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Rezikk
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Posted - 2009.12.05 22:40:00 -
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If you haven't seen this year's attempt to prevent X Factor blandness taking the No1 slot on Dec 20th head over to Rage Factor! A similar campaign last year managed to get Rick Astley to number 2 so surely a good song has a better chance this time around.
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karma militia
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Posted - 2009.12.06 03:01:00 -
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Edited by: karma militia on 06/12/2009 03:08:50
Hehe, neat idea.
"...Make you think that buying is rebelling"
"Godzilla, PURE MOTHER****ING FILLER"
<3 Rage.
 Originally by: Corwain
The human race is going extinct soon and you all ****ing deserve it.
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Horza Gelian
Galactic Shipyards Inc
Huzzah Federation
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Posted - 2009.12.06 17:07:00 -
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Guerilla Radio \o/
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Kan3r Blaze
Minmatar
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.12.06 17:37:00 -
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This is a superb idea.
There's a Facebook group as well that's growing by 10 members every second or so...
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Miss Ogynist
Hedion University
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Posted - 2009.12.06 18:37:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Ogynist on 06/12/2009 18:38:59
Originally by: Kan3r Blaze
This is a superb idea.
There's a Facebook group as well that's growing by 10 members every year or so...
Fixed it for you.
It's a good idea but a few hundred thousand anti-Cowell protesters can't compete against all the millions of raging girlies who buy X-Factor **** year after bland year.
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Stealnutz
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.12.06 19:19:00 -
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Last year the number one was 570,000 sales or so - whether thats a realistic target to beat I don't know. But to be honest the prospect of giving a great big STFU to Cowell fills my soul with glad tidings 
Oh and bump for great justice!
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Kan3r Blaze
Minmatar
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.12.06 19:46:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Ogynist
Edited by: Miss Ogynist on 06/12/2009 18:38:59
Originally by: Kan3r Blaze
This is a superb idea.
There's a Facebook group as well that's growing by 10 members every year or so...
Fixed it for you.
It's a good idea but a few hundred thousand anti-Cowell protesters can't compete against all the millions of raging girlies who buy X-Factor **** year after bland year.
You obviously didn't actually look at the page before "correcting" me. That FB group I was talking about has increased by approx 13k in one hour.
Therefore, it is increasing by 3 members a second.
Also, as someone has pointed out, to get to No. 1 for Christmas based upon previous sales you need about half a million. So, whilst it needs one hell of an effort to manage it it's not the "millions" that you quote.
Word of advice, if you're going to act all high and mighty it might be prudent to check your facts first.
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Miss Ogynist
Hedion University
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Posted - 2009.12.06 20:01:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Ogynist on 06/12/2009 20:03:10
Originally by: Kan3r Blaze
Originally by: Miss Ogynist
Edited by: Miss Ogynist on 06/12/2009 18:38:59
Originally by: Kan3r Blaze
This is a superb idea.
There's a Facebook group as well that's growing by 10 members every year or so...
Fixed it for you.
It's a good idea but a few hundred thousand anti-Cowell protesters can't compete against all the millions of raging girlies who buy X-Factor **** year after bland year.
You obviously didn't actually look at the page before "correcting" me. That FB group I was talking about has increased by approx 13k in one hour.
Therefore, it is increasing by 3 members a second.
Also, as someone has pointed out, to get to No. 1 for Christmas based upon previous sales you need about half a million. So, whilst it needs one hell of an effort to manage it it's not the "millions" that you quote.
Word of advice, if you're going to act all high and mighty it might be prudent to check your facts first.
Have you ever heard of hyperbole? My point is still moot. This will fail, although I would love to see it win. I joined the Facebook group myself a few days ago when I first heard the news and I'll be buying the track after the 12th to make sure I've done my bit. However, the hype from X-Factor and the number of people who buy it's ****e music will outnumber those who want to see something else win the Christmas No 1.
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Kan3r Blaze
Minmatar
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.12.06 20:05:00 -
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The reason I picked a hole in your "millions" statement is because of your asshat correction of my post.
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JordanParey
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.12.06 20:34:00 -
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WHY? WHY did they have to pick RATM?
Why not Tool, or A Perfect Circle, or something...better...?? 
bleh.
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Rolk Anderson
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Posted - 2009.12.06 20:59:00 -
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If they pick something with a reasonable number of sales anyway i can see this happening. If they don't i don't
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Miss Ogynist
Hedion University
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Posted - 2009.12.07 00:07:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Ogynist on 07/12/2009 00:10:26
Originally by: Kan3r Blaze
The reason I picked a hole in your "millions" statement is because of your asshat correction of my post.
