Originally Posted by eugenespeed:
“I agree as well, but it's not just the Saturdays, you see trends of threads and post urging people to go "buy a song", doesn't matter if you like it, just buy it.
Campaigns to get songs to the top of the charts based on publicity, not merit, have been going on since long before the Rage one last Christmas.”
But the Rage campaign was specifically an attempt to stop X Factor getting another boring Christmas no.1. People bought it as a statement of intent that we are all fed up of Cowell thinking he owns the Christmas no.1.
And all similar campaigns which have run since then (and have all rightfully failed) were started by a few silly people on Facebook, that's all it was. The attempts to get Missing You to no.1 is coming largely from the management and The Saturdays themselves which is one of the things that annoys me about it. Surely they should just settle for how the song is doing now and let it be, instead of desperately trying to sponge a few more sales just to get a higher chart position.
And I don't blame fans for wanting them to get to no.1, but when there are people buying multiple copies, and buying the song while admitting they don't even like it, that's when it starts to get silly.