The UK Christmas number one is Britain’s most hotly contested music chart of the year.It even features in the film Love Actually, with the come back of a washed up and aging rocker. For the past few years it has been dominated by Simon Cowell’s X Factor, much to the dissatisfaction of music critics.
This year, however is different…. a web based call to action using social media and networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter named “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CHRISTMAS NO.1“. It accrued almost 1 million fans, all vying to make “Killing in The Name” the number one record this Christmas.
The campaign proved successful: “Killing in the Name” sold around 500,000 copies, versus 450,000 for the X Factor winner, in turn really annoying Mr Cowell but also demonstrating the power of the social web.
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