I was employing sarcasm and hyperbole. Not sarcasm towards you or your post, but towards the aforementioned schoolgirl types who buy that crap.
Currently the Facebook group has 278,900 members (exactly). Even if all of them buy the RATM song, that's still not enough to get it to No 1. We need, as someone mentioned previously, at least 500,000 to be in with a chance.
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Stealnutz
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.12.08 16:25:00 -
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The group has just hit 400,000 members - join now to free the number 1 slot from the X-factor!!!
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BItchAssSlave
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Posted - 2009.12.08 16:34:00 -
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x factor is everthing thts wrong with music
Buy the rage single for all your friends for xmas especially your grans i hear they love it, lets take simons **** from the top
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Stealnutz
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.12.08 16:38:00 -
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The group was mentioned on Radio 1 after the track was played, more coverage Gogogoogo!!
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Druadan
BLAM Industries
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Posted - 2009.12.09 03:28:00 -
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Originally by: JordanParey
WHY? WHY did they have to pick RATM?
Why not Tool, or A Perfect Circle, or something...better...??
bleh.
RAtM is the exact opposite of X-Factor, that's why. If you put X-Factor through a logical NOT operator, the result is Rage Against the Machine.
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JordanParey
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.12.09 04:19:00 -
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Originally by: Druadan
Originally by: JordanParey
WHY? WHY did they have to pick RATM?
Why not Tool, or A Perfect Circle, or something...better...??
bleh.
RAtM is the exact opposite of X-Factor, that's why. If you put X-Factor through a logical NOT operator, the result is Rage Against the Machine.
Still, I think my money would be better spent on a band that plays music without all the agenda...
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KingsGambit
Caldari Knights
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Posted - 2009.12.09 09:53:00 -
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Originally by: Druadan
If you put X-Factor through a logical NOT operator, the result is Rage Against the Machine.
LOL, fantastic.  It's sad that finding that funny quite clearly shows my nerdiness 
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.09 12:06:00 -
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Shamelessly copy and pasted from Mark Steele's latest column:
There is still hope for the planet. The odds are against us but we have 10 days left to save the world and stop X Factor from creating another putrid Christmas number one.
Because these people are not only trying to destroy music, they're trying to make us surrender to their unstoppable naked power. We watch them package an act until their entire identity has been moulded into a corporate Cowellite auto-crooner, then let them sell the resulting warble back to us as if it's in some way natural. It's like falling for the three-card trick but when the cards are face up. We're going "Is that one the Queen?" and need someone to scream "No it's THIS one you dozy morons, that's the three of clubs û you can SEE."
All that makes music powerful is systematically removed by the X Factor process. Anything dirty, painful, eccentric, scary, in other words individual, is scrubbed away, so if Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain or Eminem had ever applied, they'd have been chortled off in the first audition.
Instead everyone's made to look a mild variant of the same, so someone could ask to sing "Strange Fruit", the Billie Holliday song about a lynching, and they'd end up doing it as a jolly ballad with 20 dancers doing twirls while dressed in hoods, then bounding up some glittery stairs where a noose would be hanging.
The contestants are asked to strive for the sort of perfection displayed by Janet Jackson on Saturday's show, in which every jerk and twizzle of her and her 8,000 dancers was choreographed with tedious mathematical precision as she span about in one of those microphones that make performers look like they're working in a call centre, and seeing as she was presumably miming she must have been wearing it so she could do a bit of extra work for British Telecom while she was on.
So while we hear her yelp "Oo ya ya yoo," what she's saying is "Your broadband should be reconnected by 6.30 this evening." All spontaneity and expression was meticulously flushed out and the result was a soulless mess that left me thinking I'd rather be watching her brother, and I don't mean as he was but as he is now, just tipped on to the stage.
But it's not just the songs. The whole soap opera element is carefully planned, so stories emerge that this week Olly had to battle on with extraordinary courage following the death of his favourite tadpole, or Lucie has had to overcome the childhood trauma of being exorcised after being taken over by demons. But the worst part is it's addictive. A three-minute glance and you can't help following it for the rest of the series; it's more dangerous than crack.
Maybe this is because some of the performers do have a passion and individuality, that survives despite the fact that progressing depends on keeping it suppressed. Stacey, for example, is brilliant because she looks as if she's said "Here Simon, can I go on first otherwise I'll miss the District Line back to Dagenham." But if she ever wants to write her own songs or do something dark she'll run up against the business plan being built for her. Whoever wins will be like the great blues singer Robert Johnson, they'll have to sell their soul. Except at least he sold his to the devil, who does have the best tunes. In X Factor you have to sell it to Simon bloody Cowell.
continued...
