Why do the people of the UK let TV programs and radio campaigns dictate who is top of the charts? Sorry but RAGE is just as bad as X Factor and you are all a bunch of sheep. Simon Cowell is your shepard and Chris Moyles drives his combine harvester through your crops.

Are the media controlling us? Music legends Status Quo and Rolf Harris had a single out. HMV Hid it and other places never mentioned it. disgusting

It should have been the Pogues or another proper Christmas song topping the chart.

Or Nat King Cole singing When I Fall in Love - just heard it, it is timeless and so Christmassy

OP do you own an Ipod?

what OP means is "I am not and never have been in control of what other people buy"

And since when was Rolf Harris a music legend?

Ray, someone should break the news to you. The Rage Against the X Factor campaign was just that- a campaign! And how do campaigns almost always work? By finding lots of people who feel the same way as you about the issue in question then having them all to do the same thing at the same time to make their point! If the RATM campaigners are sheep, then everyone who's ever been part of any campaign is a sheep.

Of course people are in control of what they buy.

People buying the RATM and X-factor song 'chose' to do so.

What you mean is, you can't control what others buy- I take it, this sort of thing annoys you?