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Following last years campaign to get Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name Of to top the charts at Christmas, thousands of punters have signed up to get 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence to top the singles chart.
The campaign made Rage Against the Machine the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download-only single, and the song also became the most download song in a single week ever in UK chart history.
The win by Rage broke a run by the luminaries of the The X Factor – Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis, Leon Jackson and Alexandra Burke – who had taken the number one spot on the Christmas countdown between 2005 to 2009. Due to the predictable success of the The X Factor contestants, bookmakers started taking bets in 2007 to allow punters to punt on who would take out the second place on the Christmas singles chart.
Though the domination by TV stars was hardly a new phenomenon; other
Christmas number ones include Rolf Harris’ Two Little Boys in 1969, Benny Hill’s 1971 classic Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) and Bob The Builder who dominated the 2000 poll with Can We Fix It?.
This year almost than 23 thousand people have already joined the Facebook campaign.’Cage Against the Machine’, which urges punters to buy the avant-garde track 4,33 by John Cage
[YT]hUJagb7hL0E&feature=player_embedded#![/YT]
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/international/25789/Rage-in-silence
The campaign made Rage Against the Machine the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download-only single, and the song also became the most download song in a single week ever in UK chart history.
The win by Rage broke a run by the luminaries of the The X Factor – Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis, Leon Jackson and Alexandra Burke – who had taken the number one spot on the Christmas countdown between 2005 to 2009. Due to the predictable success of the The X Factor contestants, bookmakers started taking bets in 2007 to allow punters to punt on who would take out the second place on the Christmas singles chart.
Though the domination by TV stars was hardly a new phenomenon; other
Christmas number ones include Rolf Harris’ Two Little Boys in 1969, Benny Hill’s 1971 classic Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) and Bob The Builder who dominated the 2000 poll with Can We Fix It?.
This year almost than 23 thousand people have already joined the Facebook campaign.’Cage Against the Machine’, which urges punters to buy the avant-garde track 4,33 by John Cage
[YT]hUJagb7hL0E&feature=player_embedded#![/YT]
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/international/25789/Rage-in-silence