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.09 12:08:00 -
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...continued:
The plan is that next week a single will be released, in which the winner sings a Miley Cyrus song, which they may or may not feel applies to them but it's been decided, and that will become the Christmas number one, and it will be on all the time, in cafes and taxis and shopping centres and they'll find a way of downloading it into your dreams. But there is hope. A campaign has been launched by fans of the iconic anti-capitalist band from the Nineties, Rage Against the Machine, to make their glorious volcanic anthem "Killing in the Name Of" number one instead.
Already the bookies are making it favourite to be X Factor's main challenger, so what an end this could be to a decade. We might be facing indefinite Etonian rule, and ceaseless unwinnable conflicts that would beat the Hundred Years War except the planet will have disintegrated by then, but we can beat them on this. So buy the single between the 13th and the 19th. And if it works, next year in the X Factor final there'll be a double act called Fit '*Wicked singing a romantic version of "Killing in the Name Of", while 60 dancers descend on ropes setting fire to a banker's bonus.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2009.12.09 22:32:00 -
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William Hill is offering 10/3 for RATM outright, or 1/5 without X Factor. Three days ago you could have gotten 12/1.
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Wuff Wuff
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.13 02:44:00 -
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UK guys and girls, tracks purchased from now until Saturday count towards the official chart so if you want to be a part of this then now is the time to RAGE!
Read the info page first:
Facebook Link
Oh by the way, this is what Simon Cowell thinks...
- Wuffles
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Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2009.12.13 02:57:00 -
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Originally by: Wuff Wuff
this is what Simon Cowell thinks...
- Wuffles
Thinks? The word oxymoron has many jokes in this context!
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thisisnotmikaldrey
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Posted - 2009.12.13 11:46:00 -
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hmv et. al will "magically" run out of hard copies of RATM. they are reportedly trying to get single in stock but arent having much in terms of supply/demand.
http://www.theofficialcharts.com/docs/Official%20UK%20Singles%20Chart%20Rules%20August%202009.pdf
also check the rules. . . if he doesnt win you can guarantee that he will most likely ask for ratm to be excluded from the charts due to a breach in the regulations.
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Kurfin
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Posted - 2009.12.13 12:05:00 -
[25]
Originally by: JordanParey
Originally by: Druadan
Originally by: JordanParey
WHY? WHY did they have to pick RATM?
Why not Tool, or A Perfect Circle, or something...better...??
bleh.
RAtM is the exact opposite of X-Factor, that's why. If you put X-Factor through a logical NOT operator, the result is Rage Against the Machine.
Still, I think my money would be better spent on a band that plays music without all the agenda...
The Agenda is what makes RATM great, and the lyrics of Killing in the Name are still relevant today. It's ageing better than a lot of punk.
Anyone have a definitive list of with music stores sales go to make up the charts? I know itunes is one, which others?
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Raneru
Euphoria Released
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Posted - 2009.12.13 17:41:00 -
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Awesome song
Roxor played it at fanfest. I just purchased it from play.com. 65p is a bargain to annoy Simon Cowells x-factor machine 
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Wuff Wuff
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.13 22:50:00 -
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Originally by: Kurfin
Anyone have a definitive list of with music stores sales go to make up the charts? I know itunes is one, which others?
iTUNES - 99p - track #2 (click on 'view in itunes' on the right)
http://bit.ly/ratm-itunes
PLAY.COM - 65p - it's the only track on the page
http://bit.ly/ratm-play
7DIGITAL - ú1.19P - track #2
http://bit.ly/ratm-7digital
HMV.COM - 79p (careful - this is track #1)
http://bit.ly/ratm-hmv
TUNETRIBE - 49P - track #2 - LIVE version (yes it counts)
http://bit.ly/ratm-tunetribe
or
http://bit.ly/rage-tunetribe (Studio Version)
TESCO DIGITAL - 67p - track #2
http://bit.ly/ratm-tesco
WE7 - ú1.07p - track #2
http://bit.ly/ratm-we7
- Wuffles
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Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2009.12.15 16:45:00 -
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Can't give up now!
