Rage Against The Machine secure Christmas No.1

After the massive backlash about X Factor's dominance over the Christmas No.1's in recent years, the facebook group that was set up to challenge the Christmas No.1 has been successful. The song chosen to challenge Joe's "The Climb" was Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name". The final figures were 502,600 to Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" and 450,800 to Joe McElderry's "The Climb".

Rage against the machine pulled an early lead at the start of the week, but it was feared that Joe would pull ahead when the physical single was released this Wednesday (RATM didn't have a physical single available for release). With close midweek figures on Friday's midweeks, it was thought that Joe would pull away come Sundays official announcement, but with all the press coverage garnered from the facebook campaign, the British public rallied behind the campaign and ensured that RATM secured the coverted No.1 spot (full breakdown of day by day sales figures at the bottom).

Here are the video's for each song as well as an amazing mash-up of "Killing In The Name" to X Factor clips.

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name



Joe McElderry - The Climb



Parody of Killing in the Name with X Factor clips



Below is a list of sales figures for each day, along with the final figures:

Tuesday Midweeks
1 Rage Against The Machine 83k
2 Joe McElderry 77k

Wednesday Midweeks
No data released

Thursday Midweeks
1 Rage Against The Machine 253k
2 Joe McElderry 216k

Friday Midweeks
01 Rage Against The Machine 306,115
02 Joe McElderry 297,192

Final Figures
01 Rage Against The Machine 502,600
02 Joe McEldery 450,800

X Factor this week

Who do you think was the best performer this week?

Though many people have criticized his performance, Danyl's vocal performance on Man In The Mirror was my highlight of the show, the first verse and chorus were shockingly bad, but the last 45 seconds were better than the rest of the performances, even if it didn't match up to my favourite Jackson song...






The other highlight of the show for me was Stacey's 'Somehow, Someday, Somewhere", though she messed up the last note, she still knocked it out the park.









The person I think that will be going home this week is Olly, I always thought he was gonna win the show, but now he is definitely the weakest of the three, his dance moves this week were ridiculous and just embarassing and his vocals were sub par.