If it was a christmas song I would have agreed with you. But it's not, it's a just dent in Simon Cowells monopoly that's still on the rise. That's the way music is becoming unfortunatley. Christmas number one is just one bloody week. Cowell has Susan Boyle at number for albums and will be delighted at her with in the mean time. Britains got talent will still get 20 million viewers this year. He just gets bigger unfortunatley.

Well it would have been a pretty shit campaign if everyone pissed off and bought random songs. The only way you're going to topple the X Factor is to come together, pick ONE song and help each other. In fact, nothing in life works if everyone just ****s off and does whatever they please to beat a massive corporate giant.

My problem is is that this doesn't help music in the long run. Oh so he was stopped for 'one' week. You think Simon's music domination isn't going to get smaller or something. Britains got talent for the other half of the year.:yawn:

Be good the see Journey get a bit higher

I'm grossly dissapointed that in a week when our world's leaders pissed on the chance to do something about climate change, the best 'machine' that a bunch of tinpot anarchists could find to rage against was Simon bloody Cowell.

It doesn't matter at this point - the point people wanted to make was made last week.

Steve Brookstein got to number 2 when he first released his single, then it rose to number 1 the following week.

I am hoping for Joe's sake he doesn't follow the same pattern as Steve. Look what happened to him

However well done to Joe if he does get the number 1. I did not think anyone could stop Cheryl Cole.

Well that is a bit pointless, it's just saying to the X-factor mob that we have power for a week! Then it's all yours, a bit like our criminal justice system, a crook gets three years but serves 3 months. So in the end it was just a hollow victory, don't get me wrong I hate the X-factor but this campaign on the face of it is a bit weak willied if it only manages to keep Cowell at bay for one week!

If the aim of the objective was to keep Joe Mcel- whatever off top spot then that's failed, if it was to send a message to Mr Cowell well that didn't really work because I'm sure he'll get number one and the sales he desired in the next few weeks.

No the objective was to keep The X Factor winner off the Christmas Number One,thus saying to Mr Cowell that the Christmas Number One isnt his to promise to the winner

How is it a fail when they are number 1?

I don't like the song personally but I was getting fed up with a X Factor song being number 1 every year. It just takes the sparkle out of things. The videos are exactly the same every year, just Cowell's mugshot just appears in the video more as each year goes by.

I would rather the X Factor song be released a week before Christmas so that it could have a fair contest between securing its place to a newcomer battling for the Christmas Number 1.

What is so ridiculous about this campaign is that Christmas wasn't actually going to be on 25 December. The early Christians originally plumped for early Spring but with the pagans have a festival in December they decided that it would be best to try and get one over them and they took it over. Anyway the Gregorian calendar made everything out of kilter and Denys Exiguus who sorted out the calendar in the first place decided that he wanted the first day of the year on 1 January. It could have been any day!

Was it due to the fact that Band Aid 20 was Number 1 at the time though. I think Steve's song was also on sale just after Christmas as well rather than the week before.

The job has already been done, RATM took the Christmas no.1 slot..that is all that mattered/matters.

That's pretty impressive, the campaign is over, the hype has gone, and yet it's still sold 40k and is in 2nd place.

Go RATM

I don't really think Cowell cares about the Christmas number 1. He's about the money he's a smart man, he'll probably throw a curve ball next year by changing the week in which the x-factor single is released.

Good for Joe, hope he gets his no.1

Doesnt matter job is done, point proven, Cowell brought down a peg or two, alot of money going to charity, happy days.

That's what I thought too!

by one week

As I've said before out of the 51 Christmas number Ones. 8 times it has been a Christmas song. Three of those were 'Do They Know Its Christmas' and Two of those were 'Mary's Boy Child' so only 5 individual Christmas songs have actually EVER been to number 1.

maybe this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=barLaHrtvoM could get to No 1 this week

The paper were claiming Chezza was gonna knock him off which i thought was odd and it is obviously untrue

Wednesday Midweeks:

Singles
1 Joe McElderry
2 Rage Against The Machine
3 Lady GaGa
4 Cheryl Cole
5 Peter Kay

8 Journey

15 Cheryl Cole

21 Alexandra (BH)

27 JLS (EIL)

37 Leona
38 Leona


Albums
1 Michael Buble
2 Susan Boyle

5 JLS

9 Will Young
10 Cheryl Cole

13 Leona lewis

21 Alexandra