Rock anthem outselling X Factor winner Joe McElderry
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Darek Castigatus
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2009.12.16 17:38:00 -
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I love how in the above article Cowell tries to say he did us a favour by taking over the christmas number 1 slot with a bunch of overproduced, bland and souless covers. Newsflash simon, you might not be having this right now if you'd let your robots sing some origional material rather than whatever your marketing department decided was most appealing to the teen steroetypes they have as your core viewers.
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edtheshed
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Posted - 2009.12.18 17:40:00 -
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while i definately agree with what this trying to do (x-factor is ****) i do think its quite ironic
simon cowell's company is syco records which is part of columbia and sony bmg, so he now works for sony bmg.
ratm are on epic which is the premier subsidiary label of sony music entertainment.
sony/simon cowell dont give a **** if x factor or ratm is number 1, they are raking in the cash
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masie may
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Posted - 2009.12.18 19:19:00 -
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Edited by: masie may on 18/12/2009 19:20:00
29p from Amazon... You have no excuse
edit:- Whohoo! 2nd page
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Wendat Huron
Stellar Solutions
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Posted - 2009.12.18 19:42:00 -
[32]
Originally by: JordanParey
Originally by: Druadan
Originally by: JordanParey
WHY? WHY did they have to pick RATM?
Why not Tool, or A Perfect Circle, or something...better...??
bleh.
RAtM is the exact opposite of X-Factor, that's why. If you put X-Factor through a logical NOT operator, the result is Rage Against the Machine.
Still, I think my money would be better spent on a band that plays music without all the agenda...
Everyone has an agenda, wake up.
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Miss Ogynist
The Greater Goon
Clockwork Pineapple
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Posted - 2009.12.18 20:33:00 -
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Originally by: masie may
Edited by: masie may on 18/12/2009 19:20:00
29p from Amazon... You have no excuse
edit:- Whohoo! 2nd page
It's debatable as to whether Amazon get included in the chart listings, or so the guy from Facebook said. That's why he wrote a list of places to buy the song that do get included in the list. I got mine from iTunes.
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Xanath Fireheart
Under Heavy Fire
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Posted - 2009.12.18 22:19:00 -
[34]
It has been confirmed that the 29p version from amazon does count towards the xmas no.1 spot
link to the post in the amazon forum Linkage
and a link to the product review page. Couple of humourous reviews on there: Linkage
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ouroboros trading
Gallente
Medics On Fire
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Posted - 2009.12.19 00:34:00 -
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it was p cool when manics got the first number one of the millennium with next to no airplay, viral internet campaigns or even a music video...
this is sorta gay though, RATM are **** :/
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Tyranus vonCarstein
Eternal Night Industries
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Posted - 2009.12.19 01:00:00 -
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I used to Rage Against the Machine when I was younger... now I only Rage Against the Washing Machine...
How sad has adulthood become... Onoes!
But I do have cute kids.
PS: I do still like RATM
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Jessica Lorelei
Minmatar
Decimus Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.19 16:18:00 -
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STILL AT NO1
KEEP IT UP PEOPLE, LAST DAY!!!!!!
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karma militia
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Posted - 2009.12.19 16:35:00 -
[38]
Originally by: karma militia
"...Make you think that buying is rebelling"
"Godzilla, PURE MOTHER****ING FILLER"
...and the cycle is complete.
Originally by: Corwain
The human race is going extinct soon and you all ****ing deserve it.
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Ans Blix
Amarr
Eleutherian Guard
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Posted - 2009.12.19 18:45:00 -
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anyone know were it is in the charts as we speak?
and has anyone seen the latest in these "reality tv" fades... "Got to Dance" - Find the uk's greatest dancers with Davina McCall..
I mean, JESUS CHRIST! First xfacotr, then britians got talent, now with $ h 1 t...
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The battle of Will over Reason
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Jessica Lorelei
Minmatar
Decimus Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.19 18:50:00 -
[40]
Originally by: Ans Blix
anyone know were it is in the charts as we speak?
and has anyone seen the latest in these "reality tv" fades... "Got to Dance" - Find the uk's greatest dancers with Davina McCall..
I mean, JESUS CHRIST! First xfacotr, then britians got talent, now with $ h 1 t...
it's at numbe 1 still
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Ans Blix
Amarr
Eleutherian Guard
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Posted - 2009.12.19 18:53:00 -
[41]
Originally by: Jessica Lorelei
it's at numbe 1 still
What xfactor or RATM?
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The battle of Will over Reason
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Alex Raptos
Caldari
Phoenix Rising.
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Posted - 2009.12.19 19:10:00 -
[42]
Originally by: Ans Blix
Originally by: Jessica Lorelei
it's at numbe 1 still
What xfactor or RATM?
