Rage Against The Machine -

[Perdita]

X Factor winner Joe McElderry has secured the top spot in this week's Irish singles chart with debut solo release 'The Climb'.

The 18-year-old singer held off competition from Rage Against The Machine's 1992 single 'Killing In The Name', which has become the focus of an internet campaign against The X Factor and Simon Cowell's dominance over the Christmas charts.

Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' drops two places to third, while 3OH!3 and Black Eyed Peas take fourth and fifth positions with 'Starstrukk' and 'Meet Me Halfway' respectively.

Meanwhile, Michael Bublé's 'Haven't Met You Yet' shoots back into the top ten, rising 15 places to seventh.

The top ten singles in full:

1. (-) Joe McElderry: 'The Climb'
2. (-) Rage Against The Machine: 'Killing In The Name'
3. (1) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
4. (-) 3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry: 'Starstrukk'
5. (2) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'
6. (3) X Factor Finalists 2009: 'You Are Not Alone'
7. (22) Michael Bublé: 'Haven't Met You Yet'
8. (7) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
9. (5) Ke$ha: 'Tik Tok'
10. (8) Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: 'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley'

Well done the Irish folk

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...n-ireland.html

[tammyy2j]

FFS whats up with us Irish - The Pogues should be No. 1

[Perdita]

Not really bothered which one is at no. 1 as long as it is not RATM

[Abigail]

i hope the people who are buying this single release what record lable RATM are signed to - Sony. so anyone buying this single as a **** you to Simon Cowell are actually still paying money into his pocket. haha, mugs.

Actually, all the proceeds from the RATM single is going to charity and not into the pockets of Sony, Simon or the band. The only people that are benefiting from this is Shelter.

[Bad Wolf]

even more reason to buy it!!!

[Abbie]

I really hate this song though

[tammyy2j]

Rage Against The Machine have beaten X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas number one.

The band's 1992 single 'Killing In The Name' sold over 500,000 copies this week after a Facebook campaign urged fans to stop McElderry from reaching the top spot.

Rage Against The Machine led the race from the beginning of the week, although their advantage slipped when the CD version of McElderry's debut single 'The Climb' was released on Wednesday and by Friday morning they were ahead by just 9,000 copies. However, they went on to sell over 200,000 copies on Friday and Saturday.

McElderry sold over 450,000 copies of 'The Climb', but sales of the CD dropped over the last couple of days. The Official Charts Company suggested that the fall in sales could be linked to the bad weather.

'Killing In The Name' has now become the UK's first download-only Christmas number one and has broken the record for the biggest one-week download sales in British chart history.

The Official Charts Company's managing director Martin Talbot said: "Congratulations to Rage Against The Machine on their number one - as we have seen in recent years, overhauling any X Factor winner in the race for Christmas number one is no mean achievement. The public support we have seen for the record this week has been truly amazing - and handed them two all-time records.

"But congratulations too should also go to Joe McElderry. In taking the number two spot, he has still achieved one of the highest weekly sales of any single this year - in almost any other year, 450,000 copies would have given him the Christmas number one."

He added: "Through this week, these two tracks have accounted for 950,000 single sales, a fact which is truly remarkable."

[Bryan]

well i know it wont change anything, but my personal protest is to switch off the radio whenever this **** plays.

the public should be ashamed of themselves for getting this vile - shouting and swearing to the christmas number one. why didn't everyone choose to download/buy an old christmas song like "White Christmas" or something to number 1 instead of this.

RATM is not music, anyone can shout and swear, just hit any city street of a Saturday night, they could do a better job than RATM.

[Meh]

Looking forward to reading about it in your blog Bry!

[Bryan]

Looking forward to reading about it in your blog Bry!

haha oh i'm already writing it at the moment!