It's not actually that easy. X-factor is all over the newspapers, magazines, several ITV shows have X-factor features, the christmas no.1 is usually the X-factor single, etc, etc.

Willz, you know I have a respect for ya as a Jamie/Cher fan but this is such a simplistic view! There are some people who are voting because they think he is awful and want to mock the show, but there are many other reasons too. You can't just tar everyone with the same brush. Me? I'm voting for him because I got fed up with all the stupid anti-Wagner posts on here victimising his fans and calling them horrible names based on who they vote for on a reality show. Honestly, you'd think they were voting in a dictator. That and because I actually think the rest of the contestants (bar Cher, but I hated her take on Girlfriend) are shockingly awful! At least Wagner is supposed to be bad.

I thnk this is why the RATM campaign took off. And I'll state again the TWO CAMPAIGNS ARE UNRELATED! The whole of the non-XF watching public was getting riled about the obligatory number 1, hell I watch XF and it gets on my wick, so an overwhelming number of people took the chance to get ANYTHING else to number 1 and we actually pulled it off