RATM I believe.
Originally by: Dirk Magnum
I've become gay for Mark Harmon despite my initial reservations about the show NCIS but nobody will ever know
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Xanath Fireheart
Under Heavy Fire
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Posted - 2009.12.19 20:32:00 -
[43]
Estimates are now putting X-Factor 10k in front of RATM due to the shopping today. But as most shops are shut now, that leaves until midnight for people to boost the RATM numbers with downloads.
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Mentorm
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.12.20 18:00:00 -
[44]
Early figures show RATM is number 1 with 50k more purchases than X Factor.
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Rolk Anderson
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Posted - 2009.12.20 18:20:00 -
[45]
where are these numbers coming from?
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Romanes EuntDomus
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.20 18:35:00 -
[46]
http://www.sheamus.co.uk/ratm-xmas-number-one
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Niraia
Gallente
Starcakes
WE FORM VOLTRON
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Posted - 2009.12.20 19:01:00 -
[47]
Rage won! \o/
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Red Thunder
tr0pa de elite
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2009.12.20 19:03:00 -
[48]
bahahahhaha this is ****ing hilerious :D i love fb
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Cridil
Caldari
Truculent Elite
Sundiver Technolgy Diversified
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Posted - 2009.12.20 19:04:00 -
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I bought RATM in 1992 the day after seeing them on The Word, and has remained my fav album of the 90s.
17 years later and a Christmas number 1 off the album.
My kids are amused at watching their sad old dad stage dive off the sofa into their mothers ironing.
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Lord Windu
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.12.20 19:05:00 -
[50]
Woot
Fingers crossed I can get to their live gig when they come to do a freebie later in 2010 in the UK. Sick to death with crap getting Xmas number one and this is certainly a refreshing change. Didn't expect them to succeed as always thought the charts was rigged, but maybe I was wrong.
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Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2009.12.20 20:02:00 -
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Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts
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hired goon
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Posted - 2009.12.20 20:12:00 -
[52]
VICTORY MY FRIENDS!
INTERNET ONE COWELL NIL
-omg-
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Complete Tart
STD Scientific
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Posted - 2009.12.20 20:13:00 -
[53]
WE DID IT
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2009.12.20 20:38:00 -
[54]
We are free to do what the record industry tell us.
I am just happy that the BBC can't play the Christmas #1 because it contains a sound also present in Norfolk. Censorship irritates me.
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baltec1
Antares Shipyards
Circle-Of-Two
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Posted - 2009.12.20 20:55:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
We are free to do what the record industry tell us.
I am just happy that the BBC can't play the Christmas #1 because it contains a sound also present in Norfolk. Censorship irritates me.
The BBC found a way...
Also, SUCK ON IT COWELL
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Scatim Helicon
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.12.21 02:33:00 -
[56]
Facebook has trolled Simon Cowell and the entire music industry.
And it is glorious.
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Illectroculus Defined
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Posted - 2009.12.21 02:54:00 -
[57]
Originally by: Adonis 4174
We are free to do what the record industry tell us.
I am just happy that the BBC can't play the Christmas #1 because it contains a sound also present in Norfolk. Censorship irritates me.
Actually, I remember the first time it was released the DJ running radio 1's official chart show accidently played the full uncensored version.
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Stitcher
Caldari
ForgeTech Industries
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Posted - 2009.12.21 03:38:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Scatim Helicon
Facebook has trolled Simon Cowell and the entire music industry.
And it is glorious.
Not... quite.
You see, RATM's record label is Epic Records, whose parent company is Sony Music Entertainment... and Joe McElderry is also signed to Sony. So in actual matter of fact, this isn't much of a spit in the face of the music industry, because SME made an enormous amount of money this week because of the chart battle.
It is, however, a long-overdue kick in the 'nads for the X-Factor and for Simon Cowell. I can't stand the sickly-sweet trash that show spoon-feeds onto the airwaves every year. I was glued to my car radio during the countdown and went completely apesh** when the result was announced.
So, sure, celebrate... but don't let's get carried away and call this a victory over the whole music industry.
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Brolly
Caldari
Gangrel Mining and Security
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Posted - 2009.12.21 06:34:00 -
[59]
Does this mean RATM is going to be on crimbo compilations from now on?
Bored of the tune due to covering it in various bands, and on nights out, still, better than cowells pedo jingles
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Cridil
Caldari
Truculent Elite
Sundiver Technolgy Diversified
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Posted - 2009.12.21 07:23:00 -
[60]
Originally by: Stitcher
Originally by: Scatim Helicon
Facebook has trolled Simon Cowell and the entire music industry.
