Let me explain, for the past four years, Simon Cowell has hijacked the the coveted position of Christmas number one. You might be wondering how?
Well, by scheduling his reality TV show "X-Factor" so it ends just before Christmas he has been able to abuse the popularity of the show to guarantee that the winner (someone he represents) makes it to Christmas number one.
After god knows how many weeks of television and newspaper exposure these acts, talented though some of them maybe, are easily making it to number one in the singles charts even though they don't deserve it. They aren't acquiring this position honestly and for four years they have deprived more deserving acts of this place.
If this keeps happening, slowly but surely the position of Christmas number one will slowly become worthless/meaningless and loose all prestige and another British tradition will die.
I say this needs to stop, and many others agree with me.
In fact, lots of other people agree with me. So many in fact that people are rallying together to get Rage Against the Machine to the number one slot this Christmas just to show Simon Cowell he can't cheat his way to number one.
From December 13th nearly 400,000 people have agreed to buy Rage Against the Machines "Killing in the Name" from digital sources like iTunes and Play.com in an attempt to show Simon Cowell that he can't buy his way into the number one slot at Christmas. They can be found on Facebook at this link... -----> http://bit.ly/inthenameNow, I know some of the X-factor singles profits are going to charity, but don't worry, the people supporting this cause have set up this fund raising group as well to make sure this cause doesn't deprive any charity of money. It can be found here. ----> http://www.justgiving.com/ratm4xmas
And, both singles are with different companies who are both ultimately owned by Sony. But all companies involved have to run independent of each other by law. So a company Sony own will see profit, but the label Cowell runs will see nothing from people purchasing "Killing in the Name"
And just to clarify, this has nothing to do with who earns what.
It's not about money or an anti capitalist agenda.
It's about stopping someone using the popularity of a TV show to gain exposure not available to other artist to tip the scales unfairly in the favor of an act they represent getting to Christmas number one and depriving more deserving artist from getting it.
So please spread the word, through your blog, through your Twitter, through your facebook or through literal word of mouth. It doesn't matter, just alert as many people as you think might actually get behind this movement as you can.
It would cost no more than 99p for somebody to actively take part in this, it doesn't even matter if you already have the song, it's 99p to send a very clear message to Simon Cowell.
"You can't buy your way into our charts."
That is all.
-- Dan
Edit:
We are not getting anywhere with this casual tweeting of RATM4XMAS.
So I am proposing an organised mass tweet at 2:00 and 7:00 PM (British Time) everyday starting on the 10th of Dec and continuing to the 19th. For more info go here.
http://bit.ly/8nBZFx
