It seems as if there is some anti mass media initiatives succeeding in Britain. This could be a backlash to the endemic surveillance and the “big Brother” type atmosphere in the UK. The Facebook campaign started a backlash against the mass media driven choices for entertainment.
Rage Against The Machine have sensationally outsold X Factor winner Joe McElderry to take the Christmas number one!
Thanks to a Facebook led campaign, the Los Angeles band’s 1992 anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ has secured the Yuletide top spot after shifting 502,000 downloads, according to the Official Charts Company. McElderry has had to settle for second place with ‘The Climb’ selling 450,000 copies. This marks the first time in five years an X Factor winner hasn’t claimed the Christmas number one. Better still, not only is Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ number one, it has also achieved two new chart records. Firstly it has notched up the biggest one-week download sales total in British chart history and it has also become the first ever download only Christmas number one in the UK.
Merry Christmas Rage!
