After a thread on here about 60's one-hit wonder icon Leapy Lee possibly being related to Rod Stewart we found out via his Facebook page that he's campaigning to get to number one by his 71st birthday with his new EP.

I guess it's a fun idea to knock some of these huge corporate acts off the top spot and stick a couple of fingers up at Simon Cowell again, as with the Rage Against the Machine track?

Anyway, there's a Facebook event just to show support and the iTunes stores links are on there too... shall we get together and have a laugh with it?

Here's the link

No disrespect OP, but;

*Bangs head against wall*

All these campaigns are doing my head in!

This...

I know what you mean, but... anything is better than a bloated record company shoving something down our throats that's genuinely quite shit but after hearing it 60 times a day on a radio station we 'think' we like!

lol and therefore we should support a one hit wonder to get to number one because a campaign tells us to??

You can do what you like, but to prove to the record companies that it's not the X-Factor or whatever that people want for their music. Why not get an old timer back up to the top. It's just a bit of fun and costs 79p to buy, so it's not exactly a bank breaker

What a load of rubbish - these campaigns are only necessary because a number 1 in normal circumstances isn't possible. Oh well, it's a laugh I suppose!

someone like eva cassidy fields of gold or somewhere over the rainbow should be number 1

I was hoping for a thread slagging the campaigns off, but seems like it's going that way anyway

If the RATM campaign proved anything, it's that no matter whether the 'protest' is successful or not, something shit will be number 1 the following week. In the latter's case, Mr McElderry himself managed it, and RATM was out of the charts within a fortnight. Yeah, it really changed music, man.

It didn't 'change' music (man) but it showed it's POSSIBLE nowadays for a non-mainstream artist to get in the charts without a huge marketing budget and record deal. OK, RATM are known already, but you know what I mean.

That Rage against the Machine won was good, haha cant forget that. Thank god x-factor wasn't number one. Hope it gets done again this year

The RATM was fun but it was not the first.

The most genuine had to be in 1991 when Iron Maiden's Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter got to number following a pre Internet pressure campaign and John Otway charted with Bunsen Burner following a campaign by fans to give him a special present for his 50th (or was it 60th) birthday.

The RATM campaign had three distinct parts - The RATM fans who wanted to get some recognition for the Band, the Anti Cowell group who would stop him getting to number one regardless and thirdly the Christmas Number One brigade - those who wanted to get some mystery and fun back into the Christmas Number and move away from the inevitabilility of what it would be.

It was the combination of these factors that got RATM to number one and once it was acheived, as Leaby said - normal service was resumed.

However Leapy Lee - it's a non starter. It won't get the support from the GBP as there is nothing to focus against. He's a minor pop star from the 1960's with a silly name - it won't sell.

i think it makes a mockery of the chart if a number one is there purely from a public campaign of protest rather than the song getting their on its own merit.


i don't think its fair on the other artists.