And it is glorious.
Not... quite.
You see, RATM's record label is Epic Records, whose parent company is Sony Music Entertainment... and Joe McElderry is also signed to Sony. So in actual matter of fact, this isn't much of a spit in the face of the music industry, because SME made an enormous amount of money this week because of the chart battle.
It is, however, a long-overdue kick in the 'nads for the X-Factor and for Simon Cowell. I can't stand the sickly-sweet trash that show spoon-feeds onto the airwaves every year. I was glued to my car radio during the countdown and went completely apesh** when the result was announced.
So, sure, celebrate... but don't let's get carried away and call this a victory over the whole music industry.
Why do people keep on going on about how much money Sony has made from this?
I doubt they made that much to be honest.
500k sales at avg 40p a sale. Take the sony cut from that. Well you can do the maths. I wouldnt say no to the money but to SONY its not much.
And respect to RATM for donating the money they made from this to a homeless charity.
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Jessica Lorelei
Minmatar
Decimus Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.21 09:21:00 -
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Also just to point out that the groups organisers for the facebook campaign, have stated many times its not an attack on Simon Cowell or about the sony label, or about the money, its about keeping x factor off the top spot , since it seems to have a god given right to a xmas number one each year due to ITV putting the x factor on 12 weeks up until the xmas number 1 week, and then releasing the winner's single.
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Mary Makepeace
Caldari
Neh'bu Kau Beh'Hude
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2009.12.21 13:18:00 -
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rage against the machine are minmatar
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Iesha Macabre
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good stuff
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Posted - 2009.12.22 02:40:00 -
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Edited by: Betty Sw''ollocks on 22/12/2009 02:40:26
There are many fantastic video's made during the campaign.
This is one of my fav's using the old dub h1tler routine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0Auo50A1A
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Selesnya Sanguinar
Caldari
Nanashi Mining Entreprenuer Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.22 08:27:00 -
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Well even though Simon thinks that the whole campaign is "cynical"(like he is not 99% of the time lol) I am quite certain that he is biting his lip over this whole event.
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Kappas.
Galaxy Punks
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Posted - 2009.12.22 11:06:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Ogynist
This will fail
Posting for the lulz
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Posted - 2009.12.23 12:07:00 -
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Originally by: Lord Windu
edit: Maybe Rob Zombie for Xmas 2010?
Boyd Rice for Xmas 2010
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Magnus Nordir
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.12.23 12:59:00 -
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Wait, do I understand this correctly? "Buy our stuff to protest the commercialisation of Christmas"?
wtf.
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Gallente
Honour Before Death
Nominis Expers
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Originally by: Magnus Nordir
Wait, do I understand this correctly? "Buy our stuff to protest the commercialisation of Christmas"?
wtf.
yup.
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baltec1
Antares Shipyards
Circle-Of-Two
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Posted - 2009.12.23 13:35:00 -
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Originally by: Stitcher
Originally by: Scatim Helicon
Facebook has trolled Simon Cowell and the entire music industry.
And it is glorious.
Not... quite.
You see, RATM's record label is Epic Records, whose parent company is Sony Music Entertainment... and Joe McElderry is also signed to Sony. So in actual matter of fact, this isn't much of a spit in the face of the music industry, because SME made an enormous amount of money this week because of the chart battle.
All the cash is going to charity
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Posted - 2009.12.23 13:56:00 -
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Originally by: baltec1
All the cash is going to charity
Have Epic Records confirmed this or is it just RATM's cut which is going to charity? Because the latter will be in the 1% region.
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Nick Curso
Black Nova Corp
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.27 02:52:00 -
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Originally by: Magnus Nordir
Wait, do I understand this correctly? "Buy our stuff to protest the commercialisation of Christmas"?
wtf.
No buy our stuff to stick one to cowel and his monkeys.
But nice try smart ass.
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Wendat Huron
Stellar Solutions
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Posted - 2009.12.27 06:06:00 -
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Who cares about music charts in this day in age?
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Posted - 2009.12.28 13:04:00 -
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Originally by: Wendat Huron
Who cares about music charts in this day in age?
People who watch X-factor.
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Posted - 2009.12.28 15:51:00 -
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Am i the only one who can't see the point in this?
It's not even a good troll attempt. Remember when Rick Astley won an MTV Music Video Award back in '07 or so? Scripts was thrown around the internet, and people voted thousands of times each on him. Good fun.
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