Sorry but you people backing this campaign are all idiots. And yes - I'm a massive Girls Aloud fan and I own all their albums and still enjoy them all immensely, and I too was disappointed when Untouchable narrowly missed out on the top 10.

The whole point about Girls Aloud's great run of top 10's is that enough people (not just GA fans) liked the songs enough at the time to want to buy them ahead of other songs in the top 10 at the time, hence getting them into the top 10. I'm not denying that all these people who have joined this campaign love GA and their songs, including Untouchable - which means that you surely already own said song? So you would be buying it again just for this campaign.

What will it actually mean if a load of people buy the song in a certain week because of some campaign? You would just be artificially getting a song into the top 10 just so it looks good on paper. If this campaign works and Untouchable gets into the top 10, it won't of got there on merit, or because enough people liked it at the time and bought it to get it in the top 10. You're actually undermining Girls Aloud's achievement of getting all those top 10's in a row by backing this stupid campaign. Is the same thing going to happen again if Girls Aloud release more songs in the future that miss out on the top 10? How pathetic would that start to become? And before you point to the Rage Against The Machine campaign, that was nothing to do with the song, but just to try and stop X Factor getting another dreary Christmas no.1 - it didn't matter what the song was.

Besides, have you all forgotten that by the time Untouchable was released, the Out Of Control album had already gone double-platinum? In fact IIRC it's their biggest-selling album.

I loved the fact that X Factor got beat to Christmas no.1 thanks to the Rage campaign, but if it means we start to get more campaigns like this one then we might end up regretting it.

I agree. there's too many people on this board way too obsessed with how much records their favourite artists have sold! Don't get me wrong I like it when my favourite artists get recognition but i'm not gonna loose sleep because Radiohead haven't had a number 1 single before... At the end of the day they'll go down as one of the greatest and most revered artists in history ahead of EVERY artist that has had a number 1 in 2009

What ever happened to enjoying your favourite artists on a level that goes beyond the realms of commercialism. My favourite British artist of last year were a band called Wild Beasts

do I care if their album/singles got to number 1? no
do I care if they don't get nominated for Brit Awards? no

I was reading through the posts on the campaign and someone said they were gutted it didn't make the top 10.. why??? does Sarah Harding pay your taxes or something? I get the feeling that people who support it are the type of people that don't listen to anything outside the top 10 coz if they did, they wouldn't be so bothered.
people on here need to start appreciating artists for their music and not how much records they've sold

It may be stupid but if people care enough to do it whats the harm. X factor has spent so long contaminating the why shouldn't 2010 be the year of the campaigns.
Its all harmless, its not gonna hurt anyone.

Don't you think artists with new material deserve it more? Girls Aloud had their chance

Well if the new artists material was any good then they would have their songs do well instead of the Girls Aloud song. I think people may be reading too much into it, its not being done to hurt anyone. Their fans want to see if their streak continues, it probably won't but there's no harm done. I doubt anyone will buy apart from GA fans

so your saying that if a new artist comes out and their songs don't reach the top 10 then they must be rubbish? Is that what your saying?? Some of the most acclaimed artists of the decade never had top 10 singles.. another example of a close minded view on music.

Also.. wouldn't GA fans already have the song? because in my view it would be pretty pathetic to purchase a song for the second time which has no actual benefit to you personally.

I'm also a massive Girls Aloud fan - I must own 'Sound Of The Underground' et al about five or six times on various formats/boxsets - but I won't be buying 'Untouchable' again. I'll be spending my 79p on Marina & The Diamonds that week.

Untouchable will be in top ten

you beauty!

I totally agree. As much as I love Untouchable and Girls Aloud, I think it will be a hollow victory if they do get the song into the top 10. It should either get there on its own merits or not at all. Not because a group of obsessive Girls Aloud fans go out and buy 20 copies each.

And I've actually been meaning to get Untouchable for a while, but I definitely won't be getting it during the campaign week. I completely disagree with artificially getting a song into the charts, and I hope the chart regulators start to do something about it.

Even if it goes into the top ten the record is still broken because it means they had to have the campain in place in order to get it. They have already lost the record as it isn't a new release.

I’m proudly an idiot then. I’m supporting this, no matter what.

we might as well try, we've got nothing to lose. It might show GA how much we want them back in the charts.

the group has nearly 8,000 members

I know, I’m sorry if I'm sounding like an annoying mega fan.... i get obsessive over Girls aloud, sorry

I'd spend a lot more than that on her.

I disagree with the OP. Untouchable was liked at the time anyway, it sold more than a lot of their other singles - it was just unfortunate that they had stiff competition at the time. It deserves to be top 10, and such a great song shouldn't ruin the chain.

I do however agree that it will be stupid if this happens again if another of their singles misses the top 10 - this is a one off.

The chain is how many singles peaked at top 10, not entered. So if it makes top 10, then the chain will be at 21.

No, i was making a point that just because GA get top 10 and stops someone else from getting top 10 its not because its any better. Perhaps i didn't explain too clearly.

Most songs i love never got to the top 10, doesn't make them any less good just because they didn;t. If these people really need a number 10 to prove how good the song is or whatever then so be it. If it stops another person from getting a top 10 then its because either a) the songs not that good, b) they didn't get the same support c) this is all up in the air anyway because i really doubt they'll get the top 10, all these people joining the group are joining to join, most prob won't even buy the single.

Its a good idea and glad to see the Rage campaign has set the benchmark, however the song isn't great and I think attracted people to get Killing in the Name is because its a powerful song with a powerful statement.

I think if campaign was set up for Rock/Alternative Artists like RATM they'd have more of a chance because its different to what you here in the charts today where as Untouchable is a popular song and people have heard it numerous times and probably wouldn't see the point in buying it and Girls Aloud have had it easy and have their money and havent had to work for it like the alternative scene.

Although I wish them luck.

I am backing the campaign, it is a great chance.
Untouchable has actually sold more than The Loving Kind!

My original point was that by having this campaign, it actually undermines the significance of Girls Aloud's achievement of getting all those top 10's in a row - because all those previous 20 singles got there not because of some campaign to specifically get it into the top 10 on a certain week, but because they were spontaneously popular enough at the time (if that makes sense) to break into the top 10.

As much as I do like Untouchable, if this campaign works it won't actually mean anything - the song wouldn't of got in the top 10 on merit, unlike all the 20 previous singles.

I just want to do this for the girls. If it sold more than other top 10 singles, Then it deserves top 10. That’s my point of view.

I’m just a crazed GA fan through,

It probably wont work, but at least i can say I tried

A campaign to get a Girls Aloud song into the top 10 to me is as necessary as starting a campaign saying "Cheryl Cole doesn't have enough money, let's give her more!"