If you read my blog regularly, which not many people do, you’d know that I wanted to get either Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” or Chris Moyles’ “Never Gonna Snow” to number one for Christmas instead of the X Factor winner, which turned out to be Joe McElderry. Of course, this was nothing personal against Joe, as Wade and I posted about the campaign long, long before he won the competition. However, someone else had a similar, more successful idea.
Mr and Mrs Morter launched a campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” to number one for Christmas, hoping to inspire the British alternative music scene into taking on the might of the X Factor. And they did. And they won!
Of course, I do feel sorry for Joe McElderry, as he did work hard on the X Factor to win the show, but I am very happy that someone’s finally got the point across that they can’t just claim that number one spot every single year. It’s also a great year to do it, the last Christmas Number One of the decade has gone to someone other than the X Factor, it’s just a shame that it didn’t go to a more Christmassy song. I don’t think we’ll be listening to Rage around the Christmas dinner table with the kids.
Buy the songs:
- Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name [Explicit]
- Joe McElderry: The Climb
