RATM steals the glory! Guardian.co.uk reports that Killing In The Name has won the battle for Christmas top spot on the basis of downloads only. It sold about 500,000 copies last week, approximately 50,000 more than The Climb, X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s earnest ballad. Campaign initiator 35 year old Jon Morter claims that 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.” Hopefully Morter’s statement against pansy-ass cover songs has taught the ‘powers that be’ a lesson in song choice! Anarchy has triumphed under the ironic banner of a song that says “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”. The success of Morter’s facebook campaign, which was assisted by twitter, is a testament to the strength of social media: used in this case as a tool to unite a collective in a bid to topple the status quo. In this battle, the internet has emerged as master in command.
Rage Against the Machine claims the No 1 Christmas spot
– December 21, 2009Posted in: Culture
I think he’s selling RATM a bit short. If there was ever a band to embody a fight against the established system, RATM was it.
Also, as a result of the win, they’re doing a completely free concert (I can’t remember the exact Park name they’ll be performing at) and they’re confirmed as one of the headlining acts at Download this year.
Hopefully this gets the creative juices flowing and we can expect another album out, perhaps even by the end of the year…. I heard there was a possibility of the Audioslave split, but the recent attention makes the possibility more and more of a (dare I say it) eventuality….
RAGE!!!