor being Xmas number one every year and ruining that little bit of Christmas tradition we have in this country. So we did something about it. Brilliant.

I was there too and they were outstanding. We were stood quite far away as we went straight over from seeing Pennywise in the Lock Up tent so couldn't be bothered wading through the huge main stage crowd and just stood near the back but I was made up to finally be seeing them after missing out first time around and they did not disappoint.

I hope they do a normal tour on the back of this as well as the free gig and play somewhere like Manchester Apollo.

Power to the people.

Do people think this will be a annual event now or a one off protest ?