Joe McElderry Passes Rage On His Way To The Top
X Factor talent contest winner Joe McElderry has missed out on reaching the number one spot with his “The Climb” single but recent numbers indicate that he’s on his way to outperform Rage Against The Machine track “In The Name”.
The 18-year-old performer had been involved in a battle for the UK’s number one Christmas single with US protest heavy rock band Rage Against The Machine following a very well publicised campaign on Facebook which captivated much of the British music scene for the last few weeks.
But “The Climb” has managed to sell 196,000 copies this last week, pushing it past “In The Name” and momentarily securing second position in the singles chart.
McElderry, hailing from South Shields, was said to extremely happy about the news.
The singer thanked all the people who had supported him and had made this Chirtmas the best one for him so far.
He also wanted to extend to everyone good wishes for the New Year.
Just ahead of Christmas, the US band Rage Against The Machine managed to reach number one in the UK singles charts with a song which was released in 1993.
Rage, famous in America and elsewhere for being anti-establishment and particularly anti-Republican party, had been unwillingly pulled into the race at first when a Facebook campaign was kicked-off to counteracts musical acts generated by Simon Cowell and his XFactor talent show which were branded as dull, uninspiring and plastic-like performers devoid of soul.
At the time, Cowell had called the move stupid. Paul McCartney had commented on the race by saying he believed it would be a good thing if Rage Against The Machine would win.
Cowell himself has admitted that the X Factor show needs a make-over if it’s to remain relevant.
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