# This year's UK christmas no 1 single is... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343 "2009-12-15T11:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/1 "2009-12-15T11:37:37Z")
… well on current sales it will be “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine. 🙂 There’s a growing internet campaign to make sure Simon Cowell’s latest puppet doesn’t get to No 1 at Christmas, by mass downloads of “Killing in the Name”. So far it’s working - but there’s still a few days to go 🙂 > **[Why a Rage Against the Machine Christmas No 1 would be a great pop moment](https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/dec/11/rage-against-machine-christmas-no1)** > > Tim Jonze: If the sweary, shouty rap-rock mob prove to have the X(mas) factor it will be a victory for the democratised and downloadable nature of the pop charts in 2009 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/2 "2009-12-15T11:49:39Z")
Please let the internet campaign work. Christmas number one has been Cowell’s every year since 2004. Let this reign of tyranny end. ---
**Author:** ![Racer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Racer1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Racer1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/3 "2009-12-15T12:33:19Z")
I just bought the RATM song online. I already have it on the album somewhere, but I’d much rather hear that on the radio than the xfactor rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/4 "2009-12-15T13:04:02Z")
This is a damn good plan. Protest against Cowell and the X Factor shit churned out by Sony by promoting a song by a group signed to Epic which is a subsidiary of Sony. Everyone’s a winner. People get to stick two fingers up at Cowell, Sony get lots of money. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/5 "2009-12-15T17:53:48Z")
> [@Kal](#): > > This is a damn good plan. Protest against Cowell and the X Factor shit churned out by Sony by promoting a song by a group signed to Epic which is a subsidiary of Sony. > > Everyone’s a winner. People get to stick two fingers up at Cowell, Sony get lots of money. Yeah yeah, NME’s been there and done that 😉 Not to mention the irony of a group of people all being encouraged to act \*en mass[/i[ and purchase a song which emphatically states “F\*\*k you, I won’t do what you tell me”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-uk-christmas-no-1-single-is/521343/6 "2009-12-15T18:27:05Z")
You mean the boy band vs. Bill Nighy set-up in Love Actually has a basis in reality? Will Rage Against the Machine perform naked on TV if they win?